FAST TRACK PAPER: SEO3: A new model of olivine electrical conductivity

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Electrical Conductivity, Hydrogen, Mantle, Olivine, Oxygen Fugacity

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Standard Electrical Olivine 3 (SEO3) is a new model of electrical conductivity for olivine as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity, and is based on a previous study of point defect behaviour in a dunite. That study produced quantitative estimates of mobility and concentration for small polarons and magnesium vacancies as a function of temperature and oxygen fucacity. Unlike earlier SO1 and SO2 models of olivine conductivity, the dunite sample was buffered by pyroxene, and avoided alteration at high temperature. The low-temperature extrapolation produced by SEO3 is in good agreement with SO2, while the high-temperature extrapolation is significantly more conductive, which is in general agreement with many field studies that show the Earth's upper mantle to be more conductive than predicted by SO2 for reasonable temperatures. Plausible variations in mantle oxygen fugacity correspond to about half an order of magnitude variation in electrical conductivity, equivalent to about 100 degrees in temperature.

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