Shock-induced growth and metastability of stishovite and coesite in lithic clasts from suevite of the Ries impact crater (Germany)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 457-472

  Stähle, Volker ^a   Altherr, Rainer ^a   Koch, Mario ^a   Nasdala, Lutz ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coesite; Impact metamorphism; Stishovite; Suevite

Indexed keywords

CLAST; COESITE; CRATER; GROWTH; METAMORPHISM; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STISHOVITE; SUEVITE; TEXTURE;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RIES CRATER;

EID: 39549112491     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0252-2     Document Type: Article

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