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Quartz Regeneration and its Use as a Repository of Genetic Information

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Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics

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Abstract

Quartz represents one of the most widespread minerals and is widely used in geosciences to reconstruct physic-chemical conditions of rock and mineral formation. However, interpretation of analytical data may be limited by the ability of quartz to regenerate during secondary alteration processes occurring under metamorphic or hydrothermal conditions. This behaviour distinguishes quartz from most minerals commonly associated with. Primary genetic information is obliterated during quartz regeneration. This includes features related to the real structure of quartz, but also to fluid and mineral inclusions. The present contribution examines examples covering various fields of mineral research, namely the genetic interpretation of trace element content in quartz, quartz provenance analysis using cathodoluminescence (CL) colour imaging, and the analysis of mineral and fluid inclusions in quartz. It is demonstrated in all cases that care needs to be taken when interpreting genetic information encoded. Distinction of features related to primary growth or secondary alteration is not simple and requires application of complementary analytical techniques.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge reviews by Torsten Graupner and Brian Rusk, which helped us to significantly improve the manuscript. We thank Dieter Wolf for useful discussion on the behaviour of quartz. The trace element analyses would not have been possible without the analytical support by Gisela Bombach and Werner Klemm.

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  1. Enchbat Dombon

    Present address: Department of Sciences, Technology, and Innovation, Mongolian University of Sciences and Technology, P.O. Box 520, Ulaanbatar, 210646, Mongolia

  2. Thomas Monecke

    Present address: Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

  3. Mikhail Poutivtsev

    Present address: Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, TU Munich, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748, Garching, Germany

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    Ulf Kempe, Jens Götze, Enchbat Dombon, Thomas Monecke & Mikhail Poutivtsev

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Kempe, U., Götze, J., Dombon, E., Monecke, T., Poutivtsev, M. (2012). Quartz Regeneration and its Use as a Repository of Genetic Information. In: Götze, J., Möckel, R. (eds) Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics. Springer Geology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22161-3_15

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