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In the system Na2O-CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 (NCAS), the equilibrium compositions of pyroxene coexisting with grossular and corundum were experimentally determined at 40 different P-T conditions (1,100–1,400° C and 20.5–38 kbar). Mixing properties of the Ca-Tschermak — Jadeite pyroxene inferred from the data are (J, K):
The excess entropy is consistent with a complete disorder of cations in the M2 and the T site.
Compositions of coexisting pyroxene and plagioclase were obtained in 11 experiments at 1,190–1,300° C/25 kbar. The data were used to infer an entropy difference between low and high anorthite at 1,200° C, corresponding to the enthalpy difference of 9.6 kJ/mol associated with the C\(\bar 1\)=I\(\bar 1\) transition in anorthite as given by Carpenter and McConnell (1984). The resulting entropy difference of 5.0 J/ mol · K places the transition at 1,647° C. Plagioclase is modeled as ideal solutions, C\(\bar 1\) and I\(\bar 1\), with a non-first order transition between them approximated by an empirical expression (J, bar, K):
where
The derived mixing properties of the pyroxene and plagioclase solutions, combined with the thermodynamic properties of other phases, were used to calculate phase relations in the NCAS system. Equilibria involving pyroxene+plagioclase +grossular+corundum and pyroxene+plagioclase +grossular+kyani te are suitable for thermobarometry. Albite is the most stable plagioclase.
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Gasparik, T. Experimental study of subsolidus phase relations and mixing properties of pyroxene and plagioclase in the system Na2O-CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 . Contrib Mineral and Petrol 89, 346–357 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381556
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