calcite

Optical Spectra of Calcite, CaCO₃

1960s

Wiersema A (1960) Experiments on color centers in Crestmore blue calcite. United States Atomic Energy Commission [Unclassified and Declassified Reports Published by the Atomic Energy Commission and Its Contractors] (1960), UCRL-9494, 33 pages.
Doyle LR (1961) The electron spin resonance (EPR) absorption of two solid-state paramagnetic centers. I. Frozen tetramethyl ammonium solutions. II. Crestmore blue calcite. United States Atomic Energy Commission [Unclassified and Declassified Reports Published by the Atomic Energy Commission and Its Contractors] (1961), UCRL 9602, 55 pp.
Samoilovich MI, Andrusenko NI (1967) Paramagnetic center in calcite. Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii 8(6), 1093-4. (in Russian)
Bershov LV, Samoylovich MI, Lushnikov VG, Andrusenko NI (1968) The nature of the pink color in calcite (in Russian). Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 97, 357-360.
Sterzel W, Chorinsky E (1968) Color-center formation in plastically deformed calcite. Z Naturforsch A 23:1052-1058 (in German)
Kozlovskii VK, Kuznetsova NN, Snopko YP (1969) Nature of yellow color in Iceland spar crystals and mechanisms of their decoloration. Tr Vses Nauch-Issled Inst Sin Miner Syr'ya 10, 118-129 (in Russian)
Samoilovich MI, Lushnikov VG (1969) Nature of the yellow coloring of calcite. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 98, 492-495 (in Russian)

1970s

Sergeev VM, Barsanov GP, Kononov OV (1973) Nature of the rose color of calcite. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 4, Geol 28:115-117. (in Russian)
Kapitonov MD, Sergeev VM (1974) Crystallomorphology, nature of the color, and genesis of calcite from the Tetiukhe ore field. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 219, 433-436 (in Russian)
Sergeev VM, Dergunov VV, Gavrikov LF, Kononov OV, Barsanov GP (1974) Blue color of calcite. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser Crystallogr 216, 1037-1039 (in Russian)
Sergeev VM, Kononov, OV, Barsanov GP (1974) The yellow coloration of Iceland spar. Moscow University Geological Bulletin 29:25-28. [Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 4, Geol 29, 38-41 (in Russian)]
Sergeev VM, Dorfman MD (1975) Green-yellow color of calcite of the Khibiny apatite deposit. [Mineral Muz, Akad Nauk SSSR 24:212-215 (in Russian)]
Sergeev VM, Shchukin NF, Barsanov GP (1976) The origin of violet color in calcite. Acad Sci USSR Dokl, Earth Sci Sect 231, 121-123. [Translation of Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (1976) 231, 1222-1225 (in Russian)]
Raju KS (1977) Radiation effects in calcite. Pramana 8, 266-275.
Hassan F (1978) Impurity-related enters in a pale green calcite crystal. Amer Mineral 63, 732-736.
Skropyshev and Kas'yanenko (1978) Color of Iceland spar due to Fe(+3). Zap. Leningr. Gorn. Inst. im. GV Plekhanova 75, 63-68.

1980s

Guse W (1982) Blue color-variety of calcite from Tsumeb ore deposit, Nmibia, SE-Africa. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie-Monatshefte 1982, 417-421.
Calderon T, Aguilar M, Coy-yll R (1983) Relationship between blue color and radiation damage in calcite. Radiation Eff Lett Sect 76, 187-191.
Rossman GR (1988) Optical Spectroscopy. In: F.C. Hawthorne, ed., Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Geology. Rev. Mineral 18, 207-254.

1990s

Kotarski AJ (1991) Defects in calcite. Report (USNA-TSPR-181; Order No. AD-A245645), 121 pp.

2000s

Gaft M, Nagli L, Panczer G, Waychunas G, Porat N (2008) The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO₃. American Mineralogist 93, 158–167.
Gunasekaran S, Anbalagan G (2008) Optical absorption and EPR studies on some natural carbonate minerals. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 69, 383-390.
Reddy SL, Frost RL, Sowhanya G, Reddy NCG, Reddy GS, Reddy BJ (2008) EPR, UV-Visible, and Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Characterization of Dolomite. Advances in Condensed Matter Physics. 2008. Article ID 175862.

2010s

Garcia-Guinea J, Correcher V, Benavente D, Sanchez-Moral S (2015) Composition, Luminescence, and Color of a Natural Blue Calcium Carbonate from Madagascar. Spectroscopy Letters, 48: 107–111.
Gu H, Rui Zhu R, Chen WW, Ma D, Li Y,Li (2011) Electrolytic coloration and spectral properties of natural calcite crystals. American Mineralogist 96, 1398–1401.
May E, Notari F (2019) Cobaltocalicite or Cobaltoan Calcite: A Swiss Answer. Journal of Gemmology 36, 685-686,

Handin J, Higgs DV, Lewis DR, Weyl PK (1957) Effects of gamma radiation on the experimental deformation of calcite and certain rocks. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 68, 1203-1224.

Wiersema, A (1960) Experiments on color centers in Crestmore blue calcite. United States Atomic Energy Commission [Unclassified and Declassified Reports Published by the Atomic Energy Commission and Its Contractors] (1960), UCRL-9494, 33 pages.
Doyle LR (1961) The electron spin resonance (EPR) absorption of two solid-state paramagnetic centers. I. Frozen tetramethyl ammonium solutions. II. Crestmore blue calcite. United States Atomic Energy Commission [Unclassified and Declassified Reports Published by the Atomic Energy Commission and Its Contractors] (1961), UCRL 9602, 55 pages
Samoilovich MI, Andrusenko NI (1967) Paramagnetic center in calcite. Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii 8, 1093-1094. (in Russian)

Kotarski AJ (1991) Defects in calcite. Report (USNA-TSPR-181; No. AD-A245645), 121 pages.

Ponnusamy V, Ramasamy V, Dheenathayalu M (2003) Kinetics of thermoluminescent calcite. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics 41(8), 621-626.
Ponnusamy V, Ramasamy V, Hemalatha J (2004) Thermostimulated luminescence (tsl) - thermal treatment in blue coloured calcite crystals. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics 42 130-135.
Ponnusamy V, Ramasamy V, Dheenathayalu M, Hemalatha J (2004) Effect of annealing in thermostimulated luminescence (TSL) on natural blue color calcite crystals. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 217(4), 611-620.
Gaft M, Nagli L, Pancaer G Waychunas G, Porat N (2008) The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO₃. American Mineralogist 93, 158-167.