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Isotopic Equilibrium/Disequilibrium and Diffusion Kinetics in Feldspars

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Feldspars and their Reactions

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 421))

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The use of isotopes as tracers in diffusion kinetics measurements on feldspars is discussed with particular emphasis on oxygen and cations. The effect of feldspar composition, temperature, fugacity of water, ftigacity of oxygen, anisotropy of diffusion, and sub-sclidus phases are treated, with a view toward understanding the diffusion mechanisms and to predict diffusion coefficients where measured data are lacking. The strong dependence of oxygen diffusion on fH2O is suggested to derive from having H+ act to aid in breaking the Si-O bonds, and H2O aid in the transport through the crystal. The lack of such dependence by cations, together with their systematic behavior as a function of cation charge, and, secondarily, on ionic radius has led to a diffusion model utilizing a vacancy mechanism for most of the cations in feldspars, with Na transport being by an interstitial mechanism. The ionic porosity prediction model can predict oxygen diffusion under hydrothermal conditions, but fails for cations.

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Giletti, B.J. (1994). Isotopic Equilibrium/Disequilibrium and Diffusion Kinetics in Feldspars. In: Parsons, I. (eds) Feldspars and their Reactions. NATO ASI Series, vol 421. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1106-5_9

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