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High-pressure Cr3+ R-line luminescence of zoisite and kyanite: a probe of octahedral site distortion

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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.

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Acknowledgements

E. OBannon thanks E. John for helpful discussions. We thank Rob Franks for help with LA-ICP-MS measurements, Dan Sampson for help with the Raman spectrometer, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the manuscript. A portion of this work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Work partially supported by NSF through EAR-1620423 and EAR-2017294, and COMPRES under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR 11-57758.

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O’Bannon, E.F., Williams, Q. High-pressure Cr3+ R-line luminescence of zoisite and kyanite: a probe of octahedral site distortion. Phys Chem Minerals 49, 35 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-022-01211-8

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