Crystal structure of monoclinic hydrous wadsleyite [β-(Mg,Fe)2SiO4]

American Mineralogist

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 270-275

  Smyth, Joseph R ^a   Kawamoto, Tatsuhiko ^b   Jacobsen, Stephen D ^a   Swope, R Jeffrey ^a   Hervig, Richard L ^b   Holloway, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

GOODNESS OF FIT; NON-SILICATE; ORTHORHOMBIC SYMMETRY; SPACE GROUPS; TETRAHEDRAL SITES; TRANSITION ZONES; UNIT CELL PARAMETERS; WADSLEYITE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN; WADSLEYITE;

EID: 0030683662     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1997-3-404     Document Type: Article

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