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Oct 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3819309s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 19, CiteID L19309
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Mineralogy And Petrology: Experimental Mineralogy And Petrology, Mineral Physics: Nmr, Mossbauer Spectroscopy, And Other Magnetic Techniques, Tectonophysics: Evolution Of The Earth (0325), Volcanology: Thermodynamics (0766, 1011, 3611), Volcanology: Reactions And Phase Equilibria (1012, 3612)
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The oxygen fugacity at which magnesite (MgCO3) is reduced to diamond in a typical mantle assemblage has been determined between 16 and 45 GPa and 1500-1700°C in experiments employing a multianvil device. This oxygen fugacity for carbonate stability, measured using a sliding redox sensor that employs IrFe alloy, was found to be greater than 2 log units above the iron-wüstite oxygen buffer (ΔIW+2). Reversal experiments employing FeNi alloy confirmed complete oxidation of Ni in the presence of magnesite and diamond even at 45 GPa. As the oxygen fugacity of the transition zone and lower mantle is most likely at or below the IW buffer, mantle carbon, if distributed relatively homogeneously, is unlikely to be hosted in carbonates throughout most of the mantle but is more likely present as diamond, methane, Fe-rich carbide or as a carbon-component dissolved in Fe-Ni metal. The existence of carbonate at these depths would imply the presence of unusually oxidized regions of the deeper mantle. Such regions could form in the deeper mantle from an influx of subduction related carbonate melt, which would reduce by causing oxidation of the surrounding silicates. Due to changes in the degree of oxidation of the surrounding mantle such melts could potentially travel further in the transition zone mantle than in the lower mantle. The results do not exclude the possibility that carbonate could coexist with Fe-Ni metal or carbide at the very base of the lower mantle.
Frost Dan J.
Irifune Tetsuo
McCammon Catherine A.
Miyajima Nobuyoshi
Stagno Vincenzo
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