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ZEOLITE CRYSTAL GROWTH GENERATIONS DURING DIAGENETIC AND HYDROTHERMAL PROCESSES- CASE STUDY OF LACUSTRINE VOLCANICLASTICS, ABU TREIFIYA AREA, CAIRO-SUEZ ROAD, EGYPT

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Volcanology.

Abstract

Zeolites and clay minerals are common authigenic minerals in volcano-sedimentary rock association in the Abu Treifiya basin. They are formed by hydrolysis alteration of basic volcanic glass by reaction with percolating water in a partly closed basin of saline-alkaline lacustrine environment. The zeolites and associated clay minerals and calcite are studied and described in detail microscopically and by X-ray diffraction, also occasionally scanning electron microprobe and Raman techniques are applied. The zeolite mineral species of phillipsite, thomsonite, tobermorite, chabazite, natrolite and analcime are recorded and described. Palagonitization and alteration of volcanic glass result in three stages of authigenic mineral formation; 1) clay minerals as smectite, chlorite/smectite (mixed layer) and chlorite, 2) zeolite minerals, and 3) finally calcite. These associations are found to form in two paragenetic phases: A) diagenetic phase, represented by clay minerals, followed by phillipsite or thomsonite that may be overgrown by phillipsite, filling interstitial spaces, vesicles and amygdales in mostly all facies types of the volcano-sedimentary succession. These resulted from volcanic glass alteration during increasing pH, alkalinity and salinity of the environment. Analcime granular crystals form in lapilli tuff and hyaloclastite tuff in higher Na rich saline -alkaline environment at extreme palagonitization, and B) hydrothermal phase represented by open space filling of cross cutting fractures and/or manifested by formation of tobermorite spherules along basalt lacustrine carbonate contacts. Large vugs exhibit sequential crystallization of Ca zeolite thomsonite spherules followed by calc- sodic zeolite Ca- chabazite; with decreasing temperature and increase in Na in the fluid Na rich fibrous natrolite crystallize. Hydrothermal veins are filled by large euhedral Na- chabazite associated with chalcedony, Fe- oxyhydroxides and clays.

DOI

10.21608/egjg.2021.106000.1013

Keywords

: zeolites, palagonite, lacustrine, volcaniclastics, diagenetic crystallization, hydrothermal, Abu Treifiya

Authors

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Kabesh

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Geology Department,Faculty of Science,Cairo University

Email

monakabesh@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Nahla

Last Name

Shallaly

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Email

shallalynahla@cu.edu.eg

City

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Orcid

0000-0001-7579-8641

Volume

65

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

28512

Issue Date

2021-12-01

Receive Date

2021-11-14

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

105

Page End

122

Print ISSN

0022-1384

Online ISSN

2805-2617

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2,013

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Geology

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https://egjg.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

ZEOLITE CRYSTAL GROWTH GENERATIONS DURING DIAGENETIC AND HYDROTHERMAL PROCESSES- CASE STUDY OF LACUSTRINE VOLCANICLASTICS, ABU TREIFIYA AREA, CAIRO-SUEZ ROAD, EGYPT

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Created At

23 Jan 2023