Coherent and subsequent incoherent ringwoodite growth in olivine of shocked L6 chondrites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 321-327

  Miyahara, Masaaki ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Kimura, Makoto ^b   El Goresy, Ahmed ^c   Ozawa, Shin ^a   Nagase, Toshiro ^a   Nishijima, Masahiko ^d   Hiraga, Kenji ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FIB; Olivine; Ringwoodite; Shocked chondrite; TEM

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; FEG-SEM; GROWTH MECHANISMS; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE RINGWOODITE; RINGWOODITE; TEM; TEM IMAGES; TIME-SCALES;

METEORITES; SILICATE MINERALS;

OLIVINE;

CHONDRITE; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROWTH RATE; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITION; RINGWOODITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSFORMATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77953027172     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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