Partial Melting of Spinel Lherzolite in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 K2O at 1{middle dot}1 GPa

Melting Behaviour of Model Lherzolite in the System CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–FeO at 0·7–2·8 GPa

Fe–Mg exchange is the most important solid solution involved in for Fe–Mg exchange between the coexisting crystalline phases and melt, KdFe–Mg, show a relatively simple and predictable behaviour partial melting of spinel lherzolite, and the system CaO– MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–FeO (CMASF) is ideally suited to explore with pressure and temperature: the coefficients for olivine and spinel do not show signi...

Measuring and Modeling Viscosity of CaO-Al2O3-SiO2(-K2O) Melt

The effect of K2O on viscosity in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 melt has been measured by a rotating spindle viscometer. It is indicated from the experimental results that viscosity first increases then decreases with the increasing content of K2O; the maximum viscosity occurs in the field of K2O/ Al2O3 > 1. After gradually adding K2O, the transformation of bridging oxygen (from being bonded with Al ion charg...

Kinetics of spinel formation and growth during dissolution of MgO in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 slag

Ternary System Al2O3–MgO–CaO: I, Primary Phase Field of Crystallization of Spinel in the Subsystem MgAl2O4–CaAl4O7–CaO–MgO

Using a novel experimental procedure in the field of ceramics/materials science that is based on the precise microanalysis (scanning electron microscopy, coupled with wavelength-dispersive spectroscopy) of the phases that are present in equilibrated specimens, the solid-state compatibility relations in the subsystem MgAl2O4–CaAl4O7–CaO– MgO and the melting relationships in the subsystems MgAl2O...

Near-solidus Melting of the Shallow Upper Mantle: Partial Melting Experiments on Depleted Peridotite

We present the results of melting experiments on a moderately depleted peridotite composition (DMM1) at 10 kbar and 1250±1390 C. Specially designed experiments demonstrate that liquids extracted into aggregates of vitreous carbon spheres maintained chemical contact with the bulk charge down to melt fractions of 0 02±0 04 and approached equilibrium closely. With increasing melt fraction, SiO2, F...