By Alexandra Navrotsky (auth.), Donald G. Fraser (eds.)
It has lengthy been learned that the mineral assemblages of igneous and metamorphic rocks might replicate the process of a rock to chemical eCluilibrium in the course of its formation. even though development within the software of chemical thermodynamics to geological structures has been hindered because the time of Bowen and the opposite early physical-chemical petrologists through the habitual Cluandary of the experimental geologist. His platforms are complicated and are experimentally intractable, but when they weren't so refractory they wouldn't be there to check in any respect. it's only lately that exact measurements of the thermodynamic homes of natural, or at the very least well-defined minerals, melts and risky fluid stages, mixed with experimental and theoretical reviews in their blending houses, have made it attainable to calculate the eCluilibrium stipulations for specific rock platforms. a lot paintings is now in development to increase the levels of com place and stipulations for which enough facts exist to permit such calculations to be made. in addition the regimen availability of the electron microprobe will make sure that the call for for such details will proceed to extend. The thermodynamic techniClues reCluired to use those info to geological difficulties are intrinsically uncomplicated and purely contain the combo of applicable usual nation info including corrections for the results of resolution in ordinary minerals, melts or risky fluids.
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0. Okamura et a1. (19"7'4fhave found from crystallographic studies, however, that Al and Si atoms are disordered in pure CaA12Si06 clinopyroxene and it seems probable that such disorder is present in CaMgSi206-CaA12Si06 solid solutions. Although this result does not preclude the operation of some shortrange "charge-balancing" order in the solid solutions let us make the simplest assumption of complete Al-Si disorder over the entire structure (some other possibilities are briefly discussed in Wood, 1976).
Conf. , Penn. St. , Oct. 5-10,1975. SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS 1) First we consider a completely disordered model of mixing on the join diopside-CaTs (CaMgSi206-CaAl2Si06). S are, respectively, the enthalpy of m~x~ng and entropy of mixing, Xc is the mole fraction of CaTs, and the a's are the activities. ~~ th e con f fgurat~onal entropy 0 the· m~x-crystal per mole and s8 0n and SB on are the configurational entropies of the pure end members at the same physical conditions. 237) where Xl is the mole fraction of one kind of atom on the site.
And Wilson, G. Contr. Mineral. , 32, 48 (1971). J. P. Trans. Roy. Soc. ,~, 251 (1963). , Ghose, S. and Ohashi, H. Amer. , 22,549 (1974) • Riheim, A. H. Contr. Mineral. A. R. S. Geol. Surv. , 1259, 256 pp (1968). J. P. ), "Handbook of Physical Constants", Geo1. Soc. Amer. , 21,75 (1966). J. R. Carnegie Inst. of Wash. , 63, 163 (1964). B. in Ph. H. ), "Researches in Geochemistry", vol. II, Wiley, 340 (1967). D. C. Amer. , 98 (1974). J. Int. Conf. on Geotherm. , Penn. St. , Oct. 5-10, 1975. 47 GARNETS AND ALUMINOUS PYROXENES STUDY PROBLEMS Mixing Properties of Aluminous Clinopyroxene It is known from X-ray crystallography that aluminous diopside has essentially three distinct kinds of crystallographic sites which are occupied by the cations.