Ultrafast growth of wadsleyite in shock-produced melts and its implications for early solar system impact processes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 13691-13695

  Tschauner, Oliver ^a,b   Asimow, Paul D ^b   Kostandova, Natalya ^b   Ahrens, Thomas J ^b   Ma, Chi ^b   Sinogeikin, Stanislas ^c   Liu, Zhenxian ^d   Fakra, Sirine ^e   Tamura, Nobumichi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High pressure phases; Meteorite; Planetesimal growth; Recovery; Shock experiments

Indexed keywords

SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WADSLEYITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICATES; SILICON; SOFTWARE; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SYNCHROTRONS; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 69549120476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905751106     Document Type: Article

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