Oxidation or cation re-arrangement? Distinct behavior of riebeckite at high temperature
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Giancarlo Della Ventura
, Günther J. Redhammer
, Federico Galdenzi , Gennaro Ventruti , Umberto Susta , Roberta Oberti , Francesco Radica und Augusto Marcelli
Abstract
In this work we address the stability of riebeckite at high temperatures and compare the different behaviors observed under various oxidation conditions. For this purpose, we annealed powders of a sample from Mt. Malosa (Malawi), which is compositionally close to the end-member; the run products obtained after annealing in air vs. in vacuum were studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy and powder X‑ray difraction. The results show that riebeckite follows two distinct paths depending on the external environment. Under oxidizing conditions, it is stable in the hydrous form up to relatively low temperatures (400–450 °C), then it undergoes a rapid (within ~50 °C) dehydrogenation, forming oxo-riebeckite, which is stable up to ~900 °C. The final breakdown products of the oxo-amphibole include aegirine + cristobalite + hematite. Based on the relative intensity of the (310) Bragg reflection, the activation energy (Ea) for the riebeckite to oxo-riebeckite transition is 166 ± 6 kJ/mol.
Under vacuum conditions, no Fe oxidation is observed, and riebeckite is stable up to much higher temperatures (750–800 °C); however, in the 550 < T < 700 °C range, it undergoes a significant rearrangement of the C cations (those hosted in the strip of octahedra). Indeed, the amphibole stable in the 700–800 °C range has the same chemical formula as riebeckite but has a disordered and non-standard cation distribution at the octahedra, i.e., M(1)(Fe3+Fe2+)M(2)(Fe3+Fe2+)M(3)Fe2+; we call this phase “CR3+ disordered riebeckite”. For T ≥ 800 °C, it decomposes to aegirine + fayalite + cristobalite + H2O.
External oxygen is required for the release of water into the surrounding system, being a prerequisite for the Fe-amphiboles to be a carrier of H2O in the lower crust and upper mantle. One important implication of our results is that characterization of the overall oxidation state of iron does not necessarily provide the redox conditions of the environment of formation because a crystal-chemical re-arrangement under reducing conditions allows riebeckite to maintain its Fe3+/Fe2+ composition up to higher temperatures.
Acknowledgments and Funding
We thank Gerold Tippelt (Salzburg) for help with Mössbauer data collection and Thomas Schwab (Salzburg) for the annealing experiments. Financial support was provided by the Grant to Department of Science, Roma Tre University (MIUR-Italy Dipartimenti di Eccellenza, ARTICOLO 1, COMMI 314-337 LEGGE 232/2016). The final version of the work benefited from positive criticism by F.C. Hawthorne (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and an anonymous referee.
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