R100102 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Fayalite R100102

Name: Fayalite
RRUFF ID: R100102
Ideal Chemistry: Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)
Locality: Bushveld Intrusive, 7 km east of Olepane, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Source: American Museum of Natural History B06-045 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale brown fragments, variety hortonolite
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Olivine (61) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R100102.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Fe⁺²_1.100Mg_0.883Mn⁺²_0.014Ca_0.002Zn_0.001Al_0.001)_Σ=2.001Si_0.999O₄
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R100102

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100102.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.800(1)Å b: 10.352(2)Å c: 6.051(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 300.66(5)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Fayalite
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]
Gmelin C G (1840) Chemische Untersuchung des Fayalits, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 51, 160-164 [view file]
Gmelin C G (1840) Chemische untersuchung des Fayalits, eines neuen Minerals von der Azorischen Insel Fayal (Chemical analysis of fayalite, a new mineral from the Azores island of Fayal), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde, 1840, 596-597 [view file]
Wheeler E P (1965) Fayalitic olivine in northern Newfoundland-Labrador, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 339-346 [view file]
Fisher G W (1967) Fe-Mg olivine solid solutions, Carnegie Institution of Washington Year book, 66, 209-217
Birle J D, Gibbs G V, Moore P B, Smith J V (1968) Crystal structures of natural olivines, American Mineralogist, 53, 807-824 [view file]
Louisnathan S J, Smith J V (1968) Cell dimensions of olivine, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1123-1134 [view file]
Wyderko M, Mazanek E (1968) The mineralogical characteristics of calcium-iron olivines, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 955-961 [view file]
Fisher G W, Medaris L G (1969) Cell dimensions and X-ray determinative curve for synthetic Mg-Fe olivines, American Mineralogist, 54, 741-753 [view file]
Burns R G, Huggins F E (1972) Cation determinative curves for Mg-Fe-Mn olivines from vibrational spectra, American Mineralogist, 57, 967-985 [view file]
Brown G E, Prewitt C T (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of hortonolite, American Mineralogist, 58, 577-587 [view file]
Smyth J R (1975) High temperature crystal chemistry of fayalite, American Mineralogist, 60, 1092-1097 [view file]
Mokeeva V I, Simonov M A, Belokoneva E L, Makarov E S, Ivanov V I, Rannev N V (1976) X-ray study of details of structure and distribution of magnesium and iron atoms in lunar and terrestrial olivines, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Eksperimental’no-Metodicheskie Issledovaniya Rudnykh Mineralov, Moscow, 13, 84-92
Mossman D J, Pawson D J (1976) X-ray and optical characterization of the forsterite-fayalite-tephroite series with comments on knebelite from Bluebell mine, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 479-486 [view file]
Bayliss P (1977) X-ray and optical characterization of the forsterite-fayalite-tephroite series with comments on knebelite from Bluebell Mine, Britich Columbia: discussion, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 267-267 [view file]
Hazen R M (1977) Effects of temperature and pressure on the crystal structure of ferromagnesian olivine, American Mineralogist, 62, 286-295 [view file]
Schwab R G, Küstner D (1977) Präzisionsgitterkonstantenbestimmung zur Festlegung röntgenographischer Bestimmungskurven für synthetische Olivine der Mischkristallreihe Forsterit-Fayalit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 5, 205-215
Riekel C, Weiss A (1978) Cation-ordering in synthetic Mg_2-xFe_xSiO₄-olivines, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Anorganische Chemie, Organische Chemie, 33b, 731-736
Takei H (1978) Growth of fayalite (Fe₂SiO₄) single crystals by the floating-zone method, Journal of Crystal Growth, 43, 463-468
Fujino K, Sasaki S, Takéuchi Y, Sadanaga R (1981) X-ray determination of electron distributions in forsterite, fayalite and tephroite, Acta Crystallographica, B37, 513-518
Suzuki I, Seya K, Takei H, Sumino Y (1981) Thermal expansion of fayalite Fe2SiO4, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 60-63
Annersten H, Ericsson T, Filippidis A (1982) Cation ordering in Ni-Fe olivines, American Mineralogist, 67, 1212-1217 [view file]
Nord A G, Annersten H, Filippidis A (1982) The cation distribution in synthetic Mg-Fe-Ni olivines, American Mineralogist, 67, 1206-1211 [view file]
Annersten H, Adetunji J, Filippidis A (1984) Cation ordering in Fe-Mn silicate olivines, American Mineralogist, 69, 1110-1115 [view file]
Annersten H, Filippidis A (1984) Cation ordering in Ni-Fe olivines: reply, American Mineralogist, 69, 164-164 [view file]
Ike E C, Bowden P, Martin R F (1984) Fayalite and clinopyroxene in the porphyries of the Tibchi anorogenic ring-complex, Nigeria: postmagmatic initiation of a peralkaline trend, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 401-409 [view file]
Takéuchi Y, Yamanaka T, Haga N, Hirano M (1984) High-temperature crystallography of olivines and spinels, in Materials Science of the Earth's Interior Terra Scientific Pub. Co. Tokyo 191-231
Kudoh Y, Takeda H (1986) Single crystal X-ray diffraction study on the bond compressibility of fayalite, Fe₂SiO₄ and rutile, TiO₂ under high pressure, Physica B, 139, 333-336
Ballet O, Fuess H, Fritzsche T (1987) Magnetic structure and cation distribution in (Fe,Mn)₂SiO₄ (olivine) by neutron diffraction, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 54-58
Boström D (1987) Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of synthetic Ni-Mg olivine solid solutions, American Mineralogist, 72, 965-972 [view file]
McCormick T C, Smyth J R, Lofgren G E (1987) Site occupancies of minor elements in synthetic olivines as determined by channeling-enhanced X-ray emission, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 14, 368-372
Motoyama T, Matsumoto T (1989) The crystal structures and the cation distributions of Mg and Fe of natural olivines, Mineralogical Journal, 14, 338-350
Chopelas A (1991) Single crystal Raman spectra of forsterite, fayalite, and monticellite, American Mineralogist, 76, 1101-1109 [view file]
Akamatsu T, Kumazawa M, Aikawa N, Takei H (1993) Pressure effect on the divalent cation distribution in nonideal solid solution of forsterite and fayalite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 19, 431-444
Kolesov B A, Tanskaya J V (1996) Raman spectra and cation distribution in the lattice of olivines, Materials Research Bulletin, 31, 1035-1044 [link]
Müller-Sommer M, Hock R, Kirfel A (1997) Rietveld refinement study of the cation distribution in (Co, Mg)-olivine solid solution, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 17-23
Pani E, Rizzo R, Raudsepp M (1997) Manganoan-fayalite-bearing granitic pegmatite from Quirra, Sardinia: relation to host plutonic rocks and tectonic affiliation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 119-133 [view file]
Rasmussen M G, Evans B W, Kuehner S M (1998) Low–temperature fayalite, greenalite, and minnesotaite from the Overlook gold deposit, Washington: phase relations in the system FeO–SiO₂–H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 147-162 [view file]
Redfern S A T, Knight K S, Henderson C M B, Wood B J (1998) Fe-Mn cation ordering in fayalite-tephroite (Fe_xMn_1-X)₂SiO₄ olivines: a neutron diffraction study, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 607-615 [view file]
Zhang L (1998) Single crystal hydrostatic compression of (Mg,Mn,Fe,Co)₂SiO₄ olivines, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 308-312
Ovchinnikov N O, Nikitina L P (1999) The real structure and thermodynamic properties of olivine solid solutions (Fe_xMn_1-x)₂SiO₄, Doklady Akademii Nauk, 368, 535-539
Merli M, Oberti R, Caucia F, Ungaretti L (2001) Determination of site population in olivine: Warnings on X-ray data treatment refinement, American Mineralogist, 86, 55-65 [view file]
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]
Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (2004) A Raman spectroscopic study of Fe-Mg olivines, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 142-154 [link]
Speziale S, Duffy T S, Angel R J (2004) Single-crystal elasticity of fayalite to 12 GPa, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, 1-15
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]
Kuebler K E, Jolliff B L, Wang A, Haskin L A (2006) Extracting olivine (Fo-Fa) compositions from Raman spectral peak positions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 6201-6222
Mouri T, Enami M (2008) Raman spectroscopic study of olivine-group minerals, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 103, 100-104 [view file]
Dyar M D, Sklute E C, Menzies O N, Bland P A, Lindsley D, Glotch T, Lane M D, Schaefer M W, Wopenka B, Klima R, Bishop J L, Hiroi T, Pieters C, Sunshine J (2009) Spectroscopic characteristics of synthetic olivine: An integrated multi-wavelength and multi-technique approach, American Mineralogist, 94, 883-898 [view file]
Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485
Nestola F, Pasqual D, Smyth J, Novella D, Secco L, Manghnani M, Negro A D, (2011) New accurate elastic parameters for the forsterite-fayalite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 96, 1742-1747
Kroll H, Kirfel A, Heinemann R, Barbier B (2012) Volume thermal expansion and related thermophysical parameters in the Mg,Fe olivine solid-solution series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 935-956
Kroll H, Kirfel A, Heinemann R (2014) Axial thermal expansion and related thermophysical parameters in the Mg,Fe olivine solid-solution series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 607-621
Xu H, Shen Z, Konishi H, Fu P, Szlufarska I (2014) Crystal structures of laihunite and intermediate phases between laihunite-1M and fayalite: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study, American Mineralogist, 99, 881-889
Burnley P C (2015) Elastic plastic self-consistent (EPSC) modeling of plastic deformation in fayalite olivine, American Mineralogist, 100, 1424-1433
Martin A M, Médard E, Devouard B, Keller L P, Righter K, Devidal J L, Rahman Z (2015) Fayalite oxidation processes in Obsidian Cliffs rhyolite flow, Oregon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1153-1164
Glassley W E, Korstgård J A, Sørensen K (2016) Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite, American Mineralogist, 101, 2347-2350
Zhang J S, Hu Y, Shelton H, Kung J, Dera P (2017) Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of Fe₂SiO₄ fayalite up to 31 GPa, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 44, 171-179
Breitenfeld L B, Dyar M D, Carey C J, Tague T J, Wang P, Mullen T, Parente M (2018) Predicting olivine composition using Raman spectroscopy through band shift and multivariate analyses, American Mineralogist, 103, 1827-1836
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]
Geiger C A, Vielreicher N M, Dachs E (2021) Are the thermodynamic properties of natural and synthetic Mg₂SiO₄-Fe₂SiO₄ olivines the same?, American Mineralogist, 106, 317-321
Liu D, Guo X, Smyth J R, Wang X, Zhu X, Miao Y, Bai J, Ye Y (2021) High-temperature and high-pressure Raman spectra of Fo₈₉Fa₁₁ and Fo₅₈Fa₄₂ olivines: Iron effect on thermodynamic properties, American Mineralogist, 106, 1668-1678

REFERENCES for Fayalite

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]

Gmelin C G (1840) Chemische Untersuchung des Fayalits, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 51, 160-164 [view file]

Gmelin C G (1840) Chemische untersuchung des Fayalits, eines neuen Minerals von der Azorischen Insel Fayal (Chemical analysis of fayalite, a new mineral from the Azores island of Fayal), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde, 1840, 596-597 [view file]

Wheeler E P (1965) Fayalitic olivine in northern Newfoundland-Labrador, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 339-346 [view file]

Fisher G W (1967) Fe-Mg olivine solid solutions, Carnegie Institution of Washington Year book, 66, 209-217

Birle J D, Gibbs G V, Moore P B, Smith J V (1968) Crystal structures of natural olivines, American Mineralogist, 53, 807-824 [view file]

Louisnathan S J, Smith J V (1968) Cell dimensions of olivine, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1123-1134 [view file]

Wyderko M, Mazanek E (1968) The mineralogical characteristics of calcium-iron olivines, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 955-961 [view file]

Fisher G W, Medaris L G (1969) Cell dimensions and X-ray determinative curve for synthetic Mg-Fe olivines, American Mineralogist, 54, 741-753 [view file]

Burns R G, Huggins F E (1972) Cation determinative curves for Mg-Fe-Mn olivines from vibrational spectra, American Mineralogist, 57, 967-985 [view file]

Brown G E, Prewitt C T (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of hortonolite, American Mineralogist, 58, 577-587 [view file]

Smyth J R (1975) High temperature crystal chemistry of fayalite, American Mineralogist, 60, 1092-1097 [view file]

Mokeeva V I, Simonov M A, Belokoneva E L, Makarov E S, Ivanov V I, Rannev N V (1976) X-ray study of details of structure and distribution of magnesium and iron atoms in lunar and terrestrial olivines, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Eksperimental’no-Metodicheskie Issledovaniya Rudnykh Mineralov, Moscow, 13, 84-92

Mossman D J, Pawson D J (1976) X-ray and optical characterization of the forsterite-fayalite-tephroite series with comments on knebelite from Bluebell mine, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 479-486 [view file]

Bayliss P (1977) X-ray and optical characterization of the forsterite-fayalite-tephroite series with comments on knebelite from Bluebell Mine, Britich Columbia: discussion, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 267-267 [view file]

Hazen R M (1977) Effects of temperature and pressure on the crystal structure of ferromagnesian olivine, American Mineralogist, 62, 286-295 [view file]

Schwab R G, Küstner D (1977) Präzisionsgitterkonstantenbestimmung zur Festlegung röntgenographischer Bestimmungskurven für synthetische Olivine der Mischkristallreihe Forsterit-Fayalit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 5, 205-215

Riekel C, Weiss A (1978) Cation-ordering in synthetic Mg_2-xFe_xSiO₄-olivines, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Anorganische Chemie, Organische Chemie, 33b, 731-736

Takei H (1978) Growth of fayalite (Fe₂SiO₄) single crystals by the floating-zone method, Journal of Crystal Growth, 43, 463-468

Fujino K, Sasaki S, Takéuchi Y, Sadanaga R (1981) X-ray determination of electron distributions in forsterite, fayalite and tephroite, Acta Crystallographica, B37, 513-518

Suzuki I, Seya K, Takei H, Sumino Y (1981) Thermal expansion of fayalite Fe2SiO4, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 60-63

Annersten H, Ericsson T, Filippidis A (1982) Cation ordering in Ni-Fe olivines, American Mineralogist, 67, 1212-1217 [view file]

Nord A G, Annersten H, Filippidis A (1982) The cation distribution in synthetic Mg-Fe-Ni olivines, American Mineralogist, 67, 1206-1211 [view file]

Annersten H, Adetunji J, Filippidis A (1984) Cation ordering in Fe-Mn silicate olivines, American Mineralogist, 69, 1110-1115 [view file]

Annersten H, Filippidis A (1984) Cation ordering in Ni-Fe olivines: reply, American Mineralogist, 69, 164-164 [view file]

Ike E C, Bowden P, Martin R F (1984) Fayalite and clinopyroxene in the porphyries of the Tibchi anorogenic ring-complex, Nigeria: postmagmatic initiation of a peralkaline trend, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 401-409 [view file]

Takéuchi Y, Yamanaka T, Haga N, Hirano M (1984) High-temperature crystallography of olivines and spinels, in Materials Science of the Earth's Interior Terra Scientific Pub. Co. Tokyo 191-231

Kudoh Y, Takeda H (1986) Single crystal X-ray diffraction study on the bond compressibility of fayalite, Fe₂SiO₄ and rutile, TiO₂ under high pressure, Physica B, 139, 333-336

Ballet O, Fuess H, Fritzsche T (1987) Magnetic structure and cation distribution in (Fe,Mn)₂SiO₄ (olivine) by neutron diffraction, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 54-58

Boström D (1987) Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of synthetic Ni-Mg olivine solid solutions, American Mineralogist, 72, 965-972 [view file]

McCormick T C, Smyth J R, Lofgren G E (1987) Site occupancies of minor elements in synthetic olivines as determined by channeling-enhanced X-ray emission, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 14, 368-372

Motoyama T, Matsumoto T (1989) The crystal structures and the cation distributions of Mg and Fe of natural olivines, Mineralogical Journal, 14, 338-350

Chopelas A (1991) Single crystal Raman spectra of forsterite, fayalite, and monticellite, American Mineralogist, 76, 1101-1109 [view file]

Akamatsu T, Kumazawa M, Aikawa N, Takei H (1993) Pressure effect on the divalent cation distribution in nonideal solid solution of forsterite and fayalite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 19, 431-444

Kolesov B A, Tanskaya J V (1996) Raman spectra and cation distribution in the lattice of olivines, Materials Research Bulletin, 31, 1035-1044 [link]

Müller-Sommer M, Hock R, Kirfel A (1997) Rietveld refinement study of the cation distribution in (Co, Mg)-olivine solid solution, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 17-23

Pani E, Rizzo R, Raudsepp M (1997) Manganoan-fayalite-bearing granitic pegmatite from Quirra, Sardinia: relation to host plutonic rocks and tectonic affiliation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 119-133 [view file]

Rasmussen M G, Evans B W, Kuehner S M (1998) Low–temperature fayalite, greenalite, and minnesotaite from the Overlook gold deposit, Washington: phase relations in the system FeO–SiO₂–H₂O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 147-162 [view file]

Redfern S A T, Knight K S, Henderson C M B, Wood B J (1998) Fe-Mn cation ordering in fayalite-tephroite (Fe_xMn_1-X)₂SiO₄ olivines: a neutron diffraction study, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 607-615 [view file]

Zhang L (1998) Single crystal hydrostatic compression of (Mg,Mn,Fe,Co)₂SiO₄ olivines, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 308-312

Ovchinnikov N O, Nikitina L P (1999) The real structure and thermodynamic properties of olivine solid solutions (Fe_xMn_1-x)₂SiO₄, Doklady Akademii Nauk, 368, 535-539

Merli M, Oberti R, Caucia F, Ungaretti L (2001) Determination of site population in olivine: Warnings on X-ray data treatment refinement, American Mineralogist, 86, 55-65 [view file]

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]

Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (2004) A Raman spectroscopic study of Fe-Mg olivines, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 142-154 [link]

Speziale S, Duffy T S, Angel R J (2004) Single-crystal elasticity of fayalite to 12 GPa, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, 1-15

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]

Kuebler K E, Jolliff B L, Wang A, Haskin L A (2006) Extracting olivine (Fo-Fa) compositions from Raman spectral peak positions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 6201-6222

Mouri T, Enami M (2008) Raman spectroscopic study of olivine-group minerals, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 103, 100-104 [view file]

Dyar M D, Sklute E C, Menzies O N, Bland P A, Lindsley D, Glotch T, Lane M D, Schaefer M W, Wopenka B, Klima R, Bishop J L, Hiroi T, Pieters C, Sunshine J (2009) Spectroscopic characteristics of synthetic olivine: An integrated multi-wavelength and multi-technique approach, American Mineralogist, 94, 883-898 [view file]

Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485

Nestola F, Pasqual D, Smyth J, Novella D, Secco L, Manghnani M, Negro A D, (2011) New accurate elastic parameters for the forsterite-fayalite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 96, 1742-1747

Kroll H, Kirfel A, Heinemann R, Barbier B (2012) Volume thermal expansion and related thermophysical parameters in the Mg,Fe olivine solid-solution series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 935-956

Kroll H, Kirfel A, Heinemann R (2014) Axial thermal expansion and related thermophysical parameters in the Mg,Fe olivine solid-solution series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 607-621

Xu H, Shen Z, Konishi H, Fu P, Szlufarska I (2014) Crystal structures of laihunite and intermediate phases between laihunite-1M and fayalite: Z-contrast imaging and ab initio study, American Mineralogist, 99, 881-889

Burnley P C (2015) Elastic plastic self-consistent (EPSC) modeling of plastic deformation in fayalite olivine, American Mineralogist, 100, 1424-1433

Martin A M, Médard E, Devouard B, Keller L P, Righter K, Devidal J L, Rahman Z (2015) Fayalite oxidation processes in Obsidian Cliffs rhyolite flow, Oregon, American Mineralogist, 100, 1153-1164

Glassley W E, Korstgård J A, Sørensen K (2016) Further observations related to a possible occurrence of terrestrial ahrensite, American Mineralogist, 101, 2347-2350

Zhang J S, Hu Y, Shelton H, Kung J, Dera P (2017) Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of Fe₂SiO₄ fayalite up to 31 GPa, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 44, 171-179

Breitenfeld L B, Dyar M D, Carey C J, Tague T J, Wang P, Mullen T, Parente M (2018) Predicting olivine composition using Raman spectroscopy through band shift and multivariate analyses, American Mineralogist, 103, 1827-1836

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]

Geiger C A, Vielreicher N M, Dachs E (2021) Are the thermodynamic properties of natural and synthetic Mg₂SiO₄-Fe₂SiO₄ olivines the same?, American Mineralogist, 106, 317-321

Liu D, Guo X, Smyth J R, Wang X, Zhu X, Miao Y, Bai J, Ye Y (2021) High-temperature and high-pressure Raman spectra of Fo₈₉Fa₁₁ and Fo₅₈Fa₄₂ olivines: Iron effect on thermodynamic properties, American Mineralogist, 106, 1668-1678