Fracture-related intracrystalline transformation of olivine to ringwoodite in the shocked Sixiangkou meteorite

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 731-737

  Chen, Ming ^a   Li, Hui ^b   El Goresy, Ahmed ^c   Liu, Jing ^b   Xie, Xiande ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; METEORITE; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RINGWOODITE;

EID: 33744502850     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00988.x     Document Type: Article

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