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Explanation of the Dissertation Format The format of this dissertation satisfies the requirement from the University of Arizona Graduate College. My main studies are appended either in the form of published papers (APPENDICES A and C) or of prepared manuscripts for future publication (APPENDICES B, D, and E). All of these are prepared <strong>by</strong> me as a first author. As my advisor and co-author, Prof. Robert Downs guided me with the direction of my research and helped me with the polishing of the manuscripts for the publications. Dr. Barbara Lavina and Dr. Hexiong Yang have provided me substantial support in the discussion and organization of my manuscripts in a few of the projects with much patience and dedication. PRESENT STUDY The methods, results, and conclusions of this study are presented in the papers appended to this dissertation. This dissertation consists of five peer-reviewed papers and focuses on crystal chemical features that some common rock-forming minerals display. The first two discuss the use of the X-ray diffraction technique (SXRD) combined with electron microprobe (EMP) and the analyses of common defect features exhibited <strong>by</strong> rock-forming minerals such as spinel (APPENDIX A) and kalsilite (APPENDIX B). The following three appendices comprise one project, crystal-chemical and structural studies of major phases in mantle xenoliths from San Carlos Volcanic Field, AZ: spinel 12
(APPENDIX C), clinopyroxene (APPENDIX D), and olivine (APPENDIX E). The following is a summary of key points in these papers. Analytical Complications due to Common Defects found in Minerals With a petrographic microscope, one can often see mineral inclusions, twinning and lamellae in rock thin-sections. There are many other complex defect features that we might be able ‘see’ with the use of SXRD, such as interstitial atoms and vacancies, and order-disorder, all of which make X-ray diffraction analysis challenging. APPENDICES A and B address those features and how each problem was approached with the use of several techniques. In the fields of Earth and Planetary sciences, much effort was put into development of techniques for determination of the valence state of vanadium because V can occur in four different valence states in nature and can be an indicator of the oxygen fugacity of the source. Using SXRD and EMP, I successfully determined the valence states of V in several spinels synthesized under different oxygen fugacity conditions (Righter et al., 2006). Some of the spinel crystals synthesized under certain fO2 conditions contained inclusions. Those samples were further investigated as discussed in APPENDIX A. Although the inclusions were visible under a petrographic microscope, they were too small (< 2 microns) for the EMP to resolve and to confirm the phase. SXRD also gave us an unusual, but previously reported feature in these crystals: anomalous intensities that gave rise to an electron density at an interstitial site. Therefore, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) equipped with X-ray energy dispersive 13
Page 1 and 2: CRYSTAL CHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANA
Page 3 and 4: STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertati
Page 5 and 6: DEDICATION This dissertation is ded
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTS - Continued APPEN
Page 9 and 10: ABSTRACT Natural and synthetic comm
Page 11: Explanation of the Problem and its
Page 15 and 16: etween observed structure and the m
Page 17 and 18: close to 1.0 for Fa24 at room tempe
Page 19 and 20: crystallization can provide useful
Page 21 and 22: limit of ~ 25 kbars in the equilibr
Page 23 and 24: isotopes (Zartman and Tera 1973). F
Page 25 and 26: crystals are present (up to 1 cm) (
Page 27 and 28: Downs (2001). I examined packing di
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Page 31 and 32: Figure 2. Two melting indicators, A
Page 33 and 34: Fig. 3 cont. (b) (c) (d) 33
Page 35 and 36: Fig. 3 cont. (h) (i) 35
Page 37 and 38: REFERENCES Aoki, K. (1975) Origin o
Page 39 and 40: Princivalle, F., Della Giusta, A.,
Page 41 and 42: APPENDIX A: INVESTIGATION OF SYNTHE
Page 43 and 44: (XEDS) suggested that the Mg-rich i
Page 45 and 46: The presence of a small amount of c
Page 47 and 48: However, the inclusions were too sm
Page 49 and 50: Turner (1968). The refined paramete
Page 51 and 52: is occupied, the nearest octahedral
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Page 55 and 56: length because of its low abundance
Page 57 and 58: Devanathan, R., Yu, N., Sickafus, K
Page 59 and 60: Nowell, M.M. and Wright, S.I. (2004
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Figure 2. XEDS maps and statistics.
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Figure 3. EBSD patterns of (a) spin
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Figure 5. Two possible structural i
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Table 1. Chemical composition of Mg
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Table 3. Comparison of refinement r
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APPENDIX B: AN APPARENT SYMMETRY P6
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Additionally, the same crystal from
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displacive transformation between P
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1955) and later in most kalsilite (
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temperatures on a Bruker X8 APEX si
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oxygen, O1, and assigning O1 off th
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layers was on the 3-fold axis. This
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ecame more perpendicular to the c a
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Downs, R.T. (2000) Analysis of harm
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Figure 1. Unit-cell volume changes
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c-c o 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.00 -0.02 -0.
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Table 1. Chemical composition (wt%)
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Table 3. Summary of crystal data an
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Table 4. Refinement results at room
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Table 4. cont. ====================
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Table 4. cont. ====================
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Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of
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to the host basalt but rather they
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O and T-O bond distances (u = 0.262
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temperature of TQ onto the equilibr
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higher value of Rw, but it insures
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would rigidly constrain the optimiz
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these three figures. In addition to
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Closure temperatures, Tc, for our s
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Bond distances, T-O vs. M-O, are pl
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Finger, L.W. and Prince, E. (1975)
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diffraction study of MgAl2O4 at tem
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Figure 1. Chemistry of spinels from
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131
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Figure 4. Closure temperatures vers
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Figure 6. Bond distances, M-O vs. T
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Table 2. Structural refinement resu
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Table 2. cont. Sample SC 1 SC 11 SC
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Table 4. Cation distribution, inver
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Table 4. cont. Sample Occ T Occ M F
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APPENDIX D: CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF CL
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effect on Ucp in case of clinopyrox
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Pyroxene is an important mineralogi
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and M polyhedra (VT and VM, respect
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Ganguly 2003). Liermann and Ganguly
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crystal chemistry of those samples.
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Experimental Crystals were selected
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of both xenoliths types. The absenc
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temperature and pressure for the sa
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elationships among geometrical para
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We examined the datasets to find th
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Figure 6 shows a correlation betwee
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References Basu, A.R. and MacGregor
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Galer, S.J.G. and O’Nions, R.K. (
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Princivalle, F., Salviulo, G., Fabr
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Witt-Eickschen, G. and Seck, H.A. (
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Figure 2. Estimated pressure and te
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(b) 179
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(b) 181
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Figure 6. Correlation between Ucp (
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Table 1. Chemical composition of th
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Table 2. cont. SC19 SC1 SC11 a (Å)
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Table 3. cont. SC19 SC1 SC11 M1 y 0
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Table 5. Pressure and temperature e
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Investigation of distortions from i
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ideal geometry. For olivine, while
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and shown to have a widely ranging
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this viewpoint gave meaningful resu
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201 After the X-ray data collection
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Discussion (1) Relationship between
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NiMgSiO4 (Henderson et al. 2001), F
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increases. As Thompson and Downs (2
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correlated with the average radii o
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211 We have shown in Uchida et al.
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Belokoneva, E.L., Ivanov, Y.A., Sim
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Kimata, M. and Nishida, N. (1987) T
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Smyth, J.R. (1975) High-temperature
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Figure 2. x coordinate vs. y coordi
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Figure 4. Ucp (Å 2 ) as a function
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Ucp 0.075 0.070 0.065 (b) Ucp = 0.0
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Figure 7. Changes in lengths of O-O
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Table 1. Chemical composition of th
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Table 2. cont. SC19 SC1-2 SC11-4 SC
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Table 3.cont. SC8 SC2 SC19 SC1-2 SC
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Table 4. Ucp of selected silicate a
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