Interaction of Water With Aluminosilicate Rocks. Review

Analysis of the data available on problems of water – aluminosilicate interaction in various zones of the Earth's crust has shown that the water – rock system has a number of unique properties and abilities, of which many slipped the attention of investigators. The equilib–rium–nonequilibrium character of the system under consideration makes it internally contradictory, capable for spontaneous, continuous, geologically long evolution with the formation of principally new mineral phases and new geochemical types of water. Its physicochemical and geological evolution leads to continuous reproduction of new systems consisting of secondary mineral phases and water of definite composition, which are involved into a new cycle of interactions to form ultimately some successively changing paragenetic complexes of secondary mineral formations in close association with definite types of water.