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Stishovite [SiO2]

Structure Tetragonal
Space Group : P42/mnm (No. 136)
a=4.1797 Å, c=2.6669 Å
a=b=g=90.0
Z=2

Atomic Positional Parameters
O  4f 0.3062 0.3062 0.0000
Si 2a 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000

Reference
Ross et al. (1990) American Mineralogist 75 739-747

see also
Sinclair W and Ringwood AE (1978) Nature 272 714

Mineral Chemistry
Stishovite is a high-pressure form of silica formed at ~130 kbar and above 1200oC. The paper by Sinclair and Ringwood describes a synthesis of stishovite. This mineral has been found in impact-metamorphosed sandstone at Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA. In the crystal structure, unlike other SiO2 polymorphs, the silicons are octahedrally coordinated.

The CHIME figure shows silicons as yellow spheres, oxygens as red spheres.