Qingsongite, natural cubic boron nitride: The first boron mineral from the Earth's mantle

American Mineralogist

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 764-772

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

^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)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal boron; Cubic boron nitride; Deep mantle; Mantle nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; AMORPHOUS CARBON; BORON CARBIDE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICA; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICA; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE (CBN); DEEP MANTLES; HIGH-PRESSURE POLYMORPH; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SPHALERITE STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC ANALOGS;

CUBIC BORON NITRIDE;

BORON; CHROMITITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HARDNESS; MANTLE; MOHS SCALE; NITROGEN;

CHINA; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; LUOBUSHA OPHIOLITE; XIZANG;

EID: 84902500180     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.4714     Document Type: Article

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