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Mineralogical and chemical characteristics of five nontronites and Fe-rich smectites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

H. M. Köster ,
U. Ehrlicher ,
H. A. Gilg ,
R. Jordan ,
E. Murad  and
K. Onnich
H. M. Köster
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl för Angewandte Mineralogie und Geochemie, Technische Universität Mönchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching
U. Ehrlicher
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl för Angewandte Mineralogie und Geochemie, Technische Universität Mönchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching
H. A. Gilg
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl för Angewandte Mineralogie und Geochemie, Technische Universität Mönchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching
R. Jordan
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl för Angewandte Mineralogie und Geochemie, Technische Universität Mönchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching
E. Murad
Affiliation:
Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt, Aussenstelle Bamberg, Concordiastr. 28, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany
K. Onnich
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl för Angewandte Mineralogie und Geochemie, Technische Universität Mönchen, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747 Garching
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Abstract

Five Fe–bearing dioctahedral smectites (three nontronites and two Fe-rich smectites) were purified using a variety of physical and chemical procedures. The structural formulae indicate one nontronite and one Fe-rich smectite to be montmorillonitic, whereas the other three smectites are beidellitic. Mössbauer spectra showed Fe to be exclusively trivalent and were fitted with three doublets, two of which had quadrupole splittings characteristic of Fe3+ in octahedral coordination, whereas the third had a distinctly lower quadrupole splitting. Although the position of the Si–O stretching band in the infrared spectra could reflect tetrahedral Fe3+, the lack of distinctive features prevented a definitive attribution of this component to tetrahedral Fe3+. The 18O/16O data suggest that fractionation of nontronite-water at ambient temperatures (1000 lnα = 23 ± 2‰) is lower than that of Fe-rich smectite (1000 lnα = 27 ± 2‰). The estimated formation temperatures of the samples are below 70°C.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 579 - 599
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1999

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