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Neutron diffraction study of the crystallographic preferential orientation of metagabro mylonite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

M. Kučeráková ,
S. Vratislav ,
L. Kalvoda  and
M. Machek
M. Kučeráková*
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
S. Vratislav
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
L. Kalvoda
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
M. Machek
Affiliation:
Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
*
E-mail: monika.kucerakova@fjfi.cvut.cz
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Abstract

Neutron diffraction (ND) was used to investigate the crystallographic preferential orientation (CPO, texture) and structure parameters of four samples of metagabro mylonite collected from the eastern part of the metagabbro sheet at the Stare Mesto belt, Bohemia Massif, Czech Republic. The samples were selected to form a deformation-ordered series with the microstructure varying from non-deformed metagabbro protolith to strongly sheared ultramylonite and amphibole-rich ulramylonite. The specimens used in ND measurements were polished in form of an exact sphere with diameter 50 ± 0.1 mm. The obtained ND patterns were corrected for non-linear background and then evaluated using the Rietveld method implemented in the software package GSAS. Data recorded from powder preparded by milling material from the sampled rocks were used to refine the structure parameters of plagioclase (labradorite structure, triclinic space group C-1) and amphibole (monoclinic space group C2/m). The experiments were performed on the KSN-2 neutron diffractometer situated at the research reactor LVR-15 of the Nuclear Research Institute, plc. Rez, Czech Republic. The data sets of ND patterns measured on each of the four spherical specimens consisted of 90 diagrams collected for different diffraction vectors covering uniformly one orientation hemisphere of the specimen. Based on the collected data, the orientation distribution function (ODF) of crystalline grains was determined by Rietveld harmonic method (coefficients C(l,m,n) of the spherical harmonics expansion determined up to the order L = 8) for the two principal mineral phases - amphibole and plagioclase. The ODF was used to reconstruct (001), (020), (021), (110), (111) (plagioclase) and (001), (11-1), (020), (110), (200) (amphibole) pole figures (PFs). Direct method of ODF calculation implemented in ResMat software package was then used to calculate inverted pole figures (IPFs) of the plagioclase phase. CPO of the amphibole and plagioclase is then discussed in terms of the obtained texture indices and calculated PFs and IPFs and compared with data measured by other methods or available in literature.

Keywords

powder neutron diffractionmetagabro mylonitetexture analysis
Type
Technical Articles
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Powder Diffraction , Volume 28 , Supplement S2 , September 2013 , pp. S276 - S283
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 2013 

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