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  • Infrared spectra of synthetic almandine–grossular and almandine–pyrope garnet solid solutions: evidence for equivalent site behaviour

  • C. A. Geiger, B. Winkler, K. Langer
  • Journal:
    Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 53 / Issue 370 / April 1989
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 July 2018, pp. 231-237

  • The infrared (IR) spectra of almandine-grossular and almandine-pyrope garnet solid solutions have been measured using the powder method. Frequency shifts of a band related to internal vibrations associated with the 8-co-ordinate dodecahedral site are nonlinear in almandine-grossular garnets and mimic the form of its molar volume of mixing curve. Almandine-pyrope solid solutions have nearly ideal molar volumes of mixing and the frequency shift of this same 8-co-ordinate site-related band is linear. The IR data support the empirically based crystal chemical model of Equivalent Site (ES) behaviour (Newton and Wood, 1980). The IR spectra give no indication of long-range ordering between Ca and Fe2+ in garnet, but thermodynamic calculations involving Ca-poor garnets might be affected by small volume or short-range ordering anomalies.