1 Mica Crystal Chemistry and the Influence of Pressure,
Temperature, and Solid Solution on Atomistic Models
Maria Franca Brigatti, Stephen Guggenheim
OVERVIEW ........................................................ 1
Treatment of the data and definition of the parameters
used ......................................................... 3
End-member crystal chemistry: New end members and new data
since 1984 ................................................... 4
Synthetic micas with unusual properties ..................... 11
EFFECT OF COMPOSITION ON STRUCTURE ............................. 11
Tetrahedral sheet ........................................... 11
Tetrahedral rotation and interlayer region .................. 19
Tetrahedral cation ordering ................................. 25
Octahedral coordination and long-range octahedral
ordering .................................................... 27
Crystal chemistry of micas in plutonic rocks ................ 37
ATOMISTIC MODELS INVOLVING HIGH-TEMPERATURE STUDIES OF THE
MICAS .......................................................... 39
Studies of samples having undergone heat treatment .......... 39
Dehydroxylation process for dioctahedral phyllosilicates .... 41
Dehydroxylation models for frans-vacant 2:1 layers .......... 43
Dehydroxylation models for си-vacant 2:1 layers ............. 44
Comparison of Na-rich vs. K-rich dioctahedral forms ......... 49
Heat-treated trioctahedral samples: The O,OH,F site and in
situ high-temperature studies ............................... 50
Heat-treated trioctahedral samples: Polytype comparisons .... 51
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................ 51
APPENDIX I: DERIVATIONS ........................................ 52
Derivation of "tetrahedral cation displacement", Tdisp ...... 52
Derivation of ΔЕ1, ΔЕ2, ΔЕ3 ................................. 52
Derivation of α ............................................ 53
Explanation of otcor ........................................ 54
Explanation of EM-O(4) ....................................... 54
APPENDIX II: TABLES 1-4 ........................................ 55
Table la Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-1M, space group C2/m ........................ 55
Table lb Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-1M, space group C2/c ........................ 70
Table lc Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-2M1, space group C2/c ....................... 72
Table Id Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-2M1, space groups Cc, C1 .................... 74
Table le Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-2M1, space group C2/c ....................... 74
Table If Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-3T, space group P3112 ....................... 74
Table 2a Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-1M, Mspace groups C2/m and C2 ............... 76
Table 2b Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-1M, space group C2/c ........................ 78
Table 2c Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-2M2, space group C2/c ....................... 84
Table 2d Structural details of trioctahedral true
micas-3T, space group P3112 ....................... 84
Table 3a Structural details of trioctahedral brittle
micas ............................................. 86
Table 3b Structural details of dioctahedral brittle
micas ............................................. 88
Table 4 Structural details of boromuscovite-1M and -2M1
calculated from the Rietveld structure
refinement by Liang et al. (1995) ................. 88
REFERENCES 90
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2 Behavior of Micas at High Pressure and High Temperature
Pier Francesco Zanazzi, Alessandro Pavese
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 99
Investigative techniques for the study of the
thermoelastic behavior of micas ............................ 100
P-V and P-V-T equations of state ........................... 101
Dioctahedral micas ......................................... 103
Trioctahedral micas ........................................ 108
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 114
REFERENCES .................................................... 114
3 Structural Features of Micas
Giovanni Ferraris, Gabriella Ivaldi
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 117
NOMENCLATURE AND NOTATION ..................................... 117
MODULARITY OF MICA STRUCTURE .................................. 118
The mica module ............................................ 118
CLOSEST-PACKING aspects .................................... 120
Closest-packing and polytypism ............................. 121
COMPOSITIONAL ASPECTS ...................................... 122
SYMMETRY ASPECTS .............................................. 124
Metric (lattice) symmetry .................................. 124
Structural symmetry ........................................ 124
Symmetry and cation sites .................................. 125
Two kinds of mica layer: Ml and M2 layers .................. 127
The interlayer configuration ............................... 128
Possible ordering schemes in the MDO polytypes ............. 129
The phengite case .......................................... 130
DISTORTIONS ................................................... 130
The misfit ................................................. 130
Geometric parameters describing distortions ................ 131
Ditrigonal rotation ........................................ 131
Other distortions .......................................... 132
Effects of the distortions on the stacking mode ............ 133
FURTHER STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION ............................... 135
Pressure, temperature and chemical influence ............... 135
Thickness of the mica module ............................... 135
Ditrigonal rotation and interlayer coordination ............ 137
Effective coordination number (ECoN) ....................... 138
CONCLUSIONS ................................................... 138
APPENDIX I: MICA STRUCTURE AND POLYSOMATIC SERIES ............. 140
Layer silicates as members of modular series? .............. 140
Mica modules in polysomatic series ......................... 140
The heterophyllosicate polysomatic series .................. 140
The palysepiole polysomatic series ......................... 142
Conclusions ................................................ 143
APPENDIX II: OBLIQUE TEXTURE ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (OTED) ...... 144
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 148
REFERENCES .................................................... 148
4 Crystallographic Basis of Polytypism and Twinning in
Micas
Massimo Nespolo, Slavomil Ďurovič
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 155
NOTATION AND DEFINITIONS ...................................... 156
The mica layer and its constituents ........................ 157
Axial settings, indices and lattice parameters ............. 158
Symbols .................................................... 158
Symmetry and symmetry operations ........................... 159
THE UNIT LAYERS OF MICA .................................... 159
Alternative unit layers .................................... 160
MICAPOLYTYPES AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION ...................... 164
Micas as OD structures ..................................... 164
SYMBOLIC DESCRIPTION OF MICA POLYTYPES ..................... 172
Orientational symbols ...................................... 172
Rotational symbols ......................................... 175
RETICULAR CLASSIFICATION OF POLYTYPES: ........................ 178
SPACE ORIENTATION AND SYMBOL DEFINITION ....................... 178
LOCAL AND GLOBAL SYMMETRY OF MICA POLYTYPES FROM THEIR
STACKING SYMBOLS .............................................. 180
Derivation of MDO polytypes ................................ 180
The symmetry analysis from a polytype symbol ............... 184
RELATIONS OF HOMOMORPHY AND CLASSIFICATION OF MDO POLYTYPES ... 189
BASIC STRUCTURES AND POLYTYPOIDS. SIZE LIMIT FOR THE
DEFINITION OF "POLYTYPE" ...................................... 191
Abstract polytypes ......................................... 192
Basic structures ........................................... 193
HTREM observations and some implications ...................... 193
IDEAL SPACE-GROUP TYPES OF MICAPOLYTYPES AND
DESYMMETRIZATION OF LAYERS IN POLYTYPES ....................... 193
CHOICE OF THE AXIAL SETTING ................................... 204
GEOMETRICAL CLASSIFICATION OF RECIPROCAL LATTICE ROWS ......... 206
SUPERPOSITION STRUCTURES, FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FAMILY
REFLECTIONS ................................................... 209
Family structure and family reflections of mica
polytypes .................................................. 212
REFLECTION CONDITIONS ......................................... 213
NON-FAMILY REFLECTIONS AND ORTHOGONAL PLANES .................. 214
HIDDEN SYMMETRY OF THE MICAS: THE RHOMBOHEDRAL LATTICE ........ 216
TWINNING OF MICAS: THEORY ..................................... 217
Choice of the twin elements ................................ 219
Effect of twinning by selective merohedry on the
diffraction pattern ........................................ 220
Diffraction patterns from twins ............................ 223
Allotwinning ............................................... 224
Tessellation of the hp lattice ............................. 224
Plesiotwinning ............................................. 230
TWINNING OF MICAS. ANALYSIS OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE
DIFFRACTION PATTERN ........................................... 233
Symbolic description of orientation of twinned mica
individuals. Limiting symmetry ............................. 235
Derivation of twin diffraction patterns .................... 237
Derivation of allotwin diffraction patterns ................ 243
IDENTIFICATION OF MDO POLYTYPES FROM THEIR DIFFRACTION
PATTERNS ................................................... 244
Theoretical background ..................................... 244
Identification procedure ................................... 245
IDENTIFICATION OF NON-MDO POLYTYPES: THE PERIODIC
INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ............................ 247
PID in terms of TS unit layers ............................. 249
Derivation of PID from the diffraction pattern ............. 251
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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MICA SINGLE CRYSTALS FOR
TWIN/POLYTYPE IDENTIFICATION .................................. 252
Morphological study ........................................ 252
Surface microtopography .................................... 252
Two-dimensional XRD study .................................. 254
Diffractometer study ....................................... 256
APPLICATIONS AND EXAMPLES ..................................... 257
24-layer subfamily: A Series 1 Class b biotite from
Ambulawa, Ceylon ........................................... 257
8A2 (subfamily A Series 0 Class a) oxybiotite from Ruiz
Peak, New Mexico ........................................... 258
1M-2M1 oxybiotite allotwin Zr = 34 from Ruiz Peak,
New Mexico ................................................. 262
{3,6}[7{3,6}] biotite plesiotwin from Sambagawa, Japan ..... 262
APPENDIX A. TWINNING: DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION ........... 267
APPENDIX B. COMPUTATION OF THE PID FROM A STACKING SEQUENCE
CANDIDATE ..................................................... 270
Symmetry of the PID ........................................ 271
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 272
REFERENCES .................................................... 272
5 Investigations of Micas Using Advanced Transmission
Electron Microscopy
Toshihiro Kogure
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 281
TEMS AND RELATED TECHNIQUES FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF MICA ..... 281
Transmission electron microscopy ........................... 281
New recording media for beam-sensitive specimens ........... 286
Sample preparation techniques .............................. 287
Image processing and simulation ............................ 288
ANALYSES OF POLYTYPES ......................................... 289
DEFECT STRUCTURES ............................................. 299
CONCLUSION .................................................... 310
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 310
REFERENCES .................................................... 310
6 Optical and Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Iron in Micas
M. Darby Dyar
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 313
OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY .......................................... 315
Current instrumentation .................................... 315
Review of existing work .................................... 316
Summary .................................................... 320
MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY (MS) ................................... 320
Current instrumentation .................................... 320
Recoil-free fraction effects ............................... 320
Thickness effects .......................................... 321
Texture effects and other sources of error ................. 322
Techniques for fitting Mossbauer spectra ................... 323
Review of existing Mossbauer data .......................... 325
Summary .................................................... 333
COMPARISON OF TECHNIQUES ...................................... 334
CONCLUSIONS ................................................... 336
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 337
APPENDIX: Other techniques for measurement of Fe3+/∑Fe in
Micas ......................................................... 337
X-ray ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) ................. 337
Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) ................... 338
X-Ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) ........................ 338
REFERENCES .................................................... 340
7 Infrared Spectroscopy of Micas
Anton Beran
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 351
LATTICE VIBRATIONS ............................................ 352
Far-IR region .............................................. 352
Mid-IR region .............................................. 353
OH STRETCHING VIBRATIONS ...................................... 359
Polarized measurements ..................................... 359
Quantitative water determination ........................... 360
Hydrogen bonding ........................................... 360
Cation ordering ............................................ 362
OH-F replacement ........................................... 365
Dehydroxylation mechanisms ................................. 366
Excess hydroxyl ............................................ 367
NH4 groups ................................................. 367
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 367
REFERENCES .................................................... 367
8 X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of the Micas
Annibale Mottana, Augusto Marcelli, Giannantonio Cibin,
and M. Darby Dyar
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 371
OVERVIEW OF THE XAS METHOD .................................... 373
EXAFS ......................................................... 375
XANES ......................................................... 376
Experimental spectra recording ............................. 384
Optimization of spectra .................................... 387
Systematics ................................................ 395
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 404
REFERENCES .................................................... 405
9 Constraints on Studies of Metamorphic K-Na White Micas
Charles V. Guidotti, Francesco P. Sassi
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 413
EFFECTS OF PETROLOGIC FACTORS ON WHITE MICA CHEMISTRY ......... 414
Important compositional variations ......................... 414
Controls of mica composition by petrologic factors ......... 418
MAXIMIZING INFORMATION FROM MICA STUDIES: SAMPLE SELECTION
CONSTRAINTS ................................................... 423
Petrologic studies ......................................... 424
Mineralogic studies ........................................ 428
DISCUSSION .................................................... 440
Common failings in petrology studies ....................... 440
Common failings in mineralogy studies ...................... 441
"Standard starting points" for the compositional
variations of rock-forming dioctahedral and trioctahedral
micas ...................................................... 441
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 443
REFERENCES .................................................... 444
10 Modal Spaces for Pelitic Schists
James B. Thompson, Jr.
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 449
NOTATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ..................................... 450
THE ASSEMBLAGE QUARTZ-MUSCOVITE-BIOTITE-CHLORITE-GARNET ....... 451
THE ASSEMBLAGE QUARTZ-MUSCOVITE-CHLORITE-GARNET-CHLORITOID .... 454
ASSEMBLAGES CONTAINING CHLORITOID AND BIOTITE ................. 455
OTHER MODAL SPACES ............................................ 458
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 458
APPENDIX: INDEPENDENT NET-TRANSFER REACTIONS .................. 460
REFERENCES .................................................... 462
11 Phyllosilicates in Very Low-Grade Metamorphism:
Transformation to Micas
Péter Árkai
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 463
MAIN METHODS OF STUDYING LOW-TEMPERATURE TRANSFORMATIONS OF
PHYLLOSILICATES ............................................... 464
XRD techniques ............................................. 465
ТЕМ techniques ............................................. 466
MAIN TRENDS OF PHYLLOSILICATE EVOLUTION AT LOW TEMPERATURE .... 467
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN STUDYING PHYLLOSILICATE EVOLUTION AT
THE LOWER CRYSTALLITE-SIZE LIMITS OF MINERALS ................. 469
REACTION PROGRESS OF PHYLLOSILICATES THROUGH SERIES OF
METASTABLE STAGES ............................................. 472
CONCLUDING REMARKS ............................................ 473
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 474
REFERENCES .................................................... 474
12 Micas: Historical Perspective
Curzio Cipriani
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 479
PRESCIENTIFIC ERA ............................................. 479
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ........................................ 480
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ........................................ 483
Physical properties ........................................ 483
Crystallography ............................................ 485
Chemical composition ....................................... 486
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ......................................... 491
Crystal chemistry .......................................... 491
Synthesis .................................................. 494
POLYTYPES ..................................................... 494
SYSTEMATICS ................................................... 495
CONCLUSIONS ................................................... 496
REFERENCES .................................................... 497
APPENDIX I
Present-day nomenclature of the mica group and its
derivation ................................................. 498
APPENDIX II
Other works consulted in preparation of this historical
review ..................................................... 499
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