JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Postspinel Phases in the Mg 2 SiO 4 -Fe 2 SiO 4 System

L. C. MingWilliam A. Bassett

Year: 1975 Journal:   Science Vol: 187 (4171)Pages: 66-68   Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

Samples of olivine (Fo 0 Fa 100 , Fo 60 Fa 40 , Fo 80 Fa 20 , and Fo 100 Fa 0 ) and of spinel (Fo 50 Fa 50 , Fo 0 Fa 100 , where Fo is forsterite and Fa is fayalite) were subjected to pressures up to 250 kilobars in a diamond anvil press and were heated in situ up to ∼1700°C by an infrared beam from a continuous-wave YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser. The brightness temperature was determined from the intensity of incandescence of the sample by means of an optical pyrometer. X-ray diffraction patterns of the samples, obtained after quenching and unloading, show conclusively that these compositions disproportionate to (Mg,Fe)O and SiO 2 (stishovite) under these conditions.

Keywords:
Forsterite Analytical Chemistry (journal) Stishovite Pyrometer Spinel Fayalite Mineralogy Olivine Materials science Corundum Chemistry Quartz Metallurgy Temperature measurement

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High-pressure geophysics and materials
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