Abstract
New heat capacity measurements and cell volume data are presented for a very magnesian glaucophane from a Tauern Window eclogite. These data are combined with estimated entropy, thermal expansion, and compressibility data to generate an enthalpy of formation for glaucophane from experimentally determined phase equilibria. The data are supported by preliminary experiments of the author and provide consistent calculations on the pressure of formation of the Tauern eclogites and on the position of the blueschist-greenschist transformation reaction as studied experimentally by Maruyama et al. (1986). The resulting thermodynamic data for glaucophane may be combined with the dataset of Holland and Powell (1985) to calculate phase relations for blueschists and eclogites. The stability of magnesian glaucophane lies in the pressure range between 8 and 32 kbars at 400° C and between 13 and 33 kbars at 600° C, and the unusual eclogite assemblage of glaucophane+kyanite from the Tauern Window is restricted to pressures above 20 kbars at high water activity.
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Holland, T.J.B. Preliminary phase relations involving glaucophane and applications to high pressure petrology: new heat capacity and thermodynamic data. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 99, 134–142 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399373
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