Chemical heterogeneity in carbonado, an enigmatic polycrystalline diamond

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 185, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 315-330

  De, Subarnarekha ^a,e   Heaney, Peter J ^b   Vicenzi, Edward P ^c   Wang, Jianhua ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C 13 C 12; Carbonado; Cathodoluminescence; Nitrogen; Secondary ion mass spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBONADO; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; DIAMOND; HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 0035107641     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00369-1     Document Type: Article

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