Thermal diffusivity of Fe-rich pyroxene glasses and their melts
Thermal diffusivity of Fe-rich pyroxene glasses and their melts
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DOI:
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.06.018
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发表时间:
2014-09
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3.9
通讯作者:
A. Hofmeister;A. Sehlke;A. Whittington
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作者:
A. Hofmeister;A. Sehlke;A. Whittington
We provide new measurements of thermal diffusivity (D) of 8 synthetic glasses and melts along the enstatite–ferrosilite compositional binary, 4 remelted crystals which are close to the binary, plus one synthetic ternary composition (Fs15Wo40En45). Thermal diffusivity of these glasses is between 0.50 and 0.62 mm2s− 1at room temperature, decreases to ~ 0.45 to 0.50 mm2s− 1near 1000 K, then drops upon melting at 1100 K to ~ 0.34 mm2s− 1. A roughly linear trend inDexists across the En–Fs binary at 298 K, with Fe-rich compositions having lowerD, whereas at high temperatures all melts have similarD. The trend is not smooth, due to variable amounts of crystallites and residual strain in glasses, both of which affectD-values. Above about 700 K, ∂D/∂Tis visibly positive for moderate Fe contents (i.e., Fe / (Fe + Mg) = 0.1 to 0.3), which we attribute to diffusive radiative transfer being enhanced by electronic–vibronic coupling. All data are well represented by equations of the form FT− G+ HT, where F, G and H are fitting parameters. The fitting reveals a weak increase inDat highTfor all of our glasses, consistent with weak radiative transfer in the infrared. Although data could only be collected on melts over a narrow temperature range, they also appear to have a positive ∂D/∂T, which is consistent with previous results on less mafic iron-bearing glasses and melts. Our results suggest that Fe-rich melts in the lower mantle could have thermal diffusivity higher than their crystalline counterparts due to the response ofDto temperature.