Thermal equation of state of garnets along the pyrope-majorite join

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Feb 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pepi..105...59w&link_type=abstract

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, v. 105, p. 59-71.

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P-V-T relations of two garnet samples along the pyrope (Py)-majorite (Mj) join (PynMjl-n, where subscripts indicate molar percent) were measured at pressure and temperature conditions up to 11 GPa and 1163 K, respectively, with energy-dispersive synchroton X-ray diffraction in a cubic-anvil, DIA-6 type apparatus (SAM-85). For each volume measurement, non-hydrostatic stress was determined from relative shifts of the diffraction lines of NaCl, within which the sample was embedded. Heating to ≈ 1100 K reduced the strength of NaCl below 0.1 GPa, making the measurements nearly hydrostatic. The recovered samples were examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to detect irreversible changes that may affect data quality. For the cubic garnet Py62Mj38, no irreversible changes took place during the experiment. A fit using the third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state yielded ambient cell volume V0 = 1509.2(3) Å3 (113.62 cc/mol), isothermal bulk modulus KT0 = 160(3) GPa, and its pressure derivative K'T0 = 4.9(5). Various thermal equations-of-state analyses gave consistent results for the temperature derivative of bulk modulus (∂KT/∂T)P = -0.020(1) GPa K-1, pressure derivative for thermal expansion (∂α/∂P)T = -7.8 × 10-7 GPa-1 K-1, with the ambient volumetric thermal expansion α0 = 2.5 × 10-5 K-1. For the tetragonal sample Py21Mj79, TEM indicated that micro-twin domains were significantly coarsened after the P-V-T experiment. Stress relaxation may have occurred during the coarsening, thereby compromising the P-V-T data. In addition, the tetragonal distortion in this sample was too small to be resolved by the energy-dispersive technique. Therefore, data for the latter sample were not suitable for accurate equation-of-state analysis. Previous data on pyrope were compiled, analyzed, and compared with the new data on the majoritic garnet. The entire data set enabled us to examine systematics of the thermoelastic properties of garnets along the majorite-pyrope join. These data will have important applications for modeling the transition zone of the mantle.

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