Texture effects and other sources of error

Apart from thickness and differential recoilless emission effects, several other factors may influence Mossbauer measurements in micas and contribute to their errors (Dyar 1984 1986, 1989 Waychunas 1986, 1989). Of these, the most difficult to assess is 

Texture effects were suggested by Rancourt et al. (1992) to be the main cause of artifacts attributed to by Dyar (1990), a suggestion that was disputed by Dyar 

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