High-pressure highly reduced nitrides and oxides from chromitite of a Tibetan ophiolite.
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The deepest rocks known from within Earth are fragments of normal mantle ( approximately 400 km) and metamorphosed sediments ( approximately 350 km), both found exhumed in continental collision terranes. Here, we report fragments of a highly reduced deep mantle environment from at least 300 km, perhaps very much more, extracted from chromite of a Tibetan ophiolite. The sample consists, in part, of diamond, coesite-after-stishovite, the high-pressure form of TiO(2), native iron, high-pressure nitrides with a deep mantle isotopic signature, and associated SiC. This appears to be a natural example of the recently discovered disproportionation of Fe(2+) at very high pressure and consequent low oxygen fugacity (fO(2)) in deep Earth. Encapsulation within chromitite enclosed within upwelling solid mantle rock appears to be the only vehicle capable of transporting these phases and preserving their low-fO(2) environment at the very high temperatures of oceanic spreading centers.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 106 46 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009