Curie temperatures of synthetic titanomagnetites in the Fe‐Ti‐O system: Effects of composition, crystal chemistry, and thermomagnetic methods
Curie temperatures of synthetic titanomagnetites in the Fe‐Ti‐O system: Effects of composition, crystal chemistry, and thermomagnetic methods
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10.1029/2006jb004591
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2006-12
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D. Lattard;R. Engelmann;A. Kontny;U. Sauerzapf
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D. Lattard;R. Engelmann;A. Kontny;U. Sauerzapf
(1) The present study is aimed at improving the calibration of the compositional dependence of the Curie temperature (TC) of titanomagnetite (Tmt) on the basis of temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility (c-T) curves measured on synthetic Tmts in the Fe-Ti-O system. In order to assess the possible influence of high-temperature cation vacancies onto the TC values, we have synthesized two types of assemblages in subsolidus conditions at 1 bar, 1100C and 1300C, under controlled oxygen fugacity conditions. Tmts synthesized in equilibrium with ilmenite-hematitess (Ilmss) are expected to have the highest vacancy concentrations, those in equilibrium with wustite (Wus) the lowest. The composition and homogeneity of the synthetic Tmts were carefully checked with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and an electron microprobe (EMP). TC was determined from c-T curves using a kappabridge and, for comparison, from Ms-T curves measured with a variable field translation balance. Our data set shows systematically higher TC values for Tmt coexisting with Ilmss than for Tmt coexisting with Wus. Most c-T curves are nonreversible, whereby the largest DTC (40 K) concern Tmt(+Ilmss )o f intermediate compositions synthesized at 1300C. Nonreversibility is interpreted as reflecting cation reordering in Tmt during the high-temperature c-T measurements. TC values obtained from Ms-T curves are higher than those obtained from the c-T curves, whereby the difference regularly increases (up to 40 K) with increasing Ti content, up to XUsp = 0.6. Our new calibration curves are suitable to retrieve Tmt compositions in basalts that were rapidly cooled and not oxidized by deuteric or hydrothermal fluids. Citation: Lattard, D., R. Engelmann, A. Kontny, and U. Sauerzapf (2006), Curie temperatures of synthetic titanomagnetites in the Fe-Ti-O system: Effects of composition, crystal chemistry, and thermomagnetic methods, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B12S28,