Diffusion of hydrogen in olivine grain boundaries and implications for the survival of water-rich zones in the Earth's mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 305-313

  Demouchy, Sylvie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Earth's mantle; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Grain boundaries; High pressure techniques; Hydrogen; Ionic diffusion; Olivine

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; ARRHENIUS LAW; ATOMIC IMPURITIES; CONFINING PRESSURES; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION DATA; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSIVITIES; EARTH'S MANTLE; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-PRESSURE TECHNIQUE; HIGH-PRESSURE TECHNIQUES; HIGH-PRESSURE VESSEL; HYDROGEN DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN DIFFUSIVITY; HYDROGEN RESERVOIRS; HYDROGEN SENSOR; HYDROGEN TRANSPORT; INTERPHASE BOUNDARIES; IONIC DIFFUSION; LARGE-GRAIN; LATTICE DIFFUSION; MANTLE ROCKS; NANO-METER-SCALE; NOMINALLY ANHYDROUS MINERALS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN FUGACITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE AGGREGATES; POLYCRYSTALLINE SOLID; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AGGREGATES; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; OLIVINE; OXYGEN; POLYCRYSTALS; PRESSURE VESSELS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; WATER CONSERVATION;

AGGLOMERATION;

DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HYDROGEN; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OLIVINE; P-T CONDITIONS;

EID: 77953022758     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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