Starting material SC1 was the same as used by Brey et al. (1990Brey et al. ( , 2008. It consists of remixed olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, and spinel originally separated from spinel lherzolite sample SC1 (Jagoutz et al., 1979) and ground to 520 mm. SC1 is a proxy for a fertile mantle composition and is similar to MixKLB-1 studied by and . The compositions of the minerals are listed inTable 1 together with the original bulk composition and that of the mineral mix. The latter was determined by electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) from a glass bead prepared from 20 mg SC1 blended with 20 mg high-purity SiO 2 , which was added to avoid the formation of quench crystals. Trace elements were analysed in this glass by LA ICP MS.Three experiments were carried out with mixture CL1, a composition estimated to be a melt in equilibrium with magnesite-bearing harzburgite at 6 GPa and 14008C (Table 1). This mixture was prepared from pure chemical reagents [SiO

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garnet. Clinopyroxene stability depends strongly on the Na content in the starting mixture; it remains in the Na-gloss composition up to 1600 °C at 12 GPa, but was not observed in K-gloss experiments above 1200 °C. The composition of melt or fluid changes gradually with increasing temperature from hydrous carbonate-rich (<10 wt% SiO 2 ) at 800-1000 °C to volatile-rich silicate liquids (up to 40 wt% SiO 2 ) at high temperatures. Trace elements were analyzed in melts and crystalline phases by LA ICP MS. The garnetmelt and clinopyroxene-melt partition coefficients are in general consistent with results from the literature for volatile-free systems and silicocarbonate melts derived by melting carbonated peridotites. Most trace elements are strongly incompatible in kyanite and silica polymorphs (D < 0.01), except for V, Cr and Ni, which are slightly compatible in kyanite (D > 1). Aragonite and Fe-Mg carbonate have very different REE partition coefficients (D Mst-Sd/L ~ 0.01 and D Arg/L ~ 1). Nb, Ta, Zr and Hf are strongly incompatible in both carbonates. The bearthite/melt partition coefficients are very high for LREE (>10) and decrease to ~1 for HREE. All HFSE are strongly incompatible in bearthite. In contrast, Ta, Nb, Zr and Hf are moderately to strongly compatible in ZrSiO 4 and TiO 2 phases. Based on the obtained partition coefficients, the composition of a mobile phase derived by sediment melting in deep subduction zones was calculated. This phase is strongly enriched in incompatible elements and displays a pronounced negative Ta-Nb anomaly but no Zr-Hf anomaly. Although all experiments were conducted in the diamond stability field, only graphite was observed in low-temperature experiments. Spontaneous diamond nucleation and the complete transformation of graphite to diamond were observed at temperatures above 1200-1300 °C. We speculate that the observed character of graphite-diamond transformation is controlled by relationships between the kinetics of metastable graphite Abstract Melting of carbonated sediment in the presence of graphite or diamond was experimentally investigated at 7.5-12 GPa and 800-1600 °C in a multianvil apparatus. Two starting materials similar to GLOSS of Plank and Langmuir (Chem Geol 145:325-394, 1998) were prepared from oxides, carbonates, hydroxides and graphite. One mixture (Na-gloss) was identical in major element composition to GLOSS, and the other was poorer in Na and richer in K (K-gloss). Both starting mixtures contained ~6 wt% CO 2 and 7 wt% H 2 O and were doped at a ~100 ppm level with a number of trace elements, including REE, LILE and HFSE. The near-solidus mineral assemblage contained a silica polymorph (coesite or stishovite), garnet, kyanite, clinopyroxene, carbonates (aragonite and magnesite-siderite solid solution), zircon, rutile, bearthite and hydrous phases (phengite and lawsonite at <9 GPa and the hydrous aluminosilicates topaz-OH and phase egg at >10 GPa). Hydrous phases disappear at ~900 °C, and carbonates persist up to 1000-1100 °C. At temperatures >1200 °C, the ...

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