Abstract
Machiite (IMA 2016-067), Al2Ti3O9, is a new mineral that occurs as a single euhedral crystal, 4.4 μm in size, in contact with an euhedral corundum grain, 12 μm in size, in a matrix of the Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite. The mean chemical composition of holotype machiite by electron probe microanalysis is (wt%) TiO2 59.75, Al2O3 15.97, Sc2O3 10.29, ZrO2 9.18, Y2O3 2.86, FeO 1.09, CaO 0.44, SiO2 0.20, MgO 0.10, total 99.87, giving rise to an empirical formula (based on 9 oxygen atoms pfu) of
Acknowledgments and Funding
Comments and suggestions by J. Han, O. Tschauner, and anonymous reviewer are highly appreciated. SEM, EBSD, and EPMA were carried out at the Geological and Planetary Science Division Analytical Facility, Caltech, which is supported in part by NSF grants EAR-0318518 and DMR-0080065. SIMS was carried out at University of Hawai‘i. Raman was carried out in the Rossman lab at Caltech. This work was also supported by NASA grant NNX17AE22G (P.I., A.N. Krot).
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