Shock-transformation of whitlockite to merrillite and the implications for meteoritic phosphate

Authors

• Christopher T. Adcock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Oliver D. Tschauner, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Elisabeth M. Hausrath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Arya Udry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• S. N. Luo, Southwest Jiaotong University
• Y. Cai, The Peac Institute of Multiscale Sciences
• M. Ren A.
• A. Lanzirotti, University of Chicago
• M. Newville, University of Chicago
• M. Kunz C., University of California, Berkeley
• C. Lin, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-6-2017

Publication Title

Nature Communications

Volume

8

First page number:

1

Last page number:

8

Abstract

Meteorites represent the only samples available for study on Earth of a number of planetary bodies. The minerals within meteorites therefore hold the key to addressing numerous questions about our solar system. Of particular interest is the Ca-phosphate mineral merrillite, the anhydrous end-member of the merrillite-whitlockite solid solution series

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Repository Citation

Adcock, C. T., Tschauner, O. D., Hausrath, E. M., Udry, A., Luo, S. N., Cai, Y., Ren, M., Lanzirotti, A., Newville, M., Kunz, M., Lin, C. (2017). Shock-transformation of whitlockite to merrillite and the implications for meteoritic phosphate. Nature Communications, 8 1-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14667