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The Critical Point and the Supercritical State of Alkali Feldspars: Implications for the Behavior of the Crust During Impacts.

ABSTRACT: The position of the vapor-liquid dome and of the critical point determine the evolution of the outermost parts of the protolunar disk during cooling and condensation after the Giant Impact. The parts of the disk in supercritical or liquid state evolve as a single thermodynamic phase; when the thermal trajectory of the disk reaches the liquid-vapor dome, gas and melt separate leading to heterogeneous convection and phase separation due to friction. Different layers of the proto-Earth behaved differently during the Giant Impact depending on their constituent materials and initial thermodynamic conditions. Here we use first-principles molecular dynamics to determine the position of the critical point for NaAlSi3O8 and KAlSi3O8 feldspars, major minerals of the Earth and Moon crusts. The variations of the pressure calculated at various volumes along isotherms yield the position of the critical points: 0.5-0.8?g?cm-3 and 5500-6000?K range for the Na-feldspar, 0.5-0.9?g?cm-3 and 5000-5500?K range for the K-feldspar. The simulations suggest that the vaporization is incongruent, with a degassing of O2 starting at 4000?K and gas component made mostly of free Na and K cations, O2, SiO and SiO2 species for densities below 1.5?g?cm-3. The Hugoniot equations of state imply that low-velocity impactors (<8.3?km?s-1) would at most melt a cold feldspathic crust, whereas large impacts in molten crust would see temperatures raise up to 30000?K.

SUBMITTER: Kobsch A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7583489 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Critical Point and the Supercritical State of Alkali Feldspars: Implications for the Behavior of the Crust During Impacts.

Kobsch Anaïs A Caracas Razvan R

Journal of geophysical research. Planets 20200915 9

The position of the vapor-liquid dome and of the critical point determine the evolution of the outermost parts of the protolunar disk during cooling and condensation after the Giant Impact. The parts of the disk in supercritical or liquid state evolve as a single thermodynamic phase; when the thermal trajectory of the disk reaches the liquid-vapor dome, gas and melt separate leading to heterogeneous convection and phase separation due to friction. Different layers of the proto-Earth behaved diff ...[more]

PMID: 33133994

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The Critical Point and the Supercritical State of Alkali Feldspars: Implications for the Behavior of the Crust During Impacts.

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