Advances in high-pressure mineralogy / edited by Eiji Ohtani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ohtani, Eiji.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 421.

Special paper ; 421

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineralogy.

Materials at high pressures.

Materials at high temperatures.

Phase transformations (Statistical physics).

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007.

Contents:

Phase transitions of minerals in the transition zone and upper part of the lower mantle / M. Akaogi

Properties of lowermantle Al-(Mg,Fe)SiO₃ perovskite / D Andrault

Discovery of post-perovskite phase transition and implications for the nature of the D" layer of the mantle / K Hirose and K. Kawamura

High-pressure phase transformations in the system FeO-MgO / I. Yu. Kantor, ... [et al.]

High pressure mineral assemblages in shocked meteorites and shocked terrestial rocks: mechanisms of phase transformations and constraints to pressure and temperature histories / P Gillet ... [et al.]

High pressure mineralogy of diamond genesis / Y.A. Litvin

Melting of ice VII and new high-pressure, high-temperature amorphous ice / L. Dubrovinsky and N. Dubrovinskaia

Effect of water on the phase relations in Earth's mantle and the deep water cycle / K.D. Litasov and E. Ohtani

Geophysical applications of nuclear resonant spectroscopy / W. Sturhahn and J.M. Jackson

Single-crystal structure and electron-density analyses of Earth's interior under high pressure and high-temperature conditions using synchrotron radiation / T. Yamanaka

Phase-relation studies of mantle minerals by in situ X-ray difraction using multianvil apparatus / T. Katsura

Multianvil techniques in conjunction with synchrotron radiation at Deutsches ElektronenSYnchrotron (DESY) - HAmberger SYnchrotron LABor (HASYLAB) / H.J. Mueller, F.R. Schilling and C. Lathe

X-ray microtomography under high pressure / T. Uchida .... [et al.]

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081372421X

9780813724218

OCLC:

76168115