Abstract
The distribution of Fe-bearing compounds in the silt and clay fractions from samples of a Chilean Ultisol developing on pyroclastic material was determined in this study. The mineralogical analysis was carried out mainly by Mossbauer spectroscopy at 298, 80 and 6 K, for samples before and after treatment with ammonium oxalate (OX). The 298 and 80 K-Mossbauer spectra reveal relatively complex mineral assemblages for all samples. An intense central doublet, due to (super)paramagnetic Fe3+ is observed. The incipient broad-line sextet may be due to coexisting magnetically ordered forms of iron oxides. Goethite, hematite and maghemite were identified from the Mossbauer spectral analysis of patterns obtained at 6 K, which were numerically fitted with model-independent hyperfine field distributions. Some low hyperfine fields are identified for both, the silt and clay samples, being more intense in the last one. These species are likely due to poorly crystalline iron oxyhydroxides, which are more easily removed with the OX treatment; maghemite tends to remain in the coarse fraction, whereas poorly crystalline forms do occur mainly in the clay fraction.
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