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AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 101, Issue 5-6, Pages 1423-1430Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am-2016-5458
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Carbonates; high temperature; high pressure; equation of state
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We report the thermal expansion and the compressibility of carbonates in the ternary compositional diagram CaCO3-MgCO3-FeCO3, determined by in situ X-ray powder and single-crystal diffraction. High-temperature experiments were performed by high-resolution X-ray synchrotron powder diffraction from ambient to decarbonation temperatures (25-850 degrees C). Single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments were performed in a variable pressure range (0-100 GPa), depending on the stability field of the rhombohedral structure at ambient temperature, which is a function of the carbonate composition. The thermal expansion increases from calcite, CaCO3, alpha(0) = 4.10(7) x 10(-5) K-1, to magnesite, MgCO3, alpha(0) = 7.04(2) x 10(-5) K-1. In the magnesite-siderite (FeCO3) join, the thermal expansion decreases as iron content increases, with an experimental value of alpha(0) = 6.44(4) x 10(-5) K-1 for siderite. The compressibility in the ternary join is higher (i.e., lower bulk modulus) in calcite and Mg-calcite [K-0 = 77(3) GPa for Ca0.91Mg0.06Fe0.03(CO3)] than in magnesite, K-0 = 113(1) GPa, and siderite, K-0 = 125(1) GPa. The analysis of thermal expansion and compressibility variation in calcite-magnesite and calcite-iron-magnesite joins clearly shows that the structural changes associated to the order-disorder transitions [i.e., R (3) over barc calcite-type structure vs. R (3) over bar CaMg(CO3)(2) dolomite-type structure] do not affect significantly the thermal expansion and compressibility of carbonate. On the contrary, the chemical compositions of carbonates play a major role on their thermo-elastic properties. Finally, we use our P-V-T equation of state data to calculate the unit-cell volume of a natural ternary carbonate, and we compare the calculated volumes to experimental observations, measured in situ at elevated pressure and temperatures, using a multi-anvil device. The experimental and calculated data are in good agreement demonstrating that the equation of state here reported can describe the volume behavior with the accuracy needed, for example, for a direct chemical estimation of carbonates based on experimental unit-cell volume data of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures.
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