The high-temperature behavior of defect hydrogen species in quartz: Implications for hydrogen isotope studies
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Kevin Grant
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Sarah A. Gleeson
Abstract
A micro-infrared spectroscopic study of hydrothermal vein quartz known to have anomalous δD signatures has identified two hydrogen reservoirs. In samples that generate an isotopic signature in accordance with that anticipated under the accepted model of quartz crystallization, submicroscopic aggregates of liquid water are the dominant hydrous species. Samples which generate an anomalous δD signature contain, in addition to liquid water, structurally incorporated hydrous species associated with impurity cations.
Infrared spectra obtained during in situ stepped heating experiments, coupled with infrared analysis at 25 ℃, demonstrate that hydrogen liberated between 300 and 500 ℃ is chiefly molecular, liquid water. Hydrogen liberated at temperatures greater than 500 ℃ is dominantly that associated with specific structurally incorporated cation defects. Since both defect hydrogen and molecular water are contemporaneously incorporated from the precipitating medium during crystallization, we propose that irregular δD signatures, released following decrepitation at temperatures greater than 500 ℃, are due to isotopically fractionated hydrogen released from interstitial OH defect sites in the quartz structure.
δD signatures obtained from stoichiometrically anhydrous minerals are generally interpreted under the assumption that the hydrogen measured comes uniquely from decrepitated fluid inclusions. Instead, we suggest that δD ratios obtained from hydrothermal quartz reflect a sum of the contributions made by individual hydrogen reservoirs, each with a potentially distinctive δD signature. Thus, if the overall δD signature is attributed entirely to fluid inclusion phases, the nature of the precipitating fluid may be misinterpreted. Hydrogen extracted as molecular water at between 300 and 500 ℃ provides a true reflection of the hydrothermal solution associated with crystal precipitation.
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