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Carbon isotope fractionation during experimental crystallisation of diamond from carbonate fluid at mantle conditions. / Reutsky, Vadim; Borzdov, Yuri; Palyanov, Yuri et al.
In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 170, No. 5-6, 41, 01.12.2015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Carbon isotope fractionation during experimental crystallisation of diamond from carbonate fluid at mantle conditions
AU - Reutsky, Vadim
AU - Borzdov, Yuri
AU - Palyanov, Yuri
AU - Sokol, Alexander
AU - Izokh, Olga
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - We report first results of a systematic study of carbon isotope fractionation in a carbonate fluid system under mantle PT conditions. The system models a diamond-forming alkaline carbonate fluid using pure sodium oxalate (Na2C2O4) as the starting material, which decomposes to carbonate, CO2 and elementary carbon (graphite and diamond) involving a single source of carbon following the reaction 2Na2C2O4 → 2Na2CO3 + CO2 + C. Near-liquidus behaviour of carbonate was observed at 1300 °C and 6.3 GPa. The experimentally determined isotope fractionation between the components of the system in the temperature range from 1300 to 1700 °C at 6.3 and 7.5 GPa fit the theoretical expectations well. Carbon isotope fractionation associated with diamond crystallisation from the carbonate fluid at 7.5 GPa decreases with an increase in temperature from 2.7 to 1.6 ‰. This trend corresponds to the function ΔCarbonate fluid–Diamond = 7.38 × 106 T−2.
AB - We report first results of a systematic study of carbon isotope fractionation in a carbonate fluid system under mantle PT conditions. The system models a diamond-forming alkaline carbonate fluid using pure sodium oxalate (Na2C2O4) as the starting material, which decomposes to carbonate, CO2 and elementary carbon (graphite and diamond) involving a single source of carbon following the reaction 2Na2C2O4 → 2Na2CO3 + CO2 + C. Near-liquidus behaviour of carbonate was observed at 1300 °C and 6.3 GPa. The experimentally determined isotope fractionation between the components of the system in the temperature range from 1300 to 1700 °C at 6.3 and 7.5 GPa fit the theoretical expectations well. Carbon isotope fractionation associated with diamond crystallisation from the carbonate fluid at 7.5 GPa decreases with an increase in temperature from 2.7 to 1.6 ‰. This trend corresponds to the function ΔCarbonate fluid–Diamond = 7.38 × 106 T−2.
KW - Carbon isotopes
KW - Carbonate fluid
KW - Diamond
KW - Fractionation
KW - HPHT experiment
KW - Mantle conditions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945340408&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00410-015-1197-5
DO - 10.1007/s00410-015-1197-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945340408
VL - 170
JO - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
JF - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
SN - 0010-7999
IS - 5-6
M1 - 41
ER -
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