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Phase transition of sanidine (KAlSi3O8) and its effect on electrical conductivity at pressures up to 11 GPa

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Sanidine is an important crustal mineral whose high-pressure phase, liebermannite, can be carried down to the mantle transition zone by the subducting slab. Owing to the characteristic channel structure of liebermannite, which can provide a pathway for K+ along the [001] direction, it can serve as a highly conductive phase. In this study, we measured the electrical conductivity of natural sanidine at pressures of up to 11 GPa. The results show that electrical conductivity decreased during the phase transition of sanidine to a mixture of K2Si4O9 wadeite, kyanite, and coesite at 8 GPa, and further to liebermannite at 11 GPa. Accordingly, the activation enthalpy increased from 1.24 to 1.39 eV, and further to 1.47 eV during the phase transitions. Polycrystalline liebermannite with a high concentration of K+ vacancies (35%) did not exhibit highly conductive behavior when the lattice-preferred orientation was not developed. Compared with the theoretically calculated conductivity of liebermannite with a K+ vacancy of 25% along the [001] direction, the single-crystal liebermannite was highly anisotropic (given simply by the difference between logσmax and logσmin), at least higher than 4. Furthermore, the electrical conductivity of polycrystalline liebermannite was approximately one order of magnitude lower than that measured by geophysical observations (0.1 S/m) in the transition zone beneath Northeastern (NE) China and the Philippine Sea, and could not be used to interpret high-conductivity anomalies without a preferred orientation along the [001] direction.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41590623), the National Key Research and Development Project of China (Project 2016YFC0600309), and CAS “Light of West China” program (Y9CR026000 to XG). We thank Shuiyuan Yang for his help in EPMA analysis and Baohua Zhang for valuable comments.

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  1. Key Laboratory for High-Temperature and High-Pressure Study of the Earth’s Interior, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China

    Xinzhuan Guo

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Xinzhuan Guo, Xiang Wu & Junfeng Zhang

  3. Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-2100, USA

    Sibo Chen

  4. School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Ping Li

  5. College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Yanfei Zhang

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Guo, X., Chen, S., Li, P. et al. Phase transition of sanidine (KAlSi3O8) and its effect on electrical conductivity at pressures up to 11 GPa. Phys Chem Minerals 47, 21 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-020-01089-4

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