Intracrystalline Olivine-Ringwoodite Transformation and Time-Dependent Growth Rates

L. Kerschhofer; M. Liu; D. C. Rubie; J. D.C. McConnell; T. G. Sharp; C. Dupas

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Intracrystalline Olivine-Ringwoodite Transformation and Time-Dependent Growth Rates

L. Kerschhofer, M. Liu, D. C. Rubie, J. D.C. McConnell, T. G. Sharp, C. Dupas

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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Abstract

During the transformation of olivine (Fo₉₀) to ringwoodite and wadsleyite at 18–20 GPa three transformation microstructures develop: (i) Reaction rims form around olivine by incoherent grain boundary nucleation; the growth rates of these rims decrease strongly with reaction time because the volume decrease causes elastic strain to develop. (ii) Intracrystalline, coherent ringwoodite lamellae nucleate on previously formed (100)_α stacking faults. (iii) Polycrystalline ringwoodite and/or wadsleyite lenses develop in the interior of relict olivine crystals by nucleation of incoherent grains on the coherent ringwoodite lamellae. The observed intracrystalline transformation mechanism and the time-dependence of growth have important implications for predicting the depth of the olivine-spinel transformation in subducting lithosphere.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	28-33
Number of pages	6
Journal	Review of High Pressure Science and Technology/Koatsuryoku No Kagaku To Gijutsu
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4131/jshpreview.7.28
State	Published - 1998

Keywords

High pressure transformation mechanism
Intracrystalline nucleation
Olivine
Subduction
Transformational strain

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Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics

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