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Effects of composition and pressure on electronic states of iron in bridgmanite

Dorfman, Susannah M.  
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Potapkin, Vasily
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Lv, Mingda
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July 1, 2020
American Mineralogist

Electronic states of iron in the lower mantle's dominant mineral, (Mg,Fe,Al)(Fe,Al,Si)O-3 bridgmanite, control physical properties of the mantle including density, elasticity, and electrical and thermal conductivity. However, the determination of electronic states of iron has been controversial, in part due to different interpretations of Mossbauer spectroscopy results used to identify spin state, valence state, and site occupancy of iron. We applied energy-domain Mossbauer spectroscopy to a set of four bridgmanite samples spanning a wide range of compositions: 10-50% Fe/total cations, 0-25% Al/total cations, 12-100% Fe3+/total Fe. Measurements performed in the diamond-anvil cell at pressures up to 76 GPa below and above the high to low spin transition in Fe3+ provide a Mossbauer reference library for bridgmanite and demonstrate the effects of pressure and composition on electronic states of iron. Results indicate that although the spin transition in Fe3+ in the bridgmanite B-site occurs as predicted, it does not strongly affect the observed quadrupole splitting of 1.4 mm/s, and only decreases center shift for this site to 0 mm/s at similar to 70 GPa. Thus center shift can easily distinguish Fe3+ from Fe2+ at high pressure, which exhibits two distinct Mossbauer sites with center shift similar to 1 mm/s and quadrupole splitting 2.4-3.1 and 3.9 mm/s at similar to 70 GPa. Correct quantification of Fe3+/total Fe in bridgmanite is required to constrain the effects of composition and redox states in experimental measurements of seismic properties of bridgmanite. In Fe-rich, mixed-valence bridgmanite at deep-mantle-relevant pressures, up to similar to 20% of the Fe may be a Fe2.5+ charge transfer component, which should enhance electrical and thermal conductivity in Fe-rich heterogeneities at the base of Earth's mantle.

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DOI
10.2138/am-2020-7309
Web of Science ID

WOS:000545539500007

Author(s)
Dorfman, Susannah M.  
Potapkin, Vasily
Lv, Mingda
Greenberg, Eran
Kupenko, Ilya
Chumakov, Aleksandr I.
Bi, Wenli
Alp, E. Ercan
Liu, Jiachao
Magrez, Arnaud  
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Date Issued

2020-07-01

Publisher

MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER

Published in
American Mineralogist
Volume

105

Issue

7

Start page

1030

End page

1039

Subjects

Geochemistry & Geophysics

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Mineralogy

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Geochemistry & Geophysics

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Mineralogy

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bridgmanite

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mossbauer spectroscopy

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iron oxidation state

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lower mantle

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equation-of-state

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post-perovskite

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silicate perovskite

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mossbauer-spectroscopy

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(mg,fe)sio3 perovskite

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charge-transfer

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fe-enrichment

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spin-state

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transitions

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velocity

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