High water solubility of ringwoodite at mantle transition zone temperature
High water solubility of ringwoodite at mantle transition zone temperature
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DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115987
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发表时间:
2020-02-01
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Katsura, Tomoo
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作者:
Fei, Hongzhan;Katsura, Tomoo
The mantle transition zone, a potential water reservoir in the Earth's interior, is suggested to contain more than 1 wt.% of H2O, at least locally, by the natural water-rich ringwoodite inclusion (Pearson et al., 2014) and the mineral viscosity (Fei et al., 2017). It is against the low H2O solubility of ringwoodite (< 0.3 wt.%) at mantle transition zone temperature based on laboratory experiments (Ohtani et al., 2000). We revisited the H2O solubility in ringwoodite at 1600-2000 K, showing that both iron-free and iron-bearing ringwoodite can store about 0.8-1.2 wt.% of H2O under mantle transition zone conditions. Temperature has a relatively small effect on the H2O solubility in iron-bearing system, but much larger in iron-free one. The high H2O solubility of ringwoodite is compatible with the water-rich mantle transition zone. The relatively low values reported previously is probably due to insufficient H2O source or unbuffered by SiO2. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.