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Melting experiments of a chondritic meteorite between 16 and 25 GPa: Implication for Na/K fractionation in a primitive chondritic Earth's mantle

El Goresy, A.
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Frost, D.
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Gillet, P.  
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2004
European Journal Of Mineralogy

Melting experiments at high-pressure and temperature were conducted at pressures from 16 to 25 GPa using chondritic starting material but with slightly enhanced Na- and K-contents while keeping the chondritic Na/K ratio constant. The experiments revealed that majorite garnet contains enhanced concentrations of Na (3.75-4.71 wt.% Na2O) and moderately enhanced concentrations of K (0.3-0.46 wt.% K2O) from 16 to 20 GPa and it is therefore the Na- and K-bearing phase at this pressure range. The Na2O/K2O ratio (8-15) in garnet is close to the initial chondritic ratio (7) of the starting material, which might indicate that at these pressures only little Na/K fractionation takes place. At pressures above 21 GPa, the high-pressure phases enriched in Na include majorite garnet (3.08-6.22 wt.% Na2O), magnesiowustite (1.83-3.3 wt.% Na2O), and (Mg,Fe)SiO3-perovskite (0.43-1.25 wt.% Na2O). These phases contain only small amounts of K (<0.1 wt.% K2O). The Na2O content of magnesiowustite progressively increases with increase of pressure, whereas Na2O contents of garnet and perovskite are negatively correlated with pressures between 23 and 25 GPa. Na/K fractionation takes place among the high-pressure phases (Na2O/K2O ratio: 56-102 in garnet, 5-20 in perovskite, and 43-94 in magnesiowustite), and between the high-pressure phases and the residual silicate melt above 21 GPa, and most of the K is partitioned into the residual melt. The hollandite-structured, high-pressure KAlSi(3)O(8)polymorph crystallizes from the liquid at 23 GPa. These results demonstrate that Na/K fractionation at P > 21 GPa should have taken place in the early accretional period in the primitive chondritic mantle of the Earth.

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DOI
10.1127/0935-1221/2004/0016-0203
Web of Science ID

WOS:000220576500001

Author(s)
El Goresy, A.
Frost, D.
Gillet, P.  
Chen, M.
Date Issued

2004

Published in
European Journal Of Mineralogy
Volume

16

Start page

203

End page

211

Subjects

melting experiment

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high pressure

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chondritic meteorite

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alkali element

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fractionation

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High-Pressure

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Allende Meteorite

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Peridotite Klb-1

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Tenham Chondrite

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Phase

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Temperature

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Constraints

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Maskelynite

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Subsolidus

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Transition

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REVIEWED

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OTHER

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September 29, 2011
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