TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of pressure and water on electrical conductivity of carbonate melt with implications for conductivity anomaly in continental mantle lithosphere
AU - Yoshino, Takashi
AU - Gruber, Benjamin
AU - Reinier, Clayton
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of the Japanese Government grant no. 15H05827 and 17H01155 to T.Y. from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. It was also supported by the Internship Program (MISIP17) of the Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University. We thank two anonymous reviewers who helped us improving the manuscript. Appendix A
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PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - The electrical conductivity of Na, Mg-bearing carbonate melts was measured in a Kawai-type multi-anvil apparatus as a function of pressure. The carbonate samples were mixtures of MgCO3 and Na2CO3 or Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4(H2O) and Na2CO3. High-pressure experiments on the carbonate systems were performed up to 1800 K in a wide pressure range from 3.4 to 10.9 GPa. The sample conductivity abruptly changed at the eutectic temperature, which increased with increasing pressure. The hydrous carbonate yielded a lower eutectic temperature than the anhydrous carbonate and showed weaker pressure dependence. The molten state carbonates showed very high electrical conductivity with temperature dependence following the Arrhenius law. As the pressure increased, the conductivity decreased. The negative pressure dependence of the electrical conductivity of the hydrous carbonate melt was larger than that of the anhydrous one. The activation volumes were ΔV = 1.81 and 3.61 cm mol−1 for the anhydrous and hydrous carbonate melts, respectively. The high electrical conductivity observed in the mantle beneath the Slave and Brazilian cratons can be explained by the process of lithospheric rejuvenation due to a small amount of hydrous carbonated melt released from the crystallization of the kimberlitic magma at the base of the continental mantle lithosphere.
AB - The electrical conductivity of Na, Mg-bearing carbonate melts was measured in a Kawai-type multi-anvil apparatus as a function of pressure. The carbonate samples were mixtures of MgCO3 and Na2CO3 or Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4(H2O) and Na2CO3. High-pressure experiments on the carbonate systems were performed up to 1800 K in a wide pressure range from 3.4 to 10.9 GPa. The sample conductivity abruptly changed at the eutectic temperature, which increased with increasing pressure. The hydrous carbonate yielded a lower eutectic temperature than the anhydrous carbonate and showed weaker pressure dependence. The molten state carbonates showed very high electrical conductivity with temperature dependence following the Arrhenius law. As the pressure increased, the conductivity decreased. The negative pressure dependence of the electrical conductivity of the hydrous carbonate melt was larger than that of the anhydrous one. The activation volumes were ΔV = 1.81 and 3.61 cm mol−1 for the anhydrous and hydrous carbonate melts, respectively. The high electrical conductivity observed in the mantle beneath the Slave and Brazilian cratons can be explained by the process of lithospheric rejuvenation due to a small amount of hydrous carbonated melt released from the crystallization of the kimberlitic magma at the base of the continental mantle lithosphere.
KW - Carbonate melt
KW - Continental mantle lithosphere
KW - Electrical conductivity
KW - Kimberlite
KW - Pressure
KW - Water
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pepi.2018.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.pepi.2018.05.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046811120
VL - 281
SP - 8
EP - 16
JO - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
JF - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
SN - 0031-9201
ER -