The effect of strain energy on growth rates during the olivinespinel transformation and implications for olivine metastability in subducting slabs

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 23897-23909

  Liu, Ming ^a,c   Kerschhofer, Ljuba ^b,d   Mosenfelder, Jed L ^b   Rubie, David C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; OLIVINE; SPINEL; STRAIN; SUBDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 0032505791     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00794     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Agee, C. B., and D. Walker, Static compression and olivine flotation in ultrabasic silicate liquid, J Geophys. Res., 93, 3437-3449, 1988.
2. Axe, J. D., and Y. Yamada, Scaling relations for grain autocorrelation functions during nucleation and growth, Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter, 34, 1599-1606, 1986.
3. 4 at 15 GPa, Phys. Chem. Miner., 18, 343-358, 1992.
4. Burnley, P. C., The fate of olivine in subducting slabs: A reconnaissance study, Am. Mineral., 80, 1293-1301, 1995.
5. Burnley, P. C., and H. W. Green, Stress dependence of the mechanism of the olivine-spinel transformation, Nature, 338, 753-756, 1989.
6. Canil, D., Stability of clinopyroxene at pressure-temperature conditions of the transition region, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 86, 25-34, 1994.
7. Chakraborty, S., Rates and mechanisms of Fe-Mg interdiffusion in olivine at 980°-1300°C, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,317-12,331, 1997.
8. 2, Phys. Chem. Miner., 21, 489-500, 1994.
9. Christian, J. W., Transformations in Metals and Alloys, I, Equilibrium and General Kinetic Theory, 520 pp, Pergamon, Tarrytown, N. Y., 1975.
10. Daessler, R., D. A. Yuen, S.-I. Karato, and M. R. Riedel, Two-dimensional thermo-kinetic model for the olivine-spinel phase transition in subducting slabs. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 94, 217-239, 1996.
11. Darling, R. S., I.-M. Chou, and R. J. Bodnar, An occurrence of metastable cristabolite in high-pressure garnet granulite, Science, 276, 91-93, 1997.
12. Devaux, J. P., G. Schubert, and C. Anderson, Formation of a metastable olivine wedge in a descending slab, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 24, 627-26,637, 1997.
13. Dupas, C., N. Doukhan, J. C. Doukhan, H. W. Green II, and T. E. Young, Analytical electron microscopy of a synthetic peridotite experimentally deformed in the β olivine stability field, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 15,821-15,832, 1994.
14. Eshelby, J. D. Elastic inclusions and inhomogeneities, Prog. Solid Mech., 2, 87-140, 1961.
15. Gillet, P., J. Ingrin, and C. Chopin, Coesite in subducted continental crust: P-T history deduced from an elastic model, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 70, 426-436, 1984.
16. 2, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 67, 238-248, 1984.
17. 4 at high pressures and temperatures: Precise determination of stabilities of olivine, modified spinel, and spinel, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 15,663-15,670, 1989.
18. Kerschhofer, L., T. G. Sharp, and D. C. Rubie, Intracrystalline transformation of olivine to wadsleyite and ringwoodite under subduction zone conditions, Science, 274, 79-81, 1996.
19. Kerschhofer, L., C. Dupas, M. Liu, T. Sharp, W. B. Durham, and D. C. Rubie, Polymorphic transformations between olivine, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite: mechanisms of intracrystalline nucleation and the role of elastic strain, Mineral. Mag., in press, 1998.
20. Kirby, S. H., S. Stein, E. Okal, and D. C. Rubie, Deep earthquakes and metastable mantle phase transformations in subducting oceanic lithosphere. Rev. Geophys., 34, 261-306, 1996.
21. 4. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 123, 345-357, 1996.
22. Lee, J. K., Y. Y. Farmme, H. I. Aaronson, and K. C. Russell, Plastic relaxation of the transformation strain energy of a misfitting spherical precipitate: Ideal plastic behavior, Metall. Trans. A, 11A, 1837-1847, 1980.
23. Liebermann, R. C., and Y. Wang, Characterization of sample environment in a uniaxial split-sphere apparatus, in High Pressure Research: Application to Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 67, edited by Y. Syono and M. H. Manghnani, pp. 19-31, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1992.
24. Meade, C., and R. Jeanloz, The strength of mantle silicates at high pressures and room temperature: Implications for the viscosity of the mantle, Nature, 348, 533-535, 1990.
25. Rubie, D. C., Mechanisms of kinetics of reconstructive phase transformations in the Earth's mantle, in Experiments at High Pressure and Applications to the Earth's Mantle, Short Course Handbook, vol. 21, edited by R. W. Luth, pp. 247-303, Mineral. Soc. of Can., Edmonton, Alberta, 1993.
26. Rubie, D. C., Phase transformations in the Earth's mantle, in High Pressure and High Temperature Research on Lithosphere and Mantle Minerals, Proeedings of the International School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, edited by M. Mellini et al., pp. 41-66, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, 1996.
27. Rubie, D. C., and C. R. Ross II, Kinetics of the olivine-spinel transformation in subducting lithosphere: Experimental constraints and implications for deep slab processes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 86, 223-241, 1994.
28. Rubie, D. C., and A. B. Thompson, Kinetics of metamorphic reactions at elevated temperatures and pressures: An appraisal of available experimental data, in Metamorphic Reactions: Kinetics, Textures and Deformation, edited by A. B. Thompson and D. C. Rubie, pp. 27-79, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985.
29. 4 olivine-spinel transformation, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 15,829-15,844, 1990.
30. Rubie, D. C., S. Karato, H. Yan, and H. S. C. O'Neill, Low differential stress and controlled chemical environment in multianvil high-pressure experiments. Phys. Chem. Miner., 20, 315-322, 1993.
31. Rubie, D. C., L. Kerschhofer, E. Ohtani, and T. Kubo, Phase transformations as pressure calibrants: Uncertainties due to volume change and metastabil ity, paper presented at First International Pressure Calibration Workshop. Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Misasa, Japan, 1997.
32. 4 experimentally deformed at transition zone conditions, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 86, 69-83, 1994.
33. Silver, P. G., S. L. Beck, T. C. Wallace, C. Meade, S. C. Myers, D. E. James, and R. Kuehnel, Rupture characteristics of the deep Bolivian earthquake of 9 June 1994 and the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes, Nature, 268, 69-73, 1995.
34. Sung, C.-M., and R. G. Burns, Kinetics of high-pressure phase transformations: Implications to the evolution of the olivine-spinel transition in the downgoing lithosphere and its consequences on the dynamics of the mantle, Tectonophysics, 31, 1-32, 1976.
35. Turnbull, D., Phase changes, Solid State Phys., 3, 225-306, 1956.
36. Weidner, D. J., J. Chen, J. Ando, and Y. Wu, Strength of the subducted slab: Implications for deep focus earthquakes (abstract), EOS Trans. AGU, 78 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F743, 1997.