A New Very-high-pressure Silica Mineral in the Shergotty Snc Meteorite: Implications for Shock Metamorphism and the Earth’s Lower Mantle;
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IMPLICATIONS FOR SHOCK METAMORPHISM AND THE EARTH’S LOWER MANTLE; A. El Goresy1, T. G. Sharp2, B. Wopenka3, and M. Chen4; 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, 69029 Heidelberg, Germany; 2Dept. of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 3Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; 4Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Academia Sinica, Guangzhou, China.
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