Computer Science – Databases
Scientific paper
Jun 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994e%26psl.124..105s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 124, no. 1, p. 105-118
Computer Science
Databases
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Geochemistry, Hydrates, Lithosphere, Minerals, Pressure Effects, Aluminum Oxides, Chemical Reactions, Melting, Metamorphic Rocks, Silicon Dioxide, Thermochemical Properties, Water
Scientific paper
The breakdown reactions of lawsonite in SiO2 + H2O- and in Al2O3 + H2O-saturated synthetic CASH systems were examined between 17 and 92 kbar in both forward and reversed experiments. Lawsonite is stable to 565 C at 20 kbar, 760 C at 40 kbar, and 980 C at 65 kbar. In this pressure range lawsonite breaks down to zoisite + kyanite + quartz/ coesite + H2O. An invariant point occurs at 1000 C, 67 kbar. At higher pressures lawsonite breaks down to the assemblage grossular + kyanite + coesite + H20. The steep positive dP/dT slope of this higher pressure breakdown reaction becomes steeply negative when coesite transforms to stishovite. At 92 kbar, the highest pressure investigated, lawsonite is stable to 1040 C. The invariant point marks also the pressure stability limit of zoisite since zoisite reacts to lawsonite + grossular + kyanite + coesite (at temperatures below 1000 C), to grossular + kyanite + coesite + H2O (1000-1040 C) and to grossular + kyanite + melt + H20 (above 1040C). These three reactions have a flat Clapeyron slope, and they locate the maximum pressure stability of zoisite between 65 and 68 kbar (between 800 and 1200 C). Eutectic melting in the SiO2 + H2O-saturated CASH system occurs for the assemblage zoisite + kyanite + coesite + H2O at temperatures approximately 100 C (at 40 kbar) to 40 C (at 65 kbar) higher than the lawsonite breakdown reaction. In the Al2O3+H2O-saturated system the reaction lawsonite + diaspore/corundum = zoisite + kyanite + H2O limits the stability of lawsonite. The diaspore = corundum + H2O equilibrium is found to be located about 50 C lower than predicted by previous studies. The equilibrium boundaries of the reactions between 17 and 38 kbar from both SiO2+H2O- and Al2O3 + H2O-saturated chemical systems were used to improve the thermochemical data on lawsonite. Two sets of thermodynamic properties internally consistent with the databases of both Berman and Holland and Powell, and also consistent with most previous experimental studies, were calculated employing the technique of linear programming (for Berman's data) and a least-squares fit procedure (for Holland and Powell's data). Because lawsonite is stable to 1040 C at 92 kbar, a temperature far higher than predicted by thermal modelling of subduction zones, it is expected to be stable in metabasalts and intermediate compositions (e.g., andesites and greywackes) subducted to depths exceeding 300 km. Lawsonite contains 11 wt% water in its structure, and is thus capable of transporting water deep into the mantle. Its breakdown would contribute significantly to the fluid budget of the slab and overlying mantle wedge. The experimental data in combination with thermal modelling studies indicate that a complete dehydration of the descending oceanic crust is unlikely to occur at shallow levels.
Poli Stefano
Schmidt Max W.
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