Mineralogy and chemistry of natrolite from Jordan

ABSTRACT: A natrolite-cemented palagonite ash tuff unit is reported in a palaeo-basin in northeast Jordan. Phillipsite and chabazite are also identified. The zeolites were formed due to transformation of volcanic glass granules into palagonite by the reaction with percolating water in a closed hydrological system. Consequently, Si, Al, Ca, Na and K are leached out and precipitated in a series of authigenic layers developed at the extreme edge of the granules. The recorded parageneti