镁铁质
硫黄
硅酸盐
地质学
Mercury(编程语言)
溶解度
地球化学
遗传算法
矿物学
环境化学
化学
物理化学
有机化学
生物
程序设计语言
进化生物学
计算机科学
作者
Olivier Namur,Bernard Charlier,Francois Holtz,Camille Cartier,Catherine McCammon
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.024
摘要
Abstract Chemical data from the MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that surface rocks on Mercury are unusually enriched in sulfur compared to samples from other terrestrial planets. In order to understand the speciation and distribution of sulfur on Mercury, we performed high temperature (1200–1750 °C), low- to high-pressure (1 bar to 4 GPa) experiments on compositions representative of Mercurian lavas and on the silicate composition of an enstatite chondrite. We equilibrated silicate melts with sulfide and metallic melts under highly reducing conditions (IW-1.5 to IW-9.4; IW = iron-wustite oxygen fugacity buffer). Under these oxygen fugacity conditions, sulfur dissolves in the silicate melt as S 2 − and forms complexes with Fe 2 + , Mg 2 + and Ca 2 + . The sulfur concentration in silicate melts at sulfide saturation (SCSS) increases with increasing reducing conditions (from 10 wt.% S at IW-8) and with increasing temperature. Metallic melts have a low sulfur content which decreases from 3 wt.% at IW-2 to 0 wt.% at IW-9. We developed an empirical parameterization to predict SCSS in Mercurian magmas as a function of oxygen fugacity ( f O 2 ), temperature, pressure and silicate melt composition. SCSS being not strictly a redox reaction, our expression is fully valid for magmatic systems containing a metal phase. Using physical constraints of the Mercurian mantle and magmas as well as our experimental results, we suggest that basalts on Mercury were free of sulfide globules when they erupted. The high sulfur contents revealed by MESSENGER result from the high sulfur solubility in silicate melt at reducing conditions. We make the realistic assumption that the oxygen fugacity of mantle rocks was set during equilibration of the magma ocean with the core and/or that the mantle contains a minor metal phase and combine our parameterization of SCSS with chemical data from MESSENGER to constrain the oxygen fugacity of Mercury's interior to IW- 5.4 ± 0.4 . We also calculate that the mantle of Mercury contains 7–11 wt.% S and that the metallic core of the planet has little sulfur (
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