Bridgmanite

Bridgmanite

Tenham meteorite, Tenham Station, Windorah, Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia

Bridgmanite

Tenham meteorite, Tenham Station, Windorah, Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia

Bridgmanite

Tenham meteorite, Tenham Station, Windorah, Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia

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Percy Williams Bridgman

Formula:

(Mg,Fe)SiO₃

Crystal System:

Orthorhombic

Member of:

Bridgmanite Subgroup > Stoichiometric Perovskites Group > Perovskite Supergroup

Name:

Named in 2014 by Chi Ma and Oliver Tschauner in honor of Percy Williams Bridgman [April 21, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - August 20, 1961 Randolph, New Hampshire, USA], winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1946 for his work in high-pressure physics.

Type Locality:

ⓘ Tenham meteorite, Tenham Station, Windorah, Barcoo Shire, Queensland, Australia

Polymorph of:

Akimotoite, Clinoenstatite, Enstatite, Unnamed (Mg silicate tetragonal garnet)

Perovskite-type high-pressure phase. The Mg analogue of hiroseite.

This mineral is believed to compose up to 93% of the lower mantle above around 2700km and therefore is probably the most abundant mineral in the Earth.

It was experimentally proven that bridgmanite may incorporate Na, but not as readily as ringwoodite (Bindi et al., 2016).

Compare UM2011-20-SiO:AlFeMg, which is "intermediate" between olivine group and enstatite and also incorporates Na.

One of six minerals proposed to be essential for life emergence (Russell & Ponce, 2020).

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0001071	Bridgmanite	Horiuchi H, Ito E, Weidner D J (1987) Perovskite-type MgSiO3: Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study American Mineralogist 72 357-360		1987	synthetic	0	293
0002090	Bridgmanite	Jephcoat A P, Hriljac J A, McCammon C A, O'Neill H St C, Rubie D C, Finger L W (1999) High-resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and Rietveld structure refinement of two (Mg.95,Fe.05)SiO3 perovskite samples synthesized under different oxygen fugacity conditions Sample PV-A American Mineralogist 84 214-220		1999	synthetic	0	293
0002091	Bridgmanite	Jephcoat A P, Hriljac J A, McCammon C A, O'Neill H St C, Rubie D C, Finger L W (1999) High-resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and Rietveld structure refinement of two (Mg.95,Fe.05)SiO3 perovskite samples synthesized under different oxygen fugacity conditions Sample PV-B American Mineralogist 84 214-220		1999	synthetic	0	293
0003546	Bridgmanite	Dobson D P, Jacobsen S D (2004) The flux growth of magnesium silicate perovskite single crystals American Mineralogist 89 807-811		2004	synthetic	0	293
0004129	Bridgmanite	Sugahara M, Yoshiasa A, Komatsu Y, Yamanaka T, Bolfan-Casanova N, Nakastuka A, Sasaki S, Tanaka M (2006) Reinvestigation of the MgSiO3 perovskite structure at high pressure American Mineralogist 91 533-536		2006	synthetic	0.0001	293
0004130	Bridgmanite	Sugahara M, Yoshiasa A, Komatsu Y, Yamanaka T, Bolfan-Casanova N, Nakastuka A, Sasaki S, Tanaka M (2006) Reinvestigation of the MgSiO3 perovskite structure at high pressure American Mineralogist 91 533-536		2006	synthetic	7.8	293
0004131	Bridgmanite	Sugahara M, Yoshiasa A, Komatsu Y, Yamanaka T, Bolfan-Casanova N, Nakastuka A, Sasaki S, Tanaka M (2006) Reinvestigation of the MgSiO3 perovskite structure at high pressure American Mineralogist 91 533-536		2006	synthetic	10	293
0004132	Bridgmanite	Sugahara M, Yoshiasa A, Komatsu Y, Yamanaka T, Bolfan-Casanova N, Nakastuka A, Sasaki S, Tanaka M (2006) Reinvestigation of the MgSiO3 perovskite structure at high pressure American Mineralogist 91 533-536		2006	synthetic	15	293
0020143	Bridgmanite	Bindi L, Sirotkina E A, Bobrov A V, Irifune T (2014) Chromium solubility in perovskite at high pressure: The structure of (Mg1-xCrx)(Si1-xCrx)O3 (with x = 0.07) synthesized at 23 GPa and 1600 C American Mineralogist 99 866-869		2014	synthetic	0	293
0007339	Bridgmanite	Yagi T, Mao H K, Bell P M (1978) Structure and crystal chemistry of perovskite-type MgSiO3 Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 3 97-110		1978	synthetic	0	298
0007451	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1989) Single crystal X-ray diffraction study of MgSiO3 perovskite from 77 to 400 K Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 16 415-420		1989	synthetic	0	293
0007452	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1989) Single crystal X-ray diffraction study of MgSiO3 perovskite from 77 to 400 K Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 16 415-420		1989	synthetic	0	293
0007485	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1990) High-pressure crystal chemistry of MgSiO3 perovskite Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 17 228-237		1990	synthetic	2.2	293
0007486	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1990) High-pressure crystal chemistry of MgSiO3 perovskite Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 17 228-237		1990	synthetic	5	293
0007487	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1990) High-pressure crystal chemistry of MgSiO3 perovskite Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 17 228-237		1990	synthetic	7.5	293
0007488	Bridgmanite	Ross N L, Hazen R M (1990) High-pressure crystal chemistry of MgSiO3 perovskite Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 17 228-237		1990	synthetic	10.6	293
0009078	Bridgmanite	Kojitani H, Katsura T, Akaogi M (2007) Aluminum substitution mechanisms in perovskite-type MgSiO3: an investigation by Rietveld analysis Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 34 257-267		2007	synthetic	0	293
0009079	Bridgmanite	Kojitani H, Katsura T, Akaogi M (2007) Aluminum substitution mechanisms in perovskite-type MgSiO3: an investigation by Rietveld analysis Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 34 257-267		2007	synthetic	0	293
0009080	Bridgmanite	Kojitani H, Katsura T, Akaogi M (2007) Aluminum substitution mechanisms in perovskite-type MgSiO3: an investigation by Rietveld analysis Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 34 257-267		2007	synthetic	0	293
0009081	Bridgmanite	Kojitani H, Katsura T, Akaogi M (2007) Aluminum substitution mechanisms in perovskite-type MgSiO3: an investigation by Rietveld analysis Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 34 257-267		2007	synthetic	0	293
0020220	Bridgmanite	Tschauner O, Ma C, Beckett J R, Prescher C, Prakapenka V B, Rossman G R (2014) Discovery of bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth, in a shocked meteorite Science 346 1100-1102		2014	Tenham L6 Chondrite;	0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Bridgmanite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Horiuchi H' 'Ito E' 'Weidner D J' _journal_name_full 'American Mineralogist' _journal_volume 72 _journal_year 1987 _journal_page_first 357 _journal_page_last 360 _publ_section_title ; Perovskite-type MgSiO3: Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study ; _database_code_amcsd 0001071 _chemical_compound_source 'Synthetic' _chemical_formula_sum 'Mg Si O3' _cell_length_a 4.7754 _cell_length_b 4.9292 _cell_length_c 6.8969 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 90 _cell_angle_gamma 90 _cell_volume 162.345 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 4.107 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'P b n m' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' 'x,y,1/2-z' '-x,-y,1/2+z' '1/2+x,1/2-y,1/2+z' '1/2-x,1/2+y,1/2-z' '1/2-x,1/2+y,z' '1/2+x,1/2-y,-z' '-x,-y,-z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z Mg 0.51410 0.55600 0.25000 Si 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 O1 0.10280 0.46600 0.25000 O2 0.19610 0.20140 0.55310 loop_ _atom_site_aniso_label _atom_site_aniso_U_11 _atom_site_aniso_U_22 _atom_site_aniso_U_33 _atom_site_aniso_U_12 _atom_site_aniso_U_13 _atom_site_aniso_U_23 Mg 0.00555 0.00565 0.00619 0.00052 0.00000 0.00000 Si 0.00342 0.00367 0.00241 -0.00005 0.00003 -0.00016 O1 0.00434 0.00581 0.00217 0.00013 0.00000 0.00000 O2 0.00430 0.00449 0.00431 0.00083 0.00048 0.00083

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- This locality has map coordinates listed. - This locality has estimated coordinates. ⓘ - Click for references and further information on this occurrence. ? - Indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality. - Good crystals or important locality for species. - World class for species or very significant. (TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species. (FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties). Struck out - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality. Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).

All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.

Australia (TL)
Queensland Barcoo Shire Windorah Tenham Station ⓘ Tenham meteorite (TL)	Mineralogical Magazine +3 other references
Brazil
Mato Grosso Juína ⓘ Sorriso river	Kaminsky et al. (2022) +1 other reference
India
Maharashtra Nagpur Division ⓘ Katol meteorite	Ghosh et al. (2021)
Morocco
Souss-Massa Region Tata Province Tata Cercle ⓘ Tissint Martian meteorite	Miyahara et al. (2016)
South Africa
Free State Xhariep District Municipality Letsemeng Local Municipality Koffiefontein ⓘ Koffiefontein Mine	Meyer (2021)