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- Title
- Water partitioning between mantle minerals from peridotite xenoliths
- Related
- Contributions to mineralogy and petrology, Vol. 154, Issue 1, p.15-34
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00410-006-0177-1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date
- 2007
- Author/Creator
- Grant, Kevin
- Author/Creator
- Ingrin, Jannick
- Author/Creator
- Lorand, Jean Pierre
- Author/Creator
- Dumas, Paul
- Description
- The speciation and amount of water dissolved in nominally anhydrous silicates comprising eight different mantle xenoliths has been quantified using synchrotron micro-FTIR spectroscopy. Samples studied are from six geographic localities and represent a cross-section of the major upper mantle lithologies from a variety of tectonic settings. Clinopyroxene contains between 342 and 413 ppm H₂O. Orthopyroxene, olivine and garnet contain 169–201, 3–54 and 0 to <3 ppm H₂O, respectively. Pyroxenes water contents and the distribution of water between ortho- and clinopyroxene is identical regardless of sample mineralogy (D water cpx/opx = 2.1 ± 0.1). The total water contents of each xenolith are remarkably similar (113 ± 14 ppm H₂O). High-resolution spectroscopic traverses show that the concentration and speciation of hydrous defects dissolved in each phase are spatially homogeneous within individual crystals and identical in different crystals interspersed throughout the xenolith. These results suggest that the amount of water dissolved in the silicate phases is in partial equilibrium with the transporting melt. Other features indicate that xenoliths have also preserved OH signatures of equilibrium with the mantle source region: Hydroxyl stretching modes in clinopyroxene show that garnet lherzolites re-equilibrated under more reducing conditions than spinel lherzolites. The distribution of water between pyroxenes and olivine differs according to xenolith mineralogy. The distribution of water between clinopyroxene and olivine from garnet peridotites (D water cpx/oliv(gnt) = 22.2 ± 24.1) is a factor of four greater than mineral pairs from spinel-bearing xenoliths (D water cpx/oliv(sp) = 88.1 ± 47.8). Such an increase in olivine water contents at the spinel to garnet transition is likely a global phenomenon and this discontinuity could lead to a reduction of the upper mantle viscosity by 0.2–0.7 log units and a reduction of its electrical resistivity by a factor of 0.5–0.8 log units.
- Description
- 20 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Hydrogen, Water, Mantle xenoliths, partition coefficients, garnet lherzolites, conductivity, viscosity, lithospheric mantle
- Subject Keyword
- hydrogen
- Subject Keyword
- water
- Subject Keyword
- mantle xenoliths
- Subject Keyword
- partition coefficients
- Subject Keyword
- garnet iherzolites
- Subject Keyword
- conductivity
- Subject Keyword
- viscosity
- Subject Keyword
- lithospheric mantle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents (GEMOC)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/21098
- Identifier
- ISSN:1432-0967
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007001165
- Language
- eng
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