Hypervelocity impact tests were carried out at 4.8 km/s using the Open University's All Axis Light Gas Gun (AALGG) in the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI)’s Hypervelocity Impact Laboratory. A first estimate of the peak loading pressures was made using preliminary hydrocode simulations, supported by calculations. Following a review of existing published quartz and sandston...

Chloritoid and kyanite coexist in metapelites from the high-pressure/low-temperature Massa Unit Alpi Apuane metamorphic complex (Northern Apennines, Italy). The composition of chloritoid is extremely variable throughout Unit. Fe-chloritoid occurs association with hematite-free, graphite-bearing schists, whereas strongly zoned Fe-Mg found hematite kyanite. We investigated effect different bulk F...

Metapelitic rocks in the Gasht area include micaschist, kyanite schist, andalusite schist, garnet schist, staurolite schist, cordierite schist and sillimanite schist. Tourmaline occurs as accessory mineral in all of these rock types. These schists are metamorphosed regionally and are affected by contact metamorpism subsequently. Based on the textural relations and the fact that CaO and TiO2 con...

The Wugongshan area is rich in medium–low temperature convective geothermal resources, among which there are more than 10 fields Wentang, Wanlongshan, Wenjia, Hongjiang, etc. There few basic geological studies the and their peripheral areas; thus far, no systematic research work into thermophysical parameters has been carried out. In this paper, 85 rock samples were collected from surface boreh...

Titanium dioxide was used as a photocatalyst to decompose interfering substances for a quantitative analysis of a fungicide (iprodione) in dry basil by HPLC. A quartz vial containing basil extract and titanium dioxide was irradiated with black light. The interfering substances were almost completely decomposed by 180 min of irradiation, whereas 88.3% of iprodione remained. The recovery of iprod...

reactive powder concrete (rpc) is an ultra high performance concrete which has superior mechanical and physical properties. the rpc is composed of cement and very fine powders such as crushed quartz (100–600 μm) and silica fume with very low water/binder ratio (w/b) (less than 0.20) and super plasticizer (sp). the rpc has a very high compressive and tensile strength with better durability prope...

We present a detailed and quantitative examination of the thermodynamics and phase change mechanisms (including amorphization) that occur upon shock wave loading and unloading of silica. We apply DebyeGrüneisen theory to calculate both the Hugoniot of quartz and isentropic release paths. Quartz converts to stishovite between 15 and 46 GPa without undergoing pressure-induced amorphization and pe...

Using density-functional theory, we computed all the independent elastic constants of coesite, a high-pressure polymorph of silica, as functions of pressure up to 15 GPa. The results are in good agreement with experimental measurements under ambient conditions. Also, the predicted pressure-dependent elastic properties are consistent with x-ray data in the literature concerning lattice strains a...

The Nabeba high-grade iron deposit (Republic of the Congo) is hosted by banded formation (BIF) in Ivindo Basement Complex, which lies northwestern part Congo Craton. BIF intercalated with chlorite-sericite-quartz schist and comprises two facies (oxide a carbonate-oxide). In this study, whole-rock LA-ICP-MS magnetite geochemistry was reported. Magnetite samples from both had fairly similar trace...