FeO-Al2O3-SiO2

The almandine enthalpy is based largely on the reaction alm + 3hem = 3mt + ky +2q determined experimentally by Harlov & Newton (1992). The calculated slope fitted to the iron cordierite breakdown reaction 2alm + 4sill + 5q = 3fcrd in HP90 had a positive slope relative to the earlier experimental brackets on this reaction. However, the more recent experiments of Mukhopadhyay & Holdaway (1994) have confirmed the positive slope for this breakdown reaction. These data for Fe-cordierite are in excellent agreement with the Fe-Mg exchange equilibrium experiments of Perchuk & Lavrenteva (1983) for garnet-cordierite, as shown below.

A model for staurolites involving variable H2O contents (as suggested by Holdaway et al., 1995) was found to be successful at fitting most of the equilibria involving Fe- and Mg-staurolites. However, this model has not been included here because (a) the simpler model of HP90 gave almost indistinguishable PT locations for all equilibria, and (b) the activity models used involve assumptions about site distributions for Fe, Mg, Al, Si and H in natural and synthetic staurolites which are probably not well enough understood (Hawthorne et al., 1993) to make robust activity estimates. Most of the experimental equilibria, other than those of Richardson (1968), involving garnet, staurolite and chloritoid are quite well fited by the data. The recent high-pressure equilibria on chloritoid stability from Vidal et al. (1994) are very well fitted.

230)  alm + 3hem = 3mt + ky + 2q   (Harlov & Newton, 1992)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     -  23.0 20.0     650      -23.89  -18.71         21.14  0.66   3 (-21.79 <-> -19.75)
     0     -  22.5 22.0     700      -20.43  -19.57   0.15  22.65  0.66   cH = -20.69 (sd  0.54) 
     0     -  26.0 25.5     800      -21.59  -20.73  -0.02  25.48  0.66   within bracket
     0     -  29.0 28.0     900      -21.85  -20.12         28.33  0.66   uH = 0.86, d/s = -0.2, h = 0.84
 
231)  alm + 2sill = 3herc + 5q   (Bohlen et al., 1986)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     -      3.0          800             6.65           708    24   5 (2.49 <-> 3.98)
     0     -      2.9          780             6.19           701    26   cH = 3.48 (sd  0.42) 2
     0     -      5.2     865  880     3.61    4.17     -4    861    22   within bracket
     0     -   5.5  5.1     880        3.44    4.41          5.48  0.43   uH = 0.39, d/s = -2.8, h = 0.82
     0     -   6.9  6.5     940        2.31    3.27  -0.09   6.41  0.43   
     0     -   8.9  8.5    1020        0.63    1.59  -0.79   7.71  0.43   
     0     -      8.8    1015 1035     0.67    1.47     50   1085    20   
 
232)  alm + 5cor = 3herc + 3sill   (Shulters & Bohlen, 1989)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     -      7.2     850          6.73            -58    792    24   6 (4.75 <-> 6.10)
     0     -   8.3  7.9     900        5.80    6.91   0.51   8.81  0.34   cH = 4.38 (sd  0.46) 2
     0     -  10.6  9.9    1000        3.96    5.88         10.45  0.34   too low but OK
     0     -  12.3 11.9    1100        4.15    5.24         12.21  0.35   uH = 0.57, d/s = -1.3, h = 0.24
 
233)  2alm + 4sill + 5q = 3fcrd   (Mukhopadhyay et al., 1991)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     -   2.3  1.9     650      110.62  115.18  -0.05   1.85  0.14   3 (114.71 <-> 116.75)
     0     -   2.5  2.1     700      113.45  117.99          2.30  0.14   cH = 115.71 (sd  1.13) 
     0     -   2.7  2.3     750      116.30  120.83   0.05   2.75  0.14   within bracket
                                                                          uH = 0.73, d/s = -0.8, h = 0.94
 
234)  6fst + 25q = 8alm + 46ky + 12H2O   (Rao & Johannes, 1979)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      6.0     680  700   998.55 1010.01           683    18   3 (999.59 <-> 1007.87)
     0     0     10.0     640  660   993.15 1003.57           654    20   cH = 1000.50 (sd  5.16) 2
     0     0     15.0     590  610  1001.23 1010.53     -2    588    24   within bracket
                                                                          uH = 3.01, d/s = 0.4, h = 0.75
 
*  6fst + 25q = 8alm + 46ky + 12H2O   (Ganguly, 1972)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      7.0     700       1012.49            -21    679    18    ** NOT USED **
     0     0     10.0          690          1019.16           654    20   cH = 1000.50 (sd  5.16)
     0     0  10.6 14.0     650     1001.66 1022.48  -0.21  10.39  2.40   
     0     0     15.5     600  650  1009.52 1032.50    -20    580    24   
 
*  2fst + 15q = 4fcrd + 10sill + 4H2O   (Richardson, 1968)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      2.0     550  575   578.35  592.31     12    587     8    ** NOT USED **
     0     0      4.0     675        596.84                   679     8   cH = 598.77 (sd  2.42)
     0     0      3.0          650           607.86           633     8   
 
235)  23fctd + 7q = 2fst + 5alm + 19H2O   (Rao & Johannes, 1979)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
  1.18     0     10.0     560  580  1750.60 1775.69           573    10   2 (1759.19 <-> 1779.14)
  1.18     0     14.0     580       1766.25                   580    10   cH = 1766.80 (sd  5.92) 2
  1.18     0      6.0          560          1772.09           556    10   within bracket
                                                                          uH = 7.14, d/s = 0.4, h = 0.06
 
236)  8fctd + 10ky = 2fst + 3q + 4H2O   (Rao & Johannes, 1979)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
  0.41     0      6.0     530  550   404.48  411.12    -22    508    14   3 (399.29 <-> 404.98)
  0.41     0     10.0     550  570   398.84  405.31     -6    544    14   cH = 397.04 (sd  2.38) 2
  0.41     0     14.0     570  590   396.09  402.50           573    16   too low but OK
                                                                          uH = 2.04, d/s = -0.5, h = 0.38
 
237)  3fctd = alm + 2cor + 3H2O   (Ganguly, 1969; Vidal et al., 1994)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
 -0.49     0     12.0     570  595   281.44  286.62      7    602     8   3 (285.83 <-> 288.42)
 -0.49     0     19.0     612  640   285.78  291.29           624     8   cH = 288.07 (sd  0.79) 2
 -0.49     0     25.0     627  635   287.04  288.58           632     8   within bracket
 -0.49     0     30.0     615  650   284.34  290.95           635    10   uH = 1.10, d/s = -0.2, h = 0.16
 
238)  3fctd = alm + 2cor + 3H2O   (Ganguly, 1969)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      8.0     580  600   284.34  288.56           598     8   3 (286.21 <-> 289.04)
     0     0     11.5     605  620   285.58  288.63           617     8   cH = 288.07 (sd  0.79) 2
     0     0     15.0     620  640   285.84  289.78           631     8   within bracket
     0     0     20.0     650  670   289.10  292.93     -5    645     8   uH = 1.02, d/s = -0.3, h = 0.19
 
239)  3fctd = 4dsp + alm + H2O   (Vidal et al., 1994)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
 -0.16     0     30.0     615  635   122.80  124.03      7    642    28   2 (122.82 <-> 124.28)
 -0.16     0     33.0     580  615   123.06  125.19           603    30   cH = 124.46 (sd  0.81) 2
                                                                          too high but OK
                                                                          uH = 0.61, d/s = 0.8, h = 0.40
 
*  6fst + 25q = 8alm + 46sill + 12H2O   (Richardson, 1968)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      2.0          680          1481.77           560    10    ** NOT USED **
     0     0      5.0     675  700  1389.57 1417.82    -49    626    10   cH = 1333.44 (sd  5.68)
 
240)  6fst + 25q = 8alm + 46sill + 12H2O   (Dutrow & Holdaway, 1989)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
  7.22     0      3.2     627  647  1324.72 1347.16           635    10   2 (1330.48 <-> 1347.16)
  7.22     0      5.0     673  693  1330.48 1351.94           676    10   cH = 1333.44 (sd  5.68) 2
                                                                          within bracket
                                                                          uH = 5.97, d/s = 1.4, h = 0.14
 
*  8fctd + 10sill = 2fst + 3q + 4H2O   (Richardson, 1968)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
  0.41     0      2.0     500  550   330.40  342.42    -24    476    20    ** NOT USED **
  0.41     0      5.0     525  550   338.40  343.80    -63    462    22   cH = 324.66 (sd  2.47)
 
*  5fctd = fcrd + 3herc + 5H2O   (Grieve & Fawcett, 1974)
 
  ln_K  x(CO2)  P(kbar)      T(C)     H(low) H(high)  miss   calc   2sd        summary
     0     0      1.0     525  550   529.32  541.94    -13    512     6    ** NOT USED **
     0     0      2.0     550  575   526.71  538.51     -8    542     6   cH = 522.77 (sd  1.44)
 
 


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