#phyllosilicates
Ice in a Chlorite-Bearing Cliff in Northwest Hellas - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2n5bNvZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Chrysotile is the most common form of asbestos, accounting for approximately 95% of the asbestos in the world
A soft, fibrous silicate mineral in the serpentine subgroup of phyllosilicates.
The material has properties desirable for building materials, but poses serious health risks when inhaled.
September 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Hey Dad! Why is this Rhode Island beach so sparkly? Phyllosilicates! Aka rock baklava. #science #travel
August 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The impact of burial diagenesis on soil-formed minerals in paleosols using stable isotopes of phyllosilicates and carbonate clumped isotopes #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impact of burial diagenesis on soil-formed minerals in paleosols using stable isotopes of phyllosilicates and carbonate clumped isotopes
To understand the effects of burial diagenesis on the stable isotope geochemistry of soil-formed clay and carbonate minerals in paleosols, samples wer…
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August 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This rainbow river system is deadly! Chrysotile is the most common form of asbestos. It is soft and fibrous, belonging to the phyllosilicates, and is seen in this thin section sample of black serpentine from the Lizard peninsula.

#LapworthRocks #ThinSectionThursday #minerals #geology #museum
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
glegle if they were made of a fine-grained natural soil material primarily composed of hydrous aluminum phyllosilicates:
clay-clay

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June 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An exciting find at Krokodillen: phyllosilicates

These minerals primarily form by extensive interactions between basaltic rocks and liquid water. They are excellent at preserving organic materials, if present, by adsorbing them or encapsulating them within their mineral structure.

#Mars 🧪🔭
Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past? - NASA Science
Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
They are tiny layers of carbonates (white) interlayered with red phyllosilicates
June 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Nitrogen distribution and nitrogen isotope fractionation in synthetic 2:1 phyllosilicates under hydrothermal conditions at 200 °C and saturated vapor pressure #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nitrogen distribution and nitrogen isotope fractionation in synthetic 2:1 phyllosilicates under hydrothermal conditions at 200 °C and saturated vapor pressure
This study investigates nitrogen distribution and isotope fractionation within synthetic 2:1 phyllosilicates, simulating submarine hydrothermal enviro…
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May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
okay so what im seeing so far is
silt vs sand is mostly a particle size classification, while clay has a chemical requirement (hydrous aluminum phyllosilicates). so I'm still confused on how something can be 95% silt and 65% sand
May 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
investigate the composition of Phaethon's surface. Our NIRSpec data confirms that Phaethon's surface is dehydrated, showing no evidence of hydrated minerals in the 3-$\mu$m region. We estimate an upper limit on the hydrogen content in phyllosilicates [2/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00692v1]
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
#FridayFold outcrop showing complex folds in marble, calcschist, and dolomite marble.

A 3ad with only photos to celebrate #LiberationDay in Italy from a place known for its #Resistance

Massa, near S. Anna di Stazzema, Italy

#geology #outcrops #metamorphicrocks #marble #boudinage #tectonics
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April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Phyllosilicates would never.
April 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Aluminous phyllosilicates promote exceptional nanoscale preservation of biogeochemical heterogeneities in Archaean siliciclastic microbial mats | Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aluminous phyllosilicates promote exceptional nanoscale preservation of biogeochemical heterogeneities in Archaean siliciclastic microbial mats - Nature Communications
Using a range of laboratory and synchrotron techniques, Hickman-Lewis et al. show that some of Earth’s earliest siliciclastic microbial mat fossils (2.9 Ga) unexpectedly preserve biogeochemical signat...
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March 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
NH-bearing compounds. However, the chemical forms of these NH-rich compounds, whether associated with N-rich organics, ammonium (NH4+) salts, NH4 or NH-organics-bearing phyllosilicates, or other forms, remain to be better understood. In this study, we [2/8 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11471v1]
March 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM