High-Pressure Shock Compression of Solids V

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Experimental Techniques for the Simulation of Shock Metamorphism: A Case Study on Calcite

   • F. Langenhorst, M. Boustie, A. Deutsch, U. Hornemann, Ch. Matignon, A. Migault et al.

   Pages 1-27

3. Shock Experiments on a Preheated Basaltic Eucrite

   • Akira Yamaguchi, Toshimori Sekine, Hiroshi Mori

   Pages 29-45

4. Structural Evolution of Quartz and Feldspar Crystals and their Glasses by Shock Compression

   • Masayuki Okuno

   Pages 47-74

5. Shock Reactions of Carbon-Bearing Materials and Their Cosmochemical Significance

   • Koichi Mimura, Ryuichi Sugisaki

   Pages 75-116

6. Shock-Induced Phase Transitions in Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite

   • K. Yamada

   Pages 117-138

7. Shock Wave Chemistry and Ultrafine Diamond from Explosives in China

   • Kang Xu, Hua Tan

   Pages 139-162

8. Redistribution of Radiogenic Lead in Plagioclase during Shock Metamorphism

   • Keiji Misawa, Fumie Yamazaki, Shinobu Sawada, Toshimori Sekine

   Pages 163-179

9. Terrestrial Acidification at the K/T Boundary

   • James R. Lyons, Thomas J. Ahrens

   Pages 181-197

10. Impact Processes of Ice in the Solar System

    • Mashiko Arakawa, Akira Kouchi

    Pages 199-231

11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-248

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Shock waves produce a wide variety of physical, chemical, mineralogical, and other effects in materials through which they pass. Since the beginning of civili­ zation, shock phenomena have been subjects of continuing interest, speculation, and enquiry. The interdisciplinary aspects of investigations of shock phenomena are especially noteworthy, and these investigations have been pursued by scien­ tists and engineers from a broad range of disciplines. Among the more novel and interesting investigations are those motivated by problems that arise in the Earth and planetary sciences. Such events as meteorite impacts produce the obvious cratering effects seen on the planets and their sat­ ellites. More subtle effects become apparent upon chemical and petrographic examination of the shock-compressed solid material. Shock waves are also prevalent in the larger universe, and have played a prominent role in shaping the solar system as we know it. The material in interstellar gas and dust clouds, comets, etc. , is processed by shock waves, producing important chemical effects, including formation of complex organic molecules. The process of accretion of planets involves impacts of dust particles at relative velocities ranging from a fraction of a millimeter per second to impacts of larger bodies at velocities as great as several tens of kilometers per second. The resulting shock waves cause both chemical and physical changes that are manifest in the bodies involved.

• Phase
• chemistry
• geochemistry
• minerals
• transitions

• Tijeras, USA

  Lee Davison

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

  Yasuyuki Horie

• National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

  Toshimori Sekine

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