GeoPS: an interactive visualization tool for thermodynamic modeling of
phase equilibria
Abstract
Due to the progress of the availability of thermodynamic data in the
last decades, equilibrium thermodynamics provides the ability to
calculate mineral stability relations in the Earth’s lithosphere (and
beyond) as well as thermobarometric results. GeoPS (available at
http://www.geops.org) is a windows-based interactive visualization
program for thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibria. This program
provides a wide range of phase equilibrium calculations and illustration
facilities base on Gibbs free energy minimization method, which is done
automatically with practically no user intervention. Possible
applications include calculation various types of phase diagrams,
isopleths, and thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibrium along
specific P-T path with a progressively changing effective bulk
compositions (EBC), such as fluid and melt loss, and chemical
fractionation during compositionally zoned minerals growth in a
metamorphic process. A novel algorithm with parallel computing makes
GeoPS have high efficiency. The easy to use interface, visualization,
high efficiency, reliability of GeoPS makes phase equilibrium modeling
accessible to any researchers and students of earth sciences, and
provides a powerful tool to understand natural systems and plan
experimental work.