Quartz R060604 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Quartz R060604

Name: Quartz
RRUFF ID: R060604
Ideal Chemistry: SiO₂
Locality: Piedras Parada, Veracruz, Mexico
Source: Michael Scott S100119 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Purple hexagonal prisms, variety amethyst
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Quartz (11) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060604.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Si_1.00O₂
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin.

Pin ID:

L00806

Orientation:

Laser parallel to a* (1 0 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060604

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060604.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.91449(6)Å b: 4.91449(6)Å c: 5.40619(7)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 113.078(2)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Quartz
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
Rülein von Calw, U (1527) Querz, in Ein nützilch Bergbüchlin: von allen Metallen / als Golt / Silber / Zcyn / Kupferertz / Eisenstein / Bleyertz / und vom Quecksilber Loersfelt Erffurd 25, 38 [view file]
Agricola G (1530) Quarzum, in Georgii Agricolae Medici Bermannus, Sive De Re Metallica in aedibus Frobenianis Basileae 88, 129 [view file]
Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz, in De Natura Fossilium Froben Basileae 249-275 [view file]
Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file]
Bras-de-Fer L (1778) (84) Terre (Élément), in Explication Morale du Jeu de Cartes; Anecdote Curieuse et Interessante Bruxelles 99-100 [view file]
Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]
Ichikawa S (1915) Studies on the etched figures of Japanese quartz, American Journal of Science, 39, 455-473 [view file]
Tomkeieff S I (1942) On the origin of the name ‘quartz’, Mineralogical Magazine, 26, 172-178 [view file]
Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]
Cohen L H, Klement W (1967) High-low quartz inversion: Determination to 35 kilobars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 72, 4245-4251
Green D H, Lockwood J P, Kiss E (1968) Eclogite and almandine-jadeite-quartz rock from the Guajira Peninsula, Columbia, South America, American Mineralogist, 53, 1320-1335 [view file]
Scott S D, O'Connor T P (1971) Fluid inclusions in vein quartz, Silverfields Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 263-271 [view file]
Bates J B, Quist A S (1972) Polarized Raman spectra of β-quartz, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 56, 1528-1533
Ghent E D (1972) Electron microprobe study of allanite from the Mt. Falconer quartz monzonite pluton, Lower Taylor Valley, South Victoria Land, Antartica, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 526-530 [view file]
Corlett M I, McIlreath I A (1974) An authigenic quartz-calcite-rutile assemblage in ordovician limestones, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 411-416 [view file]
Barron T H K, Huang C C, Pasternak A (1976) Interatomic forces and lattice dynamics of α-quartz, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 9, 3925-3940
Le Page Y, Donnay G (1976) Refinement of the crystal structure of low-quartz, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 2456-2459
Fransolet A M, Bourguignon P (1978) Di/trioctahedral chlorite in quartz veins from the Ardenne, Belgium, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 365-373 [view file]
Abbott R N, Clarke D B (1979) Hypothetical liquidus relationships in the subsystem Al₂O₃—FeO—MgO projected from quartz, alkali feldspar and plagioclase for a(H₂O) ≤ 1, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 549-560 [view file]
Wright A F, Lehmann M S (1981) The structure of quartz at 25 and 590°C determined by neutron diffraction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 36, 371-380
Grambling J A (1984) Coesxisting paragonite and quartz in sillimanitic rocks from New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 69, 79-87 [view file]
Jayaraman A, Wood D L, Maines R G (1987) High-pressure Raman study of the vibrational modes in AlPO₄ and SiO₂ (α-quartz), Physical Review B, 35, 8316-8321
Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]
Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]
Sowa H (1988) The oxygen packings of low-quartz and ReO₃ under high pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 257-268 [view file]
Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974
Dubrovinskii L S, Nozik Y Z (1989) Calculation of the anisotropic thermal parameters of the atoms of α-quartz, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 34, 484-485
Hazen R M ,Finger L W, Hemley R J, Mao H K (1989) High-pressure crystal chemistry and amorphization of α-quartz, Solid State Communications, 72, 507-511
Rao P S, Weil J A, Williams J A S (1989) EPR investigation of carbonaceous natural quartz single crystals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 219-224 [view file]
Kihara K (1990) An X-ray study of the temperature dependence of the quartz structure, European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 63-77
Chernosky J V, Berman R G (1991) Experimental reversal of the equilibrium andalusite + calcite + quartz = anorthite + CO₂, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 791-802 [view file]
Lüttge A, Metz P (1991) Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction 1 dolomite + 2 quartz = 1 diopside + 2 CO₂ investigated by powder experiments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 803-821 [view file]
Vanko D A, Milby B J, Heinzquith S W (1991) Massive sulfides with fluid-inclusion-bearing quartz from a young seamount on the East Pacific Rise, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 453-460 [view file]
Glinnemann J, King H E, Schulz H, Hahn Th, La Placa S J, Dacol F (1992) Crystal structures of the low-temperature quartz-type phases of SiO₂ and GeO₂ at elevated pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 198, 177-212 [view file]
Lentz D R, Fowler A D (1992) A dynamic model for graphic quartz-feldspar intergrowths in granitic pegmatites in the southwestern Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 571-585 [view file]
Samson I M, Sinclair W D (1992) Magmatic hydrothermal fluids and the origin of quartz - tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 937-954 [view file]
Sinclair W D, Richardson J M (1992) Quartz-tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 923-935 [view file]
Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794
Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. I. Geology and mineralogy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 793-815 [view file]
Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. II. Geochemistry and petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 817-833 [view file]
Von Goerne G, Franz G, Robert J L (1999) Upper thermal stability of tourmaline + quartz in the system MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O and Na₂O–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O–HCl in hydrothermal solutions and siliceous melts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1025-1039 [view file]
Ghent E D, Stout M Z (2000) Mineral equilibria in quartz leucoamphibolites (quartz—garnet—plagioclase—hornblende cacl-silicates) from southeastern British Columbia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 233-244 [view file]
Ouillon R, Pinan-Lucarre J P, Ranson P (2000) Anharmonicity of zone-centre optical phonons: Raman spectra of the isomorphous α-quartz, berlinite and gallium phosphate in the temperature range 8–300 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 605-613
Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636
Ostroumov M, Faulques E, Lounejeva E (2002) Raman spectroscopy of natural silica in Chicxulub impactite, Mexico, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 334, 21-26
Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]
Rodgers K A, Hampton W A (2003) Laser Raman identification of silica phases comprising microtextural components of sinters, Mineralogical Magazine, 67, 1-13 [view file]
Botis S, Nokhrin S M, Pan Y, Xu Y, Bonli T, Sopuck V (2005) Natural radiation-induced damage in quartz. I. Correlations between cathodoluminescence colors and paramagnetic defects, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1565-1580 [view file]
Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E12006 [link]
Choudhury N, Chaplot S L (2006) Ab initio studies of phonon softening and high-pressure phase transitions of α-quartz SiO₂, Physical Review B, 73, 094304-11
Enami M, Nishiyama T, Mouri T (2007) Laser Raman microspectrometry of metamorphic quartz: a simple method for comparison of metamorphic pressures, American Mineralogist, 92, 1303-1315 [view file]
Ikuta D, Kawame N, Banno S, Hirajima T, Ito K, Rakovan J F, Downs R T, Tamada O (2007) First in situ X-ray identification of coesite and retrograde quartz on a glass thin section of an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rock and their crystal structure details, American Mineralogist, 92, 57-63 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I, Wang J, Lee P L, Toby B H (2008) State-of-the-art high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) illustrated with Rietveld structure refinement of quartz, sodalite, tremolite, and meionite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1501-1509 [view file]
Baur W H (2009) In search of the crystal structure of low quartz, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 224, 580-592
Korsakov A V, Perraki M, Zhukov V P, De Gussem K, Vandenabeele P, Tomilenko A A (2009) Is quartz a potential indicator of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism? Laser Raman spectroscopy of quartz inclusions in ultrahigh-pressure garnets, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1313-1323
Gunter M E (2010) Defining asbestos: differences between the built and natural environments, Chimia, 64, 747-752
Thompson R M, Downs R T (2010) Packing systematics of the silica polymorphs: The role played by O-O nonbonded interactions in the compression of quartz, American Mineralogist, 95, 104-111 [view file]
Cordier P, Heidelbach F (2013) Origin of twist in 'gwindel' quartz crystals from the Alps: a transmission electron microscopy study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 145-153
Breiter K, Ackerman L, Ďurišová J, Svojtka M, Novák M (2014) Trace element composition of quartz from different types of pegmatites: A case study from the Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic), Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 703-722
Seddio A M, Korotev R L, Jolliff B L, Wang A (2015) Silica polymorphs in lunar granite: implications for granite petrogenesis on the Moon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1533-1543
Drits V A, Skibsted J, Dorzhieva O V, Fallick A E, Lindgreen H (2017) Structural characterization of marine nano-quartz in chalk and flint from North Sea Tertiary chalk reservoirs for oil and gas, American Mineralogist, 102, 1402-1417
Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397
Negrão L B A, Da Costa M L, Pöllmann H, Horn A (2018) An application of the Rietveld refinement method to the mineralogy of a bauxite-bearing regolith in the Lower Amazon, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 413-431
Nesbitt H W, Bancroft G M, Henderson G S (2018) Temperature dependence of Raman shifts and line widths for Q⁰ and Q² crystals of silicates, phosphates, and sulphates, American Mineralogist, 103, 966-976
Novembre D, Pace C, Gimeno D (2018) Synthesis and characterization of wollastonite-2M by using a diatomite precursor, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 95-110
Plotinskaya O Y, Abramova V D, Groznova E O, Tessalina S G, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2018) Trace-element geochemistry of molybdenite from porphyry Cu deposits of the Birgilda-Tomino ore cluster (South Urals, Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S281-S306
Kigai I N (2019) The genesis of agates and amethyst geodes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 867-883
Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456
Jollands M C, Blanchard M, Balan E (2020) Structure and theoretical infrared spectra of OH defects in quartz, European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 311-323 [view file]
Natkaniec-Nowak L, Dumańska-Słowik M, Gaweł A, Łatkiewicz A, Kowalczyk-Szpyt J, Wolska A, Milovská S, Luptáková J, Ładoń K (2020) Fire agate from the Deer Creek deposit (Arizona, USA) – new insights into structure and mineralogy, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 343-354 [view file]
Götze J, Pan Y, Müller A (2021) Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of quartz: A review, Mineralogical Magazine, 85, 639-664

REFERENCES for Quartz

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Rülein von Calw, U (1527) Querz, in Ein nützilch Bergbüchlin: von allen Metallen / als Golt / Silber / Zcyn / Kupferertz / Eisenstein / Bleyertz / und vom Quecksilber Loersfelt Erffurd 25, 38 [view file]

Agricola G (1530) Quarzum, in Georgii Agricolae Medici Bermannus, Sive De Re Metallica in aedibus Frobenianis Basileae 88, 129 [view file]

Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz, in De Natura Fossilium Froben Basileae 249-275 [view file]

Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file]

Bras-de-Fer L (1778) (84) Terre (Élément), in Explication Morale du Jeu de Cartes; Anecdote Curieuse et Interessante Bruxelles 99-100 [view file]

Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]

Ichikawa S (1915) Studies on the etched figures of Japanese quartz, American Journal of Science, 39, 455-473 [view file]

Tomkeieff S I (1942) On the origin of the name ‘quartz’, Mineralogical Magazine, 26, 172-178 [view file]

Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]

Cohen L H, Klement W (1967) High-low quartz inversion: Determination to 35 kilobars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 72, 4245-4251

Green D H, Lockwood J P, Kiss E (1968) Eclogite and almandine-jadeite-quartz rock from the Guajira Peninsula, Columbia, South America, American Mineralogist, 53, 1320-1335 [view file]

Scott S D, O'Connor T P (1971) Fluid inclusions in vein quartz, Silverfields Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 263-271 [view file]

Bates J B, Quist A S (1972) Polarized Raman spectra of β-quartz, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 56, 1528-1533

Ghent E D (1972) Electron microprobe study of allanite from the Mt. Falconer quartz monzonite pluton, Lower Taylor Valley, South Victoria Land, Antartica, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 526-530 [view file]

Corlett M I, McIlreath I A (1974) An authigenic quartz-calcite-rutile assemblage in ordovician limestones, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 411-416 [view file]

Barron T H K, Huang C C, Pasternak A (1976) Interatomic forces and lattice dynamics of α-quartz, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 9, 3925-3940

Le Page Y, Donnay G (1976) Refinement of the crystal structure of low-quartz, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 2456-2459

Fransolet A M, Bourguignon P (1978) Di/trioctahedral chlorite in quartz veins from the Ardenne, Belgium, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 365-373 [view file]

Abbott R N, Clarke D B (1979) Hypothetical liquidus relationships in the subsystem Al₂O₃—FeO—MgO projected from quartz, alkali feldspar and plagioclase for a(H₂O) ≤ 1, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 549-560 [view file]

Wright A F, Lehmann M S (1981) The structure of quartz at 25 and 590°C determined by neutron diffraction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 36, 371-380

Grambling J A (1984) Coesxisting paragonite and quartz in sillimanitic rocks from New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 69, 79-87 [view file]

Jayaraman A, Wood D L, Maines R G (1987) High-pressure Raman study of the vibrational modes in AlPO₄ and SiO₂ (α-quartz), Physical Review B, 35, 8316-8321

Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]

Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]

Sowa H (1988) The oxygen packings of low-quartz and ReO₃ under high pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 257-268 [view file]

Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974

Dubrovinskii L S, Nozik Y Z (1989) Calculation of the anisotropic thermal parameters of the atoms of α-quartz, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 34, 484-485

Hazen R M ,Finger L W, Hemley R J, Mao H K (1989) High-pressure crystal chemistry and amorphization of α-quartz, Solid State Communications, 72, 507-511

Rao P S, Weil J A, Williams J A S (1989) EPR investigation of carbonaceous natural quartz single crystals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 219-224 [view file]

Kihara K (1990) An X-ray study of the temperature dependence of the quartz structure, European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 63-77

Chernosky J V, Berman R G (1991) Experimental reversal of the equilibrium andalusite + calcite + quartz = anorthite + CO₂, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 791-802 [view file]

Lüttge A, Metz P (1991) Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction 1 dolomite + 2 quartz = 1 diopside + 2 CO₂ investigated by powder experiments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 803-821 [view file]

Vanko D A, Milby B J, Heinzquith S W (1991) Massive sulfides with fluid-inclusion-bearing quartz from a young seamount on the East Pacific Rise, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 453-460 [view file]

Glinnemann J, King H E, Schulz H, Hahn Th, La Placa S J, Dacol F (1992) Crystal structures of the low-temperature quartz-type phases of SiO₂ and GeO₂ at elevated pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 198, 177-212 [view file]

Lentz D R, Fowler A D (1992) A dynamic model for graphic quartz-feldspar intergrowths in granitic pegmatites in the southwestern Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 571-585 [view file]

Samson I M, Sinclair W D (1992) Magmatic hydrothermal fluids and the origin of quartz - tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 937-954 [view file]

Sinclair W D, Richardson J M (1992) Quartz-tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 923-935 [view file]

Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794

Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. I. Geology and mineralogy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 793-815 [view file]

Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. II. Geochemistry and petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 817-833 [view file]

Von Goerne G, Franz G, Robert J L (1999) Upper thermal stability of tourmaline + quartz in the system MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O and Na₂O–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O–HCl in hydrothermal solutions and siliceous melts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1025-1039 [view file]

Ghent E D, Stout M Z (2000) Mineral equilibria in quartz leucoamphibolites (quartz—garnet—plagioclase—hornblende cacl-silicates) from southeastern British Columbia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 233-244 [view file]

Ouillon R, Pinan-Lucarre J P, Ranson P (2000) Anharmonicity of zone-centre optical phonons: Raman spectra of the isomorphous α-quartz, berlinite and gallium phosphate in the temperature range 8–300 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 605-613

Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636

Ostroumov M, Faulques E, Lounejeva E (2002) Raman spectroscopy of natural silica in Chicxulub impactite, Mexico, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 334, 21-26

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]

Rodgers K A, Hampton W A (2003) Laser Raman identification of silica phases comprising microtextural components of sinters, Mineralogical Magazine, 67, 1-13 [view file]

Botis S, Nokhrin S M, Pan Y, Xu Y, Bonli T, Sopuck V (2005) Natural radiation-induced damage in quartz. I. Correlations between cathodoluminescence colors and paramagnetic defects, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1565-1580 [view file]

Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E12006 [link]

Choudhury N, Chaplot S L (2006) Ab initio studies of phonon softening and high-pressure phase transitions of α-quartz SiO₂, Physical Review B, 73, 094304-11

Enami M, Nishiyama T, Mouri T (2007) Laser Raman microspectrometry of metamorphic quartz: a simple method for comparison of metamorphic pressures, American Mineralogist, 92, 1303-1315 [view file]

Ikuta D, Kawame N, Banno S, Hirajima T, Ito K, Rakovan J F, Downs R T, Tamada O (2007) First in situ X-ray identification of coesite and retrograde quartz on a glass thin section of an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rock and their crystal structure details, American Mineralogist, 92, 57-63 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I, Wang J, Lee P L, Toby B H (2008) State-of-the-art high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) illustrated with Rietveld structure refinement of quartz, sodalite, tremolite, and meionite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1501-1509 [view file]

Baur W H (2009) In search of the crystal structure of low quartz, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 224, 580-592

Korsakov A V, Perraki M, Zhukov V P, De Gussem K, Vandenabeele P, Tomilenko A A (2009) Is quartz a potential indicator of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism? Laser Raman spectroscopy of quartz inclusions in ultrahigh-pressure garnets, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1313-1323

Gunter M E (2010) Defining asbestos: differences between the built and natural environments, Chimia, 64, 747-752

Thompson R M, Downs R T (2010) Packing systematics of the silica polymorphs: The role played by O-O nonbonded interactions in the compression of quartz, American Mineralogist, 95, 104-111 [view file]

Cordier P, Heidelbach F (2013) Origin of twist in 'gwindel' quartz crystals from the Alps: a transmission electron microscopy study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 145-153

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