Low-Pressure (7–17 MPa) and High-Temperature (1250–1300°C) Melting of Marly Limestone from a Pyrometamorphic Complex of Mongolia. Formation of Carbonate–Silicate and Carbonate Melts
摘要
Melting of marly limestone from the Khamaryn-Khural-Khiid pyrometamorphic complex in East Mongolia was experimentally studied. The mineral and phase composition of the partly melted marly limestone sample used in the experiments was as follows: calcite (~59 wt %), silicate glasses of various compositions, melilite (gehlenite–akermanite), Al-clinopyroxene, Na–Ca nepheline (davidsmithite), celsian, magnetite, relict grains of sedimentary rock (quartz, albite–anorthoclase, plagioclase, and zircon), and other rarer minerals. Extremely calcium-rich phases were found in the solid experimental products: larnite, a gehlenite-like mineral, calcite, and transformation products of carbonate and carbonate–silicate melts. Carbon content was determined in the carbonate–aluminosilicate glass using electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), and the presence of the