Surface structural controls on trace element incorporation during crystal growth
Three-sided growth hillock on a {100} face of
apatite, Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Image taken by differential interference contrast
microscopy.
For reprints email John Rakovan at Rakovajf@muohio.edu
Hughes, J.M., Rakovan, J, Ertl, A., Rossman, G.R., Baksheev, I., Bernhardt, H.J. (2011) Dissymmetrization in tourmaline: The atomic arrangement of optically sectoral-zoned triclinic Ni-bearing Mg-rich tourmaline. Canadian Mineralogist, 49:451-462.
Meng, Y., Newville, M., Sutton, S., Rakovan, J, and Mao, H.K. (2003) Fe and Ni impurities in synthetic diamond. American Mineralogist. 88, 1555-1559.
Kohn, M. Hughes, J.M. and Rakovan, J. Eds. (2002) Phosphates: Geochemical, Geobiological and
Materials Importance, Kohn, M., Rakovan, J., Hughes, J.M. (eds). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Mineralogical Society of America. Washington, DC. 742 p. Order.Rakovan, J. (2002) Growth and Surface Structure of Apatite. In: Phosphates: Geochemical, Geobiological and Materials Importance, Kohn, M., Rakovan, J., Hughes, J.M. (eds). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Mineralogical Society of America. Washington, DC. V. 48, 51-86. Order.
Bosze, S. and Rakovan, J. (2002) Surface structure controlled sectoral zoning of the Rare Earth Elements in fluorite from Long Lake, N.Y. and Bingham, N.M. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66, 997-1009.
Rakovan, J., M. Newville and S. Sutton (2001) Evidence of heterovalent europium in zoned Llallagua apatite using wavelength dispersive XANES. American Mineralogist, 86, 697-700.
Reeder, R.J. and Rakovan, J. (1999) Surface structural controls on trace element incorporation
during crystal growth. In Growth, Dissolution and Pattern-formation in Geosystems, B. Jamtveitand P. Meakin (eds.) p. 143-162. Kluwer Academic Publishers.Rakovan, J., McDaniel, D.K., and Reeder R.J. (1997) Use of surface-controlled REE sectoral
zoning in apatite from Llallagua, Bolivia, to determine a single-crystal Sm-Nd age. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,146, 329-336.Rakovan, J., and Reeder, R.J. (1996) Intracrystalline Rare Earth Element distributions in apatite: Surface structural influences on zoning during Growth. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 4435-4445.
Rakovan, J. (1996) The role of crystal surface structure during growth: Trace element incorporation and epitaxy. Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY-Stony Brook.
Rakovan, J., and Reeder, R.J. (1994) Differential incorporation of trace elements and dissymmetrization in apatite: The role of surface structure during growth. American Mineralogist, 79, 892-903.
Huerta, M. and Rakovan, J. (2004) Growth induced dissymmetrization of fluorapatite from Llallagua, Bolivia: The relationship between compositional and optical zoning. Rochester Mineralogical Symposium Program and Abstracts and Rocks & Minerals.
Rakovan, J. (2003) Lanthanides in Fluorite (REE:CaF2): Probes of Crystal Surface Structure and Association in Color Centers. Materials Research Society National Meeting Program and Abstracts.
Rakovan, J. (2003) Exceptional Apatites from the Siglo XX mine, Llallagua Bolivia. Tucson Mineralogical Symposium. Mineralogical Record 34, 117-118.
Richards, R.P. and Rakovan, J. (1999) The first occurrence of apatite crystals in Ohio. Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. Rocks and Minerals, ?,?.
Rakovan, J. (1998) Cathodoluminescence as a probe of heterogeneous reactivity at the mineral-water interface. Annual Geological Society of America meeting, Abstracts with program, A-59.
Rakovan, J., and Reeder, R.J. (1994) Constraints on intrasectoral zoning and dissymmetrization in minerals: The case of Grossular Garnet. Annual Geological Society of America meeting, Abstracts with program, p.A-481.
