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

Dubrovinskaia, Natalia; Messingschlager, Maria; Dubrovinsky, Leonid

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.

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

    UKÄ forskningsämne

    Arkeologi

    Publikationens identifierare

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

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    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/120159