“…A substantial number of previously observed grandites exhibit optical anisotropy, indicating five possible causes for this phenomenon, such as (1) twinning (Ingerson and Barksdale, 1943; Brown and Mason, 1994); (2) substitution of rare-earth elements (REE) for Ca (Blanc and Maisonneuve, 1973); (3) non-cubic distribution of OH − groups, due to hydro-garnet substitution (Aines and Rossman, 1984; Rossman and Aines, 1986; Allen and Buseck, 1988; Andrut et al ., 2002; Badar et al ., 2016); (4) residual strain from lattice mismatch at compositional, twin, or grain boundaries (Chase and Lefever, 1960; Lessing and Standish, 1973; Foord and Mills, 1978; Kitamura and Komatsu, 1978; McAloon and Hofmeister, 1993, 1995; Hofmeister et al ., 1998; Shtukenberg et al ., 2001; Antao, 2013a, 2013b; Antao and Klincker, 2013); and (5) ordering of Fe 3+ and Al 3+ over the octahedral sites (Takéuchi and Haga, 1976; Takéuchi et al ., 1982; Gali, 1983, 1984; Akizuki, 1984, 1989; Allen and Buseck, 1988; Hatch and Griffen, 1989; Kingma and Downs, 1989; Griffen et al ., 1992; Akizuki et al ., 1998; Shtukenberg et al ., 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006; Frank-Kamenetskaya et al ., 2007; Kobayashi et al ., 2013; Badar et al , 2016; Nakamura et al , 2016).…”