Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T09:57:11.990Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The chemistry of allanite from the Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanashi, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. Hoshino ,
M. Kimata ,
N. Nishida ,
A. Kyono ,
M. Shimizu  and
S. Takizawa
M. Hoshino*
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
M. Kimata
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
N. Nishida
Affiliation:
Chemical Analysis Division, Research Facility Centre for Science and Technology, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan
A. Kyono
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
M. Shimizu
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
S. Takizawa
Affiliation:
Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
*
*E-mail: hossy716@arsia.geo.tsukuba.ac.jp
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The crystal structure of allanite from granitic pegmatite, the Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanashi, Japan, has been refined under the constraint of chemical composition determined by electron microprobe analysis of rare earth elements. Back-scattered-electron images and X-ray element maps of the allanites show that each of their crystal grains has chemically homogeneous distribution of major elements. A typical formula for the chemistry is: (Ca0.920☐0.080)Σ1.000(La0.238Ce0.443Pr0.048Nd0.100Sm0.019Th0.042Mn0.008☐0.102)Σ1.000(Al0.607Fe0.3173+Ti0.076)Σ1.000(Al1.000)(Fe0.5432+Fe0.3653+Mn0.055Mg0.037)Σ1.000(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH).

The crystal structure of allanite, monoclinic, a 8.905 (1), b 5.7606 (5), c 10.123 (1) Å, β 114.78°(1), space group P21/m, Z = 2, has been refined to an unweighted R factor of 3.46% for 1459 observed reflections. Although the H atom position was not determined on the Difference-Fourier map, inspection of the bond valence sums demonstrates that the H atom is uniquely located at the O10 atom and involved in a hydrogen bond to O4. A systematic examination as to crystal chemistry of allanites suggests that the isolated SiO4 tetrahedron has the largest distortion of three kinds of the tetrahedron containing Si2O7 groups in the allanite structure. This observation is common to the epidote group minerals, while the larger distortion of A2 sites caused by occupancy by REE in allanites contrasts with the smaller one of A sites in other epidote group minerals. In the allanite groups the bond angles between the O10–H bond and hydrogen bond H···O4 are found to range from 170 to 180°.

Compilation of the chemical compositions of the title allanite and the others from granitic rocks, Japan, which reveals Th-incorporation as the coupled substitution of 3Th4+ + ☐ (vacancy) ⇌ 4REE3+, provides an explanation for the observation that higher Th concentrations characterize allanites from the island arcs. The ternary Al2O3-Fe2O3-ΣREE diagram illustrates that allanites are grouped, according to their origins, into three classes suggestive of tectonic backgrounds for the crystallization localities; (1) intracontinental, (2) island arc and (3) continental margin.

Keywords

allaniteJapanchemistrytectonic settingcrystal structureEMPA
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 403 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anderson, J.L. and Bender, E.E. (1989) Nature and origin of Proterozoic A-type granitic magmatism in the southwestern United States of America. Lithos, 23, 19–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Banno, Y. (1993) Chromian sodic pyroxene, phengite and allanite from the Sanbagawa blueschists in the eastern Kii Peninsula, central Japan. Mineralogical Journal, 16, 306–317.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baur, W.H. (1981) Interatomic distance predictions for computer simulation of crystal structures. Pp. 31—52 in: Structure and Bonding in Crystals II (O'Keeffe, M. and Navrotsky, A., editors). Academic Press, New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bonazzi, P., Menchetti, S. and Palenzona, A. (1990) Strontiopiemontite, a new member of the epidote group, from Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 519–523.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bonazzi, P., Menchetti, S. and Reinecke, T. (1996) Solid solution between piemontite and androsite-(La), a new mineral of the epidote group from Andros Island, Greece. American Mineralogist, 81, 735–742.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brese, N.E. and O'Keeffe, M. (1991) Bond-valence parameters for solids. Acta Crystallographica, B47, 192–197.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, I.D. (2002) Modelling inorganic structures. Pp. 161 — 162 in: The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry. Oxford University Press, New York.Google Scholar
Brown, I.D. and Altermatt, D. (1985) Bond-valence parameters obtained from a systematic analysis of the inorganic crystal structure database. Acta Crystallographica, B41, 244–247.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burdett, J.K. (1995) Metals and insulators. Pp. 176–179 in: Chemical Bonding in Solids. Oxford University Press, New York.Google Scholar
Čech, F., Vrána, S. and Povondra, P. (1972) A non-metamict allanite from Zambia. Neues Jahrbuchfür Mineralogie Abhandlungen, 116, 208—223.Google Scholar
Chesner, C.A. and Ettlinger, A.D. (1989) Composition of volcanic allanite from the Toba Tuffs, Sumatra, Indonesia. American Mineralogist, 74, 750—758.Google Scholar
Dana, J.D. (1911) Allanite. Pp. 522–526 in: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana 1837—1868: Descriptive Mineralogy. John Wiley & Sons, New York.Google Scholar
Deer, W.A., Howie, R.A. and Zussman, J. (1986) Allanite. Pp. 151–179 in: Rock-forming Minerals, 2nd ed., Vol. 1B. Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex, England.Google Scholar
Dollase, W.A. (1971) Refinement of the crystal structures of epidote, allanite and hancockite. American Mineralogist, 56, 447—464.Google Scholar
Ercit, T.S. (2002) The mess that is ‘allanite'. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1411–1419.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Exley, R.A. (1980) Microprobe studies on REE-rich accessory minerals: implications for Skye granite petrogenesis and REE mobility in hydrothermal systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 48, 97℃110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ferraris, G., Ivaldi, G., Fuess, H. and Gregson, D. (1989) Manganese/iron distribution in a strontian piemontite by neutron diffraction. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 187, 145–151.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gabe, E.J., Portheine, J.C. and Whitlow, S.H. (1973) A reinvestigation of the epidote structure: confirmation of the iron location. American Mineralogist, 58, 218–223.Google Scholar
Gaines, R.V., Skinner, H.C.W., Foord, E.E., Mason, B. and Rosenzweig, A. (1997) Epidote Group. Pp. 1195—1205 in: Dana's New Mineralogy. John Wiley & Sons, New York.Google Scholar
Gieré, R. and Sorensen, S.S. (2004) Allanite and other REE-rich epidote-group minerals. Pp. 431—493 in: Epidote (Liebscher, A. and Franz, G., editors). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 56. Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society, Washington, D.C.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldschmidt, V. (1920) Orthit. Pp. 62–67 in: Atlas der Krystallformen, Tafeln, Vol. 3. Carl Winters UniversitStsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg, Germany.Google Scholar
Hasegawa, S. (1957) Chemical studies of allanites and their associated minerals from the pegmatites in the northern part of the Abukuma Massif. Science Report, University ofTohoku, Third series, 5, 345–371.Google Scholar
Hasegawa, S. (1960) Chemical composition of allanite. Science Report, University of Tohoku, Third series, 6, 331–387.Google Scholar
Hayase, I. (1954) The radioactivity of rocks and minerals studied with nuclear emulsion. II. Thorium content of granitic allanites. Memoirs of the College of Science, University of Kyoto, B21, 171–182.Google Scholar
Hermann, J. (2002) Allanite: thorium and light rare earth element carrier in subducted crust. Chemical Geology, 192, 289–306.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hintze, C. (1897) Orthit. Pp. 257–276 in: Handbuch der Mineralogie. Verlag Von Veit & Comp, Leipzig, Germany.Google Scholar
Hutton, CO. (1951) Allanite from Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne Co., California. American Mineralogist, 36, 233–248.Google Scholar
Holtstam, D., Andersson, U.B. and Mansfeld, J. (2003) Ferriallanite-(Ce) from the Bastnäs deposit, Västmanland, Sweden. The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1233–1240.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Janeczek, J. and Eby, R.K. (1993) Annealing of radiation damage in allanite and gadolinite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 19, 343–356.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kartashov, P.M., Ferraris, G., Ivaldi, G., Sokolova, E. and McCammon, C.A. (2002) Ferriallanite-(Ce), CaCeFe3+AlFe2+(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH), a new member of the epidote group: description, X-ray and Mössbauer study. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1641–1648.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kartashov, P.M., Ferraris, G., Ivaldi, G., Sokolova, E. and McCammon, C.A. (2003) Ferriallanite-(Ce), CaCeFe3+AlFe2+(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH), a new member of the epidote group: description, X-ray and Mössbauer study: errata. The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 829–830.Google Scholar
Ksenofontov, V.G., Laptienko, A.Ya., Ruban, I.V., Sukharevsky, B.Ya. and Pustovit, A.V. (1985) The influence of the crystalline field on the distortion of the octahedral complexes of divalent iron. Solid State Communications, 53, 9—14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kvick, A., Pluth, J.J., Richardson, J.W. Jr, and Smith, J.V. (1988) The ferric ion distribution and hydrogen bonding in epidote: a neutron diffraction study at 15 K. Acta Crystallographica, B44, 351–355.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maas, R., McCulloch, M.T. and Campbell, I.H. (1987) Sm-Nd isotope systematics in uranium-rare earth element mineralization at the Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine, Queensland. Economic Geology, 82, 1805–1826.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mahood, G. and Hildreth, W. (1983) Large partition coefficients for trace elements in high-silica rhyo-lites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 47, 11—30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nagashima, O. and Nagashtma, K. (1960) Allanite. Pp. 173–184 in: The Rare Earth Minerals of Japan. Chigakukenkyu-Kai, Kyoto, Japan (in Japanese).Google Scholar
Nakashima, K. (1996) Chemistry of Fe-Ti oxide minerals in the Hobenzan granitic complex, SW Japan: subsolidus reduction in relation to base metal mineralization. Mineralogy and Petrology, 58, 51–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nishida, N., Kimata, M. and Sugimoto, A. (1999) Quantitative electron-probe microanalysis of various kinds of rare-earth elements in minerals. Journal of The Mineralogical Society of Japan, 28, 71—81.(in Japanese with English abstract).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
North, A.C.T., Phillips, D.C. and Mathews, F.S. (1968) A semi-empirical method of absorption correction. Acta Crystallographica, A24, 351–359.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oberli, F., Sommerauer, J. and Steiger, R.H. (1981) U-(Th)-Pb systematics and mineralogy of single crystals and concentrates of accessory minerals from the Cacciola granite, central Gotthard massif, Switzerland. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 61, 323—348.Google Scholar
Oberli, F., Meier, M., Berger, A., Rosenberg, C.L. and Gieré, R. (2004) U-Th-Pb and 23OTh/238U disequilibrium isotope systematics: precise accessory mineral chronology and melt evolution tracing in the Alpine Bergell intrusion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 2543–2560.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peacor, D.R. and Dunn, P.J. (1988) Dollaseite-(Ce) (magnesium orthite redefined): structure refinement and implications for F+M2+ substitutions in epidote-group minerals. American Mineralogist, 73, 838–842.Google Scholar
Pellas, P. (1961) Métamictisation des allanites. Possibility de déterminer des âges géologiques. Académie des Sciences, 252, 3280–3282.(in French).Google Scholar
Peterson, R.C. and MacFarlane, D.B. (1993) The rare-earth-element chemistry of allanite from the Grenville Province. The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 159–166.Google Scholar
Pudovkina, Z.V. and Pyatenko, Yu.A. (1965) Crystal structure of nonmetamict orthite. Doklady Akademii NaukSSSR, Earth Sciences Sections, 153, 146–149.Google Scholar
Reed, S.J.B. and Buckley, A. (1998) Rare-earth element determination in minerals by electron-probe micro-analysis: application of spectrum synthesis. Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 1—8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robinson, K., Gibbs, G.V. and Ribbe, P.H. (1971) Quadratic elongation: a quantitative measure of distortion in coordination polyhedra. Science, 172, 567–570.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rouse, R.C. and Peacor, D.R. (1993) The crystal structure of dissakisite-(Ce), the Mg analogue of allanite-(Ce). The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 153–157.Google Scholar
Sakai, C., Higashino, T. and Enami, M. (1984) REE-bearing epidote from Sanbagawa pelitic schists, central Shikoku, Japan. Geochemical Journal, 18, 45–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sheldrick, G.M. (1997) SHELXL-97. A program for the refinement of crystal structures. University of Göttingen, Germany.Google Scholar
Smith, M.P., Henderson, P. and Jeffries, T. (2002) The formation and alteration of allanite in skarn from the Beinn an Dubhaich granite aureole, Skye. European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 471—486.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sokolova, E.V., Nadezhina, T.N. and Pautov, L.A. (1991) Crystal structure of a new natural silicate of manganese from the epidote group. Soviet Physics: Crystallography, 36, 172–174.Google Scholar
Suzuki, K., Adachi, M. and Yamamoto, K. (1990) Possible effects of grain-boundary REE on the REE distribution in felsic melts derived by partial melting. Geochemical Journal, 24, 57—74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Takagi, T. and Nureki, T. (1994) Two T-f(O2) paths in the Myoken-zan magnetite-bearing granitic complex, San'yo belt, southwestern Japan. The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 747–762.Google Scholar
Töoger, W.E. (1971) Optisch zweiachsige minerale: Nesosilikate, Sorosilikate. Pp. 56—59 in: Optische Bestimmung der gesteinsbildenden Minerale, Teil 1 Bestimmungstabellen. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany.Google Scholar
Ueda, T. (1955) The crystal structure of allanite, OH(Ca,Ce)2(Fe3+,Fe2+)Al2OSi2O7SiO4 . Memoirs of the College of Science, University of Kyoto, B22, 145–163.Google Scholar
Ueda, T. (1957) Studies on the metamictization of radioactive minerals. Memoirs of the College of Science, University of Kyoto, B24, 81–120.Google Scholar
Uchiyama, I., Watanabe, Y. and Kimoto, S. (1972) Quantitative analysis. Pp. 114–115 in: X-ray Micro Analyzer. The Nikkan Kougyou Shinbun, Tokyo (in Japanese).Google Scholar
Wickleder, M.S. (2002) Inorganic lanthanide compounds with complex anions. Chemical Reviews 102, 2011–2087CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wing, B.A. Ferry, J.M. and Harrison, T.M. (2003) Prograde destruction and formation of monazite and allanite during contact and regional metamorphism of pelites: petrology and geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145, 228–250.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wood, S.A. and Ricketts, A. (2000) Allanite-(Ce) from the Eocene Casto granite, Idaho: response to hydrothermal alteration. The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 81–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yang, J.J. and Enami, M. (2003) Chromian dissakisite-(Ce) in a garnet lherzolite from the Chinese Su-Lu UHP metamorphic terrane: implication for Cr incorporation in epidote-group minerals and recycling of REE into the Earth's mantle. American Mineralogist, 88, 604–610.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhang, M. and Salje, E.K.H. (2001) Infrared spectroscopic analysis of zircon: Radiation damage and the metamict state. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 13, 3057–3071.Google Scholar