Spinel–garnet lherzolite transition in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 revisited: an in situ X-ray study
Spinel–garnet lherzolite transition in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 revisited: an in situ X-ray study
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DOI:
10.1016/s0016-7037(02)00845-1
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发表时间:
2002-06
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5
通讯作者:
M. Walter;T. Katsura;A. Kubo;T. Shinmei;O. Nishikawa;E. Ito;C. Lesher;K. Funakoshi
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作者:
M. Walter;T. Katsura;A. Kubo;T. Shinmei;O. Nishikawa;E. Ito;C. Lesher;K. Funakoshi
Large discrepancies are reported for the near-solidus, pressure–temperature location of the spinel to garnet lherzolite univariant curve in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2(CMAS). Experimental data obtained previously from the piston-cylinder apparatus indicate interlaboratory pressure differences of up to 30% relative. To investigate this disparity—and because this reaction is pivotal for understanding upper mantle petrology—the phase boundary was located by means of an independent method. The reaction was studied via in situ X-ray diffraction techniques in a 6-8 type multianvil press. Pressure is determined by using MgO as an internal standard and is calculated from measured unit cell volume by using a newly developed high-temperature equation of state for MgO. Combinations of real-time and quenched-sample observations are used to bracket the phase transition. The transition between 1350 and 1500°C was reversed, and the reaction was further constrained from 1207 to 1545°C. Within this temperature range, the transition has an average dT/dP slope of ∼40 ± 10°C/kbar, consistent with several previous piston-cylinder studies. Extrapolation of our curve to 1575°C, an established temperature of the P-T invariant point, yields a pressure of 25.1 ± 1.2 kbar. We also obtained a real-time reversal of the quartz–coesite transition at 30.5 ± 2.3 kbar at 1357°C, which is about 2 to 4 kbar lower in pressure than previously determined in the piston-cylinder apparatus.