The icy-moon ‘analogue’ of MgSiO3-perovskite: MgSO4.9H2O – a high-pressure study

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Mg-sulfate 11-hydrate (meridianiite) is decomposed by pressure to form Mg-sulfate 9-hydrate + ice, a process that will occur in the mantles of large icy planetary bodies and have the same impact as olivine's decomposition to Mg-silicate perovskite + MgO in the Earth's mantle.It is necessary for accurate modelling of planetary interiors to determine the high-pressure behaviour of Mg-sulfate 9-hydrate, which includes measurement of its incompressibility (K), as well as the pressure and temperature dependence of K, and characterisation of any phase changes. Some sparse and low-quality data already obtained, combined with DFT calculations, indicate a bulk elastic softening above 1 GPa that may indicate a further phase transition or dehydration. I propose to carry out a gas-cell study on OSIRIS (0-550 MPa, 100-240 K) and a Paris-Edinburgh cell study on PEARL (0-5 GPa, 100-380 K).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84738763
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84738763
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Creator Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso; Dr Dominic Fortes
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-27T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-30T23:00:00Z