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American Mineralogist, Volume 66, pages 154-168, I98I The crystal structureof santaclaraite,lCaMnn[SisOr4(OH)l(OH).HrO: the role of hydrogenatoms in the pyroxenoid structure Yossxezu Ounsur Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I 9 I 04 AND LARRY W. FINGER Ge op hy sic al L ab o r at o ry, Carne gie I nstitutio n of Was hin gt o n Vl/ashington, D. C. 20008 Abstract A new mineral, santaclaraite(CaoqoMn?LM&orFe2o*0,)s[Si5Or4(OH)XOH) . H2O, is triclinic with a : 10.273(4),0: l l.9l0(4),c : 12.001(6)A,a : 105.77(3),F : l l0.6a(3),r : 8?.13(3)", V : l3l7.0(8)A'; Z :4 for the 1T unit-cell setting.The crystal structureconsists of alternat- ing tetrahedral and octahedral layers. The tetrahedral layer is made up of infinite single chains of silicate tetrahedrawith a repeatperiod of five tetrahedra.The octahedrallayer in- cludesrows of ten octahedrawith adjacent octahedralrows displacedalong their length to form bandstwo or three octahedrawide. As isolatedunits, the tetrahedralchain and octahe- dral band of santaclaraiteare similar to the correspondingportions of the rhodonite struc- ture. The structureof santaclaraite,however, ditrers in that (l) two adjacentchains (or bands) in a given layer are displacedby a half c translation,and (2) the octahedrallayer is rotated by a half turn in the plane parallel to the layer with respectto the adjacenttetrahedral layer. The three roles of hydrogen as hydrogen bond, hydroxyl group, and water moleculeare respon- sible for the above half-translation and half-rotation. Three octahedralsites, Ml, M2, and M3, are essentiallyoccupied by Mn atoms.The Ca atoms are orderedin M5, and the small amount of Mg is probably concentratedin M4. Differential thermal analysisand thermo- gravimetric analysisindicate that the dehydration of santaclaraiteoccurs at approximately 550'C. Introduction The importance of octahedral cations in con- trolling the octahedral-tetrahedrallinkages in the Santaclaraite,a new mineral from the Franciscan pyroxenoid structure has previously been discussed formation, Santa Clara County, California, is struc- for three-tetrahedral-repeatpyroxenoids (Ohashi and turally related to rhodonite, babingtonite, nambulite, finger, 1978).The octahedralcations are identical in and marsturite (Ohashi and Erd, 1978).The mineral rhodonite and santaclaraite,so the different struc- description is given elsewhere(Erd and Ohashi, in tures must be due to efects producedby the hydro- preparation). Santaclaraite is chemically equivalent gen atoms. to rhodonite plus two water molecules, CaMn SirO,, Inesite.a double-chainsilicate with a five-tetrahe- (rhodonite) + 2HrO; its water content is less than dral repeat,has two crystal-chemicallydistinct types thet of inesite, .2.5H,O, CaMnr,[Si,O,.(OH)] but of hydrogenatoms, one as HrO and the other as OH- more than that of babingtonite,Car(Fe,Mn) (Wan and Ghose, 1975, 1978).The hydrogen in ba- Fe'*[Si,O,o(OH)],nambulite, (Li,Na)MnoISi, bingtonite (Araki and Zoltai, 1972) and nambutte Or4(OH)1,and marsturite, NaCaMnrISirO,o(Narita et al., 1975; Murakami et al., 1977) is be- (OH)], another recently discoveredpyroxenoid (Pea- lieved to form a hydrogenbond O-H ...O, on the cor er dt., l978al. basisof the short O-O distance,as in pectolite (Pre- 'A:.proved by the Commissionon New Minerals and Mineral witt and Buerger,1963; Tak6uchi and Kudoh, 1978). iiames, IMA. Santaclaraiteis unique among pyroxenoid miner- ac[3-.iAK / 8l /0 I 02-0 I 54$02.00 OHASHI AND FINGER: STRUCTURE OF SANTACLARAITE als in that alkali atomssuch as Na and Li are not es- sential constituentsand also in that as many as four hydrogen atoms exist for each five silicons. Thus a Rhodonile detailed structural analysis of this mineral should P cell provide a better understandingof the role of hydro- gen in pyroxenoid structures. \.1 Experimental (< Unit-cellsetting \..t. Crystals of santaclaraiteare commonly prismatic and elongatedalong the zone axis of two well-devel- oped cleavagesthat intersectroughly at a right angle, t as in other pyroxenoidsand pyroxenes.Preliminary t f study with precession and zone-axis photographs oli showedthat the crystal was triclinic and that a trans- lation along the zone of the two cleavageswas ap- proximately l2A. This translation can be compared with the chain-identity period of five-tetrahedral-re- peat pyroxenoids,rhodonite and babingtonite(Table 1). The crystallographicc axis is chosenparallel to the zone axis. (ftkO)precession photograph, which The contains Fig. l. Comparison ofunit cells for santaclaraite and rhodonite. information on the structureprojected along the zone Triangles represent tetrahedral chains in rhodonite projected axis, is similar to the correspondingphotograph of along the chain direction. rhodonite. No similarities to rhodonite were ob- served,however, in other photographs of santacla- raite. of rhodonite, it is more convenient in discussing The unit cell of santaclaraiteis comparedwith that modular crystallography(Thompson, 1978) of pyrox- of rhodonite in Figure L Although the B-centered enoids to use a body-centeredcell. This 1l cell of cell of santaclaraitecorresponds to the primitive cell santaclaraite is comparable to the Cl setting for rhodonite and also to multiple cells for three-repeat- Table l. Comparison ofthe unit cells for santaclaraite, rhodonite, pyroxenoidsdiscussed by Ohashiand Finger (1978). and babingtonite The thicknessof the layers,d(100) of the.Il or Cl Pyroxene-type ce11 Pyroxenoid-type cell cell, is approximately equal in santaclaraiteand STC* RHD** gg5t src* RHD** gBuf rhodonite, whereasthe D axis of the /l or Cl cell, of the tetrahedralchains or of c] cl ei pI pI which is the separation a(A) L0.273(4') 9.444 9-'73L 15.610(4) 6.7O'7 6.1L9 the octahedralbands in a given layer, is muih longer b I1.91O(4) 1.0.540 10.410 7 -59I12) 1 .6A2 7 .509 santaclaraite(see Fig. l). In the initial analysis, c 12.001(6) 12.234 L2.245 12.00r(6) L2.234 12-245 in this longer separationwas erroneouslythought to be o(') ro5.?7(3) 108.68 rO8. 36 109.80(3) I1I.54 1r2.21 B 110.64(3) LO3.29 144.2'7 88-s9(3) 85.25 86.25 due to the presenceof water moleculesbetween the Y 87.13(3) 42.23 A4.94 99.94(2) 93.95 92.13 v (a') 13r?.o (s) 1167 -'7 Lt4l- .4 1317.0 (8) 583.B 57O.'7 octahedralbands. ,redv49E5 \ ffu, (110) (1ro) (100) (1oo) (r00) {lr0) (110) (1I0) (0I0) (010) (010) Data collectionand structuralanalysis tetrahedrar [oot] [oor] [ oor] Ioor] loor] [oorl chain A crystal0.l4 x 0.20x 0.28mm wasused for col- close-pack (1O0) (r00) (100) (210) (r10) (r10) Iayer lecting the X-ray diffraction intensitiesup to 650 in 20 for Nb-filtered MoKc radiation on an automated * Santaclaraite. This stualy. From least-squares lefinenent four-circle diffractometer.Integrated intensities mea- with twelve reflections centered on a sinqle crystal diffrac- Eometer. sured with an a-20 scan were correctedfor Lorentz ** Rhodonite. Calculatcd from teduced cell data given by peacor and Niizeki (1963) and polarization effects.Absorption corrections(lin- + Babinglonite. Ca]culated from reduced ceII data given by coefficient 47.2 cm-') were also ap- Araki and Zoltai (197:) ear absorption plied, using the numerical integration technique of 156 OHASHI AND FINGER: STRUCTURE OF SANTACLARAITE Burnham (1966a).A total of 3307 reflectionswith a could be developedfrom thesemodels, structure so- structurefactor greaterthan twice its estimatedstan- lution by direct methodswas abandoned. dard deviation was usedin the structureanalysis and The minimum-function method was then tried us- refinement. Atomic scattering factors for the fully ing possibleM-M inversionvectors. The resultswere ionized state (except O-) and dispersioncorrections essentiallythe sameas thoseobtained from the direct were taken from International Tablesfor X-ray Crys- methods:the three structural arrangementsdescribed tallography,Vol. 4 (p.99 and p. 149,respectively). above were also found, and the tetrahedral chain Wilson's N(Z) test strongly indicated the existence could not be located. In spite of incomplete results of a center of symmetry and thus a centrosymmetric from the direct and minimum-function methods, triclinic spacegroup was assumedin the subsequent however,the layer arrangementwith no atoms at the structureanalysis. Strong peaks, which form a nearly inversion center seemeda plausible part of the cor- trigonal pattern on the (100) Pattersonmap of the rect structure.This optimistic view was largely based body-centeredcell, indicate the close-packedar- on analogywith the known crystal structuresof other rangementof cations and oxygensparallel to (100). five-repeatpyroxenoids. The geometryofthe gap be- Direct methods of structure determination were tween the octahedralbands, therefore, was analyzed first attempted.From a total of 3307above-minimum in an attempt to fit a five-repeattetrahedral chain. reflections,109 reflections with E valuesgreater than Two casesare known of octahedral-tetrahedrallink- 2.5 were used as input for a computer program age: one in rhodonite and the other in the hydrous sIcMA2 of the symbolic addition method (Karle and phasesbabingtonite and nambulite (Tak6uchi, 1976). Karle, 1966).In addition to three origin-defining re- Two possible arrangementsfor the tetrahedral flections,signs of two reflectionswere assignedto ex- chain that fills the gap betweenthe octahedralbands pand the data set of determinedphases with a modi- in santaclaraite(Fig. 2) were derived. Both models fied versionof the tangentformula program (Brenner required 17 (not 15)