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Published October 9, 1973 | Published
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Shock-induced transition of quartz to stishovite

Abstract

The transformation of quartz to stishovite has been studied by X-ray and optical examination of a series of experimentally shock-loaded specimens of a quartz-copper mixture. Shock pressures of 68 to 260 kb and peak temperatures of 320° to 870°K were achieved. Stishovite was identified from quartz shock-loaded above 90 kb; the quantity increases with increasing pressure, but is not dependent on temperature. The formation of stishovite under shock conditions appears to be intimately related to a short-range order phase.

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Copyright 1973 by the American Geophysical Union. (Received October 10, 1972; accepted May 1, 1973.) This research was supported under NASA grant NGL-05-002-105. We appreciate the suggestions and helpful discussion offered by Taro Takahashi during the course of this study and criticism of the manuscript by Rex Gibbons.

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