High-Pressure Research in Geophysics [Hardcover]

Session I Instrumentation and Pressure Calibration.- Triple-Stage High Pressure Apparatus Using Sintered Diamond Anvils.- A Wedge-Type Cubic Anvil High Pressure Apparatus and Its Application to Material Synthesis Research.- Pressure Measurement at High Temperature in X-Ray Diffraction Studies: Gold as a Primary Standard.- Application of a Diamond-Cell to High-Temperature and High-Pressure Experiments.- Rapid High-Pressure Structural Information from Energy Dispersive Analyses of Diffracted Synchrotron Radiation.- Improvements in Energy Dispersive X-Ray Diffraction with Conical Slit and Diamond Cell.- Rapid X-Ray Measurements to 100 GPa Range and Static Compression of ?-Fe2O3.- Session II Elasticity, Attenuation and Rheology of the Crust and Upper Mantle.- The Elasticity of Periclase to 3 GPa and Some Geophysical Implications.- Pressure Dependence of Elastic Moduli of Forsterite by Brillouin Scattering in the Diamond Cell.- The Effect of Crystal Structure and Composition on Elastic Properties of Silicates.- Brillouin Measurements of n-H2 and n-D2 in the Pressure Range 0.5 to 20 GPa at Room Temperature.- Pressure Dependence of Q in Selected Rocks.- Diffusion Coefficients of Ions in Alkali Halides Determined by a Low-Frequency Impedance Measurement.- Dynamic Recrystallization and High-Temperature Rheology of Olivine.- Session III Mechanical Properties and Melting of the Crust and Upper Mantle.- Fracture and Deformation of Silicate Rocks at High Pressures in a Cubic Press.- Brittle Bahavior of Rocks at High Pressure.- Interfacial Energies in the Olivine-Basalt System.- Experimental Determination of Near-Equilibrium Textures in Partially Molten Silicates at High Pressure.- Reduced Volatiles in the System C-O-H: Implications to Mantle Melting, Fluid Formation and Diamond Genesis.- Fluid-Magma Interaction at High Pressure-Temperature Conditions.- Melting of Various Silicates at Elevated Pressures.- Session IV Geophysics and Geochemistry of the Mantle.- Anharmonicity in thelCš