DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116615
论文题名: Warm and oxidizing slabs limit ingassing efficiency of nitrogen to the mantle
作者: Jackson C.R.M. ; Cottrell E. ; Andrews B.
刊名: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN: 0012821X
出版年: 2021
卷: 553 语种: 英语
中文关键词: nitrogen
; partitioning
; slab
英文关键词: Biotite
; Dehydration
; Earth atmosphere
; Feldspar
; Melting
; Mica
; Mineral exploration
; Oxide minerals
; Oxygen
; Rare earths
; Silicates
; Earth's interior
; Mineral composition
; Nitrogen cycles
; Oxygen fugacity
; Rhyolitic melts
; Sediment melting
; Slab dehydration
; Volatile elements
; Nitrogen
; basalt
; dehydration
; mantle source
; nitrogen
; P-T-t path
; rhyolite
; saturation
; silicate mineral
; slab
英文摘要: Nitrogen is a major and essential component of Earth's atmosphere, yet relative to other volatile elements, there are relatively few experimental constraints on the pathways by which nitrogen cycles between Earth's interior and exterior. We report mineral-melt and mineral-fluid partitioning experiments to constrain the behavior of nitrogen during slab dehydration and sediment melting processes. Experiments reacted rhyolitic melts with silicate and oxide minerals, in the presence of excess aqueous fluid, over temperatures between 725-925 °C and pressures between 0.2 and 2.3 GPa. Oxygen fugacity ranged between iron metal saturation (∼NNO-5) to that in excess of primitive arc basalts (∼NNO+2). Our experiments demonstrate that hydrous fluid is the preferred phase for nitrogen over minerals (biotite, K-feldspar, and amphibole) and rhyolitic melts across all conditions explored. Relatively large effects of pressure (Δlog(Dmelt−fluidN)/Δ(GPa/K) = 761 ± 68 (1σ), Δlog(Dbiotite−fluidN)/Δ(GPa/K) = 462 ± 169) and moderate effects of oxygen fugacity (Δlog(Dmelt−fluidN)/ΔNNO = -0.20 ± 0.04, Δlog(Dbiotite−fluidN)/ΔNNO = -0.10 ± 0.04) modulate partitioning of nitrogen. We further document negligible partitioning effects related to mineral composition or Cl content of hydrous fluid. Of the minerals investigated, biotite has the largest affinity for N and should control the retention of N in slabs where present. Application of partitioning data to slab dehydration PT paths highlights the potential for highly incompatible behavior (Dbiotite−fluidN < 0.1) from the slab along warmer and oxidized (NNO+1) subduction geotherms, whereas dehydration along reduced and cooler geotherms will extract moderate amounts of nitrogen (Dbiotite−fluidN > 0.1). We find that slab melting is less effective at extracting N from slabs than fluid loss, at least under oxidized conditions (NNO+1). Ultimately, the conditions under which slabs lose fluid strongly affect the distribution of nitrogen between Earth's interior and exterior. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/165524
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作者单位: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, United States; Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Recommended Citation:
Jackson C.R.M.,Cottrell E.,Andrews B.. Warm and oxidizing slabs limit ingassing efficiency of nitrogen to the mantle[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2021-01-01,553