Experimental quantification of vanadium partitioning between eclogitic minerals (garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile) and silicate melt as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity
Experimental quantification of vanadium partitioning between eclogitic minerals (garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile) and silicate melt as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity
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10.1007/s00410-022-01888-8
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发表时间:
2022-01
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3.5
通讯作者:
M. Holycross;E. Cottrell
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作者:
M. Holycross;E. Cottrell
Vanadium is a multivalent element that may speciate as V2+; V3+; V4+and V5+in silicate and oxide phases. The relative abundance of V in planetary materials can be used as a proxy for oxygen fugacity (fO2) when its partitioning behavior has been calibrated with controlled laboratory experiments. Here we present the results of 20 piston-cylinder experiments executed over a 10-log unit range offO2at temperatures from 800 to 1230 °C, at 1.8–2 GPa, to quantify the partitioning of V between garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile and hydrous silicate melt under conditions relevant to eclogite melting in subduction zones. In all experiments, the partitioning of V between phases is controlled nearly equally byfO2and by temperature (and/or compositional effects that are directly related to temperature). Vanadium is most compatible in experimental rutile, followed by clinopyroxene, then garnet. Calculated mineral/melt partition coefficients are ≥ 1 for all three phases in our experimental series. The high compatibility of V in eclogitic minerals results in negligible mass transfer of V during eclogite melting under allfO2conditions investigated. Oxidized species of V are more soluble in rutile compared to garnet and clinopyroxene, leading to a linear increase in rutile/cpx and rutile/garnet inter-mineral partition coefficients asfO2increases. We calibrate the partitioning of V among rutile-cpx and rutile-garnet pairs as anfO2proxy for natural rocks and test its application to eclogitic xenoliths from the Koidu kimberlite suite (Sierra Leone). Our application yields spuriousfO2values for Koidu, indicating the V systematics of natural systems are likely much more complex than predicted by our experiments. Further work is needed to characterize the partitioning of V between eclogitic minerals over an extended range of mineral solid solutions, pressures, and temperatures before a V-oxybarometer may be applied to natural metamorphic systems with confidence.