학술논문

Raman elastic geobarometry for anisotropic mineral inclusions.
Document Type
Article
Source
American Mineralogist. Nov2018, Vol. 103 Issue 11, p1869-1872. 4p.
Subject
*QUARTZ inclusions
*ANISOTROPIC crystals
*HYDROSTATIC stress
Language
ISSN
0003-004X
Abstract
Elastic geobarometry for host-inclusion systems can provide new constraints to assess the pressure and temperature conditions attained during metamorphism. Current experimental approaches and theory are developed only for crystals immersed in a hydrostatic stress field, whereas inclusions experience deviatoric stress. We have developed a method to determine the strains in quartz inclusions from Raman spectroscopy using the concept of the phonon-mode Grüneisen tensor. We used ab initio Hartree-Fock/Density Functional Theory to calculate the wavenumbers of the Raman-active modes as a function of different strain conditions. Least-squares fits of the phonon-wavenumber shifts against strains have been used to obtain the components of the mode Grüneisen tensor of quartz ( γ 1 m $ \begin{array} {} \gamma _1^{\rm{m}}\end{array} $ and γ 3 m $ \begin{array} {} \gamma _3^{\rm{m}}\end{array} $) that can be used to calculate the strains in inclusions directly from the measured Raman shifts. The concept is demonstrated with the example of a natural quartz inclusion in eclogitic garnet from Mir kimberlite and has been validated against direct X‑ray diffraction measurement of the strains in the same inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]