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AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 100, Issue 8-9, Pages 1978-1984Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am-2015-5245
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Mossbauer spectroscopy; aluminous bridgmanite; ferric iron; recoil-free fraction; Debye temperature; crystallographic site; lower mantle
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- NSF [EAR-1025629]
- NASA [NNX15AG54G]
- NASA [NNX15AG54G, 803513] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Aluminous bridgmanite (Al-Bm) is the dominant phase in the Earth's lower mantle. In this study, the Mossbauer spectra of an Al-Bm sample Mg0.868Fe0.087Si0.944Al0.101O2.994 were recorded from 65 to 300 K at 1 bar. The temperature dependence of the center shift was fitted by the Debye model and yielded the Debye temperatures of 305 3 K for Fe2+ and 361 22 K for Fe3+. These values are lower than those of Al-free bridgmanite by 17 and 24%, respectively, indicating that the presence of Fe and Al increases the average Fe-O bond length and weakens the bond strength. At 300 K, the calculated recoil-free fractions of Fe2+ (0.637 +/- 0.006) and Fe3+ (0.72 +/- 0.02) are similar and therefore the molar fractions of Fe2+ and Fe3+ are nearly the same as the area fractions of the corresponding Mossbauer doublets. At 900 K, the calculated recoil-free fractions of Fe3+ is 46% higher than that of Fe2+, implying that the molar fraction of Fe3+ is only 41% for a measured spectral area fraction of 50%, and that the area fractions of iron sites may change with temperature without any changes in the valence state or spin state of iron. We infer that Fe3+ accounts for 46 +/- 2% of the iron in the Al-Bm and it enters the A site along with Al3+ in the B site through the coupled-substitution mechanism. An Fe2+ component with large quadrupole splitting (similar to 4.0 mm/s) was observed at cryogenic conditions and interpreted as a high-spin distorted iron site.
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