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Environmental monitoring of magnetic iron phases of urban water reservoir lake sediments (Taiaçupeba Lake, metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil) by using Mössbauer spectroscopy

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In the present work, we investigate the iron oxides and oxyhydroxides behavior and evolution, related to the geochemical behavior of some metals, which could be retained as solid phases in the sediments from an urban water reservoir lake, placed in Taiaçupeba, Great São Paulo, Brazil. These tasks were performed by the establishment of a proceduring setting for environmental monitoring analysis through Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements associated to hysteresis loops measurements and chemical analysis [X-ray fluorescence (XRF)]. We inferred the possibility of goethite occurrence in broad particle size distribution (5–50 nm), and related to ferrihydrite, and small grain-size hematite (about 8 nm). The magnetometry results pointed to the paramagnetic/superparamagnetic behavior of the magnetic phases present in the samples and also suggested the occurrence of small grain-size magnetite. We also verified the presence of clay minerals related to Fe, as well as the occurrence of Fe3+ and/or Fe2+ in short-range structural order. Through a straight correlation among Mössbauer spectra data gained at T = 77 K and Al-metal, metal-Fe molar ratios, provided through XRF data, we found remarkable indications of interference on meta-stable phases evolution to its final products. Such results can be pointing for evidences about the possible isomorphic replacing and/or adsorption of Al and other metals in goethite and hematite.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Prof. Dr. G. F. Goya, Prof. Dr. H. R. Rechenberg, Dr. J. A. H. Coaquira and Renato Cohen (Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil) for the valuable contributions, which allowed the development of the present study. This work was partly supported by the Brazilian agencies CNPq and FAPESP (grants 00/06066-3 and 02/06480-0).

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  1. D. R. Franco

    Present address: Department Geophysics, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, R. do Matão 1226, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  2. T. S. Berquó

    Present address: Institute for Rock Magnetism, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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  1. Laboratory of Magnetic Materials, Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo—USP, C.P. 66318, 05389-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    D. R. Franco, T. S. Berquó & C. S. M. Partiti

  2. Laboratory of Hydrogeochemistry, Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo—USP, Rua do Lago 562, 05422-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    R. A. L. Imbernon

  3. Institute of Geosciences, State University of Campinas—UNICAMP, C.P. 6152, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    J. Enzweiler

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Franco, D.R., Berquó, T.S., Imbernon, R.A.L. et al. Environmental monitoring of magnetic iron phases of urban water reservoir lake sediments (Taiaçupeba Lake, metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil) by using Mössbauer spectroscopy. Environ Geol 52, 831–842 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-006-0525-5

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