DEGEO - Departamento de Geologia

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    A comparison of properties of clay minerals in isalteritic and in degraded facies.
    (2013) Oliveira, Fábio Soares de; Varajão, Angélica Fortes Drummond Chicarino; Varajão, César Augusto Chicarino; Boulangé, Bruno
    The mineralogical, geochemical and micromorphological features of an isalteritic clay facies, which originated from weathering of an anorthosite, were compared to those of clay facies derived from the degradation of a bauxite developed from the same rock. The isalteritic clay was formed by the hydrolytic alteration of plagioclase, whereas the degraded clays were formed by decomposition of gibbsite and neoformation of kaolinite. This resilification process resulted from the reintroduction of silica via the oscillation of the phreatic level and/or the decomposition of organic matter on the surface. The degradation process was gradual and yielded two different facies: (a) degraded clays with almost total decomposition of gibbsite, and (b) degraded clays with gibbsite nodules. Morphologically, the isalteritic clays differ from the degraded clays because they contain larger hexagonal and pseudo-hexagonal crystals. The degraded clays have more irregular crystal shapes, ranging from laths to anhedral shapes.
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    Bauxitisation of anorthosites from Central Brazil.
    (2011) Oliveira, Fábio Soares de; Varajão, Angélica Fortes Drummond Chicarino; Varajão, César Augusto Chicarino; Boulangé, Bruno; Gomes, Newton Souza
    Petrological studies using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) and electron microprobe analyzer (WDS) showed the mineralogical, micromorphological and geochemical transformations due to the bauxitisation of anorthosite from the Barro Alto Stratiform Mafic–Ultramafic Complex (Central Brazil). The hydrolytic alteration of the anorthosite occurred in two different stages in accordance with the order of stability of the minerals to the weathering: firstly the bytownite and secondly the ferromagnesian minerals. The weathering solutions, benefited from the existing network of fractures, percolated the weakness zones of the minerals characterising the microsystem of contact in which cores of plagioclase and ferromagnesian minerals were formed. In the first stage, the plagioclases are altered directly to gibbsite, and at an early stage, during the change process, the gibbsite crystals surround the primary ferromagnesian minerals that are totally or partially preserved. The transformation is isalteritic and is responsible for formation of porous alteromorphs consisting of septa of coarse gibbsite and fine gibbsite. As the weathering process advances, the ferromagnesian minerals directly enter to goethite. The boxworks of gibbsite and goethite characterise a primary plasmic microsystem.