Actinides in Geology, Energy, and the Environment Vorlanite, (CaU 6+)O4, from Jabel Harmun, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel

Evgeny V. Galuskin; Joachim Kusz; Thomas Armbruster; Irina O. Galuskina; Katarzyna Marzec; Yevgeny Vapnik; Mikhail Murashko

doi:10.2138/am.2013.4548

Actinides in Geology, Energy, and the Environment Vorlanite, (CaU ⁶⁺)O₄, from Jabel Harmun, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel

Evgeny V. Galuskin, Joachim Kusz, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Katarzyna Marzec, Yevgeny Vapnik, Mikhail Murashko

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Abstract

Vorlanite (CaU⁶⁺)O₄ [Fm3m, a = 5.3647(9) Å, V = 154.40(4) Å³, Z = 2] was found in larnite pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim formation at the Jabel Harmun locality, Judean Desert, Palestinian Autonomy. Vorlanite crystals from these larnite rocks are dark-gray with greenish hue in transmitted light. This color in transmitted light is in contrast to dark-red vorlanite [Fm3m, a = 5.3813(2) Å, V = 155.834(10)Å³, Z = 2] from the type locality Upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus. Heating above 750 °C of dark-gray vorlanite from the Jabel Harmun, as well as dark-red vorlanite from Caucasus, led to formation of yellow trigonal uranate CaUO₄. The unusual color of vorlanite from Jabel Harmun is assumed to be related to small impurities of tetravalent uranium.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1938-1942
Number of pages	5
Journal	American Mineralogist
Volume	98
Issue number	11-12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2013.4548
State	Published - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

Hatrurim formation
Jabel Harmun
Judean Desert
Lakargiite
Raman spectroscopy
Structure
Vorlanite

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Geophysics
Geochemistry and Petrology

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