A Metastable Aluminosilica Compound for Aluminum and Water Transport to the Upper Mantle
It has been suggested that crystalline “phase egg,” AlSiO3OH, with a ratio Al/Si=1 could carry aluminum and water to the mantle but its natural occurrences are still speculative. An amorphous phase with a fixed and unique, deep metastable eutectic Al2Si2O7 composition was produced in laboratory expe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2009-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/909431 |
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| Summary: | It has been suggested that crystalline “phase egg,” AlSiO3OH, with a ratio Al/Si=1 could carry aluminum and water to the mantle but its natural occurrences are still speculative. An amorphous phase with a fixed and unique, deep metastable eutectic Al2Si2O7 composition was produced in laboratory experiments wherein conditions favored kinetically controlled formation of amorphous solids. This experimentally produced kaolinite-dehydroxylate is highly reactive and it is proposed as the precursor of phase egg in subducting slabs of crustal rocks. If so, metastable phases play a role in subduction zones and it then follows that the processes and resulting conditions in these environments can be nonuniform and discontinuous at least at micrometer scales. |
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| ISSN: | 1687-885X 1687-8868 |