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Fibrous Tourmaline

last update: 04/17/06

Aurisicchio, C., Ottolini, L. and Pezzotta, F. (1998) A complete chemical characterization of foitite minerals from Elba Island by means of EMPA and SIMS. Plinius, 20, 37-38.

Aurisicchio, C., Ottolini, L. and Pezzotta, F. (1999) Electron and ion microprobe analyses, paragenesis and genetic inferences of tourmalines of the foitite of the Elba Island (Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 217-226.

Aurisicchio, C., Ottolini, L. and Pezzotta, F. (1999) Electron- and ion-microprobe analyses, and genetic inferences of tourmalines of the foitite-schorl solid solution, Elba Island (Italy). Tourmaline 1997 International Symposium on Tourmaline, Abstract Volume. 117-118.

Dutrow, B. and Henry, D. J. (2000) Complexly zoned fibrous tourmaline: A record of evolving magmatic and hydrothermal fluids. Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 131-143.

Henry, D. J., Dutrow, B. L. and Selverstone, J. (2002) Compositional polarity in replacement tourmaline – an example from the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps. Geological Materials Research, 4, no. 2, 23 p. with abstract referenced in American Mineralogist, 88, 1399

Lyckberg, P. and Hawthorne, F. C. (1997) Foitite from the Kazionnitsa Pegmatite, Alabashka Pegmatite Field, Ural Mountains, Russia. Tourmaline 1997 International Symposium on Touramline, Abstract Volume. 68-69.

Modreski, P. J., Foord, E. E. and Barbosa, C. P. (1997) Crystal chemistry of uvite-dravite from the Brumado magnesite deposits, Bahia, Brazil. Tourmaline 1997 International Symposium on Tourmaline, Abstract Volume. 59-60.

Novák, M. (1998) Blue dravite as an indicator of fluid composition during subsolidus replacement processes in Li-poor granitic pegmatites in the Moldanubicum, Czech Republic, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 43, 24-30.

Novak, M. and Selway, J. B. (1997) Tourmaline composition as a recorder of crystallization in open and closed systems in the elbaite subtype pegmatite from Blizna. Abstracts of the Tourmaline 1997 International Symposium on Tourmaline, 62-63.

Novak, F. and Zak, L. (1970) Dravite asbestos from Chvaletice. Acta Univ. Carol., Geology, No.1, 27-44.

Pezzotta, F., Hawthorne, F. C., Cooper, M. A. and Teerstra, D. K. (1996) Fibrous foitite from San Piedro. Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 741-744.

Šrein, V., Litochleb, J., Sjkora, J. Šreinova, B. and Pivec, E. (1997): Fibrous dravite from quartz lode near Krasovice in central Bohemia. Tourmaline 1997, International Symposium on Tourmaline, Abstract Volume, 99-100.

Yavuz, F., Celik, M. and Karakaya, N. (1999) Fibrous foitite from Sebinkarahisar, Giresun Pb-Zn-Cu-(U) mineralized area, northern Turkey. Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 155-161.

Bantly, A. W. (1964) Tourmaline whiskers. Rocks and Minerals, 39, 138-140.

Boriskov, F. F. (1969) Tourmaline asbestos from quartz veins of the southern Urals. Trudy Sverdlovskogo Gornogo Instituta, 57, 99-102.

Coelho, I.S. (1948) Turmalina fibrosa da "Mina do Cruzeiro," Santa Maria do Suassui, Minas Gerais. Mineracao e Metalurgia. 13, 49-53.

Dietrich, V., de Quervain, F. and Nissen, H. N. (1966) Turmalinasbest aus alpinen Mineralkiufien. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 46, 695-697.

Furbish, W. J. (1968) Tourmaline of acicular and filiform morphology from pyrophyllite deposits of North Carolina. Rocks and Minerals, 43, 584-586.

Iyengar, K. Y. S. (1937) Fibrous tourmalines from the Mysore State. Current Science (India), 5, 534-535.

Mitchell, R. S. (1964) Matted filiform tourmaline from Amelia County, Virginia, Rocks and Minerals. 39, 236-237.

Rama Swamy, S. and Iyengar, K. Y. S. (1937) X-ray analysis of the structure of a fibrous modification of tourmaline. Indian Academy of Science Proceedings, SA, 419-422.

Slivko, M. M., Boriskov, F. F., and Komilov, V. F. (1972) Tourmaline-asbestos: Mineralogicheskii Sbornik, L'vovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, 26, 209-212.

Darrell Henry is the Campanile Charities Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University whose research specialty is metamorphic petrology. Further details of his professional background are included in an accompanying vita or faculty profile.

To contact Darrell Henry call (225)-578-2693, fax (225)-578-2302 or e-mail dhenry@geol.lsu.edu . Address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

This page was last updated on 04/17/06.

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