微生物广泛分布在岩石圈、水圈、土壤圈和大气圈中,在矿物风化作用过程中扮演着重要的角色。本文选取门多萨假单胞杆菌(Pseudomonas mendocina)为代表性菌种,研究微生物与含铁蒙脱石矿物相互作用的现象和机理。通过测量反应溶液pH值、元素含量的变化,以及不同时段蒙脱石的XRD和红外光谱等,发现pH值在实验过程中缓慢上升,Si、Al、Fe元素不断溶出,矿物结构特征与主要基团也显示出相应的变化,表明细菌会破坏蒙脱石的晶体结构,并加速蒙脱石的伊利石化作用。根据分析结果推测,硅氧四面体优先被破坏,Si的溶出显著,P.mendocina可同时还原蒙脱石晶格中的Fe3+,并释放至溶液中。
Microorganisms,which distribute widely in lithosphere,hydrosphere,pedosphere and atmosphere,play important roles in weathering processes of minerals and rocks.In this study,Pseudomonas mendocina wass chosen as a representative strain to investigate the phenomenon and mechanism of the interaction between microbe and Fe-containing montmorillonite.The pH value and the element contents of the supernatant was analyzed;the X-ray diffraction spectrum(XRD)and the infrared spectrum(IR)of montmorillonite were measured.The results found that the pH values increased slightly,and that Si,Al and Fe were released continuously.The results also found that the clay structure and surface functional groups were slightly changed,indicating that montmorillonite had been attacked by P.mendocina and presented as an illitization process.According to the analysis results,silico-oxygen tetrahedron tended to be attacked firstly and the dissolution of Si was relatively remarkable.At the same time,P.mendocina was able to reduce Fe3+ in the montmorillonite crystal and thus to release Fe2+ to the solution.