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Volume 21 Issue 5
Oct 2010
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Journal of Earth Science  > 2010  >  21(5): 635-640.
Benxun Su, Hongfu Zhang, Sakyi Patrick Asamoah, Kezhang Qin, Yanjie Tang, Jifeng Ying, Yan Xiao. Garnet-Spinel Transition in the Upper Mantle: Review and Interpretation. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(5): 635-640. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0117-x
Citation: Benxun Su, Hongfu Zhang, Sakyi Patrick Asamoah, Kezhang Qin, Yanjie Tang, Jifeng Ying, Yan Xiao. Garnet-Spinel Transition in the Upper Mantle: Review and Interpretation. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(5): 635-640. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0117-x
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Garnet-Spinel Transition in the Upper Mantle: Review and Interpretation

doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0117-x
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    Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

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    State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

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    Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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    Department of Earth Science, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana

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the Special Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1008

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 90714008

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  • Corresponding author: Zhang Hongfu, hfzhang@mail.igcas.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 20 May 2010
  • Accepted Date: 25 Jun 2010
  • Publish Date: 01 Oct 2010
    Abstract
  • This study carried out a comprehensive review of mantle-derived garnet peridotites on the basis of their garnet-spinel compositional relationships. The P-T estimates of the garnet peridotites of both orogenic and xenolithic derivations confirm previously established two garnet-spinel transition (GST) zones. Results of natural samples and experimental studies of all the garnet peridotites plot below the first GST at low P (< 2 GPa). The second GST at high P (6-10 GPa), obtained from the experimental system (MgO-Cr2O3-SiO2), was firstly evidenced from natural samples in this study and may imply a challenge to our understanding of Cr-rich and Al-poor mineral phase transition under ultrahigh P condition. Based on the data and our estimates, we propose the existence of another GST within the garnet peridotite discontinuous zone and a potential spinel-phase peridotite zone in the upper mantle.

     

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