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Mineral : Ikaite: CaCO3·6(H2O)
Comments: Rounded, colorless crystals of ikaite extracted from Antarctic sea ice
Ikaite: Ikaite mineral information and data.
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Ikaite
Olenitsa River, White Sea Coast calcite above 8°C.
The resulting pseudomorph of calcite after ikaite is also called glendonite .Classification of Ikaite
IMA status:ApprovedStrunz 8th edition ID:5/D.01-60Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) edition ID:5
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Ikaite
Hesse K F, Kuppers H, Suess E
Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 163 (1983) 227 -231
Refinement of the structure of ikaite, CaCO3*6(H2O)
Locality: Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
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What
are Glendonites?
Glendonites are pseudomorphs after the mineral ikaite (Ca (possibly phosphate or organic carbon) which prevents
the formation of calcite. Ikaite forms for the precipitation of ikaite are quite specific,
they are not uncommon as shown by the
Carbonate minerals - eNotes.com Reference
Aurichalcite (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Hydrated carbonates
Ikaite CaCO3.6(H2O)
Lansfordite MgCO3·5(H2O
All varieties of opal
Pineapple
Opal
Opal pseudomorph
after Ikaite that resembles a pineapple. It is found originally thought to be Glauberite,
but studies now prove it to be Ikaite
Arizona Geology: TGMS Desautels Award
opal after ikaite.
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. Pseudomorphs of ikaite, a carbonate that is stable only at near-freezing seawater temperatures, have been the characteristics of warm-water, continental margin oceanography, the ikaite crystals could only


