High-Pressure Research in Geophysics

Equation of State at High Temperature for Some Geophysically Important Solids.- Shear Velocity in the Mantle Transition Zone.- Chemical Composition and Evolution of the Mantle.- Iron Magnesium Fractionation Model for the Earth.- Session V High-Pressure Phase Transformations and Crystal Chemistry.- High-Pressure Phase Transformations in Rutile Structured Dioxides.- High-Pressure Phase Transformations of the Dioxides: Implications for Structures of SiO2 at High Pressure.- The Kinetics of Martensitic Olivine ?-Spinel Transition and Its Dependence on Material and Experimental Parameters.- Experimental Investigation on the Mechanism of Olivine?Spinel Transformation: Growth of Single Crystal Spinel from Single Crystal Olivine in Ni2SiO4.- Crystal Structure Studies on Spinel-Related Phases, Spinelloids: Implications to Olivine-Spinel Phase Transformation and Systematics.- Stability Relations of Silicate Spinels, Ilmenites, Perovskites.- Disproportionation of Fe2SiO4 at High Pressure.- Size and Compressibility of Ions at High Pressure.- Session VI Thermochemistry and Crystal Growth.- Thermochemical Properties of Synthetic High-Pressure Compounds Relevant to the Earth's Mantle.- Calorimetric Studies of Crystalline and Glassy High Pressure Phases.- Effect of Coordination Change on Thermodynamic Properties.- Study of Synthetic Minerals of the Orthopyroxene-Pyrope System by Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy.- Molecular Dynamic Calculations Applied to Silicate Systems: Molten and Vitreous MgSiO3 and Mg2SiO4 under Low and High Pressures.- Growth of Large Diamond Crystals.- Growth and Properties of Olivine Single Crystals by the Floating-Zone Method.- Session VII Shock Wave Experiments.- Anomalous Compression Mechanism of Fused Silica.- Behavior of Single-Crystal Forsterite under Dynamic Compression.- Temperature Induced by Sock Waves in Minerals: Application to Geophysics.- Shock-Induced Spin-Pairing Transition in Fe2O3 Due to the Pressure Effect on the Crystal Field.- The Equation of State for Iron and the Earth's Core.- Author Index.