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High-temperature and high-pressure behavior of carbonates in the ternary diagram CaCO3-MgCO3-FeCO3

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Abstract

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 °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, α0 = 4.10(7) ×10–5 K–1, to magnesite, MgCO3, α0 = 7.04(2) ×10–5 K–1. In the magnesite-siderite (FeCO3) join, the thermal expansion decreases as iron content increases, with an experimental value of α0 = 6.44(4) ×10–5 K–1 for siderite. The compressibility in the ternary join is higher (i.e., lower bulk modulus) in calcite and Mg-calcite [K0 = 77(3) GPa for Ca0.91Mg0.06Fe0.03(CO3)] than in magnesite, K0 = 113(1) GPa, and siderite, K0 = 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., R3c calcite-type structure vs. R3 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.


† Present address: Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.

‡ Present address: Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

§ Present address: Materials Science Beamline, SESAME–Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Allan, PO Box 7, Al Balq’a 19252, Jordan


Acknowledgments

We acknowledge Andrea Risplendente and Nicola Rotiroti for the assistance in the microprobe analysis and single-crystal laboratory diffraction. We acknowledge Elettra Syncrotron Facility for provision of beamtime (experiment 20125293, 20135433). We acknowledge ESRF for provision of beamtime (experiment ES142, ES209). M.M. acknowledge DCO support.

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Received: 2015-6-10
Accepted: 2016-2-5
Published Online: 2016-6-3
Published in Print: 2016-6-1

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