Oxidation Experiment of Natural Megacrystal Ch'nopyroxene: Implications for Assignment of Mossbauer Spectra

The Mossbauer spectra of natural megacrystal clinopyroxene are usually fitted by 4 sets of symmetric doublets, A-A’, B-B’, C-C’ and D-D’, respectively, in terms of increasing Qs value in literature. But the assignments of those doublets are quite different, except the D-D’ doublet assigned to Fe3+ at the lattice site Ml in previous papers. Particularly, the assignment and interpretation of the C-C’ doublet are diverse.The oxidation experiments of natural megacrystal clinopyroxene collected from the Hannuoba basalt, North China, were performed under controlled conditions of temperature at 1000℃ and oxygen fugacity of FMQ buffer in 1, 2, 3 and 5 days respectively. The oxidized samples were then measured by X-ray diffraction spectrometry and Mossbauer spectrometry. The oxidation of clinopyroxene is characterized by Fe2+→ Fe3+ at Ml under the subsolidus conditions, which is consistent with the increase of the area of the D-D’ doublet when the heating time increases. Accordingly, the area of the A-A’ and B