Solubility and partitioning of water in synthetic forsterite and enstatite in the system MgO–SiO2–H2O±Al2O3

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Kevin J. Grant1,2, Simon C. Kohn1, Richard A. Brooker1,3
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
3Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, UK

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The solubility of water in coexisting enstatite and forsterite was investigated by simultaneously synthesizing the two phases in a series of high pressure and temperature piston cylinder experiments. Experiments were performed at 1.0 and 2.0 GPa at temperatures between 1,100 and 1,420°C. Integrated OH absorbances were determined using polarized infrared spectroscopy on orientated single crystals of each phase. Phase water contents were estimated using the calibration of Libowitzky and Rossman (Am Mineral 82:1111–1115, 1997). Enstatite crystals, synthesized in equilibrium with forsterite and an aqueous phase at 1,350°C and 2.0 GPa, contain 114 ppm H2O. This is reduced to 59 ppm at 1,100°C, under otherwise identical conditions, suggesting a strong temperature dependence. At 1,350°C and 1.0 GPa water solubility in enstatite is 89 ppm, significantly lower than that at 2.0 GPa. In contrast water solubility in forsterite is essentially constant, being in the range 36–41 ppm for all conditions studied. These data give partition coefficients $$ {\text{D}}_{{{\text{H}}_{2} {\text{O}}}} ^{{{\text{en}}/{\text{fo}}}} $$ in the range 2.28–3.31 for all experiments at 1,350°C and 1.34 for one experiment at 1,100°C. The incorporation of Al2O3 in enstatite modifies the OH stretching spectrum in a systematic way, and slightly increases the water solubility.

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