Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019

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[E] Poster

S (Solid Earth Sciences ) » S-CG Complex & General

[S-CG51] Role of volatiles on Earth and planetary dynamics

Thu. May 30, 2019 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall8, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Takayuki Ishii(Bavarian Research Institute, University of Bayreuth), Eiji Ohtani(Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Michihiko Nakamura(Division of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Department of Earth Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Bjorn Mysen(Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Inst. Washington)

[SCG51-P11] Goethite behavior at Earth's lower mantle conditions

*Egor Gennadievich Koemets1, Maxim Bykov1, George Aprilis2, Timofey Fedotenko2, Stella Chariton1, Saiana Khandarkhaeva1, Iuliia Koemets1, Marcel Thielmann1, Natalia Dubrovinsaia2, Leonid Dubrovinsky1 (1.BGI (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 2.Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions, Laboratory of Crystallography, Universität Bayreuth, Germany)

Keywords:Goethite, Diamond anvil cell, High Pressure, Single-crystal XRD, Subducting slabs

Water and water-bearing species have a strong impact on numerous processes in Earth’s interiors. Presence of water affects chemical and physical properties of mantle minerals, changes melting temperatures, sound velocities and viscosity of materials, and causing different global phenomena such as, for example, arc volcanism and plate tectonics. Thereby, the deep Earthʼs regions enriched with water are crucial for understanding our planet’s geodynamics and geochemistry. Still, mechanisms of water circulation between geospheres remain poorly understood. Recent studies suggest that goethite present in Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) may transfer some quantities of water to the deep Earth interiors with subducting slabs. It was reported that goethite remains stable in the sinking slab until it reaches the base of a lower mantle. By the meaning of in situ powder XRD it was revealed that at pressures corresponding to the depths ∼1500-1800 km and moderately high temperatures goethite undergoes a phase transition to form a novel stable pyrite-type phase FeO2Hx with 0≦x≦1 (named as Py-phase). Thus, goethite and its HP pyrite-type form became a candidate for water and/or hydrogen transfer and storage to the lower mantle and the core-mantle boundary. Using laser-heating in diamond anvil cells we performed a series of experiments on an investigation of goethite (as a starting material) stability at P-T conditions covering possible range in subducting slabs. By the meaning of sensitive in situ single-crystal XRD in DACs we registered decomposition of goethite and formation of known (such as ι-Fe2O3, η-Fe2O3, a high-pressure orthorhombic form of Fe3O4, Fe5O7) and novel iron-oxygen compounds. Results of structure solution and refinement established these compounds to be orthorhombic Fe7O10 and hexagonal non-stoichiometric phase Fe6.31O9. Our results suggest that FeOOH cannot transport water into the deep of Earth’s mantle.