Volume behavior of hydrous minerals at high pressure and temperature: II. Compressibilities of lawsonite, zoisite, clinozoisite, and epidote

T. J.B. Holland, S. A.T. Redfern, A. R. Pawley

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    Abstract

    The pressure dependence of the lattice parameters of natural zoisite [Ca2Al3Si3O12(OH)], clinozoisite [Ca2Al3Si3O12(OH)], and epidote [Ca2Al2FeSi3O12(OH)] as well as synthetic lawsonite [CaAl2Si2O7(OH)2·H 2O] have been measured at ambient temperatures by energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction in a diamond-anvil cell. The experimental results for each phase may be summarized concisely in terms of the ambient-temperature isothermal bulk modulus K298 (using the Murnaghan equation of state and assuming K′ = 4): Lawsonite: K298 = 191 ± 5 GPa; zoisite: K298 = 279 ± 9 GPa; clinozoisite: A298 = 154 ± 6 GPa; epidote: K298 = 162 ± 4 GPa. These new measurements, together with the new thermal expansion data in the companion paper (Pawley et al. 1996), were used to calculate some phase equilibria for lawsonite dehydration to high pressures for comparison with experimental brackets. Important discrepancies between calculated and experimentally determined reactions become evident above 3 GPa.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)341-348
    Number of pages8
    JournalAmerican Mineralogist
    Volume81
    Issue number3-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1996

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