Data for "Simulation of natural alteration of iron oxides in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods" collected at the University of Minnesota between 2016 and 2020
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Data for "Simulation of natural alteration of iron oxides in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods" collected at the University of Minnesota between 2016 and 2020
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2020-03-12
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Bilardello, Dario
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We present the results of a new study on the conversion of pure, undoped synthetic ferrihydrite, wet-annealed at pH 6.56 and 90 ℃ without stabilizing ligands, to nanophase goethite, hematite and an intermediate magnetic phase, likely to be nanophase maghemite. Our analysis included magnetic field and temperature dependent properties and characterization by powder x-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectra and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Unlike most other studies of ferrihydrite alteration we sampled alteration products after 0.5 hours, and then in a geometric progression to 32 hours, yielding an extremely detailed examination of the earliest alteration phases. There are many similarities to the latest studies of pure ferrihydrite alteration but with a significant difference: we observe very early appearance of oriented nanophase goethite along with a soft magnetic contribution, while rhombohedral hematite crystals are formed later, as reported in the previous studies. Our observations attest to the non-uniqueness of the magnetic enhancement process and to its strong dependence on environmental conditions, with important implications for the proposed hematite/goethite ratio as a reliable proxy for paleoprecipitation intensity.
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Magnetic, pXRD and Mössbauer metadata used in the cited study on alteration of synthetic ferrihydrite.
All magnetic data was collected at the Institute for Rock Magnetism on a Quantum Design MPMS and comprises magnetic susceptibility (in-phase and out-of-phase) as a function of temperature (10-300K) and frequency (1-1000 Hz), hysteresis loops measured at 5K and 300 K, and magnetic remanence data (pTRM, temperature and AF demagnetized, the "goethetite test") collected between 400 and 10 K.
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Bilardello, D., Banerjee, S.K., Volk, M., Soltis, J.A., and R. Lee Penn (2020). Simulation of natural alteration of iron oxides in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods. Submitted to Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009037
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009037
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Research was funded through the Instrumentation and Facilities program of the National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Division (NSF/EAR 1642268)
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