β-diopside, a new ultrahigh-pressure polymorph of CaMgSi 2O6 with six-coordinated silicon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Plonka, Anna M ^a   Dera, Przemyslaw ^b   Irmen, Peyton ^b   Rivers, Mark L ^b   Ehm, Lars ^a,c   Parise, John B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CLINOPYROXENES; DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL; EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; EARTH'S MANTLE; HIGH-PRESSURE X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; META-STABLE STATE; SIX-COORDINATED SILICON; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS;

COORDINATE; DECOMPRESSION; DIOPSIDE; HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER MANTLE; SILICON; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; UPPER MANTLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84871543017     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054023     Document Type: Article

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