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An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals

Third Edition

W. A. DEER{, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy & Petrology,
University of Cambridge

R. A. HOWIE{
Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy,
University of London

J. ZUSSMAN
Emeritus Professor of Geology,
University of Manchester

{
Sadly, Professors Deer and Howie died while this edition was in preparation

The Mineralogical Society


London

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The Mineralogical Society

First published 1966


Second edition 1992
Third edition 2013

# W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie and J. Zussman 1966


Second edition # W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie and J. Zussman 1992
This edition # W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie and J. Zussman 2013

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First published 1966


Second edition 1992
Third edition 2013

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data


Deer, W. A.
An introduction to the rock-forming minerals. – 3rd ed.
I. Title II. Howie, R. A. III. Zussman, J.
549

ISBN 978-0903056-33-5

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Deer, W. A. (William Alexander)
An introduction to the rock-forming minerals/W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie, J. Zussman. – 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN ISBN 978-0903056-33-5
1. Silicate minerals. 2. Mineralogy. 3. Rocks. I. Howie R. A. (Robert Andrew) II. Zussman, J. (Jack) III. Title.
2013
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Contents

Preface to Third Edition v Serpentine 216


Preface to Second Edition vii Clay Minerals 224 227
Preface to First Edition viii Kaolinite group, Illite group,
Acknowledgements ix Smectite group, Vermiculite 226
Abbreviations and Symbols x Prehnite 244
Key to optical sketches and data 1 Framework Silicates
Ortho-, Di- and Ring Silicates Feldspar group 248 309
Olivine 4 Alkali feldspars, Barium feldspars
Zircon 12 Plagioclase feldspars 253
Titanite (sphene) 15 Silica minerals
Garnet group 18 Quartz, Tridymite, Cristobalite 311
Vesuvianite (idocrase) 28 Feldspathoids 325 354
Sillimanite 30 Nepheline and Kalsilite, Leucite,
Andalusite 33 Sodalite Group, Cancrinite–Vishnevite,
Kyanite 36 Scapolite 325
Staurolite 39 Zeolite group 355 379
Topaz 44 Analcime, Natrolite, Phillipsite–
Chloritoid 47 Harmotome series, Laumontite,
Epidote group 52 64 Heulandite series, Chabazite series,
Zoisite, Clinozoisite, Epidote, Piemontite, Mordenite 363
Allanite 53 Non-silicates
Lawsonite 65
Oxides 382
Pumpellyite 68
Periclase, Cassiterite, Corundum,
Melilite group 72 75
Hematite, Ilmenite, Rutile, Anatase,
Gehlenite, Melilite, Å kermanite 72
Brookite, Perovskite 382
Beryl 76
Spinel group 402
Cordierite 80
Al hydroxides and oxyhydroxides 409
Tourmaline group 86 92
Dravite–Fluor-dravite, Schorl–Fluor-schorl, Brucite, Gibbsite, Diaspore, Boehmite 409
Elbaite–Fluor-elbaite, Olenite–Fluor-olenite, Fe oxyhydroxides 417
Uvite–Fluor-uvite 86 Goethite, Lepidocrocite, Ferrihydrite 418
Sulphides 423
Chain Silicates Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite,
Pyroxene group 94 131 Galena 424
Enstatite–Ferrosilite, Pigeonite, Sulphates 441
Diopside Hedenbergite, Johannsenite, Baryte, Celestine, Gypsum, Anhydrite 441
Augite–Ferroaugite, Omphacite, Jadeite, Carbonates 451
Kosmochlor, Aegirine, Aegirine-augite, Calcite, Magnesite, Siderite, Dolomite,
Spodumene 102 Aragonite, Strontianite 453
Wollastonite 132 Phosphates 473
Amphibole group 137 171 Apatite, Monazite 473
Anthophyllite–Gedrite, Cummingtonite– Halides 480
Grunerite, Tremolite–Ferro-actinolite, Fluorite, Halite 480
Hornblendes, Kaersutite, Glaucophane,
Appendix 1: Calculation of a chemical formula
Riebeckite, Richterite–Ferrorichterite,
from a mineral analysis 485
Magnesiokatophorite–Katophorite,
Appendix 2: Atomic and molecular weights for
Eckermannite–Arfvedsonite 144
use in calculations of mineral formulae from
Layered Silicates chemical analyses 487
Mica group 174 180 Appendix 3: End-member (Mol%) calculations 488
Muscovite, Paragonite, Glauconite, Appendix 4: Use of optical identification
Phlogopite–Biotite, Lepidolite, Zinnwaldite 181 tables 490
Stilpnomelane 199 Table 4A: Birefringences and
Pyrophyllite 202 Michel-Levy colours 491
Talc 204 Table 4B: Optical properties of
Chlorite Group 208–215 common minerals 492
Clinochlore, chamosite 208 Index 495

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Preface to Third Edition

In this edition most of the commonly occurring be confused, and in addition over 60 photomicrographs
minerals of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are presented illustrating typical features of minerals as
are discussed in terms of structure, chemistry, optical seen under the petrological microscope. The electron
and other physical properties, distinguishing features and probe and other analytical instruments have become
paragenesis. Important correlations between these more widely employed, but in our view this does not
aspects of mineralogy are emphasized wherever possible, diminish the importance of the petrological polarizing
and the content of each section has been updated where microscope which provides an overview of the minerals
needed in the light of published research over the and their relationships as they occur in rocks before they
21 years between editions. The text on each mineral are given individual attention using the powerful but
now opens with a brief highlighted introduction on its generally more complex equipment now available.
nature and occurrence, and where appropriate, following It is intended that this book dealing with the basic
the last in a group of closely related minerals, a panel nature and properties of the principal rock-forming
gives a very brief summary of their basic similarities minerals, while being particularly useful to under-
and differences. Tables of over 200 chemical analyses graduate and postgraduate students of mineralogy,
and formulae are included and a number of older entries petrology and geochemistry at various levels, will also
have been replaced by more recent examples. The rather help those coming to these subjects for the first time
small selection of references listed previously has been from other disciplines such as Materials Science and
replaced by a more extensive reading list, including Chemistry, for whom it may serve as a condensed
many recent publications and major reviews. version of the more extensive volumes of the DHZ
Treatment of several mineral groups has been series, Rock-Forming Minerals, 2nd edition.
moderately expanded, and the zeolites more so, their We wish to express our thanks to many people. To
general introduction now being followed by separate Kevin Murphy (Executive Director) and members of the
sections for six of the main zeolite sub-groups. Still publications committee of the Mineralogical Society of
more expanded is the treatment of the feldspar minerals, Great Britain and Ireland, for their very helpful
comprising a comprehensive, more integrated, and suggested improvements. We are grateful to Pearson
updated account of this very complex mineral group, Education for allowing use of a selection of the late
most of it generously provided by Ian Parsons. In order W.S. MacKenzie’s photomicrographs, and to Mrs Anne
to help limit the size and price of this volume, however, MacKenzie for making the original transparencies
we have omitted previous brief sections on some of the available to us; we also thank Giles Droop for supplying
less common minerals. us with photomicrographs from his teaching collection.
This edition makes extensive use of colour, both in Enclosed inside the back cover of this third edition is
the optical orientation sketches and in the many an interactive CD ‘‘CrystalViewer 8.3’’ containing a set
photomicrographs of minerals in thin section. As well of crystal structures of the more common minerals.
as adding colour to earlier crystal structure diagrams, These were created using ‘‘CrystalMaker’’ software
many entirely new views are presented, and a (www.crystalmaker.com) and the authors and The
‘CrystalViewer’ interactive CD containing more than Mineralogical Society are very grateful to Dr David
100 crystal structures is provided. Palmer for supplying this CD and for helping in the
While our text continues to be primarily concerned construction of many of the new crystal structure images
with the understanding of the properties and formation seen throughout the volume.
of minerals rather than the use of properties as a means We owe thanks also to Mark Welch, for generously
of identification, the latter purpose is also addressed in preparing for us many other coloured illustrations of
several ways. The tabulated data and optical orientation crystal structures, and our thanks are due to Takenori
sketches at the head of each mineral section are now Kato, Nagoya University, for his help and agreement to
accompanied by a guide to their use. One new appendix our use of his synthesized sequence of interference
has a chart showing appropriate interference colours for colours in our birefringence chart.
most of the main minerals dealt with in this volume, and We have benefited also from help and advice from
another has an Identification Table based on birefrin- Manchester University colleagues including John
gence and other properties. The sections on Bowles, Kate Brodie, Giles Droop, Alexander
‘Distinguishing Features’ for each main mineral are Edwards, Richard Hartley, Mike Henderson, Cathy
particularly useful in helping to discriminate between Hollis, Christopher Horsfall, Richard Pattrick, Alison
one mineral and others with which it is most likely to Pawley and David Vaughan, all of The School of Earth,

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Preface to Third Edition

Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. We are Preston for valuable help with checking final proofs.
grateful to the many other Earth Scientists (listed Having thanked the above for their involvement we accept
below) who responded to our request for comments on nevertheless responsibility for errors and omissions.
specific mineral sections, and David Green for his many We wish to record our indebtedness to the late
valuable improvements to the accuracy and clarity of the Professor W.A. Deer for the initial concept of this
text as a whole. We wish to thank Ian Parsons for his compact volume and for his extensive and authoritative
contribution of a large part of the feldspar text and contributions to our succession of co-authored volumes.
figures, as mentioned above, enabling us to present an
authoritative treatise on these complex minerals. R. A. HOWIE
Robert Preston has had the difficult task of putting the J. ZUSSMAN
book together for us and we thank him for his consistent January 2012
help and patience over an extended period, and Cathy

My good friend and colleague Bob Howie was noted Forming Minerals. Unfortunately as we were
nationally and internationally for his many contributions approaching the completion of the latter’s 3rd edition,
to Mineralogy throughout his working life, by his his health deteriorated. Bob continued writing, with
university research and teaching, by his activities increasing difficulty, until very close to his passing away
within the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and in March 2012. He would have liked so much to see
Ireland, and by his prodigious work, year after year, as this volume’s publication, but that was not to be. I see
editor of Mineralogical Abstracts. Alongside these he it, however, as dedicated to his memory.
managed also to share fully in the continuous
preparation of the various volumes and editions of JACK ZUSSMAN
Rock-Forming Minerals and Introduction to Rock- February 2013

Thomas Armbruster Godfrey Fitton Walter Maresch


Etienne Balan Gerhard Franz Roger H. Mitchell
Geoff Bromiley Charles A. Geiger Enver Murad
Fernando Cámara Nurit Goldman Mariko Nagashima
Michael A. Carpenter Ed Grew Fabrizio Nestola
Petr Černý Joel D. Grice Phil Neuhoff
Bernardo Cesare Steve Guggenheim Roberta Oberti
Christian Chopin Simon Harley Richard Pattrick
Giancarlo Della Ventura Dan Harlov Simon A.T. Redfern
Harald G. Dill Frank Hawthorne Mark Welch
Colin H. Donaldson Karen Hudson-Edwards M. Jeff Wilson
Bernard W. Evans Bernard Leake Bruce Yardley
Adrian Finch Juhn G. Liou

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Preface to Second Edition

This major revision takes place some 25 years after give data on properties in reflected light. In the new
the publication of the first edition. The intervening years edition we include some plates showing a selection of
have seen great changes in all aspects of the Earth interesting microscopic features, but recommend the
Sciences, including mineralogy. There have been many more comprehensive set of micrographs in the Atlas of
improved and new techniques for investigating minerals, Rock-Forming Minerals (W.S. MacKenzie & C.
producing a new body of data and often a better Guildford, Longman), a useful companion volume.
understanding of their nature, properties and relation- In the paragenesis sections of our new edition we are
ships. Such changes are evident in each section under able to relate the occurrences of some minerals to their
which we treat each major mineral. environments in terms of the modern concepts of plate
Crystal structures are far better known through the tectonics. We are also able to include the Moon as a
development of automatic X-ray diffraction methods mineral locality.
supplemented by spectroscopic studies (infrared, X-ray, Although our text was, and still is, primarily intended
Mössbauer, etc.) of site preferences, and high-resolution for university students, it has gained use also as a
electron microscopy revealing fine-scale departures from reference book for researchers, albeit at a less detailed
regularity of structure. level than the original five volumes from which it was
The chemical variations in minerals are better derived, or their replacement editions. We have tried to
appreciated through the development of electron-probe recognize this by, for example, adding cell parameters to
microanalysis which is rapid and is done without the tabulated mineral data; also our selection of
separation of minerals from the rock. New techniques references includes not only examples of different
have greatly extended the range of pressure and approaches to the study of minerals but also some
temperature at which phase transformations can be wider ‘review-type’ publications on particular mineral
studied in the laboratory. Geothermometry has been groups, e.g. clay minerals, feldspars and zeolites.
developed considerably as has the use of fluid inclusions We have attempted to restrict the work to a similar
to give information on temperatures of crystallization size, and although some expansion has been felt
and genetic sequences. necessary for some major groups such as olivine and
Whereas we are now not so dependent on optical nepheline, the balance has been maintained by omitting
properties for determining chemical composition, light coverage of datolite, rosenbuschite, lävenite, catapleiite
microscopy remains the basic general tool underpinning and the helvite group.
all other methods, and the study of sub-microscopic
features (e.g. habits and intergrowths) is enhanced by W. A. DEER
the use of scanning or transmission electron microscopy. R. A. HOWIE
The increased attention given to opaque minerals by J. ZUSSMAN
both students and researchers is recognized and we now January 1991

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Preface to First edition

The authors began about ten years ago to write a text We have tried to make the text useful also as a
book for university students, but this aim was gradually laboratory manual by giving tabulated data and optic
relinquished as the text grew into the five volumes of orientation sketches at the head of each mineral section,
Rock-Forming Minerals. We have now reverted to our and by including the paragraphs on distinguishing
original purpose by condensing the latter work into this features.
single volume, which is intended to provide a short Selected references are given for most minerals, and
account of the more important minerals encountered in have been chosen, not so much in order to augment the
many undergraduate courses in mineralogy and petrology. data presented, but rather to draw attention to the
We have attempted to present the basic data which are various types of information available relating to
essential to the understanding of minerals, especially in particular minerals. Moreover, by drawing the attention
relation to the environment of their formation. of the student to some of the original data on which this
The study of minerals is commonly presented largely work is based, it is hoped to stimulate a deeper interest
as a listing of optical and physical properties which can in the study of minerals.
be used for mineral identification. While this is without Minerals of lesser importance are given a shorter
doubt an essential aspect of the subject, the study of treatment. All the minerals dealt with in Rock-Forming
minerals, particularly in relation to petrology, requires Minerals are included in the present work, and in
also the detailed consideration of crystal structure, addition mullite, some of the rarer but typical minerals
chemistry and paragenesis, and we make no apologies of caic-silicate rocks, and the accessory minerals of
for the prominence we have given these topics. nepheline-syenites and related rocks have been included.
To those familiar with the five volumes of Rock- The earlier spelling of felspar has been changed to
Forming Minerals the present volume will be seen to be feldspar in accordancc with the 1962 recommendation of
based essentially on the pattern of the earlier work. Thus the New Minerals and Mineral Names Commission of
the more common minerals are each considered under the International Mineralogical Association.
the headings: Structure, Chemistry, Optical and Physical A description of the method of calculating structural
Properties, Distinguishing Features and Paragenesis. formulae from mineral analyses is given in Appendix 1
Sections on chemistry show typical compositions and
illustrate the major atomic replacements which occur in W. A. DEER
the various minerals. In the sections on optical and R. A. HOWIE
physical properties, the variations of these properties J. ZUSSMAN
with chemistry are discussed and are in many cases October 1965
presented graphically.

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Acknowledgements

We are indebted to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material. Full details of publication are
included in relevant figure captions.

Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich for figures Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag Leipzig for figures
from Mineralogische Tabellen (2nd ed.) from Zeitschrift für Kristallographie
Cambridge University Press for figures from Crystal Oxford University Press for figures from Journal of
Chemistry; Introduction to Crystal Chemistry Petrology
Carnegie Institute of Washington for figures from NASA for a photomicrograph
Carnegie Institute of Washington, Annual Report of National Institute for Metallurgy, Johannesburg for
the Director, Geophysical Laboratory figures from Minerals Science and Engineering
The Clay Minerals Society for figures from Clays and The Royal Society of London for figures from
Clay Minerals Proceedings of the Royal Society; Philosophical
Cornell University Press for figures from Atomic Transations of the Royal Society
Structure of Minerals The Russell Society for figures from Journal of the
Elsevier for figures from Earth Science Reviews; Russell Society
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Journal of Solid Scandinavian University Press for figures from Norsk
State Chemistry; Lithos Geologisk Tidsskrift
The Geological Society of America for figures from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung for figures
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America; from Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, European
Memoirs of the Geological Society of America Journal of Mineralogy; Fortschritte der Mineralogie
Geological Society of London for figures from Rock- SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology for figures from
Forming Minerals Journal of Sedimentary Research
International Union of Crystallography for figures from Society of Economic Geologists for figures from
Acta Crystallographica Economic Geology
Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences for figures Springer-Verlag GmbH for figures from Feldspar
from Mineralogical Journal Minerals; Sedimentary Carbonate Minerals;
John Wiley & Sons for figures from Journal of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology; Physics
Metamorphic Geology; Manual of Mineralogy; and Chemistry of Minerals
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Rocks Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology for figures
Longman/Pearson Education for figures from An from Schweizer Mineralogische und Petrographische
Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals; photo- Mitteilungen
micrographs from the W.S. MacKenzie collection University of Chicago Press for figures from Journal of
The McGraw-Hill Companies for figures from Igneous Geology
Petrology; Microscopic Identification of Minerals; Yale University (Kline Geology Laboratory) for figures
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology from American Journal of Science
Mineralogical Association of Canada for figures from
The Canadian Mineralogist D.H.M. Alderton for a photomicrograph
The Mineralogical Record for figures from R.A. Berner for figures from Principles of Chemical
Mineralogical Record Sedimentology
Mineralogical Society of America for figures from R.M.F. Preston for a photograph
American Mineralogist; Special Paper 2; Reviews in D.J. Vaughan for figures from Mineral Chemistry of
Mineralogy Metal Sulphides
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for F.J. Wicks for photomicrographs
figures from Mineralogical Magazine; Clay Minerals

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Abbreviations and symbols

Å (= 10 nm) Ångstrom units (10 8 cm) T temperature. Also ‘tetrahedral site’


a cell edge in the x direction tr. trace
a activity (of substance indicated by VHN100 microindentation hardness, Vickers
subscript) Hardness Number at 100 g load
atom % atoms per cent, percentage on an atomic wt.% percentage on a weight basis
basis XRD X-ray diffraction
b cell edge in the y direction x, y, z crystallographic axes
Bxa acute bisectrix Z number of formula units per unit cell
c cell edge in the z direction 2V optic axial angle
calc. calculated a, b, g least, intermediate and greatest refractive
D density (g/cm3) indices; the vibration direction of the
d interplanar spacing rays; also the rays themselves.
DTA differential thermal analysis a, b, g angles between the positive directions of
Eh redox potential the y and z, x and z, and x and y
EPMA electron probe microanalysis crystal axes
f fugacity (of substance indicated by d birefringence
subscript) e extraordinary ray, refractive index
Fe* total Fe2+ + Fe3+ (uniaxial)
H hardness (Mohs’ scale) o ordinary ray, refractive index (uniaxial)
H 2O absorbed water & vacant site in crystal structure
H2O+ water derived from mineral breakdown
hex (subscript) hexagonal
IR infrared spectroscopy Buffers
KD distribution coefficient
LA-ICP-MS Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma FMQ fayalite + oxygen > magnetite + quartz
mass spectrometry HM hematite magnetite
M mol/litre IW iron + oxygen > wüstite
M generalized cation site MH magnetite + oxygen > hematite
Ma million years MI magnetite > iron + oxygen
meq., meq. milliequivalents, microequivalents MW magnetite > wüstite + oxygen
mol% molecules per cent, percentage on a NNO nickel + oxygen > nickel oxide
molecular basis QFM quartz–fayalite–rnagnetite
n refractive index (for a cubic mineral) WM wüstite–magnetite
nm nanometre (10 9 m)
NMR nuclear magnetic resonance
O.A.P. optic axial plane Units of Pressure
P pressure (see note below on units of
pressure) Various units for pressure are found in geological
pfu per formula unit literature. In older publications, bar or atm. (atmo-
pH log (H+) concentration sphere), kilobar (kbar) and megabar (Mbar), and more
ppm parts per million recently, the IS units: pascal (Pa), megapascal (MPa)
% parts per mille (parts per thousand) and Gigapascal (GPa). Their relationships are as follows:
R generalized symbol for group of metal
ions 1 bar = 105 N(newtons)/m2
R reflectance 1 atm. = 1.0133 bar
RE, REE rare earth, rare earth element 1 kbar = 1000 bar
r < v (or r > v) optic axial angle in red light is less than 1 Pa = 1 N/m2
(or greater than) that in violet light 1 MPa = 106 Pa = 10 bar
rh (subscript) rhombohedral 1 GPa = 109 Pa = 10 kbar
SEM scanning electron microscopy
SIMS Secondary ion mass spectrometry Thus to convert pressure in kbar to pressure in GPa, or
TEM transmission electron microscopy pressure in bars to pressure in MPa, divide by 10.
HRTEM high resolution transmission electron
microscopy

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