High pressure and temperature experiments have been done in the KMg
3AlSi
3O
10(OH)
2(phlogopite; Ph)-KMn
3AlSi
3O
10(OH)
2 (manganese phiogopite; MnPh) system under 1, 10, and 20 kbar at 750°C under NNO buffer conditions. The phases coexisting with phlogopite at 1 kbar include leucite, olivine, pyroxenoid, and manganese oxide. At 10 kbar, the equilibrium phases include phiogopite, olivine, manganese oxide, pyroxenoid, leucite and melt. At 20 kbar, they are phlogopite, olivine, pyroxenoid, manganese oxide and melt. The extent of solid solution of manganese phlogopite systematically increases with the increase of pressure and extent of solid solution being 17, 37, and 43 mol.% at 1, 10 and 20 kbar respectively.
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