Abstract:Advances in high‐pressure science and technology have transformed solid Earth geophysics. In the last decade, high‐pressure researchers have reproduced the full range of Earth pressure and temperature...Advances in high‐pressure science and technology have transformed solid Earth geophysics. In the last decade, high‐pressure researchers have reproduced the full range of Earth pressure and temperature conditions in the laboratory, and they have synthesized single crystals of dense silicate phases, unknown at the Earth's surface yet suspected to comprise most of the Earth's volume. These and other extraordinary accomplishments are chronicled in High‐Pressure Research in Mineral Physics, an outgrowth of the third U.S.‐Japan High‐Pressure seminar, held in Kahuku, Hawaii, January, 13–16, 1986. The well produced and reasonably priced volume is dedicated to Syun‐iti Akimoto, dean of Japanese high‐pressure research, who recently retired from the University of Tokyo. Akimoto's fascinating historical account of pressure research at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo is the leadoff article.Read More
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-09-27
Language: en
Type: article
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