A new hydrous Al-bearing pyroxene as a water carrier in subduction zones

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011e%26psl.310..422g&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 310, Issue 3, p. 422-428.

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Subduction, Hydrous Pyroxene, Precession Electron Diffraction, Electron Diffraction Tomography

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A new Hydrous Al-bearing PYroxene (HAPY) phase has been synthesized at 5.4 GPa, 720 °C in the MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O model system. It has the composition Mg2.1Al0.9(OH)2Al0.9Si1.1O6, a C-centered monoclinic cell with a = 9.8827(2), b = 11.6254(2) c = 5.0828(1) Å and β = 111.07(1)°. The calculated density is 3.175 g/cm3 and the water content is 6.9% H2O by weight. Its structure has been solved in space group C2/c by the recently developed automated electron diffraction tomography method and refined by synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. HAPY is a single chain inosilicate very similar to pyroxenes but with three instead of two cations in the octahedral layer, bonded to four oxygens and two hydroxyl groups. The Si tetrahedra are half occupied by Al and cation ordering appears in the octahedral layer with two sites occupied by Mg and one by Al. The stability of such previously unknown hydrous silicate beyond the chlorite pressure breakdown may significantly promote the H2O transport in the subduction channel to depths exceeding 150 km.

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