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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2014.47.5.489

Occurrence and Mineralogical Characteristics of Asbestos in Dolostone at Ungdo, Seosan  

Kim, Seon-Ok (Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Lee, Minhee (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
Jung, Hyunjung (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
Shin, Wonji (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.47, no.5, 2014 , pp. 489-496 More about this Journal
Abstract
The occurrence and mineralogical characteristics of asbestos in dolostone at Ungdo, Seosan were investigated by analyses of PLM, XRD, and SEM/EDS. Representative outcrops of dolostone at Ungdo were examined and four dolostone samples were collected according the occurrence type to identify the shape of asbestos in dolostone samples. The host rock of dolostone had been produced from the hydrothermal alteration and/or thermal metamorphism of which main source was assumed as the acidic granite. Tremolites were observed near the cracks or fractures of the dolostone as tamping or gob types. From the mineralogical analyses, main minerals of dolostone were dolomite with calcite, quartz, talc, amphibole, and pyroxene. From SEM/EDS analyses, tremolite-actinolite asbestoses were observed in dolostone and their shapes were prismatic and fibrous (less than $1{\mu}m$ in width). Non-asbestos prismatic forms were also found and they would transfer to asbestos particles resulting from the cleavage and fracture of the prismatic particles. Overall results suggest that asbestoses in Ungdo dolosotnes were mainly tremolite-actinolite and they were originated from the hydrothermal alteration of Ca-Mg rich dolostone.
Keywords
dolostone; tremolite; actinolite; asbestos; hydrothermal alteration;
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