Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods of Investigation: 9th Geoscience Conference for Young Scientists, Ekaterinburg, Russia, February 5–8, 2018 ... in Earth and Environmental Sciences)

The book comprises the proceedings of the 9th Geoscience Conference for Young Scientists co-organized by the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry and the Institute of Mineralogy (Urals Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences) and Ural Federal University and held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on February 5-8, 2018. The book is devoted to the relevant issues of crystal chemistry and mineral typomorphism; the structure and physico-chemical and technological properties of minerals; the computational modeling of mineral structure and properties. Much attention is drawn to the latest advances and applications of physical methods of investigation of mineral structure and composition, in particular, X-Ray diffraction, spectroscopic (optical, vibrational, ESR, Moessbauer, etc.) and microscopic (SEM, TEM, AFM, etc.) studies, as well as the methods of chemical and isotopic analysis. This book presents the current research trends of space and planetary mineralogy (meteorites, regolites, tektites). The book is intended explicitly for the specialists in the earth and planetary sciences. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Zoned Olivines of Bronze Age Metallurgical Slags of Southern Urals According to LA-ICP-MS Mapping (Maxim N. Ankushev, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Ivan A. Blinov)....Pages 1-8 Modern Urban Sediments: Identification of the Cosmic Spherules (Irina A. Danilenko, Elena M. Baglaeva, Evgeniya V. Petrova, Andrian A. Seleznev, Grigoriy A. Yakovlev)....Pages 9-15 Zircon Thermometry of the Yarot Granite Massif (The Subpolar Urals) (Yulia V. Denisova, Anna N. Vikhot)....Pages 17-22 New Carbonaceous Chondrite from Northwest Africa (Kseniya A. Dugushkina, Stepan V. Berzin)....Pages 23-27 Scanning Electron Microscopy of Pyrite from Brown Coal (Mugun Coal Deposit, Irkutsk Basin) (Narine R. Dzhumayan, Aleksey V. Nastavkin)....Pages 29-34 Dimensions of Atoms in a Crystal: Delusions Versus Reality (Nikolai N. Eremin)....Pages 35-39 Determination of Major (Ca, P) and Trace (Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Fe) Elements in Biogenic Apatite Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) (Anastasiya K. Fokina, Daria Kiseleva, Nadezhda V. Cherednichenko)....Pages 41-47 Sulfide Minerals in Ordinary Chondrites Chelyabinsk, Northwest Africa 869 and Gao-Guenie (Svetlana S. Hontsova, Elena M. Maksimova, Evgeniya V. Petrova, Irina A. Danilenko, Igor A. Nauhatsky, Grigoriy A. Yakovlev)....Pages 49-54 Fracture Micromechanism of the Hierarchically Organized Biocomposite (Dentin of the Human Teeth) (Anna V. Kabanova, Larisa P. Kiselnikova, Zaoli Zhang, Peter E. Panfilov)....Pages 55-60 Bedrock Phase Composition of Kamenny Ambar and Konoplyanka Bronze Age Fortified Settlements and Neplyuevsky Burial Ground (Southern Urals) (Sofia V. Karpova, Daria Kiseleva, Anastasiya D. Ryanskaya, Olga L. Galakhova, Evgeny S. Shagalov, Lyudmila N. Koryakova)....Pages 61-66 About the Features of Exsolution Phenomena of NaCl-KCl Solid Solutions from Arsenatnaya Fumarole (Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka) (Dmitry A. Khanin, Valery M. Chubarov)....Pages 67-72 Localized Shock-Produced Melting in Meteorites (Natalia R. Khisina, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Albert M. Abdrakhimov)....Pages 73-82 Formation Stages of Calc-Alkaline Granites in the Western Transbaikalian Granitoid Province: LA-ICP-MS U–Pb Age Data on Detrital Zircons from Modern Sediments (Valentin B. Khubanov, Andrey A. Tsygankov, Tatyana N. Antsifirova)....Pages 83-88 Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Pathogenic Tooth Pulp Calcifications (Daria Kiseleva, Evgeny S. Shagalov, Maria V. Zaitceva, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Sergey G. Sustavov, Natalia M. Spivak)....Pages 89-94 Raman and IR Spectroscopy of Na2O–SiO2–GeO2 System (Nadezhda M. Korobatova, Mikhail V. Shtenberg, Tatyana N. Ivanova, Olga N. Koroleva)....Pages 95-100 Preparation and Properties of Ceramic Materials from Coal Fly Ash (Olga B. Kotova, Grigory V. Ignatiev, Dmitry A. Shushkov, Maria Harja, Maarten A. T. M. Broekmans)....Pages 101-107 Platinum Assemblage of Matysken River (Koryak Highlands, Russia): Key Properties and Relation with Bedrock Source (Anton V. Kutyrev, Eugene G. Sidorov)....Pages 109-114 Experimental Study of the Reaction Pyrope + Enstatite = Phlogopite in the Presence of H2O–KCl Fluid at 5 GPa in Application to the Problem of Modal Mantle Metasomatism (Evgeny V. Limanov, Valentina G. Butvina, Oleg G. Safonov)....Pages 115-120 Application of Mössbauer, ESR, and FTIR Spectroscopy for Mineralogical and Technological Research of Titanium Ores (Vladimir P. Lyutoev, Alexander B. Makeev, Andrey Yu. Lysyuk)....Pages 121-127 Investigation of the Mineral and Chemical Composition of the Cave Deposits in Emine-Bayir-Khosar, Crimea (Gleb S. Maksimov, Igor A. Nauhatsky, Elizaveta I. Timohina, Elena M. Maksimova)....Pages 129-135 Microminerals in Gallstones (Ekaterina V. Mashina, Vasily N. Filippov)....Pages 137-142 The Properties of Macrocyclic Complexes of Ruthenium (Mehriban Rahil Mikayilova, Rena Eldar Mustafayeva)....Pages 143-145 Crystallochemical Analysis of Actinoid Diffusion Path in the Structures of Light Rare Earth Monazites (Nikita A. Muromtsev, Nikolai N. Eremin, Amina S. Ulanova, Ekaterina I. Marchenko)....Pages 147-151 U–Pb Age and Analysis of the Lu–Hf Isotope System of Zircon from Granitoids of the Final Phases of the Nepluyevsky Pluton (The Southern Urals) (Tatyana A. Osipova, Maria V. Zaitceva, Sergei Votyakov)....Pages 153-160 Crystal Chemistry of Carbonates and Clay Minerals from Bottom Sediments of Okhotskoe Sea as an Indicator of Climate Change (Nadezhda A. Palchik, Tatyana N. Moroz, Leonid V. Miroshnichenko, Vladimir P. Artamonov)....Pages 161-168 Quantitative Determination of Gas Phase Composition of Fluid Inclusions in Quartz from Krasnoye Gold Deposit (the Eastern Siberia) by Raman Microspectroscopy (Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Sergei Votyakov, Natalya N. Ankusheva, Dmitry A. Zamyatin, Yulia Shchapova, Ekaterina E. Palenova)....Pages 169-174 The Effect of Sitinakite Crystallinity Degree and Textural Characteristics on Its Sorption Properties (Igor A. Perovskiy)....Pages 175-181 Mineral Salts from the Thermal Waters of the Kyndyg Deposit (The Republic of Abkhazia, the Western Caucasus) (Sergey S. Potapov, Olga Ya. Chervyatsova, Natalya V. Parshina, Sergey K. Vasil’yev)....Pages 183-193 Technology for Quality Assessment of Quartz Raw Materials (Vyacheslav M. Ryzhkov, Maria A. Igumentseva, Mikhail V. Shtenberg)....Pages 195-199 The Composition of Sulfur Isotopes in Minerals from The Sheki-Hiech Cave, The Caucasus, Chechen Republic, Russia (Sergey A. Sadykov, Sergey S. Potapov, Olga Ya. Chervyatsova, Roman S. Dbar)....Pages 201-207 Analysis of Solid Solutions with Spinel Structure (Elena N. Salata, Elena M. Maksimova, Igor A. Nauhatsky)....Pages 209-213 Hf Isotopic Composition of Zircons from the Granodiorites of the Talovsky Intrusion as the Evidence for the Juvenile Paleoproterozoic Crust of the Vorontsovsky Terrane, Eastern Sarmatia (Konstantin A. Savko, Maria V. Zaitceva, Sergei Votyakov, Sergey V. Tsybulyaev)....Pages 215-220 Anthropogenic Particles in Contemporary Surface Dirt Sediments in an Urban Environment (Andrian A. Seleznev, Ilia V. Yarmoshenko, Georgy P. Malinovsky, Daria Kiseleva, Lyubov V. Leonova, Elena M. Baglaeva et al.)....Pages 221-227 CuCrS2 Phase in Uakit Iron Meteorite (IIAB), Buryatia, Russia: Preliminary Data (Victor V. Sharygin)....Pages 229-236 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Kenyaite and Magadiite in the Southern Urals (Mikhail V. Shtenberg, Vladimir A. Popov, Svetlana M. Lebedeva, Rimma T. Zainullina, Mikhail A. Rassomakhin)....Pages 237-243 Isotopic (δ13C, δ18O, Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd) Studies of Carbonates from the Vorontsovskoe Gold Deposit (Northern Urals) (Elena I. Soroka, Oksana B. Azovskova, Mikhail Yu. Rovnushkin, Mikhail E. Pritchin, Irina V. Smoleva, Natalia G. Soloshenko et al.)....Pages 245-252 Composition and Microscopic Features of Background Cosmic Dust from Peat (Vladimir A. Tselmovich)....Pages 253-259 A New Self-consistent Interatomic Potential Set for Structure Modeling of Monazites and Xenotimes with Variable Composition (Amina S. Ulanova, Ekaterina I. Marchenko, Nikolai N. Eremin)....Pages 261-266 Symmetry Point Groups and Topological Entropies of Polyatomic Convex Clusters (Yury L. Voytekhovsky)....Pages 267-276 System of Mineralogy Revisited (Yury L. Voytekhovsky)....Pages 277-288 Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Rock-Forming Clinopyroxenes Using NexION 300S Mass Spectrometer with NWR 213 Laser Ablation System (Maria V. Zaitceva, Sergei Votyakov, Vladimir R. Shmelev)....Pages 289-292