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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1989.053.371.04</article-id>
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<subject>Non-silicate Mineralogy</subject>
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<title-group>
<article-title>An Occurrence of a Fully-Oxidized Natural Titanomaghemite in Basalt</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Allan</surname>
<given-names>Jacqueline E. M.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Coey</surname>
<given-names>J. M. D.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Sanders</surname>
<given-names>I. S.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland</aff></contrib-group>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Schwertmann</surname>
<given-names>U.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Institut f&#x00FC;r Bodenkunde, Freising-Weihenstephan, West Germany</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Friedrich</surname>
<given-names>G.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Wiechowski</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Institut f&#x00FC;r Mineralogie und Lagerst&#x00E4;ttenlehre, Aachen, West Germany</aff></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1989</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>53</volume>
<issue>371</issue>
<fpage>299</fpage>
<lpage>304</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>10</day>
<month>6</month>
<year>1988</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>16</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1988</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1989, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1989</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Titanomaghemite occurs in a relatively fresh doleritic intrusion in an area of Precambrian gneiss in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It hosts exsolution lamellae of ilmenite and contains more than 90% of the iron in the ferric form. It is more resistant to weathering than the ilmenite and is inherited virtually unaltered by the resulting soils. Titanomaghemite, extracted as grains from a weathered rind of the rock, has lattice parameter <italic>a</italic><sub>0</sub> = 0.8348(3) nm and has a canted spin structure due to substitution of non-magnetic ions on tetrahedral and octahedral sites of the spinel structure. The average canting angle is 32 &#x00B1; 3&#x00B0; and canting occurs predominantly on the octahedral iron sublattice. Its formula, based on microprobe analysis and M&#x00F6;ssbauer spectroscopy may be expressed as: [Fe<sub>0.77</sub>Ti<sub>0.22</sub>Zn<sub>0.01</sub>]&#x007B;Fe<sub>1.19</sub>Ti<sub>0.26</sub>Mn<sub>0.02</sub>Al<sub>0.04</sub>&#x25A1;<sub>0.49</sub>&#x007D;O<sub>4</sub> where [] and &#x007B;&#x007D; denote ions on tetrahedral and octahedral sites, respectively. The spontaneous magnetization of the mineral is 36(3) J/T/kg.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>titanomaghemite</kwd>
<kwd>ferric iron</kwd>
<kwd>gneiss</kwd>
<kwd>Minas Gerais</kwd>
<kwd>Brazil</kwd>
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