日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会

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[S-IT18] GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE DEEP CRUST AND MANTLE

2022年5月23日(月) 10:45 〜 12:15 102 (幕張メッセ国際会議場)

コンビーナ:Bjorn Mysen(Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Inst. Washington)、コンビーナ:大谷 栄治(東北大学大学院理学研究科地学専攻)、高橋 菜緒子(東北大学大学院理学研究科)、コンビーナ:北 佐枝子(建築研究所)、座長:Mysen Bjorn(Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Inst. Washington)、北 佐枝子(建築研究所)


11:15 〜 11:30

[SIT18-09] Water solubility of aluminous post-stishovite at top lower mantle conditions: Implications for water cycle in the deep mantle

*石井 貴之1Giacomo Criniti2大谷 栄治3Narangoo Purevjav2、Hongzhan Fei2桂 智男2、Ho-kwang Mao1 (1.北京高圧科学研究中心、2.バイロイト大学、3.東北大学)

キーワード:マントル、水循環、スティショバイト、ポストスティショバイト、沈み込むスラブ

Water is transported into the deep mantle by slab subduction and influences the mantle dynamics and evolution. Discoveries of hydrous minerals in diamonds such as hydrous ringwoodite indicate that the mantle transition zone is a major water reservoir. Although high-water contents in ocean-island basalt imply the presence of water reservoirs in the lower mantle, most minerals in the pyrolitic lower mantle such as bridgmanite and ferropericlase seem to incorporate only limited amounts of water. Basaltic fragments of subducted slabs are thus expected to store water in the lower mantle. In this study, we investigated the stability and water solubility of aluminous silica minerals, stishovite and its high-pressure polymorph with CaCl2-type structure (post-stishovite), which are abundant phases in basaltic crusts subducted into the lower mantle.
Starting materials were mixtures of SiO2 and AlOOH or Al(OH)3. High-pressure experiments were conducted using multi-anvil presses at 24-28 GPa and 1000-2000°C. Phase identification of recovered samples was examined by X-ray diffraction. Chemical analyses of recovered samples were performed by electron microprobe analysis and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy.
Our results indicate that aluminous post-stishovite is quenchable at 24 and 28 GPa above 1900 and 1700 °C, respectively, in contrast to anhydrous aluminous post-stishovite, and can store weight percent levels (1.7-2.1 wt.%) of water. The alumina content increases with increasing temperature and can store up to ~10 wt.%. In contrast to other nominally anhydrous minerals, the water solubility in aluminous post-stishovite increases with temperature because of the increased Al content and higher production of Al3+-H+ charge coupling. Recent diamond anvil experiments also reported weight percent levels of water in pure SiO2 stishovite and post-stishovite, but these estimations would have significant uncertainty due to indirect water measurement based on volume expansion. Our study quantitatively estimated the significant water content by a direct water measurement of FT-IR spectroscopy. Hydrous aluminous post-stishovite is stable under most lower-mantle pressure-temperature conditions, including those of plumes, and should thus be the most important water reservoir and carrier in the lower mantle. Hydrous aluminous post-stishovite may further transport hydrogen to the metallic core through subducted slabs.