Melting of the silica isotypes SiO 2, BeF 2 and GeO 2 at elevated pressures |
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Authors: | Ian Jackson |
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Affiliation: | Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. Australia |
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Abstract: | The melting curves of the structural analogues SiO 2, BeF 2 and GeO 2 have been studied at pressures ?40 kbar in a piston-cylinder apparatus. The initial slopes dTm/dP of the β-quartz-liquid boundaries for SiO 2 and BeF 2 are ~35° while the slope of the rutile-liquid boundary for GeO 2 is approximately 32°C/kbar. These large values of dT/dP reflect the unusually low entropies of fusion for these compounds in which strong structural similarities exist between the crystalline phases and the melt. Implications for the extended phase diagram of silica are discussed and it is concluded that either: (1) a maximum exists on the coesite melting curve, or (2) estimates of the melting temperature of stishovite need to be revised upwards. |
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