Novella, D;
Dolejs, D;
Myhill, R;
Pamato, MG;
Manthilake, G;
Frost, DJ;
(2017)
Melting phase relations in the systems Mg2SiO4-H2O and MgSiO3-H2O and the formation of hydrous melts in the upper mantle.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
, 204
pp. 68-82.
10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.042.
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Abstract
High-pressure and high-temperature melting experiments were conducted in the systems Mg2SiO4–H2O and MgSiO3–H2O at 6 and 13 GPa and between 1150 and 1900 °C in order to investigate the effect of H2O on melting relations of forsterite and enstatite. The liquidus curves in both binary systems were constrained and the experimental results were interpreted using a thermodynamic model based on the homogeneous melt speciation equilibrium, H2O + O2− = 2OH−, where water in the melt is present as both molecular H2O and OH− groups bonded to silicate polyhedra. The liquidus depression as a function of melt H2O concentration is predicted using a cryoscopic equation with the experimental data being reproduced by adjusting the water speciation equilibrium constant. Application of this model reveals that in hydrous MgSiO3 melts at 6 and 13 GPa and in hydrous Mg2SiO4 melts at 6 GPa, water mainly dissociates into OH− groups in the melt structure. A temperature dependent equilibrium constant is necessary to reproduce the data, however, implying that molecular H2O becomes more important in the melt with decreasing temperature. The data for hydrous forsterite melting at 13 GPa are inconclusive due to uncertainties in the anhydrous melting temperature at these conditions. When applied to results on natural peridotite melt systems at similar conditions, the same model infers the presence mainly of molecular H2O, implying a significant difference in physicochemical behaviour between simple and complex hydrous melt systems. As pressures increase along a typical adiabat towards the base of the upper mantle, both simple and complex melting results imply that a hydrous melt fraction would decrease, given a fixed mantle H2O content. Consequently, the effect of pressure on the depression of melting due to H2O could not cause an increase in the proportion, and hence seismic visibility, of melts towards the base of the upper mantle.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Melting phase relations in the systems Mg2SiO4-H2O and MgSiO3-H2O and the formation of hydrous melts in the upper mantle |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.042 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.042 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Geochemistry & Geophysics, Olivine, Enstatite, Phase Equilibria, Hydrous Melting, Cryoscopic Equation, Water Speciation, H2O Storage Capacity, High-Pressure, Garnet Peridotite, Silicate Liquids, Magma Generation, Water Solubility, GPA Implications, Transition-Zone, Carbon-Dioxide, Ortho-Pyroxene |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538136 |
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