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Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2018

Carbonate stability in the reduced lower mantle

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Carbonate minerals are important hosts of carbon in the crust and mantle with a key role in the transport and storage of carbon in Earth's deep interior over the history of the planet. Whether subducted carbonates efficiently melt and break down due to interactions with reduced phases or are preserved to great depths and ultimately reach the core-mantle boundary remains controversial. In this study, experiments in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC) on layered samples of dolomite (Mg,Ca)CO3 and iron at pressure and temperature conditions 23 reaching those of the deep lower mantle show that carbon-iron redox interactions destabilize the 24 MgCO3 component, producing a mixture of diamond, Fe7C3, and (Mg,Fe)O. However, CaCO3 is preserved, supporting its relative stability in carbonate-rich lithologies under reducing lower mantle conditions. These results constrain the thermodynamic stability of redox-driven breakdown of carbonates and demonstrate progress towards multiphase mantle petrology in the LHDAC at conditions of the lowermost mantle.
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Susannah Dorfman, James Badro, Farhang Nabiei, Vitali Prakapenka, Marco Cantoni, et al.. Carbonate stability in the reduced lower mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018, 489, pp.84-91. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.035⟩. ⟨hal-02363561⟩
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