K in clinopyroxene at high pressure and temperature; an experimental study

Other| April 01, 1997 K in clinopyroxene at high pressure and temperature; an experimental study George E. Harlow George E. Harlow American Museum of Natural History, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New York, NY, United States Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information George E. Harlow American Museum of Natural History, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New York, NY, United States Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1945-3027 Print ISSN: 0003-004X Copyright © 1981 by the Mineralogical Society of America American Mineralogist (1997) 82 (3-4): 259–269. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-1997-3-403 Article history First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation George E. Harlow; K in clinopyroxene at high pressure and temperature; an experimental study. American Mineralogist 1997;; 82 (3-4): 259–269. doi: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-1997-3-403 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyAmerican Mineralogist Search Advanced Search Abstract Clinopyroxene (Cpx) is a principal upper-mantle phase for concentrating large cations but has not been viewed as a major crystal-chemical reservoir for K because K+ is considered too large to enter the largest site, M2, in the pyroxene structure. Accumulating data from high-pressure conditions indicate this inference is incorrect, so multianvil experiments have been performed to evaluate maximal K solubility in Cpx at high pressure. End members and mixtures of diopside, jadeite, and kosmochlor have been mixed with K2CO3, KHCO3 or both in welded platinum capsules and heated typically for 24 h in the range of 5 to 14 GPa and 1200 to 1700 °C. These experiments produced K-rich Cpx in solid solutions by means of a fictive Kcpx component (KCrSi2O6 or KAlSi2O6). The maximum K2O content obtained is 4.7 wt% in a Cpx (Di38Ko39Kcpx22En1) formed from a 50:50 Di + Ko mixture at 10 GPa, 1400 °C. K uptake and partitioning is dependent positively on P, complexly on Cpx composition but not demonstrably on T.Cpx/liqDK2O is in the range of 0.03–0.1 and Cpx/liqDNa2O varies from 0.5 to 5, although the variations for each with Cpx composition are different. In diopside, Kcpx increases are always accompanied by increases in Nacpx, and cooperative Nacpx solution is necessary for Kcpx solution in the compositional systems examined. K appears to be accommodated in the M2 site of the Cpx structure by two types of spatial averaging: a large average M2 site, as in the case of Di, ameliorates the fit, but local accommodation by size averaging with a smaller M2 occupant, presumably Na, appears necessary, suggesting that the polyhedral compressibility of Na and K are large in comparison with Ca. In application to Cpx inclusions in diamond, the data here imply that a chromium diopside with ~1 wt% K2O forms in the presence of a C-rich melt with 15–28 wt% K2O. This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.