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Boron coordination and B/Si ordering controls over equilibrium boron isotope fractionation among minerals, melts, and fluids

Boron coordination and B/Si ordering controls over equilibrium boron isotope fractionation among minerals, melts, and fluids
Boron coordination and B/Si ordering controls over equilibrium boron isotope fractionation among minerals, melts, and fluids

The high mobility of boron during fluid-rock interaction makes it an effective tracer for the sources of magmatic and metamorphic fluids, as recorded in minerals such as tourmaline and muscovite. Although advances have been made in quantifying the fractionation of boron isotopes among different phases, boron isotope fractionation in complex silicate melts remains poorly understood. Here, we propose appropriate models for the BO 3 and BO 4 units in silicate melts covering a wide range of chemical compositions and boron coordination structures in silicate magmas, and report the results of a theoretical investigation of boron isotope fractionation among silicate melt, minerals and fluids using a first principles theoretical approach. A comparison of measured and calculated α factors in mineral-melt and fluid-melt systems shows good agreement, suggesting the applicability of a simplified treatment of boron coordination structures in silicate melt. The results of this study show that the proportion of trigonal/tetrahedral coordinated boron and the B/Si ordering in silicate tetrahedral layers control the boron isotope fractionation among different phases, and that the effect of chemical composition is minor (less than 2‰ at 600 K). The temperature-dependent boron isotope fractionations are described as 1000lnα mica-basic fluid = 0.8–2.4 × (1000/T) - 0.8 × (1000/T) 2, 1000lnα mica-acidic fluid = 7.0–14.0 × (1000/T) - 1.2 × (1000/T) 2 and 1000lnα mica-tur = 1.9–5.4 × (1000/T) -3.4 × (1000/T) 2 (T is temperature in Kelvins). At magmatic temperatures, ∆ 11B values between mineral/fluid and melt also vary with the proportion of the BO 4 unit in the melt. This study underpins the applicability of the white mica-tourmaline geothermometers and boron isotopes for fluid source identification, and also offers an explanation of boron isotope fractionation in systems that contain complex silicate melts.

Aqueous liquid, Boron isotope fractionation, Boron isotope-geothermometer, Boron-bearing minerals, Silicate melt
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Li, Yin-chuan
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Ma, Jing
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Lu, Jian-jun
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Li, Yin-chuan, Wei, Hai-zhen, Palmer, Martin R., Jiang, Shao-yong, Liu, Xi, Williams-jones, Anthony E., Ma, Jing, Lu, Jian-jun, Lin, Yi-bo and Dong, Ge (2021) Boron coordination and B/Si ordering controls over equilibrium boron isotope fractionation among minerals, melts, and fluids. Chemical Geology, 561, [120030]. (doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.120030).

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The high mobility of boron during fluid-rock interaction makes it an effective tracer for the sources of magmatic and metamorphic fluids, as recorded in minerals such as tourmaline and muscovite. Although advances have been made in quantifying the fractionation of boron isotopes among different phases, boron isotope fractionation in complex silicate melts remains poorly understood. Here, we propose appropriate models for the BO 3 and BO 4 units in silicate melts covering a wide range of chemical compositions and boron coordination structures in silicate magmas, and report the results of a theoretical investigation of boron isotope fractionation among silicate melt, minerals and fluids using a first principles theoretical approach. A comparison of measured and calculated α factors in mineral-melt and fluid-melt systems shows good agreement, suggesting the applicability of a simplified treatment of boron coordination structures in silicate melt. The results of this study show that the proportion of trigonal/tetrahedral coordinated boron and the B/Si ordering in silicate tetrahedral layers control the boron isotope fractionation among different phases, and that the effect of chemical composition is minor (less than 2‰ at 600 K). The temperature-dependent boron isotope fractionations are described as 1000lnα mica-basic fluid = 0.8–2.4 × (1000/T) - 0.8 × (1000/T) 2, 1000lnα mica-acidic fluid = 7.0–14.0 × (1000/T) - 1.2 × (1000/T) 2 and 1000lnα mica-tur = 1.9–5.4 × (1000/T) -3.4 × (1000/T) 2 (T is temperature in Kelvins). At magmatic temperatures, ∆ 11B values between mineral/fluid and melt also vary with the proportion of the BO 4 unit in the melt. This study underpins the applicability of the white mica-tourmaline geothermometers and boron isotopes for fluid source identification, and also offers an explanation of boron isotope fractionation in systems that contain complex silicate melts.

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Accepted/In Press date: 14 December 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 December 2020
Published date: 5 February 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (Grants Nos. 41973005 , 41673001 , 41830428 , 41422302 ) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) (Grant No. D020205 ). We are grateful to the High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) of Nanjing University for processing the numerical calculations in this paper using its blade cluster system. The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments that have improved the manuscript significantly. The careful editorial handling by Prof. Michael E. Böttcher is greatly appreciated. Funding Information: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (Grants Nos. 41973005, 41673001, 41830428, 41422302) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) (Grant No. D020205). We are grateful to the High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) of Nanjing University for processing the numerical calculations in this paper using its blade cluster system. The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments that have improved the manuscript significantly. The careful editorial handling by Prof. Michael E. B?ttcher is greatly appreciated. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: Aqueous liquid, Boron isotope fractionation, Boron isotope-geothermometer, Boron-bearing minerals, Silicate melt

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446946
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Author: Yin-chuan Li
Author: Hai-zhen Wei
Author: Shao-yong Jiang
Author: Xi Liu
Author: Anthony E. Williams-jones
Author: Jing Ma
Author: Jian-jun Lu
Author: Yi-bo Lin
Author: Ge Dong

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