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| Titel |
Pressure-volume equation of state for pyrope-almandine solid solutions |
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Fabrizio Nestola, Sula Milani, Ross J. Angel, Daria Pasqual, Charles A. Geiger |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
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250081313
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Garnet is a key phase of Earth’s upper mantle and one of the most abundant solid inclusions in diamonds. The pyrope component (Mg3Al2Si3O12, Py) of garnet found in diamonds of peridotitic and eclogitic origin can be as high as about 79 and 43%, respectively and the almandine component (Fe3Al2Si3O12, Al) is about 11 and 33%, respectively. Thus such garnets are largely Py-Al-rich solid solutions (Stachel and Harris, 2008). To determine the depth of formation of diamond-inclusion pairs, precise and accurate thermoelastic parameters for both the diamond and the solid inclusion phase are necessary (e.g. Izraeli et al., 1999; Howell et al., 2010; Nestola et al., 2011; Howell et al., 2012). We are presently investigating the pressure–volume equation of state for a series of synthetic garnets along the binary pyrope–almandine by X-ray single-crystal diffraction using a diamond anvil cell up to a maximum of 8 GPa pressure. We have completed measurements on two crystals of composition Fe3Al2Si3O12 and Fe1.20Mg1.80Al2Si3O12. The equation of state coefficients obtained by fitting a third-order Birch-Murnaghan to the pressure–volume data show that an increase in the pyrope component in garnet causes a slight decrease of the isothermal bulk modulus, KT0, by about 3%, whereas the first pressure derivative term does not vary. Applying our results to obtain the pressure of formation of a natural diamond-garnet pair, and assuming a garnet composition close to Fe1.20Mg1.80Al2Si3O12, we obtain a pressure of encapsulation (or formation if garnet and diamond are syngenetic) of garnet in diamond between 6.5 and 7.0 GPa.
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