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The iron compounds in minerals of obsidians from the continental Far East, Mount Baekdu (Baedusan) near the Sino-Korean border and Kyushu in southwest Japan were studied using 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. The mineral Pyroxene (FeSiO3) in obsidian was found in the metamorphic rocks of Mount Beakdusan and Kyushu. However, the mineral biotite in obsidian was found in Kyushu only. The chemical compounds of the microlites in obsidians from Mount Baekdu are quite different from those in the Kyushu obsidians. The Mössbauer spectrum measured on the Baekdusan obsidian was fitted using two sextets, two ferrous iron doublets, and a ferric iron doublet tentatively assigned to clinopyroxene. Two sextets result from the nonstoichiometric magnetite. In contrast, Kyushu obsidians consisted of two sextets, a ferrous iron doublet for clinopyroxene, and a ferric iron doublet tentatively associated with biotite. In mineralogical and geochemical studies on the Baekdusan and Kyushu obsidians, the origination of the magma compositions and the crystallization environments were confirmed to have been different.
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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (NRF-2018M2A2B3A01071573).
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Uhm, Y.R., Sun, GM., Jin, ME. et al. Provenance Studies for Prehistoric Obsidian by Using Mössbauer Spectroscopy. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 77, 253–257 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.77.253
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