• journal_title：American Mineralogist
• Contributor：Kai Ye ; Jing-Bo Liu ; Bo-Lin Cong ; Da-Nian Ye ; Ping Xu ; Soichi Omori ; Shigenori Maruyama
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of America
• Date：2002-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• journal_abbrev：American Mineralogist
• issn：0003-004X
• volume：87
• issue：7
• firstpage：875
• section：Articles

Titanites previously reported from high-pressure rocks commonly contain high Al and F contents. This finding has led previous workers to conclude that high Al and F in titanite can expand its stability field to high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) conditions. In this study, a coesite inclusion was identified in titanite of aragonite- and jadeite-bearing gneiss from the Dabieshan UHP metamorphic terrane of eastern China. We also found UHP titanite in carbonate-bearing garnet clinopyroxenite from the Sulu UHP terrane. Interestingly, both types of the UHP titanite mentioned above contain low Al and F contents. Therefore, our data indicate that the high-Al and F contents are not necessary criteria for stabilizing titanite to UHP conditions. It is inferred that the UHP titanite formed via the reaction TiO₂ + CaCO₃ + SiO₂ = CaTiSiO₅ + CO₂, and that the presence of the UHP assemblage aragonite + rutile + clinopyroxene + coesite in the host rock and a very low X_CO2 value in the coexisting fluid are crucial conditions for the formation of these UHP titanites.