An internally consistent dataset with uncertainties and correlations: 3. Applications to geobarometry, worked examples and a computer program

Journal of Metamorphic Geology - Tập 6 Số 2 - Trang 173-204 - 1988
Roger Powell1, T. J. B. Holland2
1Department of Geology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
2Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK

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Abstract This paper provides methods and a description of a Pascal computer program, thermocalc, for various thermodynamic calculations using the thermodynamic dataset presented in earlier papers in this series (Holland & Powell, 1985; Powell & Holland, 1985). The dataset involves uncertainties on the thermodynamic parameters and therefore allows uncertainties to be calculated on results, for example in geothermometry and geobarometry. Recommendations are made for the uncertainties on activities to be used in calculations on rocks, particular emphasis being placed on preventing underestimates of these uncertainties at small mole fractions. Apposite examples of phase diagram and rock calculations are presented with ouput from thermocalc, demonstrating the utility of the program. Of the rock calculations, the most valuable are considered to be those involving simultaneous combination ‘least squares’of calculated conditions for a set of reactions applicable to a rock. This set of reactions involves the independent reactions which can be written between the end‐members in the minerals in a rock and in the thermodynamic dataset. In contrast to an approach based on specific geothermometers and geobarometers, this approach maximizes the benefit of having an internally consistent thermodynamic dataset. thermocalc is available in IBM PC and Mac versions, from Roger Powell for A$25 or Tim Holland for £10 per version.

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Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Tập 6 Số 2

173-204

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