Effect of Temperature, Pressure, and Chemical Composition on the Electrical Conductivity of Schist: Implications for Electrical Structures under the Tibetan Plateau

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Wenqing Sun¹  Lidong Dai¹  Mengqi Wang¹  Heping Li¹  Changcai Liu¹  Haiying Hu¹ 

[1] Key Laboratory of High-Temperature and High-Pressure Study of the Earth’s Interior, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China;

关键词: schist;    electrical conductivity;    high pressure;    chemical compositions;    conduction mechanism;    Tibetan Plateau;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ma12060961

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The experimental study on the electrical conductivities of schists with various contents of alkali ions (C_A = K₂O + Na₂O = 3.94, 5.17, and 5.78 wt.%) were performed at high temperatures (623–1073 K) and high pressures (0.5–2.5 GPa). Experimental results indicated that the conductivities of schist markedly increased with the rise of temperature. Pressure influence on the conductivities of schist was extremely weak at the entire range of experimental temperatures. Alkali ion content has a significant influence on the conductivities of the schist samples in a lower temperature range (623–773 K), and the influence gradually decreases with increasing temperature in a higher temperature range (823–1073 K). In addition, the activation enthalpies for the conductivities of three schist samples were fitted as being 44.16–61.44 kJ/mol. Based on the activation enthalpies and previous studies, impurity alkaline ions (K⁺ and Na⁺) were proposed as the charge carriers of schist. Furthermore, electrical conductivities of schist (10^−3.5–10^−1.5 S/m) were lower than those of high-conductivity layers under the Tibetan Plateau (10⁻¹–10⁰ S/m). It was implied that the presence of schist cannot cause the high-conductivity anomalies in the middle to lower crust beneath the Tibetan Plateau.

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