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Science 9 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4419, pp. 681 - 683
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4419.681
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Experimental Coarsening of Antiphase Domains in a Silicate Mineral

MICHAEL A. CARPENTER 1

1 Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

Combined annealing experiments and observations by transmission electron microscopy show that in natural pigeonite crystals antiphase domains coarsen approximately according to a rate law in which the tenth power of the average domain size is proportional to time. This result suggests that certain cations (possibly Ca2+) were segregated preferentially onto the antiphase boundaries. The domain size in samples quenched from above the high-low transformation temperature is large and apparently independent of annealing time and temperature. It appears that large domains can be generated either by very fast or by very slow cooling; thus the estimation of geological cooling rates from the sizes of antiphase domains in natural samples becomes rather difficult.

Submitted on January 29, 1979
Revised on May 25, 1979


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