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The relative stability of monazite and huttonite at 300 - 900 °C and 200 - 1000 MPa: Metasomatism and the propagation of metastable mineral phases
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Daniel E. Harlov
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Richard Wirth
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April 1, 2015
Abstract
Monazite is both partially replaced and overgrown by a ThSiO4 phase along grain rims in a series of experiments from 300 to 900 °C and 200 to 1000 MPa. All experiments consisted of 10 mg of 100.500 μm size, euhedral to subhedral crystals of a natural Th-free monazite-(Ce), 5 mg of Th(NO3)4·5H2O, 2.5 mg of SiO2, and 5 mg of H2O loaded into 3 mm wide, 1 or 1.3 cm long platinum capsules that were arc welded shut. Experimental conditions were: 300 °C at 200 and 500 MPa; 300, 400, 500, 600, and 700 °C at 500 MPa (cold seal hydrothermal autoclave); and 900 °C at 1000 MPa (Catz assembly; pistoncylinder press). Back-scattered electron (BSE) imaging, electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicates that in the experiments from 500 to 900 °C, the ThSiO4 phase took the form of monoclinic huttonite implying that huttonite, associated with monazite, could exist metastably over a much greater P-T range than previously thought. TEM analysis of a foil cut perpendicular to the monazite-huttonite interface from the 600 °C, 500 MPa experiment using a focused ion beam (FIB) indicates that the huttonite as well as the interface between the huttonite and monazite is characterized by fluid inclusions. High-resolution TEM analysis indicates that the huttonite-monazite interface is coherent. In the case of replacement of monazite by huttonite, fluid-aided dissolution-reprecipitation is proposed as the most likely mechanism responsible.
Keywords: Monazite; huttonite; dissolution-reprecipitation; metastability; metasomatism; EBSD; TEM; pseudomorphism
Received: 2006-9-21
Accepted: 2007-6-5
Published Online: 2015-4-1
Published in Print: 2007-10-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Monazite;
huttonite;
dissolution-reprecipitation;
metastability;
metasomatism;
EBSD;
TEM;
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