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Thermal equation of state of Fe3O4 magnetite up to 16 GPa and 1100 K

  • Nicki C. Siersch , Giacomo Criniti ORCID logo , Alexander Kurnosov , Konstantin Glazyrin and Daniele Antonangeli
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 108 Issue 7

Abstract

Fe3O4 magnetite is an important mineral commonly found in various geological settings, including the planet Mars, whose thermoelastic properties at high pressure and temperature are still poorly constrained. We performed X-ray difraction measurements on natural magnetite using resistive-heated diamond-anvil cells up to 16 GPa and 1100 K. We fitted a thermal equation of state (EoS) to the collected data resulting in K0 = 182(1) GPa, K′0 = 4, θD = 660 K, γ = 1.8(1), and q = 2.7. Moreover, it was possible to explore the structural evolution of magnetite in detail using single-crystal measurements. Over the studied pressure and temperature range, we found no evidence of a transformation from an inverse to a normal spinel structure. The EoS parameters obtained in this study will be implemented into currently available databases for self-consistent thermodynamic modeling. In particular, our results are used to model and compare the sound wave velocities of a magnetite-bearing and magnetite-free martian upper mantle assemblage. We observe that the incorporation of magnetite reduces the sound wave velocities; however, the magnitude of the effect is below the current seismic detection limit of the InSight mission on Mars at the low abundance of magnetite expected in the martian mantle.

Keywords: Magnetite; thermal equation of state; X-ray diffraction; high-pressure; high-temperature

Funding statement: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme (Grant agreement 724690). This work was supported by the French Space Agency (CNES), focused on SEIS instrument of the InSight mission. The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) facility at IMPMC is supported by Région Ile de France grant SESAME 2006 N°I-07-593/R, INSU-CNRS, Institute de Physique (INP)–CNRS, University Pierre et Marie Curie–Paris 6, and by the French National Research Agency (ANR) grant ANR-07-BLAN-0124-01. This research was carried out at the P02.2 Extreme Conditions Beamline at DESY, a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF). The research leading to this result has been supported by the project CALIPSOplus under the Grant Agreement 730872 from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020. This paper is InSight contribution 261.

Acknowledgments

We thank the technical editor, Giovanni B. Andreozzi and one anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments and G. Diego Gatta for handling the revision process of this manuscript. We thank the Sorbonne University Mineral Collection for the provision of the samples. The authors thank Imène Estève for her help with sample analysis by SEM at the Institut de Minéralogie de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC, Paris) and Nicolas Rividi for his help during microprobe analysis at the Centre Camparis, Sorbonne Université (Paris, France). Tainá Maciel, Ludovic Delbes, Benoît Baptiste, and Eglantine Boulard are acknowledged for preliminary measurements at the IMPMC X-ray diffraction platform.

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Received: 2022-04-29
Accepted: 2022-08-17
Published Online: 2023-07-10
Published in Print: 2023-07-26

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Keywords for this article
Magnetite; thermal equation of state; X-ray diffraction; high-pressure; high-temperature

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