Growth of multilayered polycrystalline reaction rims in the MgO–SiO2 system, part II: modelling
Growth of multilayered polycrystalline reaction rims in the MgO–SiO2 system, part II: modelling
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MgO-SiO2 系统中多层多晶反应环的生长,第二部分:建模
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2011
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W. Heinrich
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E. Gardes;W. Heinrich
Part I of this contribution (Gardés et al. in Contrib Mineral Petrol, 2010) reported time- and temperature-dependent experimental growth of polycrystalline forsterite-enstatite double layers between single crystals of periclase and quartz, and enstatite single layers between forsterite and quartz. Both double and single layers displayed growth rates decreasing with time and pronounced grain coarsening. Here, a model is presented for the growth of the layers that couples grain boundary diffusion and grain coarsening to interpret the drop of the growth rates. It results that the growth of the layers is such that (Δx)2 ∝ t1−1/n, where Δx is the layer thickness and n the grain coarsening exponent, as experimentally observed. It is shown that component transport occurs mainly by grain boundary diffusion and that the contribution of volume diffusion is negligible. Assuming a value of 1 nm for the effective grain boundary width, the following Arrhenius laws for MgO grain boundary diffusion are derived: log Dgb,0Fo (m2/s) = −2.71 ± 1.03 and EgbFo = 329 ± 30 kJ/mol in forsterite and log Dgb,0En (m2/s) = 0.13 ± 1.31 and EgbEn = 417 ± 38 kJ/mol in enstatite. The different activation energies are responsible for the changes in the enstatite/forsterite thickness ratio with varying temperature. We show that significant biases are introduced if grain boundary diffusion-controlled rim growth is modelled assuming constant bulk diffusivities so that differences in activation energies of more than 100 kJ/mol may arise. It is thus important to consider grain coarsening when modelling layered reaction zones because they are usually polycrystalline and controlled by grain boundary transport.