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Structure of a new Al-rich phase, [K, Na]0.9[Mg, Fe]2[Mg, Fe, Al, Si]6O12, synthesized at 24 GPa

  • Tibor Gasparik EMAIL logo , Akhilesh Tripathi and John B. Parise
Published/Copyright: March 26, 2015
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 85 Issue 3-4

Abstract

A new Al-rich phase, [K0.56Na0.32][Ca0.04Mg1.66Fe2+0.3][Mg0.98Fe3+0.3Al2.62Si2.1]O12, was synthesized at 24 GPa, 1700 °C, and its structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The unit cell is hexagonal, space group P63/m, a = 8.830(1), c = 2.779(1) Å, V = 187.65(5) Å3, Z = 1, formula weight = 448.62, calculated density = 3.970 g/cm3. The previously unknown structure consists of alkali- and vacancy-bearing M3 sites in tunnels along c, mostly Mg-bearing linear arrays of trigonal prismatic M2 sites, very unusual for mantle phases, and a framework of edge-linked distorted octahedral M1 sites filled mostly with Al and Si. The observed range of compositional variations and high density suggest complex solid solution behavior at the lower-mantle pressures similar to pyroxenes at the upper-mantle and majorite garnet at the transition-zone pressures. The stability of the Al-rich phase appears to expand to lower Al contents with increasing pressure, suggesting that a chondritic lower mantle could contain up to 24% of the new phase on the molecular basis.

Received: 1999-5-5
Accepted: 1999-12-20
Published Online: 2015-3-26
Published in Print: 2000-4-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2000-0426

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  3. Mineralogy of mafic xenoliths and their reaction zones in the olivine lamproite from Prairie Creek Arkansas and the paragenesis of haggertyite, Ba [Fe6Ti5Mg]O19
  4. Magmatic anhydrite in granitic rocks: First occurrence and potential petrologic consequences
  5. Crystal chemistry of Al-rich biotites coexisting with muscovites in peraluminous granites
  6. Spectroscopic and structural properties of synthetic micas on the annite-siderophyllite binary: Synthesis, crystal structure refinement, Mössbauer, and infrared spectroscopy
  7. Thermodynamic properties of tremolite: A correction and some comments
  8. Raman spectroscopic characteristics of Mg-Fe-Ca pyroxenes
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  27. Core level electron binding energies of realgar (As4S4)
  28. Oxidation of {100} and {111} surfaces of pyrite: Effects of preparation method
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