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Mg diffusion in forsterite from 1250–1600 °C
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Mg diffusion in forsterite from 1250–1600 °C

  • Jollands, Michael C. Institute of Earth Sciences, Géopolis Building, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Zhukova, Irina State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 388 Lumo Rd, Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China 430074
  • O'Neill, Hugh St.C. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, 142 Mills Road, ACT 0200, Australia
  • Hermann, Jörg Institute of Geology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1+3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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  • American Mineralogist. - Mineralogical Society of America. - 2020, vol. 105, no. 4, p. 525-537
Geochemistry and Petrology
Geophysics
English Abstract
26Mg tracer diffusion coefficients were determined in single crystals of pure synthetic forsterite (Mg2SiO4). Isotopically enriched powder sources both acted as the 26Mg source and buffered the activities of silica (aSiO2) at forsterite + protoenstatite (Mg2Si2O6) (high aSiO2) and forsterite + periclase (MgO) (low aSiO2). Experiments were conducted at atmospheric pressure between 1250 and 1600 °C, and at oxygen fugacities (fO2s) between 10–12 bars (CO-CO2 mix) and 10–0.7 bars (air). The resulting diffusion profiles were measured along the three principal crystallographic axes (a, b, and c; ||[100], ||[010], ||[001]) using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), with a quadrupole mass spectrometer. These measurements were corroborated by ion microprobe using the sensitive high resolution ion microprobe-reverse geometry (SHRIMP-RG) instrument.
Mg tracer diffusion is anisotropic, with D[001] > D[010] > D[100], the difference in diffusion coefficients varying by about one order of magnitude at a given temperature with crystallographic orientation. Diffusion is faster in protoenstatite-buffered than periclase-buffered conditions, again with around one order of magnitude difference in diffusivity between buffering conditions. There is no apparent effect of fO2 on diffusion. A global fit to all data, including data from Chakraborty et al. (1994) and Morioka (1981) yields the relationship:
log 10 D = log 10 D 0 ( m 2 s - 1 ) + 0 . 61 ( ± 0 . 03 ) log 10 a SiO 2 + - 359 ( ± 10 ) kJ / mol 2 . 303 R T
where log10D0 is –3.15 (±0.08), –3.61 (±0.02), and –4.01 (± 0.05) m2 s–1 for the [001], [010], and [100] directions, respectively (1 s.d.). The LA-ICP-MS technique reproduces diffusion coefficients determined by SHRIMP-RG, albeit with slightly different absolute values of isotope ratios. This shows that LA-ICPMS, which is both accessible and rapid, is a robust analytical method for such tracer diffusion studies.
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