Minerals under Extreme Conditions
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 April 2021) | Viewed by 49746
Special Issue Editors
Interests: extreme conditions crystallography; high-pressure and high-temperature polymorphism; in situ single crystal X-ray diffraction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Investigations of minerals at extreme conditions—high pressures and non-ambient temperatures—is the way to address the structure, dynamics, and evolution of any planetary body in our Solar System and beyond. Modern cutting-edge instrumental capabilities allow illuminating behavior of minerals at various thermodynamic conditions, covering a large portion of the P–T diagram from few to several thousand kelvins and up to terapascal pressures. Thus, the fate of minerals along a wide span of possible P–T profiles can be investigated in situ, advancing our knowledge on the interior of the Earth and other planetary bodies. The goal of the current Special Issue is to collect contributions dedicated to experimental studies of minerals under extreme conditions (high pressures and/or non-ambient temperatures) employing various analytical techniques (X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman/ Mössbauer spectroscopy, etc.).
Dr. Anna Pakhomova
Dr. Ilya Kupenko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral physics
- polymorphism
- experimental geology
- extreme conditions
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