Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Minerals /

This volume in Advances in Physical Geochemistry presents the latest synthesis of theory and experimental data pertaining to structural and magnetic phase transitions in a variety of geochemically important minerals. The book is the first to cover the impact of this rapidly progressing area of solid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghose, S.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Coey, J. M. D., Salje, E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1988.
Series:Advances in physical geochemistry ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a Thermodynamic Understanding of Feldspars: Order Parameters of Na-Feldspar and the I1-P1 Phase Transition in Anorthite
  • Incommensurate Phase Transitions in Quartz and Berlinite
  • Phase Separation in Quadrilateral Pyroxenes and Olivines
  • Multicritical Phase Relations in Minerals
  • Equation of State and Possible Critical Phase Transitions in MgSiO3 Perovskite at Lower Mantle Conditions
  • High-Spin to Low-Spin Transition of Iron (II) Oxides at High Pressures: Possible Effects on the Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle
  • Molecular Dynamics Studies of Polymorphism of SiO2 at High Pressures: A Possible New Cubic Polymorph with High Density
  • Charge Localization and Associated Crystallographic and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Ilvaite, a Mixed-Valence Iron Silicate
  • Magnetic Phase Transitions in Silicate Minerals
  • Magnetic Phase Transitions in Olivines M2SiO4 (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Fe Mn)
  • The Spin Glass State in Garnet Mixed Crystals: New Evidence from Neutron Scattering and Macroscopic Measurements
  • Polytypism and Equilibrium Phase Transitions: In-Situ Observation of the Polytypic Phase Transition 2H-12R in PbI2
  • Index.