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1 Dipartimento di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Università di Padova, and C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Corso Garibaldi, 37, 35137 Padova, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Ferrara. Corso Ercole I d’Este, 32, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Metallorganica ed Analitica, Università di Padova. Via Marzolo, 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
Correspondence: * E-mail: bernardo.cesare{at}unipd.it
Titanium-rich biotites from graphite-bearing metapelitic xenoliths, equilibrated at ca. 850°C and 7 kbar in the presence of a granitic melt, have been studied through complete chemical analysis and single-crystal XRD refinements. The chemical study combines EMP analyses, hydrogen determination by both SIMS and C-H-N elemental analysis, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Biotites in the analyzed xenoliths have TiO2 contents ranging from 4.5 to 4.9 wt% and an XFe of 0.67. Their F and Cl contents are negligible, and Fe3+/Fetot ranges from 10 to 16%. The H2O content of the biotites ranges from 2.4 to 2.8 wt%, and a small fraction of H is accommodated in the lattice as NH4. Based on these full chemical analyses, the calculated OH occupancy is 1.26 to 1.30 groups per formula unit, more than one third less than the stoichiometric value.
The entrance of Ti in the octahedral site of biotite is consistent with the Ti-oxy exchange, whereas Ti-Tschermak or Ti-vacancy substitutions play a very minor role. The Fe3+-oxy exchange cannot account for the observed OH deficiency.
From single-crystal XRD, biotites belong to the 1M polytype and contain variable amounts of stacking faults. The c cell parameter, K-O4 and <K-O>outer distances provide an independent estimate of the OH content, which agrees with SIMS determinations. The linear relationship between VITi4+ and the bond-length distortion of the cis-M2 octahedron reveals the partitioning of Ti4+ in M2, and the Ti4+ off-center shift toward O4 supports the occurrence of the Ti-oxy exchange. The ordering of Ti4+ over two non-equivalent M2 sites, which would be favored energetically, is in agreement with the evidence for a third octahedral site suggested by Mössbauer spectroscopy. The biotite dehy-drogenation combined with the partitioning of Ti4+ in M2 and the low thermal expansion of Ti4+-containing octahedra, are the keys to understanding the thermal stabilization of Ti substitution in biotites.
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