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Determination of Fe‐Mg partitioning between perovskite and magnesiowüstite
Author(s) -
Katsura Tomoo,
Ito Eiji
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl02086
Subject(s) - wüstite , enstatite , perovskite (structure) , mantle (geology) , stishovite , partition coefficient , materials science , mineralogy , metallurgy , thermodynamics , analytical chemistry (journal) , magnetite , geology , chemistry , crystallography , geochemistry , meteorite , environmental chemistry , physics , quartz , chromatography , astronomy , chondrite
The partition coefficient of Fe and Mg between perovskite and magnesiowüstite K Mg‐Fe Pv‐Mw has been measured by adopting a B 2 O 3 catalyst technique. The present experimental results demonstrate that K Mg‐Fe Pv‐Mw is a factor of two closer to unity than that obtained in previous studies. K Mg‐Fe Pv‐Mw increases from 0.16 to 0.35 with increasing Mg# of magnesiowüstite from 50 to 86. On the basis of these results, the compositions of enstatite and magnesiowüstite included in diamond imply that the temperature at the top of the lower mantle is 1870–2040 K. The Mg# (100Mg/(Mg+Fe)) of perovskite and magnesiowüstite at the top of the lower mantle are 93 and 82–83, respectively, for a pyrolitic mantle model. The upper bound of the lower mantle temperature estimated in this study do not allow a larger fraction of perovskite than the pyrolitic mantle.