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High-pressure transition of CaCO3

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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 92 Issue 7

Abstract

Calcite, CaCO3, is a common carbon-bearing mineral found on the Earth.s surface. As carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be sequestered in carbon-bearing minerals (carbonates), the stability of carbonate minerals is of great interest to earth science. In our study, in-situ X-ray diffraction observations indicate that calcium carbonate (CaCO3) transforms to an orthopyroxene-type structure that has fourfold coordination of carbon cations, when heated to temperatures >1500 K at pressures >130 GPa, which is in agreement with theoretical predictions from ab initio calculations. The volume reduction of this transition is ~0.5%, and the high-pressure phase did not quench on decompression to ambient pressure. Although the post-aragonite phase, which has threefold coordination of carbon cations, shows strongly anisotropic compressibility of each axis of the unit-cell parameter, no obvious anisotropy in the pyroxene-type phase was observed. The stability of this new calcium carbonate implies that the carbon dioxide could be storable at the base of the lower mantle.

Keywords: Calcium carbonate; phase transition; high pressure; diamond anvil cell
Received: 2007-3-23
Accepted: 2007-4-5
Published Online: 2015-4-1
Published in Print: 2007-7-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2007.2649
Keywords for this article
Calcium carbonate; phase transition; high pressure; diamond anvil cell

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  2. Dehydration of Ca-montmorillonite at the crystal scale. Part I: Structure evolution
  3. Dehydration of Ca-montmorillonite at the crystal scale. Part 2. Mechanisms and kinetics
  4. The high-pressure crystal structure of potassium hydrogen carbonate (KHCO3)
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  6. Investigation of synthetic Mg1.3V1.7O4 spinel with MgO inclusions: Case study of a spinel with an apparently occupied interstitial site
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