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Name: Garnet RRUFF ID: R141191 Ideal Chemistry: Locality: Synthetic Source: Yuntao Wu #177 Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow vitreous fragment. Ideal formula: Gd3 Al2 Ga3 O12. Synthesized at 1800 degrees C. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R141191.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.2356(7)Å b: 12.2356(7)Å c: 12.2356(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1831.79(18)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Garnet | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Wynne-Edwards H R, Hay P W (1963) Coexisting cordierite and garnet in regionally metamorphosed rocks from the Westport area, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 453-478 [view file] |
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McConnell D (1964) Refringence of garnets and hydrogarnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 11-22 [view file] |
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Klein C (1966) Mineralogy and petrology of the metamorphosed Wabush Iron Formation, Southwestern Labrador, Journal of Petrology, 7, 246-305 |
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Mulligan R, Jambor J L (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: Tin-bearing garnet and pyroxene from skarn in the Cassiar District, B. B., The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 669-669 [view file] |
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Geller S (1967) Crystal chemistry of the garnets, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 125, 1-47 [view file] |
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Ito J (1967) A new Yitrium Magnesium silicate garnet, Y6Mg5Si5O24 and its rare earth and nickel analogues, Materials Research Bulletin, 2, 1093-1098 [view file] |
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Manning P G (1967) The optical absorption spectra of the garnets almandine-pyrope, pyrope and spessartine and some structural interpretations of mineralogical significance, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 237-251 [view file] |
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Moore R K, White W B (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Optical Spectra of iron in garnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 301-301 [view file] |
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Emiliani F, Venturelli G (1972) Sharp compositional zoning in an almandine garnet, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 464-472 [view file] |
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Manning P G (1972) Optical absorption of Fe³+ in octahedral and tetrahedral sites in natural garnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 826-839 [view file] |
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Moore R K, White W B (1972) Electronic spectra of transition metal ions in silicate garnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 791-811 [view file] |
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Watkinson D H (1972) Electron microprobe analysis of melilite and garnet from the Oka complex, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 457-463 [view file] |
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Birk D (1973) Chemical zoning in garnets of the Kashabowie Group, Shebandowan, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 124-128 [view file] |
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Kretz, Ralph (1973) Kinetics of the crystallization of garnet at two localities near Yellowknife, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 1-20 [view file] |
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Manning P G (1973) Intensities and half-widths of octahedral-Fe³+ crystal-field bands and racah parameters as indicators of next-nearest-neighbour interactions in garnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 215-218 [view file] |
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Černý P, Turnock A C (1975) Beryl from the granitic pegmatites at Greer Lake, southeastern Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 55-61 [view file] |
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Anderson D E, Olimpio J C (1977) Progressive homogenization of metamorphic garnets, South Morar, Scotland: evidence for volume diffusion, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 205-216 [view file] |
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Blackburn W H, Navarro E (1977) Garnet zoning and polymetamorphism in the eclogitic rocks of Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 257-266 [view file] |
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Crawford M L (1977) Calcium zoning in almandine garnet, Wissahickon Formation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 243-249 [view file] |
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Hollister L S (1977) The reaction forming cordierite from garnet, the Khtada Lake metamorphic complex, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 217-229 [view file] |
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Morin J A (1977) Allanite in granitic rocks of the Kenora - Vermilion Bay area, northwestern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 297-302 [view file] |
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Shimazaki H (1977) Grossular-spessartine-almandine garnets from some Japanese scheelite skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 74-80 [view file] |
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Trzcienski W E (1977) Garnet zoning product of a continuous reaction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 250-256 [view file] |
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Dunn P J (1978) On the composition of some Canadian green garnets, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 205-206 [view file] |
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Abbott R N (1981) AFM liquidus projection for granitic magmas, with special reference to hornblende, biotite and garnet, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 103-110 [view file] |
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Spear F S (1982) Phase equilibria of amphibolites from the post pond volcanics, Mt. cube quadrangle, Vermont, Journal of Petrology, 23, 383-426 |
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Baldwin J R, Knorring O V (1983) Compositional range of Mngarnet in zoned granitic pegmatites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 683-688 [view file] |
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Newberry R J (1983) The formation of subcalcic garnet in scheelite-bearing skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 529-544 [view file] |
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Birkett T C, Trzcienski W E (1984) Hydrogarnet: multi-site hydrogen occupancy in the garnet structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 675-680 [view file] |
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Indares A, Martignole J (1985) Biotite-garnet geothermometry in granulite-facies rocks: evaluation of equilibrium criteria, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 187-193 [view file] |
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Jaffe H W, Schumacher J C (1985) Garnet and plagioclase exsolved from aluminum-rich orthopyroxene in the Marcy anorthosite, northeastern Adirondacks, New York, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 457-478 [view file] |
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Kalamarides R I, Berg J H (1988) Coexisting Cr-rich and Cr-poor garnet from a calc-silicate gneiss, Labrador, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 335-342 [view file] |
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Kontak D J, Corey M (1988) Metasomatic origin of spessartine-rich garnet in the South Mountain batholith, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 315-334 [view file] |
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Angel R J, Finger L W, Hazen R M, Kanzaki M, Weidner D J, Liebermann R C, Veblen D R (1989) Structure and twinning of single-crystal MgSiO3 garnet synthesized at 17 GPa and 1800 °C, American Mineralogist, 74, 509-512 [view file] |
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Spry P G, Wonder J D (1989) Manganeserich garnet rocks associated with the Broken Hill leadzincsilver, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 275-292 [view file] |
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Clarke D B, MacKay R M (1990) An ilmenite-garnet-clinopyroxene nodule from Matsoku: evidence for oxide-rich liquid immiscibility in kimberlites?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 229-239 [view file] |
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Inoue A, Utada M (1991) Pumpellyite and related minerals from hydrothermally altered rocks at the Kamikita area, northern Honshu Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 255-270 [view file] |
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Parr J (1992) A gahnite-garnet retrograde reaction from the Pinnacles deposit, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 145-152 [view file] |
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Schröpfer L, Bartl H (1993) Oriented decomposition and reconstruction of hydrogarnet, Ca3Al2(OH)12, European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 1133-1144 |
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Berry F J, Davalos J, Greaves C, Marco J F, Slaski M, Slater P R, Vithal M (1995) Magnetic ordering in the garnet YCa2SbFe4O12, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 115, 435-440 |
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Fedorowich J S, Jain J C, Kerrich R, Sopuck V (1995) Trace-element analysis of garnet by laser-ablation microprobe ICP-MS, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 469-480 [view file] |
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Bethune K M, Davidson A (1997) Grenvillian metamorphism of the Sudbury diabase dyke-swarm: from protolith to two-pyroxene garnet coronite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1191-1220 [view file] |
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Indares A (1997) Garnet-kyanite clinopyroxenites and garnet-kyanite restites from the Manicouagan Imbricate Zone: a case of high-P high-T metamorphism in the Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1161-1171 [view file] |
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Swada H (1997) Electron density study of garnets: Z3Ga5O12; Z = Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 132, 300-307 |
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Sawada H (1999) Electron density study of garnets: Z3Al2Si3O12 (Z = Mg, Fe, Mn, Ca) and Ca3Fe2Si3O12, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 142, 273-278 |
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Ghent E D, Stout M Z (2000) Mineral equilibria in quartz leucoamphibolites (quartzgarnetplagioclasehornblende cacl-silicates) from southeastern British Columbia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 233-244 [view file] |
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Meth C E, Carlson W D (2005) Diffusion-controlled synkinematic growth of garnet from a heterogeneous precursor at Passo del Sole, Switzerland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 157-182 [view file] |
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Vinograd V L, Winkler B, Wilson D J, Putnis A, Gale J D (2006) Monte Carlo simulation of mixing in Ca3Fe2Ge3O12 Ca4Ge4O12 garnets and implications for the thermodynamic stability of pyrope-majorite solid solution, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 533-544 |
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Hinchey A M, Carr S D (2007) Protolith composition of cordieritegedrite basement rocks and garnet amphibolite of the Bearpaw Lake area of the ThorOdin dome, Monashee Complex, British Columbia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 607-629 [view file] |
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Taran M N, Nestola F, Ohashi H, Koch-Muller M, Balic-Zunic T, Olsen L A (2007) High-pressure optical spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies on synthetic cobalt aluminum silicate garnet, American Mineralogist, 92, 1616-1623 [view file] |
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Giuli G, Cicconi M R, Paris E (2012) The [4]Fe3+-O distance in synthetic kimzeyite garnet, Ca3Zr2[Fe2SiO12], European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 783-790 |
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Nagashima M, Armbruster T (2012) Palenzonaite, berzeliite, and manganberzeliite:(As5+,V5+,Si4+)O4 tetrahedra in garnet structures, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1081-1097 [view file] |
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De La Pierre M, Noël Y, Mustapha S, Meyer A, D'Arco P, Dovesi R (2013) The infrared vibrational spectrum of andradite-grossular solid solutions: A quantum mechanical simulation, American Mineralogist, 98, 966-976 |
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Palke A C, Geiger C A (2016) Trivalent transition-metal cations and local structure in pyrope- and grossular-rich solid solutions investigated by 27Al and 29Si MAS NMR spectroscopy, 28, 179-187 |
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Koshlyakova N N, Zubkova N V, Pekov I V, Giester G, Pushcharovsky D Y, Chukanov N V, Voudouris P, Magganas A, Katerinopoulos A (2017) Crystal chemistry of vanadate garnets from old metallurgical slags of Lavrion, Greece, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 194, 19-25 |
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Duffy T S (2018) Single-crystal elastic properties of minerals and related materials with cubic symmetry, American Mineralogist, 103, 977-988 |
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Geiger C A, Rossman G R (2018) IR spectroscopy and OH- in silicate garnet: The long quest to document hydrogarnet substitution, American Mineralogist, 103, 384-393 |
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