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Science 8 August 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3893, pp. 591 - 592
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3893.591
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Enstatite: Disorder Produced by a Megabar Shock Event

Sidney S. Pollack 1 and Paul S. DeCarli 2

1 Mellon Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
2 Stanford Research Institute. Menlo Park, California 94025

Shocked Bamle enstatite partly transforms to disordered enstatite. Debye-Scherrer patterns of some shocked material are almost identical to those of disordered enstatite from portions of various enstatite achondrites. No disorcdered single crystals have been found.


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