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Celadonite from the northwestern Mojave Desert area of California was examined by detailed Mössbauer spectroscopy at temperatures from 10 K to 400 K. In addition to the predominant Fe3+ doublet with isomer shift δ∼0.4 mm s−1 and quadrupole splitting Δ ∼ 0.4 mm s−1, another Fe3+ doublet with δ∼ 0.4, Δ∼1.2 mm/s and two Fe2+ doublets with δ∼1.1, Δ ∼ 1.7, 2.7 mm s−1 at 300 K were distinguished. The minor Fe3+ component is ascribed to dehydroxylated surface sites. Most of the remaining Fe(∼90%) is M2 cis-OH octahedral in an ordered M+−M2+ array. However, about 10% is M1 trans-OH Fe2+. Isomer shift vs. T gives Debye temperatures of 570 K for Fe3+ in M2 and 380 K for both Fe2+ sites, indicating greater vibrational freedom for Fe2+. Quadrupole splitting Δ vs. T for Fe2+ gives a valence electronic energy splitting of 760 cm−1 between the ground and first excited state for M2. The M1 sites have a more drastic variation in Δ vs. T which indicates not only a lower first excited state but a rhombic distortion at these sites. A proposed explanation is a neighboring M2 site vacancy. The soil clay formed from this celadonite, which is mostly Fe-rich smectite, was also studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy. About half the Fe2+ has been oxidized in the clay, but the isomer shifts and quadrupole splittings are essentially the same as in the original celadonite. A texture orientation in the clay absorber was detected by measuring the absorber at 55° to the source radiation. This texture effect produces asymmetric doublets in the usual 90° measurement.
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Bowen, L.H., DeGrave, E., Reid, D.A. et al. Mössbauer study of a California desert celadonite and its pedogenically-related smectite. Phys Chem Minerals 16, 697–703 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00223320
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