A monoclinic pst-stishovite polymorph of silica in the Shergotty meteorite

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5471, 2000, Pages 1632-1634

  El Goresy, Ahmed ^a   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^b   Sharp, Thomas C ^c   Saxena, Surendra K ^b   Chen, Ming ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

METEORITE; POLYMORPHISM; SHERGOTTITE; SILICA; STISHOVITE; STONY METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034595876     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1632     Document Type: Article

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