High-pressure highly reduced nitrides and oxides from chromitite of a Tibetan ophiolite

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

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19233-19238

  Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa F ^a   Wirth, Richard ^b   Yang, Jingsui ^c   Hutcheon, Ian D ^d   Weber, Peter K ^d   Green II, Harry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boron nitride; Coesite after stishovite; Luobasa chromitite; TiO2 II; Titanium nitride osbornite

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; CHROMITITE; COESITE AFTER STISHOVITE; DIAMOND; IRON; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; OPHIOLITE; OXIDE; OXYGEN; SILICON CARBIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM NITRIDE OSBORNITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; ENCAPSULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN TENSION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

EID: 73949133072     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905514106     Document Type: Article

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