Abstract
Following article I (Pinet & Smith), 1993) which presented data on natural calcic garnets, the Raman spectra of 52 natural aluminian garnets along the series pyrope-almandine and almandine-spessartine are compared with each other and with grossular which is simultaneously aluminian and calcic. For most of the 12 principal bands and numerous weak bands or shoulders identified amongst the 25 bands theoretically predicted, the wavenumber positions reveal quasi-linear trends by following step by step the variation in chemical composition. Only ten of the interpolations between the end-members proposed by Hofmeister and Chopelas (1991) are correct, the others are definitely incorrect or leave uncertainties. There are thus several problems in establishing the correspondence of Raman spectra between different compositions. -from English summary
Translated title of the contribution | Raman microspectrometry of garnets X3Y2Z3O12: II. The natural aluminian series pyrope-almandine-spessartine |
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Original language | French |
Pages (from-to) | 161-179 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen |
Volume | 74 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - 1994 |
Externally published | Yes |