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Soils are the most wide-spread form of iron-containing material on the land portion of the earth’s surface. Together with aquatic sediments they provide a varied and important group of materials for which Mössbauer spectroscopy is an appropriate technique of study. They have been, however, less studied by this technique than many more-specialized geological samples. Part of this is certainly due to the complicated iron mineralogy of soils. Another important reason is the requirement of scientific expertise in two diverse areas in order to have a reasonable expectation of obtaining significant results. This review will concentrate on papers of the last five years, during which time there has been significant increase in both quantity and quality of reports in this applied field of Mossbauer spectroscopy. As far as we are aware, all papers dealing with this subject refer to the 57Fe resonance.
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Bowen, L.H., Weed, S.B. (1984). Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Soils and Sediments. In: Herber, R.H. (eds) Chemical Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2431-7_9
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