Synchrotron infrared and Raman spectroscopy of microdiamonds from Erzgebirge, Germany

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 340-349

  Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa F ^a   Liu, Zhenxian ^b   Cartigny, Pierre ^c   Zhang, Junfeng ^a   Tchkhetia, Dalila ^d   Hemley, Russell J ^b   Green II, Harry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

infrared; microdiamond; Raman; synchrotron

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

GERMANY; MICRODIAMONDS; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC TERRANES (UHPM);

DIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ERZGEBIRGE MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33746569145     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.037     Document Type: Article

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