scholarly journals Discovery of natural MgSiO3tetragonal garnet in a shocked chondritic meteorite

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. e1501725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naotaka Tomioka ◽  
Masaaki Miyahara ◽  
Motoo Ito

MgSiO3tetragonal garnet, which is the last of the missing phases of experimentally predicted high-pressure polymorphs of pyroxene, has been discovered in a shocked meteorite. The garnet is formed from low-Ca pyroxene in the host rock through a solid-state transformation at 17 to 20 GPa and 1900° to 2000°C. On the basis of the degree of cation ordering in its crystal structure, which can be deduced from electron diffraction intensities, the cooling rate of the shock-induced melt veins from ~2000°C was estimated to be higher than 103°C/s. This cooling rate sets the upper bound for the shock-temperature increase in the bulk meteorite at ~900°C.

1990 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Robertson ◽  
Mary Ann Hill ◽  
Ricardo B. Schwarz

AbstractFusion zone microstructures of an electron beam (EB) welded XDt m Ti–48at%Al + 6.5 vol% TiB2 alloy revealed plate-like precipitates which were absent in the base metal. The volume fraction of this phase increased with increasing cooling rate and correlated with increased weld cracking frequency. To determine whether this phase was a product of solidification from the melt or a product of a solid-state transformation, the microstructures of the welds were compared to those of samples cycled in a Gleeble 1500/20 Thermal-Mechanical Test System which was programmed to simulate the solid-state portion of the weld cooling rates (as predicted by a Rosenthal analysis). The microstructures were characterized by X-ray diffraction, optical and by scanning electron microscopy. The plate-like phase found in the weld microstructures was identified as TiB2 occurring upon rapid solidification of the melted weld metal.


2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Khisina ◽  
K. Langer ◽  
M. Andrut ◽  
A. V. Ukhanov ◽  
R. Wirth

AbstractAn olivine grain from peridotite nodule 9206 (Udachnaya kimberlite) was heated in air at 700°C for 9 h. It was investigated by EMPA, by IR and UV spectroscopy and by TEM. The TEM examination reveals hexagon-like inclusions up to several hundred nm in size with a core and rim structure. The AEM data show that the inclusions contain only Mg, Fe and Si as cations. The rims have almost the same composition as the olivine matrix whereas the cores are enriched in iron and depleted in Mg. Electron diffraction data, SAED and CBED, indicate that the rims are composed of a ‘secondary’ olivine while the cores are composed of coexisting feroxyhite FeOOH, bernalite Fe(OH)3 and β-cristobalite SiO2. The presence of nm-sized inclusions in minerals is expected to influence the interpretation of spectroscopic results if spectroscopy is carried out without knowledge of the microstructure.It is speculated that the complex microstructure of the inclusions is a result of a solid state transformation of a precursor phase, probably a hydrous magnesian silicate, during the experimental heating and oxidation.


2012 ◽  
Vol 535-537 ◽  
pp. 666-669
Author(s):  
Li Juan Shen ◽  
Yong Lin Ma ◽  
Shu Qing Xing

The microsructural and content of δ ferrite in non-equilibrium solidified 0Cr18Ni9 austenitic stainless steel is studied by the coin with the circulating water. The solidified microstructure of the residual δ ferrite in different cooling rate is that during the course of solid-state transformation, austenite grows into ferrite gradually; corresponding to the increase of cooling rate, the microsructural of ferrite is skeletal, network, strip and block. The experiment demonstrates that the content of the residual δ ferrite is increase under the increase of the cooling rate.


ACS Omega ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 13165-13171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Sadakane ◽  
Katsunori Kodato ◽  
Nobuhiro Yasuda ◽  
Satoshi Ishikawa ◽  
Wataru Ueda

2007 ◽  
Vol 111 (15) ◽  
pp. 3960-3968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Méreau ◽  
Arnaud Desmedt ◽  
Kenneth D. M. Harris

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 1080-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Saito ◽  
Mitsuaki Suzuki ◽  
Hiroshi Miyamae ◽  
Naoto Hayashi ◽  
Keiji Kobayashi

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Jaret ◽  
William R. Woerner ◽  
Brian L. Phillips ◽  
Lars Ehm ◽  
Hanna Nekvasil ◽  
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