Figure 27
(a) A ball-and-stick representation of the 2T23T2 chain in amphibole-supergroup minerals. The structure of richterite projected (b) in the a* direction, and (c) along the c axis where the M1–M3 cations are shown as yellow Mg octahedra and the M4 and A2/A(m) cations are shown as green and grey circles, respectively. Dashed black lines show the geometrical repeat unit of the chain. |