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Compression of Na0.4Mg0.6Al1.6Si0.4O4 NAL and Ca-ferrite-type phases

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Compression behaviors of two Al-rich phases in the lower mantle, hexagonal new aluminum-rich (NAL) phase and its high-pressure polymorph Ca-ferrite-type (CF) phase, were examined for identical Na0.4Mg0.6Al1.6Si0.4O4 (40 % NaAlSiO4–60 % MgAl2O4) composition. The volumes of the NAL and CF phases were obtained at room temperature up to 31 and 134 GPa, respectively, by a combination of laser-annealed diamond-anvil cell techniques and synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements. Fitting of the third-order Birch–Murnaghan equation of state to such pressure–volume data yields bulk modulus K 0 = 199(6) GPa at 1 bar and its pressure derivative K 0′ = 5.0(6) for the NAL phase and K 0 = 169(5) GPa and K 0′ = 6.3(3) for the CF phase. These results indicate that the bulk modulus increases from 397 to 407 GPa across the phase transition from the NAL to CF phase at 43 GPa, where the NAL phase completely transforms into the CF phase on Na0.4Mg0.6Al1.6Si0.4O4. Density also increases by 2.1 % across the phase transition.

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Acknowledgments

We thank S. Tateno, H. Ozawa, and E. Sugimura for their support in synchrotron experiments. Comments from M. Akaogi and an anonymous referee were helpful to improve the manuscript. XRD measurements were performed at SPring-8 (proposal no. 2010B0087 and 2011A0087).

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan

    Saori Imada, Kei Hirose & Tetsuya Komabayashi

  2. Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan

    Kei Hirose & Toshihiro Suzuki

  3. Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Koto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan

    Yasuo Ohishi

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Imada, S., Hirose, K., Komabayashi, T. et al. Compression of Na0.4Mg0.6Al1.6Si0.4O4 NAL and Ca-ferrite-type phases. Phys Chem Minerals 39, 525–530 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-012-0508-x

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