Fate of carbonates within oceanic plates subducted to the lower mantle, and a possible mechanism of diamond formation

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Seto, Yusuke ^a   Hamane, Daisuke ^a   Nagai, Takaya ^a   Fujino, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Diamond anvil cell; Diamond formation; High pressure and high temperature; Mid ocean ridge basalt

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DECOMPOSITION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SILICATES; TECTONICS;

DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; DIAMOND FORMATION;

CARBONATE MINERALS;

CARBONATE; DECOMPOSITION; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER MANTLE; MAGNESITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE MINERAL; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC PLATE;

EID: 42049099711     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: 14322021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-008-0215-9     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Akahama Y, Kawamura H (2004) High-pressure Raman spectroscopy of diamond anvil to 250 Gpa: Method for pressure determination in the multimegabar pressure range. J Appl Phys 96:3748-3751
2. Akahama Y, Kawamura H, Hausermann D, Hanfland M, Shimomura O (1995) New high-pressure structural transition of oxygen at 96 GPa associated with metallization in a molecular-solid. Phys Rev Lett 74:4690-4693
3. Andrault D, Angel RJ, Mosenfelder JL, Le Bihan T (2000) Equation of state of stishovite to lower mantle pressures. Am Mineral 88:301-307
4. Biellmann C, Gillet P, Guyot F, Peyronneau J, Reynard B (1993) Experimental evidence for carbonate stability in the Earth's lower mantle. Earth Planet Sci Lett 118:31-41
5. Dasgupta R, Hirschmann MM, Dellas N (2005) The effect of composition on the solidus of carbonated eclogite from partial melting experiments at 3 GPa. Contrib Mineral Petrol 149:288-305
6. Fiquet G, Guyot F, Kunz M, Matas J, Andrault D, Hanfland M (2002) Structural refinements of magnesite at very high-pressure. Am Mineral 87:1261-1265
7. Hammouda T (2003) High-pressure melting of carbonated eclogite and experimental constraints on carbon recycling and storage in the mantle. Earth Planet Sci Lett 214:357-368
8. Hirose K, Fei Y, Ma Y, Mao H (1999) The fate of subducted basaltic crust in the Earth's lower mantle. Nature 397:53-56
9. Hirose K, Takafuji N, Sata N, Ohishi Y (2005) Phase transition and density of subducted MORB crust in the lower mantle. Earth Planet Sci Lett 237:239-251
10. Iota V, Yoo CS (2001) Phase diagram of carbon dioxide: Evidence for new associated phase. Phys Rev Lett 86:5922-5925
11. Isshiki M, Irifune T, Hirose K, Ono S, Ohishi Y, Watanuki T, Nishibori E, Takata M, Sakata M (2003) Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle. Nature 427:60-63
12. Kaminsky FV, Zakharchenko OD, Davies R, Griffin WL, Khachatryan-Blinova GK, Shiryaev A (2001) Superdeep diamonds from the Juina area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Contrib Mineral Petrol 140:734-753
13. Liu L-G (1999) Genesis of diamonds in the lower mantle. Contrib Mineral Petrol 134:170-173
14. Luth RW (2001) Experimental determination of the reaction aragonite + magnesite = dolomite at 5-9 GPa. Contrib Mineral Petrol 141:222-232
15. 2. Contrib Mineral Petrol 152:365-373
16. McCammon C (2001) Deep diamond mysteries. Science 293:813-814
17. McCammon C (2006) Microscopic properties to macroscopic behavior: The influence of iron electronic state. J Mineral Petrol Sci 101:130-144
18. 3 perovskite at the lower mantle condition. Geophys Res Lett 32:L16306. doi: 10.1029/2005GL023529
19. Occelli F, Loubeyre P, Letoullec R (2003) Properties of diamond under hydrostatic pressures up to 140 GPa. Nat Mater 2:151-154
20. Perterrmann M, Hirschmann MM (2003) Partial melting experiments on a MORB-like pyroxenite between 2 and 3 GPa: Constraints on the presence of pyroxenite in basalt source regions from solidus location and melting rate. J Geophys Res 108(B2):10. doi: 1029/2000JB000118
21. Ringwood AE, Irifune T (1988) Nature of the 650-km seismic discontinuity: Implications for mantle dynamics and differentiation. Nature 331:131-136
22. Sano Y, Williams NS (1996) Fluxes of mantle and subducted carbon along convergent plate boundaries. Geophys Res Lett 23:2749-2752
23. Sato K, Katsura T (2001) Experimental investigation on dolomite dissociation into aragonite plus magnesite up to 8.5 Pa. Earth Planet Sci Lett 184:529-534
24. 3 perovskite. Am Mineral 85:354-363
25. Stacey FD (1992) Physics of the Earth. (3rd edn.) Brookfield Press, Brisbane
26. Stachel T, Harris JW, Brey GP, Joswig W (2000) Kankan diamonds (Guinea) II: Lower mantle inclusion parageneses. Contrib Mineral Petrol 140:16-27
27. Takafuji N, Nagai T, Fujino K, Seto Y, Hamane D (2006) Decarbonation reaction of magnesite in subducting slabs at the lower mantle. Phys Chem Mineral 33:651-654
28. 2 at high-pressures and temperatures. Phys Rev Lett 87:75701-1-75701-4
29. Yaxley GM, Brey GP (2004) Phase relations of carbonate-bearing eclogite assemblages from 2.5-5.5 GPa: Implications for petrogenesis of carbonatites. Contrib Mineral Petrol 146:606-619
30. Yoo CS, Cynn H, Gygi F, Galli G, Iota V, Nicol M, Carlson S, Hausermann D, Mailhiot C (1999) Crystal structure of carbon dioxide at high-pressure: "superhard" polymeric carbon dioxide. Phys Rev Lett 83:5527-5530