Shock Condition Forensics and Cryptic Phase Transformations from Crystallographic Orientation Relationships in Zircon
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIPS IN ZIRCON N. E. Timms*, T. M. Erickson, A. J. Cavosie, M. A., Pearce, S. M. Reddy, M. Zanetti, E. Tohver, M. Schmieder, A. A. Nemchin, A. Wittmann, 1 Department of Applied Geology, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Perth, GPO Box U1987, Western Australia 6845, Australia, *Corresponding author: [email protected], 2 NASA–SSERVI, 3 CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australian Resources Research Centre, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA, 6151, Australia, 4 University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 5 University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia, 6 Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, USA, 7 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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