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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116162
	Transport of coexisting Ni-Cu sulfide liquid and silicate melt in partially molten peridotite
	Wang Z.; Jin Z.; Mungall J.E.; Xiao X.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	536
英文摘要	Transport of coexisting sulfide and silicate melts in partially molten peridotite contributes to the redistribution of chalcophile elements within the upper mantle as well as the genesis of magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits, but has not been investigated systematically. Using laboratory experiments, theoretical calculations, and X-ray synchrotron microtomography, this study documents the topology and considers controls on the extraction of two immiscible liquids during partial melting of mantle peridotite. Under hydrostatic conditions, the measured dihedral angle at silicate melt-mineral-mineral junctions is 13.7–21.3°. Silicate melt is distributed along grain edges forming incompletely interconnected melt channels that disconnected by some dead ends at melt fractions ∼7–9 vol%. Application of theoretically predicted permeability (k∼10−14–10−16 m2) permits estimation of the extraction velocity of silicate melt of 0.7-11.1 μm/day within a single interconnected melt channel. In the absence of silicate melt, isolated sulfide droplets (3.77 vol%) show a sulfide-olivine-olivine dihedral angle of 91.5–101.3°. However, in the presence of silicate melt, sulfide droplets (average size ∼2.53 ± 2.14 μm, 1σ) are partially surrounded by silicate melt and stranded in triple junctions or melt pockets due to the limitation of the smallest dimension (0.3 μm) of melt channels. Thus, the extraction of sulfide liquid is highly restricted by these dead ends and the smallest dimension of melt channels during porous flow of silicate melt. In contrast, during large-strain shear deformation (strain ∼1.6–2.5), initially stranded sulfide droplets were elongated and extracted with silicate melt into liquid-rich sheets with a length of several hundred microns, constantly oriented at 14.3 ± 4.5° to the shear plane and antithetic to the shear direction. The angle is lower than that (18–30°) of those sheets containing sulfide liquid only, indicating that silicate melt dominates liquid-rich sheets. Driven by stress, silicate melt-dominated liquid-rich sheets open the appropriately oriented grain boundaries between silicate minerals, thus providing an efficient pathway for the extraction of sulfide liquid during deformation. When such sheet-like channels remain open, sulfide droplets (> millimeter-scale) can be potentially mobile through high strain domains of the upper mantle, contributing to the addition of chalcophile elements and the fertilization of the lithospheric mantle. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	high P-T experiment liquid extraction lithosphere refertilization magmatic sulfide deposit synchrotron X-ray microtomography
英文关键词	Binary alloys; Copper alloys; Copper compounds; Deposits; Dihedral angle; Drop breakup; Extraction; Grain boundaries; Integrated circuit interconnects; Liquids; Olivine; Silicates; Structural geology; Sulfur compounds; Sulfur deposits; Tomography; X rays; Hydrostatic conditions; Laboratory experiments; Liquid extraction; lithosphere refertilization; Magmatic sulfides; Synchrotron X-ray microtomography; Theoretical calculations; X ray synchrotron microtomography; Nickel compounds; copper; grain boundary; nickel; partial melting; shear strain; silicate melt
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202961
作者单位	School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China; State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China; Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, 2115 Herzberg Laboratories, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada; Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Z.,Jin Z.,Mungall J.E.,et al. Transport of coexisting Ni-Cu sulfide liquid and silicate melt in partially molten peridotite[J],2020,536.
APA	Wang Z.,Jin Z.,Mungall J.E.,&Xiao X..(2020).Transport of coexisting Ni-Cu sulfide liquid and silicate melt in partially molten peridotite.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,536.
MLA	Wang Z.,et al."Transport of coexisting Ni-Cu sulfide liquid and silicate melt in partially molten peridotite".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 536(2020).