Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.t21c1110h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #T21C-1110
Physics
3672 Planetary Mineralogy And Petrology (5410), 3934 Optical, Infrared, And Raman Spectroscopy, 8120 Dynamics Of Lithosphere And Mantle: General, 8124 Earth'S Interior: Composition And State (Old 8105), 8130 Heat Generation And Transport
Scientific paper
Modelling radiative heat transfer is essential to geodynamics because the increase of the diffusive radiative thermal conductivity (krdf) with temperature promotes stability through feedback (Dubuffet et al., 2002, Nonlinear Proc. Geophys., 9: 1-13). Measuring krdf is virtually impossible, and therefore krdf is calculated from spectroscopic measurements. Previous efforts show that Fe2+ impurities in olivine engender radiative transfer when luminous emissions of "hot" grains are absorbed by slightly cooler nearest-neighbor grains. Hydroxyl impurities provide a similar mechanism of emission/absorption. Hydroxyl is important to radiative transfer because (1) OH absorptions are located in the transparent gap between the lattice modes and the Fe2+ transitions (2) small amounts of OH produce intense absorptions, (3) the specific frequencies enable transfer at lower temperatures than is possible with Fe transitions, i.e. even in the cold interiors of slabs, and (4) OH is preferentially located in mineral phases such as garnet and wadsleyite, whereas Fe contents are distributed more or less uniformly. The effect of changing OH concentration on krdf is explored using forsteritic olivine to represent mantle material. Polarized (absorption and reflection) spectroscopic measurements from 77 to 623 K show that the changes in frequency, width, and intensity of the OH bands are small, and that peak area is constant. This allows the effect of OH to be treated independently of temperature. However, OH content and grain size (d) cannot be separated, because the strength of the emissions within a self-emitting medium depends on d. For d = 3 mm, concentrations below 200 H/10{6) Si atoms contribute negligibly to radiative transfer. With low OH contents krdf increases, whereas above ca 1000 H /106 Si, krdf is inverse with concentration. The maxima for krdf depends on d and OH content. Kimberlite samples suggest that the upper mantle has evolved to towards conditions which maximize krdf. For the lower mantle with its small grain size, OH contents are irrelevant to radiative heat transfer. Chemical stratification is inferred with Earth's H inventory being stored above 670 km.
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