A Cr3+ luminescence study of natural topaz Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 up to 60 GPa
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Earl F. O’Bannon III
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Quentin Williams
Abstract
Topaz [Al2SiO4(F,OH)2] is a subduction-related mineral that is found in metasediments and has a large pressure and temperature stability field. Here, we use luminescence spectroscopy of Cr3+ to probe the Al site in topaz at pressures up to ~60 GPa, which corresponds to a depth of ~1400 km in the Earth. This technique allows us to probe all three unique Al environments (i.e., [AlO4(OH)2]7–, [AlO4(F)2]7–, and [AlO4OH,F]7–) simultaneously under high pressure. We find that the R-line luminescence from all three Al environments shift linearly to longer wavelength to ~40 GPa. Above ~40 GPa, they shift nonlinearly and begin to flatten out at ~48 GPa, with a pressure shift of ~0 cm–1/GPa from ~48–55 GPa. Our results, combined with previous high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies to ~45 GPa, strongly indicate that there is a change in the compression mechanism in topaz above ~40 GPa. Our high-pressure room-temperature results show that the metastable persistence of topaz on compression represents one of the most extreme cases among tetrahedrally coordinated silicates.
Acknowledgments
We thank Rob Franks for assistance with the LA-ICP-MS measurements, Dan Sampson for technical assistance with the Raman spectrometer detector, and Nico Giordano (CSEC U. Edinburgh) and Christine Beavers for assistance with data collection on beamline 11.3.1 and helpful discussions.
Funding
A portion of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. This work was partially supported by NSF through EAR-1620423 and COMPRES through NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1606856. This research used resources of the Advanced Light Source (beamline 11.3.1, now beamline 12.2.1) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is a DOE Office of Science User facility under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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