Month: Jan 2022

A new x-eos for ternary feldspars

What’s new?

We have published new x-eos for plagioclase and alkali feldspars:

TJB Holland, ECR Green & R Powell (2021). A thermodynamic model for feldspars in KAlSi3O8-NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8 for mineral equilibrium calculations. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12639

The preferred ternary feldspar x-eos in this paper is the 4TR model (the name is discussed below). This single x-eos replaces two previous x-eos: the Ibar1 and Cbar1 ternary feldspar x-eos of Holland & Powell (2003), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145 492-501.

Additionally, we have introduced a binary x-eos to represent low albite with minor dissolved Ca. This can be used to model the peristerite gap in metabasites, where previously we used pure end-member albite.

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fO2 workshop/school this September

Please consider pre-registering for the following event!:

Understanding oxygen fugacity in Geoscience is a workshop/school running 5-9 September 2022, to highlight the state of the art, major debates and some case studies about redox processes and oxygen fugacity from the Earth’s interior to the surface. It will bring together experts from various disciplines and it is directed to students and scientists with background on chemistry and physics of the Earth and planetary interiors. The School is hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste. We also hope to make the School available to online-only participants.

Eleanor Green and Katy Evans are among the speakers and practical leaders at this School, which will address thermodynamic modelling in addition to experimental, analytical and observational themes.

We thank Luca Ziberna for proposing this School, for patiently persisting with the idea throughout the disruption of the pandemic, and for his exceedingly hard work in leading the Organizing Committee!