Compositional and temperature effects on sulfur speciation and solubility in silicate melts
Compositional and temperature effects on sulfur speciation and solubility in silicate melts
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DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.006
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发表时间:
2019-02
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5.3
通讯作者:
William M. Nash;D. Smythe;B. Wood
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作者:
William M. Nash;D. Smythe;B. Wood
We have determined the chemical speciation of dissolved sulfur and the sulfur concentration at fixed oxygen and sulfur fugacities for a wide range of silicate melt compositions (from Fe-rich basalt to dacite). Each melt was equilibrated at 1300° C and 1-atmosphere pressure at oxygen fugacities (fO 2) between− 1.67 and+ 1.6 log units relative to the Fayalite–Magnetite–Quartz (FMQ) buffer and absolute sulfur fugacities between− 5.1 and− 1.2 log units. The fO 2 and fS 2 of the experiments were controlled by using gas mixtures of CO–CO 2–SO 2. The speciation of sulfur in the quenched glasses was determined using both X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy (XANES), and from the dependence of equilibrium sulfur concentration on the fS 2/fO 2 ratio measured by secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and electron microprobe. The speciation of dissolved sulfur in each melt undergoes an abrupt transformation from S 2− to S 6+ with increasing fO 2, and this transition is shifted∼ 0.5 log units higher in fO 2 as melt FeO concentration increases from∼ 5 wt% to∼ 18 wt%. Since sulfide concentrations at constant fO 2 and fS 2 are consistently greater for more FeO-rich melts, the compositional effect on speciation may be explained by the well-known sensitivity of the sulfide capacity (C S 2−) of the melt to FeO concentration. S 6+/S 2− ratios for the glasses exhibit a linear relationship with Fe 3+/Fe 2+, indicating that the redox couples for iron and sulfur can be directly related to one another. We used thermodynamic data to model the interrelationship between Fe and S oxidation states in terms of the equilibrium FeS+ 8 FeO 1.5= 8 FeO+ FeSO 4 Fitting the data to our experiments at 1300° C we obtained the following expression for the temperature-dependence of speciation: log(S 6+ S 2−)= 8 log(Fe 3+ Fe 2+)+ 8.7436× 10 6 T 2− 27703 T+ 20.273 This equation fits the data for all our compositions and is also consistent with earlier results at 1050° C and 950° C. We used the interdependence of S and Fe oxidation states to infer electron transfer between Fe 2+ and S 6+ during quenching of glasses from Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The effect is sufficient to cause significant overestimation of equilibrium Fe 3+/ΣFe in natural glasses and corresponding overestimate of fO 2 by about 0.8 log units. Glasses equilibrated under the most oxidizing conditions (containing S 6+ only) have equilibrium S concentrations that are negatively correlated with their mole fractions of tetrahedral (Si+ Ti) cations.