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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets Année : 2024

Mantle Mineralogy of Reduced Sub‐Earths Exoplanets and Exo‐Mercuries

Camilla Cioria
Giuseppe Mitri
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James Alexander Denis Connolly
Fabrizio Saracino

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Abstract The mineralogy of planetary mantles formed under reducing conditions, as documented in the inner regions of the solar system, is not well constrained. We present thermodynamic models of mineral assemblages that would constitute the mantles of exo‐Mercuries. We investigated reduced materials such as enstatite chondrites, CH, and CB chondrites, and aubrites, as precursor bulk compositions in phase equilibrium modeling. The resulting isochemical phase diagram sections indicate that dominant phases in these reduced mantles would be pyroxenes rather than olivine, contrasting with the olivine‐rich mantles found within Earth, Mars, and Venus. The pyroxene abundances in the modeled mantles assemblages depend on the silica content shown by precursor materials. The silica abundance in the mantle is closely related to Si abundance in the core, particularly in reduced environments. In addition, we propose that pyroxene‐rich mantles exhibit more vigorous convective and tectonic activity than olivine‐rich mantles, given that pyroxene‐rich mantles would have lower viscosity and a lower solidus temperature ( Ts ).
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hal-04818431 , version 1 (04-12-2024)

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Camilla Cioria, Giuseppe Mitri, James Alexander Denis Connolly, Jean‐philippe Perrillat, Fabrizio Saracino. Mantle Mineralogy of Reduced Sub‐Earths Exoplanets and Exo‐Mercuries. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2024, 129 (7), ⟨10.1029/2023JE008234⟩. ⟨hal-04818431⟩
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