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The high-temperature behavior of defect hydrogen species in quartz: Implications for hydrogen isotope studies

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Grant,  Kevin
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Gleeson,  S. A.
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Roberts,  Steve
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Grant, K., Gleeson, S. A., Roberts, S. (2003): The high-temperature behavior of defect hydrogen species in quartz: Implications for hydrogen isotope studies. - American Mineralogist, 88, 2-3, 262-270.
https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2003-2-302


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Abstract
A micro-infrared spectroscopic study of hydrothermal vein quartz known to have anomalous deltaD signatures has identified two hydrogen reservoirs. In samples that generate an isotopic signature in accordance with that anticipated under the accepted model of quartz crystallization, submicroscopic aggregates of liquid water are the dominant hydrous species. Samples which generate an anomalous deltaD signature contain, in addition to liquid water, structurally incorporated hydrous species associated with impurity cations. Infrared spectra obtained during in situ stepped heating experiments, coupled with infrared analysis at 25 degreesC, demonstrate that hydrogen liberated between 300 and 500 degreesC is chiefly molecular, liquid water. Hydrogen liberated at temperatures greater than 500 degreesC is dominantly that associated with specific structurally incorporated cation defects. Since both defect hydrogen and molecular water are contemporaneously incorporated from the precipitating medium during crystallization, we propose that irregular deltaD signatures, released following decrepitation at temperatures greater than 500 degreesC, are due to isotopically fractionated hydrogen released from interstitial OH defect sites in the quartz structure. deltaD signatures obtained from stoichiometrically anhydrous minerals are generally interpreted under the assumption that the hydrogen measured comes uniquely from decrepitated fluid inclusions. Instead, we suggest that deltaD ratios obtained from hydrothermal quartz reflect a sum of the contributions made by individual hydrogen reservoirs, each with a potentially distinctive deltaD signature. Thus, if the overall deltaD signature is attributed entirely to fluid inclusion phases, the nature of the precipitating fluid may be misinterpreted. Hydrogen extracted as molecular water at between 300 and 500 degreesC provides a true reflection of the hydrothermal solution associated with crystal precipitation.