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In-situ infrared spectroscopic studies of hydroxyl in amphiboles at high pressure

  • Elizabeth C. Thompson EMAIL logo , Andrew J. Campbell and Zhenxian Liu
Published/Copyright: March 4, 2016
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 101 Issue 3

Abstract

Oceanic plates contain numerous hydrous phases including amphiboles, which are important carriers of water into subduction zones. The hydroxyl bound within the crystalline structure of hydrous minerals, as well as changes in hydrogen bond symmetry, can impact the bulk properties of these minerals. In this study, 12 natural amphibole samples spanning a range of 10 compositions were probed with synchrotron infrared spectroscopy at room temperature and pressures up to 60 GPa. Infrared spectra were collected at atmospheric pressure and at regular intervals during compression, allowing for the collection of spectra centered on the typical O-H stretching region at 3600–3700 cm–1 as they evolved with pressure for each composition. The number of O-H bands within each sample was found to vary with composition, but the pressure dependence of O-H frequency shifting more closely correlated with mode frequency at ambient pressure than with composition. Combined with earlier results, these data reveal a linear relationship between mode frequency at ambient pressure and the pressure dependence of O-H stretching modes in amphiboles and sheet silicates.

Two sample preparation methods utilized in this study allowed for direct comparison between quasi-hydrostatic neon-loaded sample conditions and the conditions achieved with a KBr pressure medium. Samples loaded in neon preserved sharper peaks, allowing greater spectral resolution, especially at higher pressures when peaks are most likely to broaden or disappear due to crystalline disorder and pressure gradients across the sample. This new quasi-hydrostatic loading method proved valuable to tracing O-H stretching behavior in amphiboles to higher pressures than previously obtained and will lend itself to future study of O-H stretching pressure dependence in a wide range of hydrous minerals.

Keywords: Infrared; high pressure; diamond-anvil cell; hydroxyl; amphiboles

Acknowledgments

We thank the editors and the two reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript. This material is based upon work supported by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE-1144082 and National Science Foundation Grant EAR-1427123. The U2A beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source beamline is supported by COMPRES, the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 11-43050 and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract DE-AC02-98CH10886. Use of the COMPRES-GSECARS gas loading system was supported by COMPRES under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 11-57758 and by GSECARS through NSF grant EAR-1128799 and DOE grant DE-FG02-94ER14466. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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  1. Manuscript handled by Sergio Speziale.

Received: 2015-6-15
Accepted: 2015-10-27
Published Online: 2016-3-4
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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Keywords for this article
Infrared; high pressure; diamond-anvil cell; hydroxyl; amphiboles

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