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SiO2 TiO2 FeO Na2O Al2O3 CaO MgO K2O MnO P2O5 “terrestrial” 42–78 0–4 0.1–18 1–6 11–23 0.1–15 1–14 0–6 0–0.5 0–2 N=98 MORB‐like 45–55 0.5–4 6–16 1.5–4 12–18 8–14 4–12 0–3 0–0.4 0–1 N=33 Major element ranges equal or exceed (Basaltic Volcanism Study Project, 1981) and (Ewart, 1979)

       c. Application of Kress and Carmichael (1991)

      The Borisov et al. (2018) and Kress and Carmichael (1991) models are both empirical parameterizations of hundreds of wet‐chemical determinations of Fe3+/∑Fe ratios of glasses of diverse compositions equilibrated in controlled‐atmosphere experiments. O’Neill et al. (2018) heavily weights (“anchors”) their calibration with the Mössbauer determinations of Fe3+/∑Fe ratios of basalts (one basalt composition from Berry et al. (2018), two basalt compositions from Cottrell et al. (2009), but with the Fe3+/∑Fe ratios “corrected” to be consistent with Berry et al. (2018), one low‐Fe basalt composition from Jayasuriya et al. (2004), and one high‐Fe sherggotite from Righter et al. (2013), but without that study’s correction for recoilless fraction). They then derive the compositional terms from approximately the same database of wet‐chemical results used in the Borisov et al. (2018) and Kress and Carmichael (1991) models, though O’Neill et al. (2018) uses only compositions with < 60 wt.% SiO2. Not included was the Mössbauer study of Zhang et al. (2018), which determined recoilless fraction using cryogenic Mössbauer. Correction for recoilless fraction reduces the Fe3+/∑Fe ratios of Cottrell et al. (2009) by a few percent absolute, though this decrease is not equivalent to the “correction” applied by O’Neill et al. (2018). The Mössbauer studies of Zhang et al. (2018) and Berry et al. (2018) obtain fundamentally different results. We prefer the Mössbauer treatment of Zhang et al. (2018) because the methods applied in Berry et al. (2018) depend on assumptions we believe are flawed, including that highly reduced basalt is free of ferric iron (even under the most reducing conditions, Fe0 coexists with substantial Fe3+ (Allen & Snow, 1955; Bowen & Schairer, 1932); that hyperfine parameters remain constant as Fe3+/∑Fe ratio varies (there is ample evidence to the contrary, e.g., Mysen, 2006); and that center shifts > 0.6, at low quadrupole splitting, should be assigned to ferrous iron (this assertion is unsupported, see Zhang et al., 2018 for a discussion). Of course, when exploring the accuracy of a technique, it is advantageous to cross‐calibrate. We note that the calibration of Zhang et al. (2018) yields an fO2‐ Fe3+/∑Fe ratio relationship that is the same within uncertainty as Kress and Carmichael (1991) model and Borisov et al. (2018) model, based on independent wet‐chemical measurements (see also Partzsch et al., 2004), and spinel oxybarometry (Davis & Cottrell, 2018). Debate on these points must play out in the peer‐reviewed literature and so for the purpose of this compilation, we take a different, agnostic, approach.

      For our assessment, we take advantage of the fact that electrochemical sensors, the devices that monitor the fO2 within gas‐mixing furnaces, are accurate to better than ±0.1 log units in fO2 and yield oxybarometric results consistent with independent calorimetric data, even accounting for potential interlaboratory biases due to poor calibration of the furnace hotspot (O’Neill & Pownceby, 1993). Taking advantage of this precision and accuracy, we use Borisov et al. (2018)’s recent compilation of 435 controlled‐atmosphere experiments to assess the parameterizations; the same experimental database that provides the compositional terms in all three parameterizations. The 435 experiments have wet‐chemical determinations of Fe3+/∑Fe ratios, and so are independent of the aforementioned debate concerning Mössbauer spectroscopy. We calculated the furnace fO2 predicted by each parameterization for 435 compositions from QFM ‐3.3 to +7.3, and for 98 “terrestrial” compositions (Table A1) in the Earth‐relevant fO2 range of QFM ‐3 to +4.1.

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