Melting Temperature and Partial Melt Chemistry of H 2 O-Saturated Mantle Peridotite to 11 Gigapascals
- 11 April 1997
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 276 (5310) , 240-243
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.276.5310.240
Abstract
The H 2 O-saturated solidus of a model mantle composition (Kilborne Hole peridotite nodule, KLB-1) was determined to be just above 1000°C from 5 to 11 gigapascals. Given reasonable H 2 O abundances in Earth’s mantle, an H 2 O-rich fluid could exist only in a region defined by the wet solidus and thermal stability limits of hydrous minerals, at depths between 90 and 330 kilometers. The experimental partial melts monotonously became more mafic with increasing pressure from andesitic composition at 1 gigapascal to more mafic than the starting peridotite at 10 gigapascals. Because the chemistry of the experimental partial melts is similar to that of kimberlites, it is suggested that kimberlites may be derived by low-temperature melting of an H 2 O-rich mantle at depths of 150 to 300 kilometers.Keywords
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