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Abstract
The Cr3+ luminescence spectra of zoisite and kyanite, two geologically important minerals, were studied up to 40 and 20 GPa, respectively, in various pressure media. Cr3+ substitutes into the octahedral aluminum sites in both minerals and the R-line luminescence is a particularly sensitive site-specific probe of the octahedral Al site. Unlike many previous studies where Cr3+ luminescence was utilized, both these minerals have multiple highly distorted octahedral sites resulting in very large splitting of their R-lines, ~ 300 cm−1 in zoisite and ~ 360 cm−1 in kyanite (for reference, ruby is 29 cm−1). For zoisite, the R-line splitting increases as pressure increases and more than triples from its ambient value by 40 GPa, while the R-line splitting in kyanite from the M1 and M2 sites does not change when compressed in a Ne pressure medium up to 20 GPa. We do not observe evidence of any phase transitions in either zoisite or kyanite across the pressure range of these new luminescence measurements. We present some high-pressure luminescence results where kyanite was known to be bridged between the diamond anvils and show how these spectra illustrate the different effect of uniaxial relative to hydrostatic stress on luminescence spectra.
期刊介绍:
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals is an international journal devoted to publishing articles and short communications of physical or chemical studies on minerals or solids related to minerals. The aim of the journal is to support competent interdisciplinary work in mineralogy and physics or chemistry. Particular emphasis is placed on applications of modern techniques or new theories and models to interpret atomic structures and physical or chemical properties of minerals. Some subjects of interest are:
-Relationships between atomic structure and crystalline state (structures of various states, crystal energies, crystal growth, thermodynamic studies, phase transformations, solid solution, exsolution phenomena, etc.)
-General solid state spectroscopy (ultraviolet, visible, infrared, Raman, ESCA, luminescence, X-ray, electron paramagnetic resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance, gamma ray resonance, etc.)
-Experimental and theoretical analysis of chemical bonding in minerals (application of crystal field, molecular orbital, band theories, etc.)
-Physical properties (magnetic, mechanical, electric, optical, thermodynamic, etc.)
-Relations between thermal expansion, compressibility, elastic constants, and fundamental properties of atomic structure, particularly as applied to geophysical problems
-Electron microscopy in support of physical and chemical studies
-Computational methods in the study of the structure and properties of minerals
-Mineral surfaces (experimental methods, structure and properties)