Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Kinetically driven successive sodic and potassic alteration of feldspar

  • Gan Duan,
  • Rahul Ram,
  • Yanlu Xing,
  • Barbara Etschmann,
  • Joël Brugger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24628-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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This paper reveals that potassic alteration can be triggered by Na-rich fluids, indicating that pervasive sequential sodic and potassic alterations associated with mineralization in some of the world’s largest ore deposits may not necessarily reflect externally-driven changes in fluid alkali contents.