Precise Mossbauer milliprobe determination of ferric iron in rock-forming minerals and limitations of electron microprobe analysis

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 78-85

  Sobolev, Vladimir N ^a,b   McCammon, Catherine A ^c   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a   Snyder, Gregory A ^a   Sobolev, Nikolai V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRON; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CHARGE BALANCES; COEXISTING MINERALS; COMPENSATION EFFECTS; MICROPROBE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ERRORS; ROCK-FORMING MINERALS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION;

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; MINERALOGY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032946194     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-1-208     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. 2+-Mg exchange geothermometer. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 115, 467-473.
2. Amthauer, G. (1976) Crystal chemistry of silicate garnets; Mossbauer and electronic absorption studies. Abstracts, International Geological Congress, 2, 14, 551-552.
3. Banno, S. (1970) Classification of eclogites in terms of physical conditions of their origin. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 3, 405-421.
4. Bertrand, P. and Mercier, J-C.C. (1985) The mutual solubility of coexisting ortho-and clinopyroxene: towards an absolute geothermometer for the natural system? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 76, 382-403.
5. Canil, D. and O'Neill, H.St.C. (1996) Distribution of ferric iron in some upper mantle assemblages. Journal of Petrology, 37, 609-635.
6. Coleman, R.G., Lee, D.E., Beatty, L.B., and Brannock, W.W. (1965) Eclogites and eclogites: their differences and similarities. Bulletin Geological Society of America, 76 p. 483-508.
7. 3+/ΣFe in amphibole by X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. In Mineral Spectroscopy: A Tribute to Roger G. Burns. The Geochemical Society Special Publication, 5, 165-171.
8. Dollase, W.A. and Newman, W.I. (1984) Statistically most probable stoichiometric formulae. American Mineralogist, 69, 553-556.
9. Dyar, M.D. (1984) Precision and interlaboratory reproducibility of measurements of the Mössbauer effect in minerals. American Mineralogist, 69, 1127-1144.
10. Ellis, D.J. and Green, D.H. (1979) An experimental study of the effect of Ca upon garnet-clinopyroxene exchange equilibria. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 71, 13-22.
11. Finger, L.W. (1972) The uncertainty in the calculated ferric iron content of a microprobe analysis. Year Book, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 71, 600-603.
12. Finnerty, A.A. and Boyd, F.R. (1987) Thermobarometry for garnet peridotites: basis for the of thermal and compositional structure of the upper mantle. In P.H. Nixon, Ed., Mantle xenoliths, p. 381-402. Wiley, New York.
13. 57Fe Moessbauer and single crystal X-ray diffraction study of synthetic almandine; evidence for the Gol'danskii-Karyagin effect. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 19, 2, 121-126.
14. Jacob, D., Jagoutz, E., Lowry, D., Mattey, D., and Kudrjavtseva, G. (1994) Diamondiferous eclogites from Siberia: Remnants of Archean oceanic crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 5191-5207.
15. Jerde, E.A., Taylor, L.A., Crozaz, G., Sobolev, N.V., and Sobolev, V.N. (1993) Diamondiferous eclogites from Yakutia, Siberia: Evidence for a diversity of protoliths. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 114, 189-202.
16. Krogh, E.J. (1988) The garnet-clinopyroxene Fe-Mg geothermometer - a reinterpretation of existing experimental data. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 99, 44-48.
17. Luth, R.W. and Canil, D. (1993) Ferric iron in mantle-derived pyroxenes and a new oxybarometer for the mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 113, 2, 236-248.
18. Luth, R.W., Virgo, D., Boyd, F.R., and Wood, B.J. (1990) Ferric iron in mantle-derived garnets. Implications for thermobarometry and for the oxidation state of the mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 104, 56-72.
19. 3 in enstatite for spinel and garnet peridotite compositions. American Mineralogist, 61, 603-615.
20. McCammon, C.A. (1994) A Mössbauer milliprobe: Practical considerations. Hyperfine Interactions, 92, 1235-1239.
21. McCammon, C.A., Chaskar, V., and Richards, G.G. (1991) A technique for spatially Mössbauer spectroscopy applied to quenched metallurgical slags. Measurement Science and Technology, 2, 657-662.
22. McCammon, C.A., Chinn, I.L., Gurney, J.J., and McCallum, M.E. (1995) Determination of the ferric iron content of diamond inclusion from George Creek using Mössbauer spectroscopy with implications for mantle oxygen fugacity during diamond genesis. Extended Abstracts., 6th International Kimberlite Conference, 359-361.
23. McCammon, C.A., Chinn, I.L., Gurney, J.J., McCallum, M.E. (1998) Ferric iron content of mineral inclusions in diamonds from George Creek, USA determined using Mössbauer spectroscopy: Implications for oxygen fugacity. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, in press.
24. Nickel, K.G. and Green, D.H. (1985) Empirical geothermobarometry for garnet peridotites and implications for the nature of the lithosphere, kimberlites and diamonds, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 73, 158-170.
25. O'Neill, H.St.C. and Wood, B.J. (1979) An experimental study of Fe-Mg partitioning between garnet and olivine and its calibration as a geothermometer. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 70, 59-70.
26. Powell, R. (1985) Regression diagnostics and robust regression in geothermometer/geobarometer calibration: the garnet-clinopyroxene geothermometer revisited. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 6, 231-243.
27. Råheim, A. and Green, D.H. (1974) Experimental determination of the temperature and pressure dependence of the Fe-Mg partition coefficient for coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene. Contributions to mineralogy and Petrology, 48, 179-203.
28. Snyder, G.A., Taylor, L.A., Crozaz, G., Halliday, A.N., Beard, B.L., Sobolev, V.N., and Sobolev, N.V. (1997) The origins of Yakutian eclogite xenoliths. Journal of Petrology, 38, 85-113.
29. Sobolev, N.V. (1964) Paragenetic types of garnets, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow (in Russian).
30. _ (1974) Deep-seated inclusions in kimberlites and the problem of the composition of the upper mantle, Nauka Publishing House, Novosibirsk, 264 p. (in Russian). English translation published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 1977, 279 p.
31. Sobolev, V.N., Taylor, L.A., Snyder, G.A., and Sobolev, N.V. (1994) Diamondiferous eclogites from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia, Siberia. International Geology Review, 36, 42-64.
32. th International Kimberlite Conference, Novosibirsk, Russia 1997, Geology and Geophysics, 38, 206-215.
33. Taylor, L.A. and Neal, C.R. (1989) Eclogites with oceanic crustal and mantle signatures from the Bellsbank kimberlite. South Africa, part I: Mineralogy, petrography, and whole rock chemistry. Journal of Geology, 97, 551-567.
34. Wells, P.R.A. (1977) Pyroxene thermometry in simple and complex systems. Contributions to mineralogy and Petrology, 62, 129-139.
35. Wood, B.J. and Virgo, D. (1989) Upper mantle oxidation state; ferric iron contents of lherzolite spinels by (super 57) Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy and resultant oxidation fugacities. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53, 1277-1291.