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Hydrated halloysite was discovered in books, a morphology previously associated exclusively with kaolinite. From similar to 1.5 to similar to 1500 mu m in length, the books showed significantly greater mean Fe contents (Fe2O3 = 5.2 wt.%) than tubes (Fe2O3 = 3.2 wt.%), and expanded rapidly with formamide. They occurred, along with halloysite tubes, spheroids and plates, in highly porous yet poorly permeable, silt-dominated, Si-rich, pumiceous rhyolitic tephra deposits aged similar to 0.93 Ma (Te Puna tephra) and similar to 0.27 Ma (Te Ranga tephra) at three sites similar to 10-20 m stratigraphically below the modern land-surface in the Tauranga area, eastern North Island, New Zealand. The book-bearing tephras were at or near saturation, but have experienced intermittent partial drying, favouring the proposed changes: solubilized volcanic glass + plagioclase -> halloysite spheroids -> halloysite tubes -> halloysite plates -> halloysite books. Unlike parallel studies elsewhere involving both halloysite and kaolinite, kaolinite has not formed in Tauranga presumably because the low permeability ensures that the sites largely remain locally wet so that the halloysite books are metastable. An implication of the discovery is that some halloysite books in similar settings may have been misidentified previously as kaolinite.
- 出版日期2016-6
