| Title: |
Electrical conductivity of anhydrous and hydrous gabbroic melt under high temperature and high pressure: implications for the high-conductivity anomalies in the mid-ocean ridge region. |
| Authors: |
Wang, Mengqi1,2 (AUTHOR), Dai, Lidong2 (AUTHOR) dailidong@vip.gyig.ac.cn, Hu, Haiying2 (AUTHOR) huhaiying@vip.gyig.ac.cn, Hu, Ziming1,2 (AUTHOR), Jing, Chenxin1,2 (AUTHOR), Yin, Chuanyu1,2 (AUTHOR), Luo, Song1,2 (AUTHOR), Lai, Jinhua1,2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Solid Earth. 2023, Vol. 14 Issue 8, p847-858. 12p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*ELECTRIC conductivity, *MID-ocean ridges, *HIGH temperatures, *HYDROUS, *IGNEOUS rocks, *PROTON conductivity |
| Abstract: |
The electrical conductivity of gabbroic melt with four different water contents (i.e., 0 %, 2.59 wt %, 5.92 wt %, and 8.32 wt %) was measured at temperatures of 873–1373 K and pressures of 1.0–3.0 GPa using a YJ-3000t multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus and Solartron-1260 impedance spectroscopy analyzer. At a fixed water content of 2.59 wt %, the electrical conductivity of the sample slightly decreased with increasing pressure in the temperature range of 873–1373 K, and its corresponding activation energy and activation volume were determined as 0.87 ± 0.04 eV and - 1.98 ± 0.02 cm 3 molec. -1 , respectively. Under the certain conditions of 873–1373 K and 1.0 GPa, the electrical conductivity of the gabbroic melts tends to gradually increase with a rise in water content from 0 wt % to 8.32 wt %, and the activation enthalpy decreases from 0.93 to 0.63 eV accordingly. Furthermore, functional relation models for the electrical conductivity of gabbroic melts with variations of temperature, pressure, and water content were constructed at high-temperature and high-pressure conditions. In addition, the dependence relation of the electrical conductivity of melts with the degree of depolymerization was explored under conditions of four different water contents at 1373 K and 1.0 GPa, and three previously available reported results on those of representative calc-alkaline igneous rock melts (i.e., dacitic melt, basaltic melt, and andesitic melt) were compared in detail. In combination with our presently acquired electrical conductivity data on gabbroic melt with four different water contents and the available data on polycrystalline olivine, the electrical conductivity of a gabbroic melt–olivine system with variation of the volume percentage of anhydrous and hydrous melts was successfully constructed by using the typical Hashin–Shtrikman upper-bound model. In light of the electrical conductivity of the gabbroic melt–olivine system with previous magnetotelluric (MT) results, we find that anhydrous and hydrous gabbroic melts can be employed to reasonably interpret the high-conductivity anomalies in the Mohns Ridge of the Arctic Ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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