Oxyfluorides of Rare-Earth Elements in the Rocks of the Shatak Formation (Southern Urals)

Author:

Kovalev Sergey G.1,Kovalev Sergey S.1,Sharipova Aysylu A.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Geology, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Karl Marx Street, 16/2, 450077 Ufa, Russia

Abstract

The Shatak Formation, comprising a part of the Mashak Suite (RF2), is located on the western slope of the Southern Urals. It consists of various rock types, including sedimentary rocks, such as conglomerates, polymictic sandstones, aleurolites, and carbonaceous clayey shales, as well as igneous rocks, including picrites, basalts, dacites, rhyodacites, and rhyolites, and volcanogenic–sedimentary rocks, such as tuffs and tuff breccias. In this article, oxyfluoride (La, Ce) (OnFm)3 mineralization, occurring in the contact zone between the metabasalts and quartz sandstones, is described for the first time in the literature. This is represented by compounds of variable compositions forming an isomorphic series: trifluoride, (La, Ce)F3–oxyfluoride, (La, Ce)OF–oxide, and (La, Ce)2O3. By analyzing several binary phase diagrams, significant coordination between oxygen, fluorine, and cerium in the chemical composition of oxyfluorides has been highlighted. However, the behavior of lanthanum has been shown to exhibit some irregularity. The genesis of oxyfluoride mineralization is attributed to the regional metamorphism of rocks within the Shatak Formation. During the hydrothermal process, the decomposition of fluorapatite, which is unstable during both hydrothermal metamorphism and supergene processes, resulted in the release of fluorine, as well as potentially lanthanum and cerium. Variations in the chemical composition of oxyfluorides, which are formed in the presence of an excess of oxygen resulting from water dissociation, are determined by local differences in the content of the main components within the forming microfractures.

Funder

Russian Science Foundation

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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