Tin weathering experiment set by nature for 300 years: natural crystals ofthe anthropogenic mineral hydroromarchite from Creussen, Bavaria, Germany

Sammanfattning

Hydroromarchite is a mineral that so far has been found only in afew locations in the world and recognized as a common product of submarinecorrosion of pewter artefacts. Here we report a new locality for this raremineral found at the Saint James Church archaeological site in Creussen,Germany. There it appeared to be a product of weathering of a tin artefact(a tin button) buried in soil of the churchyard for about 300 years. Themineral, found in paragenesis with romarchite and cassiterite, wasidentified using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Publicerad i

European Journal of Mineralogy
2022, volym: 34, nummer: 6, sidor: 563-572
Utgivare: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH

SLU författare

• Doubrovinckaia, Natalia

  • Institutionen för molekylära vetenskaper, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Universität Bayreuth

UKÄ forskningsämne

Arkeologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-563-2022

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