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Formation of hydrous stishovite from coesite in high-pressure hydrothermal environments

  • Kristina Spektor , Johanna Nylen , Renny Mathew , Mattias Edén , Emil Stoyanov , Alexandra Navrotsky , Kurt Leinenweber and Ulrich Häussermann EMAIL logo
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 101 Issue 11

Abstract

In low-temperature, high-pressure hydrothermal environments coesite transforms into hydrous forms of stishovite. We studied hydrous stishovite produced from hydrothermal treatment of silica glass as initial SiO2 source at temperatures of 350–550 °C and pressures around 10 GPa. The P-T quenched samples were analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermal analysis, and IR and magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy. The presence of significant amounts of H2O (ranging from 0.5 to 3 wt%) is shown from thermogravimetric measurements. PXRD reveals that at temperatures below 400 °C, hydrous stishovite is obtained as two distinct phases that may relate to the solid ice-VII environment present at prevailing P-T conditions. Initially formed hydrous stishovite is metastable and dehydrates over time in the low-temperature, high-pressure hydrothermal environment. The primary mechanism of H incorporation in stishovite is a direct substitution of 4H+ for Si4+ yielding unique octahedral hydrogarnet defects. In IR spectra this defect manifests itself by two broad but distinct bands at 2650 and 2900 cm–1, indicating strong hydrogen bonding. These bands are shifted in the deuteride to 2029 and 2163 cm–1, respectively. Protons of the octahedral hydrogarnet defect produce

Keywords: Coesite-stishovite transition; hydrous minerals; octahedral defects; high-pressure hydro-thermal environments
† Present address: ESRF, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38000 Grenoble, France

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grants 2013-4690 and DMR-1007557, respectively.

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Keywords for this article
Coesite-stishovite transition; hydrous minerals; octahedral defects; high-pressure hydro-thermal environments

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