Diffusion in solid silicates: A tool to track timescales of processes comes of age

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 153-190

  Chakraborty, Sumit ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling rates; Duration; Extrinsic; Geospeedometry; Intrinsic; Kinetics; Nanoscale; Point defects; Thin films

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; LAND USE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORGANOCLAY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES; SULFATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; COMPOSITIONAL ZONING; DIFFUSION MODELING; DIFFUSIVE EQUILIBRATION; SOLAR NEBULAE; SPATIAL SCALING; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WIDE-RANGE;

GARNETS;

COOLING; DIFFUSION; EARTH; EQUILIBRIUM; MINERAL; MODELING; SILCRETE; SOLID; TIMESCALE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; ZONING;

EID: 45849130508     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124125     Document Type: Article

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