Melting of K-rich carbonated peridotite at 6-10GPa and the stability of K-phases in the upper mantle

Chemical Geology

Volumn 281, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 333-342

  Brey, Gerhard P ^a   Bulatov, Vadim K ^b   Girnis, Andrei V ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Experiment; Multianvil apparatus; Partial melting; Peridotite; Phase equilibrium

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROUS PHASE; BULK COMPOSITIONS; COLD REGIONS; CRYSTALLINE HOSTS; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; GEOTHERMS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MULTIANVIL APPARATUS; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; UPPER MANTLE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; MELTING; OLIVINE; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SILICATE MINERALS;

CARBONATION;

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLD REGION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MELTING; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; PRESSURE EFFECT; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 79551591120     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.12.019     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Berman R.G., Aranovich L.Y. Optimized standard state and mixing properties of minerals: I. Model calibration for olivine, orthopyroxene, cordierite, garnet, and ilmenite in the system FeO-MgO-CaO-Al2O3-TiO2-SiO2. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1996, 126:1-24.
2. Bindi L., Bobrov A., Litvin Yu.A. Incorporation of Fe3+ in phase-X, A2-xM2Si2O7Hx, a potential high-pressure K-rich hydrous silicate in the mantle. Mineralogical Magazine 2007, 71:265-272.
3. Brey G.P., Bulatov V.K., Girnis A.V., Lahaye Y. Experimental melting of carbonated peridotite at 6-10GPa. Journal of Petrology 2008, 49:797-821.
4. Brey G.P., Bulatov V.K., Girnis A.V. Influence of water and fluorine on melting of carbonated peridotite at 6 and 10GPa. Lithos 2009, 112S:249-259.
5. Dalton J.A., Presnall D.C. The continuum of primary carbonatitic-kimberlitic melt compositions in equilibrium with lherzolite: data from the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 at 6GPa. Journal of Petrology 1998, 39:1953-1964.
6. Dalton J.A., Presnall D.C. Carbonatitic melts along the solidus of model lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 from 3 to 7GPa. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1998, 131:123-135.
7. Dasgupta R., Hirschmann M.M. Melting in the Earth's deep upper mantle caused by carbon dioxide. Nature 2006, 440:659-662.
8. Dasgupta R., Hirschmann M.M. A modified iterative sandwich method for determination of near-solidus partial melt compositions. II. Application to determination of near-solidus melt compositions of carbonated peridotite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2007, 154:647-661.
9. Eggler D.H. The effect of CO2 upon partial melting of peridotite in the system Na2O-CaO-Al2O3-MgO-SiO2-CO2 to 35kb, with an analysis of melting in a peridotite-H2O-CO2 system. American Journal of Science 1978, 278:305-343.
10. Falloon T.J., Green D.H. The solidus of carbonated, fertile peridotite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1989, 94:364-370.
11. Falloon T.J., Green D.H. Solidus of carbonated fertile peridotite under fluid-saturated conditions. Geology 1990, 18:195-199.
12. Foley S.F., Yaxley G.M., Rosenthal A., Buhre S., Kiseeva E.S., Rapp R.P., Jacob D.E. The composition of near-solidus melts of peridotite in the presence of CO2 and H2O between 40 and 60kbar. Lithos 2009, 112S:274-283.
13. Ghosh S., Ohtani E., Litasov K.D., Terasaki H. Solidus of carbonated peridotite from 10 to 20GPa and origin of magnesiocarbonatite melt in the Earth's deep mantle. Chemical Geology 2009, 262:17-28.
14. Gudfinnsson G.H., Presnall D.C. Continuous gradations among primary carbonatitic, kimberlitic, melilititic, basaltic, picritic, and komatiitic melts in equilibrium with garnet lherzolite at 3-8GPa. Journal of Petrology 2005, 46:1645-1659.
15. Gudmundsson G., Holloway J.R. Activity-composition relationship in the system Fe-Pt at 1300 and 1400°C and at 1atm and 20kbar. American Mineralogist 1993, 78:178-186.
16. Harlow G.E. K in clinopyroxene at high pressure and temperature: an experimental study. American Mineralogist 1997, 82:259-269.
17. Harlow G.E., Davies R. Status report on stability of K-rich phases at mantle conditions. Lithos 2004, 77:647-653.
18. Hartmann G., Wedepohl K.H. Metasomatically altered peridotite xenoliths from the Hessian Depression (Northwest Germany). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1990, 54:11-86.
19. Hirschmann M.M. Mantle solidus: experimental constraints and the effects of peridotite composition. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2000, 1. 2000GC000070.
20. Klein-BenDavid O., Logvinova A.M., Schrauder M., Spetius Z.V., Weiss Y., Hauri E.H., Kaminsky F.V., Sobolev N.V., Navon O. High-Mg carbonatitic microinclusions in some Yakutian diamonds-a new type of diamond-forming fluid. Lithos 2009, 112S:648-659.
21. Konzett J.R., Fei Y. Transport and storage of potassium in the Earth's upper mantle and transition Zone: an experimental study to 23GPa in simplified and natural bulk compositions. Journal of Petrology 2000, 41:583-603.
22. Konzett J., Ulmer P. The stability of hydrous potassic phases in lherzolitic mantle-an experimental study to 9.5GPa in simplified and natural bulk compositions. Journal of Petrology 1999, 40:629-652.
23. Koziol A.M., Newton R.C. Experimental determination of the reaction: Magnesite+enstatite=forsterite+CO2 in the ranges 6-25kbar and 700-1100°C. American Mineralogist 1998, 83:213-219.
24. Lazarov, M., 2008. Archean to present day evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton-processes recorded in subcalcic garnets, peridotites and polymict breccia. PhD-Thesis, Frankfurt University, Germany, 213pp.
25. Lazarov M., Woodland A.B., Brey G.P. Thermal state and redox conditions of the Kaapvaal mantle: a study of xenoliths from the Finsch mine, South Africa. Lithos 2009, 112S:913-923.
26. Litasov K.D., Ohtani E. Phase relations in the peridotite-carbonate-chloride system at 7.0-16.5GPa and the role of chlorides in the origin of kimberlite and diamond. Chemical Geology 2009, 262:29-41.
27. Litvin Yu.A., Litvin V.Yu. Fluid-magma and metasomatic reactions at the mantle peridotite-plume contact: model experiments at 3.7-7.0GPa. Experimental Mineralogy. Some Results on the Century's Frontier 2004, vol. 1:38-55. Nauka, Moscow, (in Russian).
28. Litvin Yu.A., Chudinovskikh L.T., Zharikov V.A. Crystallization of diamond and graphite in mantle alkaline-carbonate melts in experiment at 7-11GPa. Experiment in Geosciences 1997, 6(2):6.
29. Liu Q., Tenner T.J., Lange R.A. Do carbonate liquids become denser than silicate liquids at pressure? Constraints from the fusion curve of K2CO3 to 3.2GPa. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2007, 153:55-66.
30. Luth R.W. Potassium in pyroxenes at high pressure. EOS Transactions of American Geophysical Union 1995, 76:F711.
31. Luth R.W. Experimental study of the system phlogopite-diopside from 3.5 to 17GPa. American Mineralogist 1997, 82:1198-1209.
32. Luth R.W. Mantle volatiles-distribution and consequences. Treatise on Geochemistry 2003, vol. 2:319-361. Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford.
33. Newton R.C., Sharp W.E. Stability of forsterite+CO2 and its bearing on the role of CO2 in the mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1975, 26:239-243.
34. Pollack H.N., Chapman D.S. On the regional variation of heat flow, geotherms, and lithospheric thickness. Tectonophysics 1977, 38:279-296.
35. Sato K., Katsura T., Ito E. Phase relations of natural phlogopite with and without enstatite up to 8GPa: implication for mantle metasomatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1997, 146:511-526.
36. Simons B., Sharma S.K. Crystal data for synthetic K2Mg(CO3)2. Journal of Applied Crystallography 1983, 16:143.
37. Thibault Y., Edgar A.D., Lloyd F.E. Experimental investigation of melts from a carbonated phlogopite lherzolite: implications for metasomatism in the continental lithospheric mantle. American Mineralogist 1992, 77:784-794.
38. Trønnes R.G. Stability range and decomposition of potassic richterite and phlogopite end members at 5-15GPa. Mineralogy and Petrology 2002, 74:129-148.
39. Wallace M.E., Green D.H. An experimental determination of primary carbonatite magma composition. Nature 1988, 335:343-346.
40. Wasylenki L.E., Baker M.B., Kent A.J.R., Stolper E.M. Near-solidus melting of the shallow upper mantle: partial melting experiments on depleted peridotite. Journal of Petrology 2003, 44:1163-1191.
41. Wyllie P.J., Huang W.L. Carbonation and melting reactions in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2-CO2 at mantle pressures with geophysical and petrological applications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1976, 54:79-107.
42. Yang H., Konzett J., Prewitt C.T. Crystal structure of phase X, a high pressure alkali-rich hydrous silicate and its anhydrous equivalent. American Mineralogist 2001, 86:1483-1488.