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Chemistry-dependent Raman spectral features of glauconite and nontronite: Implications for mineral identification and provenance analysis

  • Raphael J. Baumgartner ORCID logo , Javier Cuadros , Joseph Michalski , Bobby Pejcic , Carsten Laukamp , Siyu Hu ORCID logo and Julien Bourdet
Published/Copyright: May 27, 2022
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 107 Issue 6

Abstract

This study provides a comprehensive Raman spectral characterization of nontronite and glauconite-nontronite mixed-layer phases from seafloor hydrothermal fields. These 2:1 phyllosilicates, which show isomorphous cation exchange between Mg2++Fe2+ and Fe3++Al3+ in the dioctahedral sheets, exhibit three diagnostic Raman peaks in the low wavenumber region (v1 ~241–257 cm−1; v2 ~600–606 cm−1; v3 ~690 cm−1), and one peak at ~3548–3570 cm−1 (v4). With increasing (Mg2++Fe2+)oct, the presumed stretching band of octahedral OH-O bonds (v1) is displaced to a higher wavenumber, whereas the stretching band of tetrahedral Si-O-Si bonds (v2) is shifted to a lower wavenumber. Peak v4, which relates to O-H bonds of hydroxyls linked to octahedral cations, shows a downshift with increasing (Mg2++Fe2+)oct. The band v4 can be mathematically fitted by three bands, two of which strongly correlate with the cation occupancy in the octahedral sheets; i.e., vibrations of hydroxyls linked to trivalent cations (Fe3+ and Al3+) are mainly represented by a band at ~3560–3573 cm−1, whereas divalent cations (Mg2+ and Fe2+) mainly contribute to a band at ~3538–3540 cm−1. This result is consistent with theoretical considerations for dioctahedral phyllosilicates, which predict for the incorporation of Mg2+ and Fe2+ a weakening/lengthening of O-H bonds in the OH groups, accounting for a downshift of the O-H vibrations. Hence, this is one of the first studies that trace how even subtle chemical modifications in phyllosilicates influence Raman spectral features. The reported findings have implications for mineral identification and provenance analysis, such as during surface exploration on Mars, where compositionally diverse phyllosilicates occur.

Keywords: Phyllosilicates; glauconite; nontronite; peak shift

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the facilities and the scientific and technical assistance of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at Centre for Microscopy, Characterization and Analysis (UWA). We thank Hongwu Xu and Janice Bishop for their editorial handling and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. Derek Winchester and Adam Ramage (both CSIRO Kensington, Perth) are thanked for their help with sample preparation.

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Received: 2021-03-02
Accepted: 2021-06-10
Published Online: 2022-05-27
Published in Print: 2022-05-27

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Keywords for this article
Phyllosilicates; glauconite; nontronite; peak shift

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