A high pressure-high temperature study of TiO2 solubility in Mg-rich phlogopite: implications to phlogopite chemistry |
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| Authors: | RG Tronnes AD Edgar M Arima |
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| Institution: | Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7 |
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| Abstract: | The solubility of Tio2 in phlogopites has been experimentally determined in the system K2Mg6Al2Si6O20(OH)4-K2Mg4TiAl2Si6O20(OH)4-K2Mg5TiAl4Si4O20(OH)4 between 825–1300°C and 10–30 kbar under vapour absent conditions. Starting compositions lie along the join K2Mg6Al2Si6O20(OH)4-K2Mg4.5TiAl3Si5O20(OH)4 which represents a combination of the MgVI]2SiIV] = TiVI]2AlVI] and substitution mechanisms for Ti in phlogopites. The results of the experiments indicate a systematic increase in solubility of Ti with increasing temperature and decreasing pressure for given bulk Tio2 content. Under isobaric conditions high temperature Ti-saturated phlogopite breaks down to Ti-deficient phlogopite + rutile + vapour. Mass balance calculations suggest that the vapour phase may contain K2O dissolved in H2O and that the reaction is controlled by the vapour phase. Analyses of phlogopites coexisting with rutile and vapour can be represented in terms of the end-member components phlogopite K2Mg6Al2Si6O20(OH)4], eastonite K2Mg5Al4Si5O20(OH)4], an octahedral site deficient Ti-phlogopite (Ti-OSD) of composition K2(Mg4Ti□)Al2Si6)O20(OH)4, and Ti-eastonite K2Mg5TiAl4Si4O20(OH)4]. With decreasing amounts of Ti in these phlogopites there is a decrease in the Ti-eastonite component and increase in the eastonite component.The general equation for the breakdown of Ti-phlogopite solid solution to Ti-free phlogopite + rutile + vapour is: 14 Ti-eastonite + 7 Ti-OSD ? 16 eastonite + 3 phlogopite + 21 rutile + 4 H2O + 2 K2O. Lack of knowledge of H2O and K2O activities in the vapour phase does not permit evaluation of thermodynamic constants for this reaction. The Ti solubility in phlogopites and hence its potential as a geothermobarometer under lower crustal to upper mantle conditions is likely controlled by common mantle minerals such as forsterite. |
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