Melting experiments on the enstatite-diopside join at 70–224 kbar,including the melting of diopside |
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| Authors: | Tibor Gasparik |
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| Institution: | (1) Center for High Pressure Research, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA, US |
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| Abstract: | Melting relations on the enstatite−diopside (En, Mg2Si2O6−Di, CaMgSi2O6) join, including the compositions of crystalline phases and melts coexisting along the solidi, were experimentally determined
in the pressure range 70–224 kbar with a split-sphere anvil apparatus (USSA-2000). Melting is peritectic in enstatite-rich
compositions at 70–124 kbar (1840–2100° C) and eutectic at higher pressures, while the diopside-rich clinopyroxene melts azeotropically
at 70–165 kbar and up to 300° C lower temperatures than the eutectic. Orthopyroxene is replaced with enstatite-rich clinopyroxene
at 120 kbar and 2090°C. First garnet with 17 mol% Di forms on the solidus at 158 kbar and 2100° C. Two garnets coexist on
the solidus at 165–183 kbar and 2100° C, garnet coexists with CaSiO3 perovskite at 183–224 kbar (2100–2230° C) and two coexisting perovskites are stable at higher pressures. The melting curve
of diopside was determined at 80–170 kbar; the slope becomes negative at 140 kbar and 2155° C. At 170 kbar and 2100° C, diopside
with 96% Di breaks down to garnet with 89% Di and CaSiO3 perovskite. The new data were used to calculate an improved temperature-pressure phase diagram for the CMAS system, which
can be useful for estimating the mineralogy of the Earth's upper mantle.
Received: 15 October 1994 / Accepted: 15 October 1995 |
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