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Thermal expansion of minerals in the amphibole supergroup

  • Mario Tribaudino , Guy L. Hovis , Christine Almer and Amanda Leaman
Published/Copyright: July 2, 2022
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From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 107 Issue 7

Abstract

We have investigated the thermal expansion of 15 naturally occurring chemically diverse amphiboles utilizing high-temperature X‑ray powder diffraction. As done in the first paper of this series on pyroxenes, volume-temperature data were analyzed using the physical Kroll and empirical Fei thermal expansion models. As in pyroxenes, orthorhombic amphibole end-members expand more than monoclinic ones, which is related to the greater kinking of the chains of tetrahedra permitted by the Pnma symmetry. In the case of chemically similar phases, increased Al in octahedral cation sites decreases expansion. Although the ranges of thermal expansion coefficients for amphiboles and pyroxenes are similar, expansion patterns are not the same. Amphiboles exhibit higher expansion along a*, but lower along b, just the reverse of that observed in pyroxenes. An exception to this is the data for pargasite, which shows higher expansion along the b axis due to the presence of Al in tetrahedral sites. Current data will be useful in modeling reactions involving amphiboles in both metamorphic and igneous environments.

Keywords: Amphiboles; thermal expansion; X-ray diffraction; modeling

Acknowledgments and Funding

Conducted at Lafayette College, the high-T X‑ray work has involved undergraduate students in both data collection and analysis; indeed, two such students (now graduated) are coauthors of this paper. This research would not have been possible without financial support of the U.S. National Science Foundation via grants EAR-1019809 and EAR-1028953 for both the X‑ray equipment and student participation. Samples for this study were obtained from the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Jeff Post, Paul Powhat) and the American Museum of Natural History (George Harlow). In addition, M. Darby Dyar (Mt. Holyoke College) made available several orthoamphiboles studied by Anthony Law (1973, 1981, 1989), also specimen PBM-10 collected by the late Paul B. Moore. David Jenkins (Binghamton University) provided specimen MS-2825 obtained from the UCLA mineral collection via Bernard Evans. This study could not have been successful without the chemical data so generously provided by these institutions and individuals, including a new microprobe analysis for sample PBM-10 by Molly McCanta (University of Tennessee) in cooperation with M.D. Dyar.

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Received: 2021-01-26
Accepted: 2021-07-01
Published Online: 2022-07-02
Published in Print: 2022-07-26

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-7988
Keywords for this article
Amphiboles; thermal expansion; X-ray diffraction; modeling

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