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The effects of composition upon the high-pressure behaviour of amphiboles: compression of gedrite to 7 GPa and a comparison with anthophyllite and proto-amphibole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

F. Nestola ,
D. Pasqual ,
M. D. Welch  and
R. Oberti
F. Nestola*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy CNR Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, UOS Padova, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy
D. Pasqual
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy
M. D. Welch
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
R. Oberti
Affiliation:
CNR Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, UOS Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
*
*E-mail: fabrizio.nestola@unipd.it
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Abstract

A single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of a sample of natural gedrite from North Carolina, USA, with the crystal-chemical formula ANa0.47 B(Na0.03Mg0.97Fe0.94 2+Mn0.02Ca0.04)C(Mg3.52Fe0.28 2+Al1.15Ti0.05 4+)T(Si6.31Al1.69)O22 W(OH)2,up to a maximum pressure of 7 GPa, revealed the following bulk and axial moduli and their pressure derivatives: K 0T = 91.2(6) GPa [K 0T ' = 6.3(2)]; K 0T (a) = 60.5(6) GPa [K 0T (a)'= 6.1(2)]; K 0T (b) = 122.8(2.6) GPa [K 0T (b)' = 5.7(8)]; K 0T (c) = 119.7(1.5) GPa [K 0T (c)' = 5.1(5)]. Gedrite has a muchhigher bulk modulus than anthophyllite (66 GPa) and proto-amphibole (64 GPa). All of the three axial moduli of gedrite are higher than those of these two other orthoamphiboles. The greater stiffness of gedrite along [100] is due to its high ANa content, which is almost zero in anthophylliteand proto-amphibole. The much greater stiffness parallel to the (100) plane of gedrite compared with the two other amphiboles is probably due to its high CAl content. A comparison is made with published data available for orthorhombic B(Mg, Mn, Fe) and monoclinic BCaamphiboles to identify correlations between crystal-chemistry and compressibility in amphiboles.

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high pressurebulk modulussingle-crystal XRDgedriteamphibole group

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , August 2012 , pp. 987 - 995
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2012

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