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Carbon dioxide and argon diffusion in silicate melts: Insights into the CO2 speciation in magmas |
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| Authors: | K Spickenbom M Sierralta |
| Institution: | a Institute of Mineralogy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstr. 3, 30167 Hannover, Germany b Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany c Leibniz Institut for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany d Institute of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wilhelmstr. 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany |
| Abstract: | To investigate the influence of temperature and composition on the diffusivities of dissolved carbon dioxide and argon in silicate melts, diffusion experiments were performed at magmatic pressure and temperature conditions in (a) albite melts with excess Na2O (0-8.6 wt%) and a constant Si/Al ratio of 3, and (b) albite70quartz30 to jadeite melts with decreasing SiO2 content and a constant Na/Al ratio of 1. We obtained diffusion coefficients at 500 MPa and 1323-1673 K. In the fully polymerized system Ab70Qz30 - Jd, the change in composition only has a weak effect on bulk CO2 diffusivity, but Ar diffusivity increases clearly with decreasing SiO2 content. In the system Ab + Na2O, bulk CO2 and Ar diffusivity increase significantly with gradual depolymerisation. The relatively small change in composition on molar basis in the depolymerized system leads to a significantly larger change in diffusivities compared to the fully polymerized Ab70Qz30-Jd join. Within error, activation energies for bulk CO2 and Ar diffusion in both systems are identical with decreasing silica content (Ab + Na2O: 159 ± 25 kJ mol−1 for bulk CO2 and 130 ± 8 kJ mol−1 for Ar; Ab70Qz30-Jd: 163 ± 16 kJ mol−1 for bulk CO2 and 148 ± 15 kJ mol−1 for Ar) even though this results in depolymerisation in one system and not the other.Although there is a variation in CO2 speciation with changing composition as observed in quenched glasses, it has previously established that this is not a true representation of the species present in the melt, with the ratio of molecular CO2 to carbonate decreasing during quenching. Thus, diffusion coefficients for the individual CO2 species cannot be directly derived by measuring molecular CO2 and CO32- concentration-distance profiles in the glasses. To obtain diffusivities of individual CO2 species, we have made two assumptions that (1) inert Ar can be used as a proxy for molecular CO2 diffusion characteristics as shown by our previous work and (2) the diffusivity of CO32− can be calculated assuming it is identical to network forming components (Si4+ and Al3+). This is derived from viscosity data (Eyring eqn.) and suggests that CO32− diffusion would be several orders of magnitude slower than molecular CO2 diffusion.The systematics of measured bulk CO2 diffusivity rates and comparison with the Ar proxy all suggest that the faster molecular CO2 species is much more dominant in melts than measurements on resulting quenched glasses would suggest. This study has confirmed an observation of surprisingly consistent bulk CO2 diffusivity across a range of natural compositions were Ar diffusivity significantly increases. This is consistent with an actual increase in molecular CO2 mobility (similar to Ar) that is combined with an increase in the proportion of the slower carbonate in the melt.These results demonstrate that the CO2 diffusion and speciation model provides an insight into the transport processes in the melt and is promising and an alternative tool to in situ speciation measurements at magmatic conditions, which at the moment are technically extremely difficult. We present the first high pressure high temperature in situ MIR spectra of a CO2 bearing albitic glass/melt suggesting that molecular CO2 is a stable species at high temperature, which is qualitatively consistent with the modelled CO2 speciation data. |
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