scholarly journals Study of silica-undersaturated magmas through the Kalsilite- Nepheline-Diopside-Silica system at 4.0 GPa and dry conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Márcio Roberto Wilbert de Souza ◽  
Rommulo Vieira Conceição ◽  
Daniel Grings Cedeño ◽  
Roberto Vicente Schmitz Quinteiro

This study experimentally investigates the Kalsilite-Nepheline-Diopside-Silica system at high pressure and temperature, with emphasis on silica-undersaturated volume (leucite-nepheline-diopside — Lct-Nph-Di; and kalsilite-nepheline-diopside — Kls + Nph + Di — planes), at 4.0 GPa (~120 km deep), temperatures up to 1,400ºC and dry conditions, to better understand the influence of K2O, Na2O, and CaO in alkali-rich silica-undersaturated magma genesis. In the Lct-Nph-Di plane, we determined the stability fields for kalsilite (Klsss), nepheline (Nphss) and clinopyroxene (Cpxss) solid solutions, wollastonite (Wo) and sanidine (Sa); and three piercing points: (i) pseudo-eutectic Kls + Nph + Di + liquid (Lct62Nph29Di9) at 1,000ºC; (ii) Kls + Sa + (Di + Wo) + liquid (Lct75Nph22Di2) at 1,200ºC; and (iii) pseudo-eutectic Kls + Di + Wo + liquid (Lct74Nph17Di9) at 1,000ºC. Kalsilite stability field represents a thermal barrier between ultrapotassic/potassic vs. sodic compositions. In the plane Kls-Nph-Di, we determined the stability fields for Klsss, Nphss and Cpxss and two aluminous phases in smaller proportions: spinel (Spl) and corundum (Crn). This plane has a piercing point in Kls + Nph + Di(± Spl) + liquid (Kls47Nph43Di10) at 1,100ºC. Our data showed that pressure extends K dissolution in Nph (up to 39 mol%) and Na in Kls (up to 27 mol%), and that these solid solutions, if present, determinate how much enriched in K and Na an alkaline magma will be in an alkaline-enriched metasomatic mantle. Additionally, we noted positive correlation between K2O and SiO2 concentration in experimental melts, negative correlation between CaO and SiO2, and no evident correlation between Na2O and SiO2. 

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1753-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Yao ◽  
L. Liu ◽  
W. H. Su

An amorphous carbon-boron nitride (C-BN) solid was prepared by ball milling the mixture of graphite and hexagonal BN powders for a period of 120 h. After annealing the amorphous C-BN solid for 1 h at atmosphere in the temperature range from 800 to 900 K and then quenching it to room temperature, a small amount of cubic C-BN solid solutions with diamond-like structure, which belong to a high energy phase and can only be synthesized previously under high pressure and temperature (30 GPa, 2000 K), were observed in the annealed amorphous C-BN solid. The lattice constant of the cubic C-BN solid solution was 0.3587 nm, and its grain size was in the range of 10 to 50 nm.


Author(s):  
George Serghiou ◽  
Nicholas Odling ◽  
Hans Josef Reichmann ◽  
Kristina Spektor ◽  
Wilson A. Crichton ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 51 (359) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Green ◽  
N. J. Pearson

AbstractLoveringite-davidite members of the crichtonite group were synthesized at high pressure and temperature (7.5 kbar, 1000–1050 °C) from a melt of TiO2 and rare earth element (REE) enriched basaltic andesite composition. Four sets of partition coefficients for La, Srn, Ho, Lu and Sr (analogue for Eu2+) were obtained. These show that light and heavy REE are readily accommodated, but the intermediate REE are discriminated against in the loveringite—davidite structure. This confirms the previously proposed two sites (A and M) for REE substitution in the crichtonite group. Additional experiments verified the stability of REE-rich crichtonite group minerals to 20 kbar, 1300 °C and 30 kbar, 1000 °C, and indicate that this phase may be an important accessory repository for the light and heavy REE in the upper mantle.


Author(s):  
Markus Guido Herrmann ◽  
Ralf Peter Stoffel ◽  
Michael Küpers ◽  
Mohammed Ait Haddouch ◽  
Andreas Eich ◽  
...  

The high-pressure and low-temperature behaviour of the GeSe x Te1−x system (x = 0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.75, 1) was studied using a combination of powder diffraction measurements and first-principles calculations. Compounds in the stability field of the GeTe structure type (x = 0, 0.2, 0.5) follow the high-pressure transition pathway: GeTe-I (R3m) → GeTe-II (f.c.c.) → GeTe-III (Pnma). The newly determined GeTe-III structure is isostructural to β-GeSe, a high-pressure and high-temperature polymorph of GeSe. Pressure-dependent formation enthalpies and stability regimes of the GeSe x Te1−x polymorphs were studied by DFT calculations. Hexagonal Ge4Se3Te is stable up to at least 25 GPa. Significant differences in the high-pressure and low-temperature behaviour of the GeTe-type structures and the hexagonal phase are highlighted. The role of Ge...Ge interactions is elucidated using the crystal orbital Hamilton population method. Finally, a sketch of the high-pressure phase diagram of the system is provided.


Author(s):  
R. M. Macintyre ◽  
R. A. Cliff ◽  
N. A. Chapman

AbstractIn an attempt to establish a chronology for volcanic neck emplacement and so elucidate petrogenesis, isotopic studies have been carried out on various cumulate inclusions, blocks and megacrysts which occur chiefly in association with tuffs infilling several Scottish vents. K-Ar ages of 13 samples of low-pressure cumulate minerals (biotite, hornblende and pyroxene) from necks in East Fife indicate crystallisation at shallow depth at 314 Ma. U-Pb analyses of zircons are concordant at 318 Ma suggesting they are also members of this suite and their formation is penecontemporaneous with the Namurian volcanic activity which is welldocumented stratigraphically. By 295 Ma crystallisation of anorthoclase megacrysts had been completed, perhaps from the fractionated residuum. An eruption from considerable depth (within the stability field of garnet precipitation) then broke through to the surface bearing high-pressure megacrysts. This penetrated and disrupted the early cumulates carrying them to the surface and producing the diverse vent assemblages. K-Ar dating of basanites suggest that the Duncansby Ness neck in Caithness was emplaced around 270 Ma in the early Permian. For two Fife necks the balance of evidence favours an age of 290 Ma (Stephanian) for this final explosive activity associated with vent formation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-921
Author(s):  
Chie Kato ◽  
Koichiro Umemoto ◽  
Kenji Ohta ◽  
Shoh Tagawa ◽  
Kei Hirose ◽  
...  

Abstract We examined the crystal structure of FeHX (X~1) (FeH hereafter) at high pressure and temperature by X-ray diffraction up to 137 GPa. Results show that FeH adopts a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure at pressures of 43 to 137 GPa and temperatures of ~1000 to 2000 K. Our study revises a phase diagram of stoichiometric FeH in which fcc has a wider-than-expected stability field at high pressure and temperature. Based on our findings, the FeH end-member of the Fe-FeH system is expected to be stable in the fcc structure at the P-T conditions of the Earth's core, rather than in the double-hexagonal close packed (dhcp) structure as previously reported. We compared the experimentally determined unit-cell volumes of FeH with those from ab initio calculations. Additionally, we observed a change in compressibility at ~60 GPa, which could be attributed to a magnetic transition—an interpretation supported by our ab initio computations.


1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki-Tae Kim ◽  
B. J. Burley

Phase equilibria were determined in the P–T range of 0.5–10 Kb and 150–900 °C in the system NaAlSi3O8 – NaAlSiO4 – H2O. Two isobaric (2 Kb and 5.15 Kb) T–X phase diagrams (projected to a dry base) were completely determined and show that the stability field of analcite solid solutions has a large distorted pentagonal shape. The phase relations for the transition: nepheline hydrate I [Formula: see text] nepheline + H2O on the composition join NaAlSiO4 – H2O are not binary. It was found that there exists a narrow zone for the transition. The true P–T curve was found and determined in terms of a ternary univariant reaction: nepheline hydrate I + analcite [Formula: see text] nepheline + H2O. In the system NaAlSi3O8 – SiO2 – H2O, albite contains about 5 wt % silica in solid solution at 5.15 Kb and 670 °C.The equilibrium compositions of various univariant phases were determined essentially on the basis of the T–X phase diagrams. Another univariant reaction (zeolite species P = analcite + nepheline – hydrate I + H2O) was found at 2 Kb/215 °C and 5.15 Kb/235 °C and determined on a P–T projection. Three singular points were determined; two of them are located at 0.8 Kb/390 °C and 9.4 Kb/475 °C respectively on a univariant P–T curve for the reaction nepheline hydrate I + analcite = nepheline + H2O; the other one is located at 6 Kb/655 °C on a univariant P–T curve along which nepheline, analcite, liquid, and vapor coexist. The petrogenetic implication of analcite is discussed fully.


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