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Jan 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982e%26psl..57..241a&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 57, Issue 1, p. 241-250.
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The distribution of Ca and Mg among coexisting olivine, clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene has been studied in a piston-cylinder apparatus in the temperature range 1100-1300°C and pressure range 9-41 kbar. Ca in olivine decreases with increasing pressure and decreasing temperature. The pressure effect is the result of Ca going into the higher-coordination M2 site in clinopyroxene as pressure is increased. For the Ca-Mg exchange reaction between olivine and clinopyroxene, ΔV°=0.249 J bar-1 mole-1 this is sufficient for pressure estimates accurate to +/-3 kbar if temperatures of equilibration are independently known. Ca-Mg exchange between olivine and orthopyroxene is not sufficiently pressure dependent to be used as a geobarometer.
Application of the olivine-clinopyroxene geobarometer to coarse garnet lherzolites from southern Africa gives P-T results consistent with a continental geotherm. For spinel lherzolites from southwestern United States, the geotherm appears to be displaced to higher temperatures indicating oceanic affinities. Application of the geobarometer to natural systems requires assumptions about activity relationships in clinopyroxene which should be checked by experiment.
Adams G. E.
Bishop Finley C.
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