Pyroxene-melt equilibria |
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| Authors: | Roger L Nielsen Michael J Drake |
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| Institution: | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Using a literature survey of analyses of high-Ca pyroxene and co-existing silicate melt pairs and analyses of low-Ca pyroxene-silicate melt pairs, we have performed a thermodynamic analysis of pyroxene-melt equilibria. Three sets of mixing model pairs have been considered, based on two mixing models for liquid silicate solutions and two for pyroxene solid solutions. A modified version of a model developed by Bottinga and Weill (1972) for the mixing properties of silicate melts, in which the melt is considered to be composed of independent network-forming and network-modifying quasi-lattices, more successfully accounts for variations in melt composition than does a model which considers the melt to be composed of simple oxides which mix ideally. An empirical model for the mixing properties of pyroxenes, in which the M1 and M2 sites are considered to be equivalent and are combined as a hypothetical ‘M’ site, is as successful in accounting for variations in pyroxene composition at high temperatures as an ideal multisite mixing model.Using a variety of pyroxene-melt relations, and combinations of the mixing models outlined above, we have developed several pyroxene-melt and low-Ca pyroxene-high-Ca pyroxene geothermometers which have internally-consistent precisions of approximately ±20°C (1σ). One of the two-pyroxene geothermometers has been used to calculate ‘quench’ temperatures for a number of eucrites. Computed temperatures are subsolidus, and are consistent with independent geothermometers and with petrographic observations. The equations may also be used to calculate the composition of pyroxene crystallizing from a silicate melt of known composition, with or without independent knowledge of temperature. Internally consistent precisions vary, but are approximately ± 3 mol% Fs, ± 5 mol% En, and ±4 mol% Wo (all 1σ). These equations may have application in modeling the evolution of mineral compositions during differentiation of basaltic magmas, particularly terrestrial layered intrusions and the lunar magma ocean. |
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