Natural NaAlSi3O8-hollandite in the shocked Sixiangkou meteorite

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5458, 2000, Pages 1633-1636

  Gillet, Philippe ^a   Chen, Ming ^a   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^a   El Goresy, Ahmed ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HOLLANDITE; MINERAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHONDRITE; METEORITE; MINERALOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHINA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROCK; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034007939     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5458.1633     Document Type: Article

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23. M.C. is supported by NSF of China grant 49825132 and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant Co 315/15-1. This work was supported by the Programme National de Planétologie (CNRS-INSU). G. Montagnac helped in the Raman measurements, and B. Reynard and R. Hemley substantially improved our understanding of the Raman data.