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High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and silica in Kamargaon (L6) chondrite by laser micro-Raman and XRD studies

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We present here the composition and spectroscopic studies on the Kamargaon (L6) chondrite using laser micro-Raman spectroscopic and powder X-ray diffraction techniques. Both powder XRD and micro-Raman studies reveal the unambiguous presence of high-pressure polymorphs of silica (stishovite), traces of ringwoodite and wadsleyite (high-pressure phase of olivine) in Kamargaon (L6) ordinary chondrite. The presence of wadsleyite along with ringwoodite and stishovite suggests a minimum post-shock pressure and temperature conditions of this meteorite should be 14–15 GPa and 1400–1500°C as the ringwoodite is known to coexist with wadsleyite at ~18 GPa and ~1800 K at the boundary of wadsleyite-ringwoodite transition.

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This paper is dedicated to 80th Birthday of Prof N Bhandari, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmadabad for his kind encouragement in investigations of mineralogical aspects of meteorites. We thank the Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) for providing analytical facilities for characterization of the meteorite. We are grateful to the Prof S Ghosh of IIT Kharagpur and an anonymous reviewer for their useful comments. We are grateful to Prof Saibal Gupta for the editorial comments and improvising the manuscript quality. We also thank Dr S Sarmah, IIT Guwahati for his assistance in the spectroscopic analysis. GP is grateful to NIAS and INSA for the support under INSA Senior Scientist Scheme.

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    Bhaskar J Saikia

  2. School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, 560 012, India

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  3. Department of Physics, Nowgong College (Autonomous), Nagaon, 782 001, India

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BJS and GP have done formulation of the idea, sample collection, Raman analysis, XRD analysis, data interpretation and writing (review and editing), RRB has done thin section analysis, methodology adoption, data collection and curation.

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Saikia, B.J., Parthasarathy, G. & Borah, R.R. High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and silica in Kamargaon (L6) chondrite by laser micro-Raman and XRD studies. J Earth Syst Sci 131, 38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01803-y

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