Behavior of argon gas release from manganese oxide minerals as revealed by <Superscript>40</Superscript>Ar/<Superscript>39</Superscript>Ar laser incremental heating analysis

Manganese oxides in association with paleo- weathering may provide significant insights into the multiple factors affecting the formation and evolution of weathering profiles, such as temperature, precipitation, and biodiversity. Laser probe step-heating analysis of supergene hollandite and cryptomelane samples collected from central Queensland, Australia, yield well-defined plateaus andconsistent isochron ages, confirming the feasibility dating very-fined supergene manganese oxides by 40Ar/39Ar technique. Two distinct structural sites hostingAr isotopes can be identified in light of their degassing behaviors obtained byincremental heating analyses. The first site, releasing its gas fraction at thelaser power 0.2-0.4 W, yields primarily 40Aratm, 38Aratm, and 36Aratm (atmospheric Ar isotopes). The second sites yield predominantly 40Ar* (radiogenic 40Ar),39ArK, and 38ArK (nucleogenic components), at ～0.5-1.0 W. There is no significant Ar gas released at the laser power higher than 1.0 W, indicating the breakdown of the tunnel sites hosting the radiogenic and nucleogenic components. The excellent match between the degassing behaviors of 40Ar*, 39ArK, and 38ArK suggests that these isotopes occupy the same crystallographic sites and that 39ArK lossfrom the tunnel site by recoil during neutron irradiation and/or bake-out procedure preceding isotopic analysis does not occur. Present investigation supports that neither the overwhelming atmospheric 40Ar nor the very-fined nature of the supergene manganese oxides poses problems in extracting meaningful weathering geochronological information by analyzing supergene manganese oxides minerals.     

溶胶——凝胶法合成隐钾锰矿型Mn_2

用富马酸做还原剂,还原先导化合物KMnO4的溶胶———凝胶法制备了纯隐钾锰矿型MnO2。煅烧干凝胶的温度必须在500℃以下,最好是450℃,煅烧时间2h以上。     

NaAlSi3O8-hollandite and other high-pressure minerals in the shock melt veins of the Suizhou meteorite

The Suizhou L6 chondrite contains a few very thin shock melt veins of 0.02–0.09 mm in width. In spite of small width of the veins, shock-induced high-pressure phases, such as coarse-grained NaAlSi₃O₈-hollandite, ringwoodite, majorite and fine-grained matrix majorite-pyrope_ss have been discovered in these veins. NaAlSi₃O₈-hollandite, the high-pressure phase of plagioclase, in Suizhou shock veins occurs as a single phase mineral, no silicate glassy phase, such as albitic glass, was incorporated with it. The presence of above-mentioned high-pressure phases constrains the high pressure (up to 23–24 GPa) and high temperature (up to 1900–2000°C) regime in Suizhou shock veins, and indicates that the duration of high-pressure regime in the veins should be long enough (a few seconds) for phase transformation and crystallization of minerals under pressure. The discovery of the first natural single-phase crystalline NaAlSi₃O₈-hollandite in Suizhou meteorite is of important significance in understanding the Earth’s mantle geochemistry.     

Sr在碱硬锰矿固溶体中的化学固溶量研究

以SrCO3、BaCOs、Al2O3和TiO2为原料，通过配方设计，采用高温固相反应，合成了单相固溶Sr的碱硬锰矿固溶体．借助于X射线衍射、扫描电子显微镜和电子探针波谱等分析手段，研究了配方设计、Sr在碱硬锰矿固溶体中的化学固溶量等问题．实验结果表明，采用高温固相反应工艺，容易合成掺Sr碱硬锰矿固溶体及单相掺Sr碱硬锰矿固溶体，但是Sr在碱硬锰矿固溶体中的最高化学固溶量与配方设计有关，当配方的化学式为SrxBa1Al2 2rTi6-24O16时，其最大化学固溶量为0．13mol，而当配方的化学式为Srx yBa1-yAl2 2xTi6-24O16时，其最大化学固溶量为0．22moLSr在碱硬锰矿固溶体中的最高固溶量还与合成方法有关，采用均相化学反应法合成的单相掺Sr碱硬锰矿固溶体中Sr的最高化学固溶量要高于固相反应法合成的固溶体中Sr的最高化学固溶量.