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Experimental Studies Of Fe-Mg Carbonates And Their Role In Petrogenesis
Experimental Studies Of Fe-Mg Carbonates And Their Role In Petrogenesis
Andrea M. Koziol
The occurrence of carbonate minerals in rocks and sediments is a mark of the interaction of the biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere with the lithosphere. The studies described in this proposal will help geologists understand the conditions of formation of banded iron formations, carbonatites, and magnesite-bearing eclogites, among other parageneses.
The objectives of this study are to determine siderite (FeCO3), magnesite (MgCO3), and CO2 thermodynamic properties and the mixing relations of siderite-magnesite solid solutions. Selected carbonate univariant equilibria, experimentally reversed over a wide range of pressure and temperature, will provide this information. The equilibria siderite + hematite = magnetite + CO2, …