Thermal equations of state for kyanite, andalusite and sillimanite

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The three Al-silicate polymorphs, kyanite, andalusite and sillimanite, are well-known geological markers used to determine the extent of P- and T-induced metamorphism experienced by rocks in the Earth's crust. Despite extensive study of their thermodynamic properties, there has only been one study (of kyanite published in 2016) as a function of pressure AND temperature. The compressibilities of andalusite and sillimanite have only ever been characterised at room temperature. In a recent HRPD study, I found that the latter two minerals exhibit negative linear thermal expansion below room temperature, which one would expect to translate into anomalous linear compressibility. In order to study this further I propose the first systematic PVT study of all three polymorphs using the Paris-Edinburgh press on PEARL.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87814395
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87814395
Provenance
Creator Dr Dominic Fortes; Dr Craig Bull
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-12T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-15T10:00:00Z