Recovery of stishovite-structure at ambient conditions out of shock-generated amorphous silica

American Mineralogist

Volumn 91, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1857-1862

  Tschauner, Oliver ^a,c   Luo, Sheng Nian ^b   Asimow, Paul D ^c   Ahrens, Thomas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous to solid; High pressure; Meteorite; Phase transition; Shock; Stishovite; XRD data

Indexed keywords

METEORITES; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RECOVERY; SHOCK WAVES;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AMORPHOUS SILICA; BULK AMORPHOUS; HIGH PRESSURE; SHOCK; SILICA POLYMORPHS; STISHOVITE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

SILICA;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE; METEORITE; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMORPHISM; SHOCK WAVE; SILICA; STISHOVITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33845244621     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.2015     Document Type: Article

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