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Change of structure and physical features of aqueous fluids in subduction zones

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17540397
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Solid earth and planetary physics
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

KAWAMOTO Tatsuhiko  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Assistant Professor, 理学研究科, 助手 (00303800)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FURUKAWA Yoshitsugu  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor, 理学研究科, 助教授 (80222272)
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Keywordsmagma / aqueous fluid / mantle / solution / hydrogen bond / high pressure / mantle wedge / subduction zone / 構造解析 / 高温度 / 臨界現象 / 放射光X線
Research Abstract

Silicate components dissolved in aqueous fluids in mantle change their chemistry from andesitic at 1-2 GPa to peridotitic at 3 GPa. We show direct observations of unmixing and mixing between aqueous fluid and a high-magnesian andesite and between aqueous fluid and an oceanic sediment by use of synchrotron X-ray radiography with multi-anvil type high-T and high-P apparatus at SPring-8. We observed aqueous fluid and a high-Mg andesitic (HMA) melt coexisting in pressures lower than 2.7 GPa. While above 2.8 GPa, we observed only one fluid phase, suggesting that the HMA and aqueous fluids are completely mixing and become supercritical. In addition to the HMA, we determined a critical endpoint between an oceanic sediment and aqueous fluid, which is located at around 2.6 GPa. We found a second critical endpoint between aqueous fluids and a peridotitic/ a MORB melt at 3.8/ 3.0 GPa, respectively. Based on these available data, we suggest that slab-derived fluids should be under supercritical conditions at the downgoing slabs beneath the volcanic arcs (3-6 GPa). This means a continuous change from aqueous fluids to hydrous melts at the base of mantle wedge. Whether the slab-derived fluids have chemical characteristics like a partial melt or an aqueous fluid depends on the temperature; slab derived-supercritical fluids in relatively warm regions can dissolve more silicate components than slab derived-supercritical fluids in relatively cold regions. The melt-like supercritical fluid formed at the base of the warm mantle wedge will separate into a melt phase and a fluid phase, which may result in double-magmatism, for example, coexisting of adakite rocks and common island-arc rocks or HMA and basalt.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2007 2006 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Second critical endpoint in the peridotite-H2O system2007

    • Author(s)
      Mibe K., Kanzaki, M., Kawamoto, T.ほか
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research 112

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Second critical endpoint in the peridotite-H2O system2007

    • Author(s)
      Mibe K.et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research 112

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Second critical endpoint in the peridotite-H20 system2007

    • Author(s)
      Mibe K., Kanzaki, M., Kawamoto, T.ほか
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research 112

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Hydrous phases and water transport in the subducting slab. In "Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals" edited by H.Keppler and J.R.Smyth2006

    • Author(s)
      Kawamoto, T.
    • Journal Title

      Reviews of Mineralogy and Geochemistry series, Mineralogical Society of America

      Pages: 273-289

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Second critical endpoint in the peridotite-H20 system

    • Author(s)
      Mibe K., Kanzaki, M., Kawamoto, T.ほか
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research (査読が帰って来て、送り返し、現在審査中)(掲載予定)

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals (Hydrous phases and water transport in the subducting slab.) (edited by H. Keppler and J. R. Smyth)2006

    • Author(s)
      Kawamoto, T.
    • Publisher
      Reviews of Mineralogy and Geochemisty series, Mineralogical Society of America
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] Hydrous phases and water transport in the subducting slab. In "Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals" (edited by H. Keppler and T. R. Smyth)2006

    • Author(s)
      Kawamoto, T.
    • Publisher
      Reviews of Mineralogy and Geochemisty series, Mineralogical Society of America
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Hydrous phases and water transport in the subducting slab. in Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals(書名)(モノグラフ集の1章を分担執筆)2006

    • Author(s)
      Kawamoto, T.
    • Publisher
      Reviews of Mineralogy and Geochemisty series, Mineralogical Society of America(印刷中)
    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2005-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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