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Mineralogical Magazine; August 2002; v. 66; no. 4; p. 491-512; DOI: 10.1180/0026461026640044
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Structural states of micas in amphibolites of the KSDB-3 deep bore-hole and their surface equivalents

N. O. Ovchinnikov1,*, L. P. Nikitina1, M. S. Babushkina1, A. K. Yakovleva2, Yu. N. Yakovlev2, O. G. Chernova3 and S. A. T. Redfern4

1 Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Science, Makarova emb. 2, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
2 Scientific Industrial Centre ‘Kola Superdeep’, Zapolyarny, Murmansk region, 184415, Russia
3 Mineralogy Department, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetshaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK

* E-mail: nikita{at}ad.iggp.ras.spb.ru

Trioctahedral ferromagnesium micas from the Archaean amphibolites of the Kola super-deep borehole (KSDB-3) complex have been compared with those from analogous Archaean surface rocks in an integrated study of their chemical compositions and structural states (using wet chemistry, microprobe, X-ray, Mössbauer and infrared methods). Reports on both the experimental procedure and the crystal chemistry of the trioctahedral micas are given. This has enabled the revision of the assignment of individual infrared (IR) absorption bands for the hydroxyl ion ({nu}OH–), and demonstrated the possibility of determining the content of Mg, Fe2+, R3+ cations and vacancies in the octahedral sheet to within a few hundredths of atomic units on the basis of the infrared and Mössbauer data. Proof was found of the presence of molecular water replacing K+ in the interlayer, which results in anomalous variations in the cell parameters, as the mica structure expands in response to the ingress of H2O. Variations in the degree of non-stoichiometry of the micas is related to the presence of structural H2O and of octahedral M1 vacancies. We found that samples recovered from depth within the borehole display lower degrees of octahedral order than those found in the analogous surface rocks.

KEYWORDS: phlogopite, biotite, infrared, Mössbauer, crystal structure, order-disorder, defect chemistry






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