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Equations of state and phase boundary for stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2
Rebecca a. FischeR1,2,3,4,*, andRew J. campbell1, bethany a. chidesteR1,†,
daniel m. Reaman1, elizabeth c. thompson1, JeFFRey s. pigott5,‡, Vitali b. pRakapenka6,
and Jesse s. smith7
1Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A.
2Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 119,
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.
3University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, U.S.A.
4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.
5School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, U.S.A.
6Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A.
7High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 9700 S. Cass Avenue,
Argonne, Illinois 60439, U.S.A.
abstRact
Silica is thought to be present in the Earth’s lower mantle in subducting plates, in addition to being
a prototypical solid whose physical properties are of broad interest. It is known to undergo a phase
transition from stishovite to the CaCl2-type structure at ∼50–80 GPa, but the exact location and slope
of the phase boundary in pressure-temperature space is unresolved. There have been many previous
studies on the equation of state of stishovite, but they span a limited range of pressures and tem-
peratures, and there has been no thermal equation of state of CaCl2-type SiO2 measured under static
conditions. We have investigated the phase diagram and equations of state of silica at 21–89 GPa and
up to ∼3300 K using synchrotron X-ray diffraction in a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell. The phase
boundary between stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2 can be approximately described as T = 64.6(49)·P
– 2830(350), with temperature T in Kelvin and pressure P in GPa. The stishovite data imply K0
ʹ =
5.24(9) and a quasi-anharmonic T2 dependence of –6.0(4) × 10–6 GPa·cm3/mol/K2 for a xed q = 1,
g0 = 1.71, and K0 = 302 GPa, while for the CaCl2-type phase K0 = 341(4) GPa, K0
ʹ = 3.20(16), and g0
= 2.14(4) with other parameters equal to their values for stishovite. The behaviors of the a and c axes
of stishovite with pressure and temperature were also t, indicating a much more compressible c axis
with a lower thermal expansion as compared to the a axis. The phase transition between stishovite and
CaCl2-type silica should occur at pressures of 68–78 GPa in the Earth, depending on the temperature
in subducting slabs. Silica is denser than surrounding mantle material up to pressures of 58–68 GPa,
with uncertainty due to temperature effects; at higher pressures than this, SiO2 becomes gravitationally
buoyant in the lower mantle.
Keywords: Silica, SiO2, stishovite, phase diagram, equation of state, phase transition, X-ray diffraction
intRoduction
Silica (SiO2) is expected to be present in subducted mid-
ocean ridge basalt in the Earth’s lower mantle (e.g., Hirose
et al. 2005). It may also occur in the Dʺ layer as a result of Si
and O becoming less soluble in liquid iron as the core cools
(Hirose et al. 2017), since the metal–silicate partitioning of
O and especially Si are strongly temperature dependent (e.g.,
Fischer et al. 2015; Tsuno et al. 2013). Despite its importance
in geophysics, as well as physics and materials science, there
remains disagreement surrounding the phase diagram of silica
at high pressures (P) and temperatures (T). Additionally, only
limited research has been done on the thermal equation of state
for the CaCl2-type phase of silica, stable under lower mantle
conditions. In this study, we focus on elucidating the location
and slope of the stishovite/CaCl2-type phase boundary, as well
as providing better constraints on the thermal equations of state
of these important phases.
Coesite (monoclinic SiO2 with space group C2/c) transforms
to stishovite (rutile-type SiO2 with space group P42/mnm) at
∼7–13 GPa and high temperatures (e.g., Zhang et al. 1996),
marking a transition in Si coordination from tetrahedral to
octahedral. At lower mantle pressures, stishovite undergoes a
second-order, reversible phase transition to the CaCl2-type struc-
ture (space group Pnnm) of SiO2, in which the tetragonal unit cell
of stishovite distorts into an orthorhombic unit cell (Tsuchida
and Yagi 1989). Reports of the location and slope of this phase
American Mineralogist, Volume 103, pages 792–802, 2018
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* E-mail: rebeccafischer@g.harvard.edu
† Present address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California
Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
‡ Present address: Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Case
Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, U.S.A.
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CaCl2-type SiO2 to higher pressures (∼89 GPa) and temperatures
(∼3300 K) than in previous work and with broader P-T coverage.
expeRimental methods
Symmetric-type diamond-anvil cells were used to generate high pressures,
with either 300 µm culet anvils or beveled anvils with 150 µm flats. Starting
materials were powdered natural quartz and amorphous Pt (Alfa Aesar, 99.9%)
in a ratio of ∼2:1 by volume in two of our samples, while the third sample con-
tained powdered natural quartz and spherical Pt (Alfa Aesar, 99.95%) in a ratio
of ∼3:1 by volume. Platinum was used to absorb the heating laser during the
experiment; it was chosen because it is a strong laser absorber, is inert, and has
a well-characterized equation of state (e.g., Dorogokupets and Oganov 2007).
The quartz was measured with a scanning electron microscope and determined
to contain no detectable Al. Samples composed of silica glass instead of natural
quartz (but otherwise identical) did not sufficiently crystallize at high tempera-
tures during the experiment. In each case, starting materials were mechanically
ball-milled to grind and mix the powders. The powder mixture was then pressed
into a flake ∼5 µm thick and loaded into a rhenium gasket (preindented to 27–33
GPa) between two layers of KBr, each ∼10–15 µm thick, which served as the
pressure medium and thermal insulator. KBr was used due to its extremely
efficient thermal insulating properties, hydrostaticity at high temperatures,
strong X-ray fluorescence that allows for precise alignment of the X-ray and
laser optics on the sample, and well-characterized equation of state while used
as a thermal insulator (Fischer et al. 2012). Prior to loading, the KBr was oven
dried and stored in a desiccator. The entire sample assembly was oven dried at
80–85 °C for 30–60 min after loading but before closing the cell to remove any
residual moisture.
boundary vary, with room-temperature measurements under
quasi-hydrostatic conditions on pure silica typically reporting a
transition pressure of 45–55 GPa (Andrault et al. 1998; Hemley
et al. 2000; Kingma et al. 1995; Nomura et al. 2010; Ono et al.
2002), in agreement with some theoretical calculations (Karki
et al. 1997; Togo et al. 2008; Tsuchiya et al. 2004); the location
of the phase boundary is affected by impurities such as Al and H
(e.g., Lakshtanov et al. 2007). High-temperature measurements
indicate a positive Clapeyron slope (Akins and Ahrens 2002;
Nomura et al. 2010; Ono et al. 2002) (Fig. 1). The CaCl2-type
structure converts to seifertite (α-PbO2-type silica) at pressures
of ∼120–140 GPa (Dubrovinsky et al. 1997; Grocholski et al.
2013), though there remains ambiguity over the precise location
and slope of this phase boundary as well (Murakami et al. 2003;
Shieh et al. 2005). The phase diagram of silica is known to be
subject to kinetic barriers, especially at room temperature, with
observations of a large number of metastable and/or amorphous
phases. These kinetic inhibitions are dependent on the degree
of hydrostaticity and the nature of the starting materials as well
as temperature-pressure pathways (e.g., Asahara et al. 2013;
Dubrovinsky et al. 2003; Haines et al. 2001; Hazen et al. 1989;
Hemley 1987; Kingma et al. 1993; Prakapenka et al. 2004;
Tsuchida and Yagi 1990).
The equation of state of stishovite has been measured numer-
ous times since its discovery by Chao et al. (1962) (Supplemental1
Table S1 and references therein): at high pressures using
diamond-anvil cell (e.g., Andrault et al. 2003; Jiang et al. 2009;
Panero et al. 2003; Pigott et al. 2015; Ross et al. 1990; Yamanaka
et al. 2002), shock wave (e.g., Luo et al. 2002a; Lyzenga et al.
1983), large volume press (e.g., Liu et al. 1999; Nishihara et al.
2005; Wang et al. 2012), piston-cylinder apparatus (e.g., Li et
al. 1996), and computational (e.g., Cohen 1991; Driver et al.
2010; Karki et al. 1997a; Luo et al. 2002b; Tsuchiya et al. 2004)
methods, as well as on synthetic samples at ambient pressure
(e.g., Brazhkin et al. 2005; Weidner et al. 1982; Yoneda et al.
2012). Despite the number of prior studies on the stishovite equa-
tion of state, it has previously only been measured to 54 GPa and
1700 K (Wang et al. 2012) or 50 GPa and 2400 K (Pigott et al.
2015), requiring extrapolation to apply these equations of state
over the conditions of stishovite stability in the Earth.
The isothermal equation of state of CaCl2-type SiO2 has
been previously studied in a diamond-anvil cell (Andrault et al.
1998, 2003; Grocholski et al. 2013) and using computational
methods (Karki et al. 1997b; Oganov et al. 2005; Yang and Wu
2014). However, the only published thermal equation of state
of CaCl2-type SiO2 is based on a meta-analysis of shock wave
literature data (Akins and Ahrens 2002). Some previous studies
have instead fit a single equation of state to data on both the
stishovite and CaCl2-type structures (e.g., Yamazaki et al. 2014),
assuming that the two phases have the same compressibility and
thermal properties.
In this study, we use synchrotron X-ray diffraction in a laser-
heated diamond-anvil cell to determine the crystal structure
and density of SiO2 as a function of pressure and temperature
at lower mantle conditions. This information is used to map the
phase boundary between stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2. By
combining these data with previous results at room temperature,
we construct thermal equations of state for both stishovite and
FiguRe 1. Previous results on the phase transition from stishovite
to CaCl2-type SiO2, compared to the phase boundary found in this
study. (top) Phase boundary at high temperatures. Filled gray hexagons
= observations of stishovite. Open gray pentagons = observations
of the CaCl2-type structure. Phase boundary from this study is from
Figure 3. (bottom) Transition pressures measured or calculated at room
temperature. Result from Wang et al. (2012) is a lower bound. Results
from Hemley et al. (2000) were obtained on either compression (higher
pressure) or decompression (lower pressure). (Color online.)
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Angle-dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) was performed dur-
ing laser heating experiments at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National
Laboratory. Experiments were performed at Sector 13-ID-D, GeoSoilEnviro Center
for Advanced Radiation Sources (GSECARS) (Shen et al. 2005; Prakapenka et al.
2008), and Sector 16-ID-B, High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT)
(Meng et al. 2015). At GSECARS, the X-ray beam was ∼3 × 4 µm with a wave-
length of 0.3344 Å, and the sample-to-detector distance was calibrated with 1 bar
diffraction of LaB6. At HPCAT, the X-ray beam was ∼5 × 7 µm with a wavelength
of 0.4066 Å, and the sample-to-detector distance was calibrated with 1 bar diffrac-
tion of CeO2. X-ray exposure times were 5–30 s.
Double-sided laser heating was performed with 1064 nm fiber lasers, focused
onto each side of the sample. Before each experiment, the X-ray beam was
coaligned with the temperature measurement system and heating lasers using X-ray
induced fluorescence of the KBr pressure medium in the sample (after heating,
it was confirmed that this alignment had been maintained). At each pressure, the
temperature was slowly stepped up by increasing the laser power until a target
temperature was reached, then the laser power was gradually decreased to zero,
with diffraction patterns collected on heating and cooling. The sample was held
fixed during heating. At each spot, a localized region of the sample was heated,
and the conversion from silica (which had become amorphous upon compression)
to stishovite was rapid (less than 1 min). The temperature was stable during our
X-ray data collection due to the subsolidus conditions. Power to the two lasers was
adjusted independently to minimize axial temperature gradients. At HPCAT, the
lasers had Gaussian intensity profiles and produced spots with diameters of ∼40 µm
(FWHM) on the samples, and at GSECARS, the lasers had “flat-top” intensity
profiles created with Pi-shapers and diameters of ∼25 µm on the samples. The
laser-heated spots were much larger than the X-ray beam to minimize the effects
of radial temperature gradients, and temperatures were measured from an area on
the sample a few micrometers across, comparable to the size of the X-ray beam.
Temperatures were determined by spectroradiometry using the graybody
approximation. The reported sample temperatures are an average of upstream and
downstream temperature measurements, corrected downward by 3% to account for
a small axial gradient through the sample (Campbell et al. 2007, 2009). Reported
temperature uncertainties include an analytical uncertainty of 100 K (e.g., Shen et
al. 2001), the difference between the upstream and downstream temperatures, and
uncertainty from the thickness correction (Campbell et al. 2007, 2009). At each
beamtime, temperature measurements in the diamond-anvil cell were benchmarked
by first analyzing a sample of iron at high pressures (Fischer et al. 2011, 2012, 2014)
to verify the location of the hcp–fcc transition (Komabayashi and Fei 2010). In each
case the temperature of the transition was confirmed within uncertainty, ensuring
compatibility between measurements made at different beamlines.
X-ray diffraction patterns were integrated to produce 2θ plots using Fit2D
(Hammersley et al. 1996) or Dioptas (Prescher and Prakapenka 2015), and peak
fitting was performed using PeakFit (Systat Software). Lattice parameters of each
phase were calculated from the measured d-spacings. Pressures were primarily
determined from the volume of B2-KBr using its thermal equation of state, which
was calibrated at room temperature and while used as a pressure medium during
laser heating experiments against the equations of state of numerous materials to
pressures of >100 GPa (Fischer et al. 2012); at high temperatures, KBr was mainly
calibrated against the Pt equation of state of Dorogokupets and Oganov (2007).
The platinum absorber also served as a secondary pressure standard in these ex-
periments using the equation of state of Dorogokupets and Oganov (2007), but in
some cases it was not usable. To measure the pressure, lattice parameters and their
uncertainties were determined as the average and standard deviation of 8 to 13 d-
spacings for KBr or 2 to 6 d-spacings for Pt. The temperature of the KBr insulator/
calibrant was corrected downward from the measured temperature to account for
axial thermal gradients through the insulating layer (Campbell et al. 2009), while
the temperature of the Pt was assumed to equal the sample temperature. Lattice
parameters of the sample were determined from 5 to 17 d-spacings for stishovite
or 7 to 20 d-spacings for the CaCl2-type structure.
Results
The silica samples became amorphous (Hemley et al. 1988)
or highly disordered (Prakapenka et al. 2004) upon compression,
and then crystallized in the stishovite or CaCl2-type structure
upon laser-heating. SiO2 phase identification was primarily based
on the splitting of the stishovite 210, 211, and 301 peaks upon
transformation to the CaCl2-type structure. An X-ray diffrac-
tion pattern collected at 74(2) GPa and 2160(120) K is shown
in Figure 2a, exhibiting the stishovite structure. All of the peaks
can be indexed as B2-KBr, stishovite-SiO2, fcc-Pt, or hcp-Re
(from the gasket). Figure 2b shows the evolution of the stishovite
301 peak during cooling at ∼74 GPa. At higher temperatures, a
single peak is seen; between 2160(120) and 1870(110) K, the
peak splits into the CaCl2-type 301 and 031 peaks, and at lower
temperatures a doublet is seen. In the 2D diffraction images, SiO2
peaks often appear as spots (Fig. 2b) due to Ostwald ripening
of the sample at high temperatures. These spots (including the
FiguRe 2. X-ray diffraction patterns of SiO2. (a) Representative
pattern from 74(2) GPa and 2160(120) K. All peaks correspond to
B2-KBr, stishovite, or platinum, with one reection from the rhenium
gasket. Black rectangle indicates region enlarged in b. Inset: 2D
diffraction image before integration. Yellow arrow indicates region
enlarged in part b. (b) Splitting of the stishovite 301 peak into the
CaCl2-type 301 and 031 peaks across the phase transition as a function
of temperature. Patterns were collected on cooling at ∼74 GPa. Yellow
pattern is from a. Patterns are offset vertically for clarity. The stishovite
301 peak splits between 2160(120) and 1870(110) K, bracketing the
phase transition. Insets: Fixed location in the lower left quadrant of the
2D diffraction images from 2160 K (upper) and 1870 K (lower), showing
the splitting of a single 301/031 reection. Image encompasses a 2θ
range of ∼0.5°. Temperature uncertainties are 110–180 K. (Color online.)
a
b
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CaCl2-type 301 and 031 peaks) typically appear at random azi-
muthal angles; alternatively, in some instances, a single stishovite
301 reflection is observed to split across the phase boundary at
a fixed azimuthal angle (Fig. 2b insets).
X-ray diffraction data were collected from 21–89 GPa and up
to ∼3300 K (Fig. 3). Pressures determined from the KBr insulator
and Pt absorber agree within mutual 2σ uncertainties in every
instance, with no systematic offset between them (Supplemental1
Table S2). The phase transition from stishovite to the CaCl2-type
structure was observed at pressures of ∼60–80 GPa and high tem-
peratures with a positive Clapeyron slope (Fig. 3). The transition
between these phases was rapid and easily reversible. The pres-
sures, temperatures, phase identification, and lattice parameters
of all phases in this work are listed in Supplemental1 Table S2.
While the phase transition could be observed on both heating
and cooling, data collected on cooling were favored for use in
equation of state fitting due to their lower deviatoric stresses.
The stress state in the experiments was quasi-hydrostatic due to
the high temperatures at which the data were collected. This can
be seen, for example, by comparing the Pt peak widths in these
experiments to those measured at room temperature in He or Ne
(e.g., Dorfman et al. 2012), with the latter being much broader.
discussion
Phase transition in silica
The location and slope of the phase boundary between
stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2 has been constrained (Fig. 3); it
can be approximately described as T = 64.6(49)·P – 2830(350),
with temperature in Kelvin and pressure in gigpascals. The
covariance between the two fitted parameters is –1690. The co-
variance between two parameters a and b can be translated into
a correlation coefficient, defined as r = covariance(a,b)/(σa·σb).
The correlation coefficient varies between –1 (perfect negative
correlation) and +1 (perfect positive correlation), with a value
of zero indicating no correlation. The correlation coefficient
between the slope and intercept of our phase boundary is r =
–0.99, indicating a near-perfect anticorrelation between them.
Figure 1 compares the phase boundary from this work to those
reported in the literature. It lies in the same region of P-T space
as those of previous studies, agreeing best with the boundary
of Ono et al. (2002) at pressures of ∼65–85 GPa and with the
boundaries of Nomura et al. (2010) and Yamazaki et al. (2014)
at pressures below ∼60 GPa. These data are consistent with
observations of the CaCl2-type phase from Shieh et al. (2005) at
73–75 GPa, and with most of the observations of the stishovite
phase from Wang et al. (2012).
The boundary presented here has a slightly shallower slope
than those of previous studies, with reported values of approxi-
mately 83 K/GPa (Ono et al. 2002), 89 K/GPa (Nomura et al.
2010), 129 K/GPa (Yamazaki et al. 2014), and 180 K/GPa (Akins
and Ahrens 2002). An extrapolation of this phase boundary to
300 K yields a predicted transition pressure of 49 GPa. This
value agrees with some reported transition pressures at 300 K
within uncertainty (Grocholski et al. 2013; Hemley et al. 2000;
Kingma et al. 1995; Nomura et al. 2010; Yamazaki et al. 2014)
(Fig. 1), while other experimental studies report higher transi-
tion pressures (Andrault et al. 1998; Ono et al. 2002; Wang et al.
2012), which could be due to slow kinetics at room temperature,
since kinetics are known to play a role in the SiO2 phase diagram
(e.g., Prakapenka et al. 2004). Some previous high temperature
studies anchored their phase boundary to a measured transition
pressure at 300 K (e.g., Akins and Ahrens 2002; Ono et al. 2002).
These kinetic inhibitions may result in an overestimate of the
transition pressure at 300 K, which may explain the slightly
shallower slope reported here. The difference in slope may also
be related to the very strong anticorrelation between the slope
and intercept of the phase boundary; a higher transition pressure
at 300 K would produce a steeper slope. The data in this study
cross the stishovite–CaCl2-type SiO2 phase boundary at three
different pressures, more high-temperature crossings than in pre-
vious studies (e.g., Akins and Ahrens 2002; Nomura et al. 2010;
Ono et al. 2002; Yamazaki et al. 2014). They also span a much
wider range of pressures and temperatures, to better constrain
this phase boundary while maintaining broad consistency with
previous measurements.
The slope of our observed phase boundary is also significantly
less steep than that calculated by Yang and Wu (2014), who
reported a slope of 200(52) K/GPa (from Gibbs free energies)
or 185(48) K/GPa (from shear instability), and that calculated
by Tsuchiya et al. (2004), who found a slope of 167 K/GPa.
Extrapolating this phase boundary to 0 K gives a transition pres-
sure of 44 GPa, lower than that of most theoretical studies of
SiO2, which yield transition pressures of, for example, 46 GPa
(Yang and Wu 2014), 47 GPa (Karki et al. 1997a), 53 GPa (Togo
et al. 2008), 56 GPa (Tsuchiya et al. 2004), and 64 GPa (Lee and
Gonze 1995). This may be due in part to possible curvature of
the phase boundary at lower temperatures than those investigated
here (Tsuchiya et al. 2004; Yang and Wu 2014).
Thermal equation of state of stishovite
These data were used to construct an equation of state for
stishovite, relating its pressure, molar volume, and temperature.
To ensure that the fitted equation of state would be compatible
with the observed behavior of stishovite at ambient temperature,
these data were first combined with those from several previous
studies obtained at 300 K (Andrault et al. 2003; Grocholski et al.
FiguRe 3. Phase diagram results on silica. Filled orange circles =
observations of the stishovite structure. Open green circles = CaCl2-
type structure. (Color online.)
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2013; Hemley et al. 2000; Ross et al. 1990; Yamanaka et al. 2002)
(Fig. 4a). The primary criteria for choosing these studies from the
many that exist in the literature is that they were all performed
in a quasi-hydrostatic pressure medium: an alcohol mixture
(Andrault et al. 2003; Ross et al. 1990; Yamanaka et al. 2002),
neon (Grocholski et al. 2013), hydrogen (Hemley et al. 2000),
or argon (Yamanaka et al. 2002), without any laser annealing.
When combining data sets, it is important to give care-
ful consideration to compatibility of the pressure standards.
Hemley et al. (2000), Ross et al. (1990), and Yamanaka et al.
(2002) all used ruby fluorescence to monitor the pressure in
their experiments (Mao et al. 1986). Here their pressures have
been converted to the ruby scale of Dorogokupets and Oganov
(2007), since the KBr pressure scale used in the present experi-
ments was calibrated against the Pt scale of Dorogokupets and
Oganov (2007). Grocholski et al. (2013) used gold as a pressure
standard, and their pressures were recalculated using the gold
equation of state of Dorogokupets and Oganov (2007). Andrault
et al. (2003) used quartz as a pressure standard; their data were
not corrected, but they were all obtained from pressures below
10 GPa, where most pressure scales are compatible.
A Mie-Grüneisen equation of state was fit to the combined
data set, in which the total pressure is described as the sum of
an isothermal pressure, a harmonic thermal pressure (PTH) term,
and a quasi-anharmonic pressure (PAN) term:
P(V,T) = P(V, 300 K) + [PTH(V,T) – PTH(V, 300 K)] +
[PAN(V,T) – PAN(V, 300 K)]. (1)
The isothermal pressure term P(V, 300 K) is given by the
third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state (Birch 1952):
P
V,300 K
( )
=3K0f1+2f
( )
5
21+3
2K0
'−4
( )
f
⎛
⎝
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎞
⎠
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟(2)
where K0 is the isothermal bulk modulus, K0
ʹ is its pressure
derivative at constant temperature, f = 0.5·[(V/V0)–2/3 – 1] is the
Eulerian strain, and the subscript 0 indicates values at 1 bar. The
harmonic thermal pressure term in Equation 1 can be derived
from a Debye-type thermal energy (e.g., Dewaele et al. 2006):
P
TH V,T
( )
=9nRγ
V
θD
8+TT
θD
⎛
⎝
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎞
⎠
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
3
0
θD/T
∫z3dz
ez−1
⎛
⎝
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎞
⎠
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟
(3)
where n is the number of atoms per formula unit, R is the ideal
gas constant, g = g0(V/V0)q is the Grüneisen parameter, q is a
constant describing the volume dependence of g, and θD = θ0
exp{[1 – (V/V0)q]g0/q} is the Debye temperature. The quasi-
anharmonic pressure term is fit as:
P
AN V,T
( )
=γ
VcT2(4)
where c is a fitted constant. The T2 dependence is derived from
the lowest-order term of the high-temperature expansion of the
anharmonic free energy (Oganov and Dorogokupets 2004).
Since stishovite can be recovered as a metastable phase to
ambient conditions, its properties at 1 bar are well characterized.
Here a measured volume of 14.02 cm3/mol was used (Wang et al.
2012); this value is in agreement with those of most recent experi-
mental studies (e.g., Table 1). Recent Brillouin spectroscopy and
ultrasonic interferometry measurements of stishovite constrain its
adiabatic bulk modulus at 1 bar to be 301–316 GPa (Brazhkin et al.
2005; Jiang et al. 2009; Li et al. 1996; Yoneda et al. 2012) (Table
1). Here the value of 305 GPa was used for the adiabatic K0 from
Li et al. (1996). The adiabatic (KS) to isothermal (KT) conversion
is given by KS = KT(1 + αgT), where α is the thermal expansion
coefficient. Using T = 300 K, α = 1.647 × 10–5/K from Nishihara
et al. (2005), and the calculated g0 (see below), an isothermal K0
of 302 GPa was calculated. The heat capacity (CP) of stishovite at
1 bar was measured by Akaogi et al. (2011), and the correspond-
ing Debye temperature (θ0) was calculated to be 1109 K (Akaogi
et al. 2011). Using these values for CP, V0, KS, and α at 1 bar, the
Grüneisen parameter can be calculated as:
FiguRe 4. Pressure-volume-temperature data and equation of state
ts (Tables 1–2) for stishovite and CaCl2-type SiO2 (a), and residuals to
these ts (b). Curves in a are isotherms calculated for the midpoint of the
indicated temperature ranges. Solid curves and lled symbols: stishovite.
Dashed curves and open symbols = CaCl2-type SiO2. Curves in a are
truncated at the edge of the stability elds of the phases (Grocholski et
al. 2013; Shen and Lazor 1995; Zhang et al. 1996) (Fig. 3), but some
metastable data are shown. Circles = this study. Diamonds = Hemley et
al. (2000). Squares = Grocholski et al. (2013). Upward-pointing triangles
= Ross et al. (1990). Right-pointing triangles = Andrault et al. (2003).
Left-pointing triangles = Yamanaka et al. (2002). Horizontal and vertical
error bars in b are both uncertainties in measured pressure. Data have
been corrected to a common pressure scale. (Color online.)
b
a
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γ0=α*KS*V
CP
=1.7
1
. (5)
Using this value for g0 along with the measured V0 and K0T, an
unweighted nonlinear least-squares minimization was used to fit
Equations 1–4 to the combined stishovite data set. Since fitting q
always resulted in a value of 1, a common approximation, q was
fixed at 1 to determine K0
ʹ and c.
The resulting parameters are shown in Table 1, and isotherms
calculated from this fit are compared to the data in Figure 4a.
Figure 4b shows the residuals to this fit, which range from –4.2
to +4.9 GPa. The root mean squared (rms) misfit in pressure is
1.8 GPa when considering only the data from this study, compa-
rable to the 2σ uncertainty on the pressure measurements; the rms
misfit is 1.6 GPa when considering all of the data in the fit. The
covariance between K0
ʹ and c is –0.0027 × 10–8, corresponding to
a correlation coefficient of r = –0.74, which reflects a significant
anti-correlation between these two parameters in this fit. This equa-
tion of state is fit to data spanning up to 75 GPa and 300–3300 K, a
significant advance over previous equations of state of stishovite,
which reached a maximum pressure of 54 GPa (Wang et al. 2012)
and maximum temperature of 2400 K (Pigott et al. 2015).
Table 1 compares our equation of state parameters to those of
various previous studies on stishovite. Supplemental1 Table S1
includes equation of state parameters from a more exhaustive list of
prior studies, reaching back as far as the 1960s. The fitted value of
K0
ʹ = 5.24(9) agrees with various previous studies within mutual 2σ
uncertainties, including those based on ultrasonic interferometry
at high pressures (Li et al. 1996), X-ray diffraction under static
compression (Panero et al. 2003), dynamic compression (Luo et
al. 2002a; Lyzenga et al. 1983), and theoretical calculations (Luo
et al. 2002b). This result for K0
ʹ is broadly consistent with other
recent studies (e.g., Table 1) reporting that stishovite has a K0
ʹ
greater than the canonical value of 4 (Birch 1952). It falls above
the values obtained in some recent studies (e.g., Table 1), which
may be understood as a tradeoff between K0 and K0
ʹ (Supplemental1
Fig. S1a). K0 and K0
ʹ are inversely correlated in literature studies
of stishovite, and this fit agrees with the trend defined by previous
studies (Supplemental1 Fig. S1a). Prior studies have not resolved
an anharmonic pressure term for stishovite, so comparisons to
previous fits cannot be made.
Thermal equation of state of CaCl2-type silica
Equations 1–4 have been similarly fit to the P-V-T data on
CaCl2-type silica to construct a thermal equation of state for this
phase. As for stishovite, the data on the CaCl2-type phase were
combined with data obtained in previous studies at 300 K to ensure
that the fit correctly captures the properties of this phase at ambient
temperature. The data of Hemley et al. (2000) and Grocholski et
al. (2013) were used and corrected to a common pressure scale.
The CaCl2-type phase of SiO2 cannot be recovered to 1 bar,
which makes fitting its thermal equation of state more challenging.
To reduce the number of fitting parameters, which was necessary
given the resolution of the data, the same V0, θ0, q, and c as for
stishovite were used. The volumes predicted by the CaCl2-type
equation of state were also forced to match those of the stishovite
equation of state at the phase boundary, since this transition is sec-
ond-order with no accompanying volume change (e.g., Andrault
et al. 2003). Again, a nonlinear least-squares minimization routine
was used to determine K0, K0
ʹ, and g0. The resulting parameters are
listed in Table 2, and isotherms calculated from the fit are com-
pared to the data in Figure 4a. The residuals to this fit are shown
in Figure 4b, which span from –2.6 to +3.1 GPa. The rms misfit
in pressure is 1.5 GPa, or 1.4 GPa for the data in this study alone,
comparable to the 2σ uncertainty on the pressure measurements.
Table 1. Equation of state parameters for stishovite, from this study and a selection of previous studies
Study V0 (cm3/mol) K0 (GPa) K0
′ g0 q θT c (GPa·cm3/mol/K2) Method
This study 14.017 302 5.24(9) 1.71 1 1109 –6.0(4) × 10–6 XRD
Andrault et al. (2003) 14.0053(18)a 309.9(11) 4.59(23) XRD
Liu et al. (1999) 14.0135(6)a 294(2) 5.3 XRD
Nishihara et al. (2005) 14.020(3)a 296(5) 4.2(2) 1.33(6) 6.1(8) 1160(120) XRD
Pigott et al. (2015) 13.97 312.9 4.8 1.55 2.9 1109 XRD
Wang et al. (2012) 14.017 294(2) 4.85(12) 1.66(7) 2.9(4) 1130(100) XRD
Yamanaka et al. (2002) 14.03a 292(13) 6 XRD
Panero et al. (2003) 13.97a 312.9(34) 4.8(2) 1.35 1 shock/XRDb,c
Luo et al. (2002a) 13.94 306(5) 5.0(2) 1.35 2.6(2) shockc
Lyzenga et al. (1983) 14.01 306 5.4d 1.38 3.2 shockc
Li et al. (1996) 14.06a 305(5)e 5.3(1)f ultrasonics
Yoneda et al. (2012) 298–317e,g ultrasonics
Brazhkin et al. (2005) 316(4)e Brillouin
Jiang et al. (2009) 301(1)–315(1)e,g 3.73(10)–4.34(16)f,g Brillouin
Weidner et al. (1982) 14.01a 308–324e,g Brillouin
Cohen (1991) 13.90 324 4.04 calculatedh
Driver et al. (2010) 14.19(4) 305(20) 3.7(6) 1.22(1) 2.22(1) calculated
Karki et al. (1997a) 13.83 313 4.24 calculatedh
Luo et al. (2002b) 14.03 296.4(37) 4.9(1) calculated
Tsuchiya et al. (2004) 289–321 4.1–4.2 calculatedh
Notes: Equation of state parameters are as defined in the text for 1 bar and 300 K, and all bulk moduli are isothermal, unless otherwise noted. Entries in italics were
held fixed in the fits. Stated uncertainties for this study do not incorporate covariance between terms. For more stishovite equations of state from the literature,
see Supplemental1 Table S1.
a Measured volume.
b High-temperature data are from literature.
c Shock wave data may span multiple phases.
d (∂KT/∂P)0S.
e K0S.
f (∂KS/∂P)0T.
g Reuss-Voigt bounds.
g Results are from 0 K.
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This is the first thermal equation of state of this phase determined
in a diamond-anvil cell; previously, its only thermal equation of
state was based on a meta-analysis of shock wave data (Akins and
Ahrens 2002). Here the quantity of equation of state data for this
phase were markedly increased, improving our understanding of
its physical properties and its role in the Earth’s interior.
Table 2 lists equation of state parameters for the CaCl2-type
phase from several previous studies. In comparison to other experi-
mental studies (Andrault et al. 1998, 2003; Grocholski et al. 2013),
a higher K0 [341(4) GPa] and lower K0
ʹ [3.20(16)] are reported
here, though this is the first study to report an experimentally de-
termined K0
ʹ for this phase. This variability in measured parameters
can be understood in terms of the strong tradeoff between K0 and
K0
ʹ (Supplemental1 Fig. S1b). If K0
ʹ is fixed at 4 as in Andrault et
al. (2003) and Grocholski et al. (2013), then K0 = 321.8(11) GPa,
in much better agreement with these studies. This fit (Table 2)
indicates a correlation coefficient between K0 and K0
ʹ of r = –0.97
(Supplemental1 Table S3), indicating that these parameters are
almost perfectly inversely correlated. The Grüneisen parameter
also exhibits moderate tradeoffs with the other fitted parameters,
with an r = 0.45 with K0 and r = –0.63 with K0
ʹ. The fitted value of
g0 = 2.14(4) is higher than that of Akins and Ahrens (2002) (1.4),
who do not report an uncertainty on their fit but cover less of P-T
space. In comparison to theoretical studies, this value for K0 is
significantly higher than that of Oganov et al. (2005) at 1 bar; at
50 GPa, the new equation of state yields KT = 490 GPa, not far
from the calculated values of Karki et al. (1997b) (509 GPa) and
Yang and Wu (2014) (501–504 GPa) at this pressure.
Stishovite and the CaCl2-type phase of silica have similar
behavior under high pressures and temperatures, but with several
differences in their properties that are resolved here. The CaCl2-
type structure has a higher K0 than stishovite does (Tables 1–2),
with a much lower value of K0
ʹ. This results in the CaCl2-type being
more compressible at the phase boundary, and is reflected in the
different curvatures of their isotherms (Fig. 4a). At 49 GPa and
300 K, the isothermal bulk modulus of CaCl2-type SiO2 (487 GPa)
is lower than that of stishovite (541 GPa). The g0 found for the
CaCl2-type phase is higher than that of stishovite for the same value
of q, indicating that the CaCl2-type has greater thermal expansivity.
Stishovite lattice parameter fits
The compressibility and thermal expansion of each axis of a
tetragonal phase can be described independently using a pseudo-
equation of state, replacing V with a3 or c3. Here a high-temperature
third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state was used, to bet-
ter facilitate comparisons with results of previous studies (e.g.,
Nishihara et al. 2005; Pigott et al. 2015). The high-temperature
Birch-Murnaghan equation of state is identical to the regular
Birch-Murnaghan equation of state (Eq. 2), except that the bulk
modulus is replaced by:
K0T
( )
=K0300 K
( )
+T−300 K
( )
∂K
∂T
⎛
⎝
⎜
⎜
⎜
⎞
⎠
⎟
⎟
⎟
⎟(6)
and the 1 bar volume is replaced by
V0T
()
=V0300K
()
*exp
300K
T
∫αdT
⎡
⎣
⎢
⎢
⎢
⎤
⎦
⎥
⎥
⎥(7)
where α is the thermal expansion coefficient, approximated here
as a constant (e.g., Angel 2000).
The 1 bar lattice parameters a0 = 4.178 Å and c0 = 2.668 Å
were used for stishovite, as measured by Nishihara et al. (2005).
Again the present data were pooled with those of several 300 K
compression studies (Andrault et al. 2003; Grocholski et al. 2013;
Hemley et al. 2000; Ross et al. 1990; Yamanaka et al. 2002), cor-
rected to a common pressure scale. For the a axis of stishovite,
K0a, Kʹ
0a, αa, and ∂K0a/∂T were fit (Table 3). A linear temperature
dependence of α was found to be statistically insignificant. The a
axis of stishovite is much more compressible than the bulk crystal
[K0a = 269(4) GPa compared to K0 = 302 GPa], with a lower K0
ʹ
[Kʹ
0a = 4.55(19) compared to K0
ʹ = 5.24(9)]. Figure 5 (upper panel)
shows the raw data from this study and the previous studies used
in the fit (Andrault et al. 2003; Grocholski et al. 2013; Hemley
et al. 2000; Ross et al. 1990; Yamanaka et al. 2002), compared to
calculated isotherms. The pressure residuals span a range of –3.6
to +2.9 GPa (Supplemental1 Fig. S2), with an rms misfit of 1.0
GPa. All of the parameters covary strongly with each other (|r|
> 0.6), with the strongest correlations between K0a and Kʹ
0a and
between αa and ∂K0a/∂T (both r = –0.95) (Supplemental1 Table S4).
Table 3 also compares the lattice parameter fit for the stishovite
a axis to results from previous studies, obtained using X-ray
diffraction, Brillouin spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations.
There is a remarkable degree of consensus on the compressibility
of the a axis, with K0a in the studies listed in Table 3 spanning the
range 240(5)–284(5) GPa; the value found in this study, 269(4)
GPa, falls in the middle of this range. The value of ∂K0a/∂T =
–0.020(2) GPa/K agrees well with that reported by Nishihara et
al. (2005) [–0.023(4) GPa/K], and the value of αa = 2.11(12) ×
10–5 K–1 matches those of Nishihara et al. (2005) [2.06(14) × 10–5
K–1] and Wang et al. (2012) [2.46(19) × 10–5 K–1] within mutual
2σ uncertainties, and is compatible with the thermal expansion
expression of Pigott et al. (2015) at high temperatures.
Table 2. Equation of state parameters for the CaCl2-type phase of silica, from this study and previous studies
Study V0 (cm3/mol) K0 (GPa) K0
′ g0 q θT c (GPa·cm3/mol/K2) Method
This study 14.017 341(4)a 3.20(16)a 2.14(4)a 1 1109 –6.0 × 10–6 XRD
Andrault et al. (1998) 14.112(2) 282(1) 4.29 XRD
Andrault et al. (2003) 13.94(5) 334(7) 4 XRD
Grocholski et al. (2013) 14.044(9) 317(3) 4 XRD
Akins and Ahrens (2002) 14.00 291 4.3 1.4 1 shockb
Karki et al. (1997b) 509 calculatedc
Oganov et al. (2005) 13.72 258.354 4.6135 calculatedd
Yang and Wu (2014) 501–504 calculatede
Notes: Equation of state parameters are as defined in the text for 1 bar and 300 K, and all bulk moduli are isothermal. Entries in italics were held fixed in the fits.
Stated uncertainties for this study do not incorporate covariance between terms; the variance-covariance matrix for this fit is shown in Supplemental1 Table S3.
a Variance-covariance matrix for this fit is shown in Supplemental1 Table S3.
b Meta-analysis of literature data. c At 50 GPa and 0 K. d At 0 K. e At 50 GPa, Voigt-Reuss bounds.
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The data from this study and literature data (Grocholski et
al. 2013; Hemley et al. 2000) on the c axis of stishovite exhibit
a much higher degree of scatter than those on the a axis (Fig. 5,
lower panel), as observed in previous studies (e.g., Nishihara et
al. 2005). Therefore, in the lattice parameter fit for the stishovite
c axis, Kʹ
0c and ∂K0c/∂T were held fixed to the values found for
the a axis (Table 3), and K0c and αc were fit (Table 3). Isotherms
calculated from the fit are compared to the data in Figure 5 (lower
panel). The pressure residuals range from –10.1 to +13.6 GPa
(Supplemental1 Fig. S3), and the fit has an rms misfit in pressure
of 4.5 GPa. K0c and αc have a correlation coefficient r = –0.93.
Previous experimental studies on the c axis of stishovite have
reported K0c values spanning 411–556 GPa. The value of 435(9)
GPa reported here falls within this range, agreeing within mutual
2σ uncertainties with values reported previously using X-ray
diffraction (Liu et al. 1999; Nishihara et al. 2005; Pigott et al.
2015), which tend to be lower than values reported using Bril-
louin spectroscopy (Jiang et al. 2009; Weidner et al. 1982) and
computational results (Cohen 1991). The value of αc = 1.70(11)
× 10–5 K–1 falls intermediate between those reported previously by
Nishihara et al. (2005) and Wang et al. (2012), agreeing with both
of these values within mutual 2σ uncertainties, and also agrees
well with the expression of Pigott et al. (2015) for thermal expan-
sion at high temperatures. The c axis of stishovite exhibits a lower
thermal expansion than the a axis by 19%, as reported previously
(Table 3). It is more incompressible than the bulk crystal [K0c =
435(9) GPa], and significantly (62%) more incompressible than
the a axis, an effect that has also been reported previously (Table
3). The higher compressibility of the a axis has been attributed to a
greater degree of flexibility in the corner-sharing linkages of SiO6
octahedra along the a axis, as opposed to the stiffer edge-sharing
linkages along the c axis (Nishihara et al. 2005).
The axial c/a ratio of stishovite can be calculated from our lat-
tice parameter fits (Supplemental1 Fig. S4). The c/a ratio of stisho-
vite increases approximately linearly with decreasing volume, by
∼0.0057 per cm3/mol. The temperature effect on the c/a ratio is
not apparent from the data given the measurement uncertainties,
which are large relative to the observed variations in c/a (variation
of only ∼1.5% over the range of conditions in this study).
To evaluate internal consistency, volumes calculated from the
equation of state of stishovite were compared to volumes calcu-
lated as V = a2c from the lattice parameter fits for the a and c axes.
Supplemental1 Figure S5 shows the misfit between these volumes
as a function of volume for temperatures of 300–3500 K over the
entire pressure range of stishovite stability (Shen and Lazor 1995;
Zhang et al. 1996) (Fig. 3). It reaches a maximum of ∼0.5% misfit
in volume at 2500 K and low pressures, but is less than ∼0.1% over
most of the range of conditions investigated (less than uncertainties
on most measured volumes). The fits of the a and c axes slightly
overestimate the volume at lower volumes (up to ∼13.5 cm3/mol)
and underestimate the volume at higher volumes.
Just beyond the transition pressure, the a axis of the CaCl2-type
phase expands and the b axis shrinks (Supplemental1 Fig. S6) (e.g.,
Andrault et al. 2003; Hemley et al. 2000); this behavior precludes
a simple fit for the CaCl2-type lattice parameters as was done here
for stishovite. A much smaller splitting between the a and b axes
was observed here than in previous studies at 300 K (Grocholski
et al. 2013; Hemley et al. 2000). This difference does not appear
to be a thermal effect, since both axes expand with increasing tem-
perature, such that the difference between them is approximately
independent of temperature. It may be due to the more hydrostatic
conditions of this study caused by the high temperatures at which
the data were collected. The data from this study on the c axis of
the CaCl2-type phase are compatible with those of previous studies
at 300 K (Grocholski et al. 2013; Hemley et al. 2000), and shows a
FiguRe 5. Pressure-lattice parameter-temperature data and ts
(Table 3) for the a axis (upper panel) and c axis (lower panel) of stishovite.
Curves are isotherms calculated for the midpoint of the indicated
temperature ranges, and are truncated at the edge of the stability eld of
stishovite (Shen and Lazor 1995; Zhang et al. 1996) (Fig. 3), but some
metastable data are shown. Symbols are as in Figure 4. Data have been
corrected to a common pressure scale. Residuals to these ts are shown
in Supplemental1 Figures S2–S3. (Color online.)
Table 3. Lattice parameter fits for the a and c axes of stishovite, from this study and a selection of previous studies
Study K0a (GPa) K′
0a ∂K0a/∂T (GPa/K) αa (K–1) K0c (GPa) K′
0c ∂K0c/∂T (GPa/K) αc (K–1) Method
This study 269(4) 4.55(19) –0.020(2) 2.11(12) × 10–5 435(9) 4.55 –0.020 1.70(11) × 10–5 XRD
Andrault et al. (2003) 250.9(16) 5.48(32) XRD
Liu et al. (1999) 269(9) 513(32) XRD
Nishihara et al. (2005) 240(5) 6.2(5) –0.023(4) 2.06(14) × 10–5 411(9) 4 –0.036(21) 1.22(24) × 10–5 XRD
Pigott et al. (2015) 284(5) 4 –0.050(3) 450(20) 4 –0.091(7) XRD
Wang et al. (2012) 2.46(19) × 10–5 1.87(20) × 10–5 XRD
Jiang et al. (2009) 256 521 Brillouin
Weidner et al. (1982) 253 556 Brillouin
Cohen (1991) 262 615 calculated
Notes: Entries in italics were held fixed in the fits. Stated uncertainties for this study do not incorporate covariance between terms; the variance-covariance matrix
for the a axis fit is shown in Supplemental1 Table S4.
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higher compressibility than the c axis of stishovite at these condi-
tions (Supplemental1 Fig. S6).
SiO2 in the deep Earth
It has been demonstrated experimentally that free silica is one
of the phases that forms when mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB)
compositions are subjected to the pressures and temperatures of
Earth’s lower mantle, which may occur in subducting slabs. For
example, at 40–60 GPa and 2100 K, a MORB composition has
been shown to contain 15–19 wt% stishovite (Hirose et al. 2005;
Perrillat et al. 2006; Ricolleau et al. 2010). Subducted continental
crust likely contains an even higher proportion of free silica (e.g.,
Irifune et al. 1994; Ishii et al. 2012). Due to its abundance in these
geological settings, it is important to consider the density of SiO2
at lower mantle conditions.
Figure 6 shows the density of SiO2 at the P-T conditions of the
Earth’s transition zone and lower mantle. Along a mantle geotherm
(Brown and Shankland 1981), the phase transition from stishovite
to CaCl2-type SiO2 occurs at a pressure of 78 GPa, or a depth of
1840 km. Two possible slab temperature profiles were also con-
sidered, a “hot slab” that is 200 K cooler than the mantle geotherm
and a “cold slab” that is 600 K cooler (e.g., Syracuse et al. 2010).
These lower temperatures increase the density of SiO2, and push
the phase transition to lower pressures (75 GPa in a hot slab and
68 GPa in a cold slab). The minimum temperature inside the slab
can be ∼100–500 K cooler than the slab surface (e.g., Syracuse et
al. 2010); any silica present in the interior of a slab could there-
fore have a slightly higher density and lower transition pressure
than considered here. Figure 6 also shows the density profile of
the Earth from the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM,
Dziewonski and Anderson 1981). Along a mantle geotherm, silica
is denser than the surrounding mantle to a pressure of 58 GPa, or
a depth of 1420 km, and is less dense than the mantle at greater
depths. In a cold slab, silica is denser than the mantle up to 68
GPa or 1640 km. At greater depths in the Earth (124–128 GPa or
2690–2770 km, depending on temperature), the CaCl2-type silica
will transform to seifertite (Grocholski et al. 2013).
implications
A thermal equation of state has been constructed for stishovite
that extends to significantly higher pressures and temperatures than
previous studies (e.g., Pigott et al. 2015; Wang et al. 2012), and
the first thermal equation of state of CaCl2-type silica measured
in a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell is reported (Fig. 4), greatly
improving the pressure and temperature coverage for this phase.
This P-T coverage makes these equations of state more accurate
and less prone to errors in extrapolation when applying them to
understanding the deep Earth.
Free silica is unlikely to be present in a pyrolitic lower mantle,
but may occur in a subducting slab (e.g., Hirose et al. 2005). Based
on measurements of the phase boundary between stishovite and
CaCl2-type SiO2 (Fig. 3), this phase transition should occur at pres-
sures of 68–78 GPa in the Earth’s lower mantle, with uncertainty
due to temperature. Because this transition is second order with no
discontinuity in density, it is unlikely that it would be observable
as a seismological reflection, though it may be detectable based
on seismic velocities and anisotropy (e.g., Yang and Wu 2014).
However, it is important to know the depth of this transition in
modeling the density of silica in the Earth, because these two
phases have different compressibilities and thermal properties
(Tables 1–2). Silica is denser than the surrounding mantle up to
pressures of 58–68 GPa, or depths of 1420–1640 km, depending
on temperature. At shallower depths, silica can contribute to the
gravitational force pulling on a sinking slab. At greater depths,
silica is less dense than the mantle, providing a source of buoy-
ancy to resist the downward motion of the slab. Recently it has
been suggested that SiO2 may exsolve from the core as it cools
(Hirose et al. 2017). Silica entering the lower mantle this way
will tend to ascend buoyantly until it is consumed by the SiO2-
undersaturated mantle.
acknowledgments
We are grateful to the editor for handling our manuscript and to two anonymous
reviewers for their constructive feedback. We thank Dion Heinz, Jacob Britz, and
beamline scientist Clemens Prescher for assistance with running experiments. This work
was supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship,
Illinois Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship, International Centre
for Diffraction Data Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship, University of Chicago
Plotnick Fellowship, and NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (EAR-1452626) to R.A.F.
and NSF grant EAR-1427123 to A.J.C. J.S.P. was supported by the OSU Presidential
Fellowship and NSF grant EAR-0955647 awarded to Wendy R. Panero and thanks
CDAC for the HPCAT beamtime award. J.S.S. acknowledges the support of DOE-BES/
DMSE under Award DE-FG02-99ER45775. Portions of this work were performed at
GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National
Laboratory (ANL). GeoSoilEnviroCARS is supported by the NSF–Earth Sciences (EAR-
1634415) and the Department of Energy (DOE), Geosciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466).
Portions of this work were performed at HPCAT (Sector 16), APS, ANL. HPCAT
operation is supported by DOE-NNSA under Award No. DE-NA0001974, with partial
instrumentation funding by NSF. This research used resources of the APS, a U.S. DOE
Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by ANL under
Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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