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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
3811
World Ranking
8419
National Ranking
2780

Best Publications

  • Discovery of bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth, in a shocked meteorite

    Oliver Tschauner;Chi Ma;John R. Beckett;Clemens Prescher

  • Ice-VII inclusions in diamonds: Evidence for aqueous fluid in Earth's deep mantle.

    Oliver Tschauner;Shichun Huang;E. Greenberg;V. B. Prakapenka

  • High-pressure structural study of the scheelite tungstates CaWO 4 and SrWO 4

    D. Errandonea;J. Pellicer-Porres;F. J. Manjón;A. Segura

  • High pressure single-crystal micro X-ray diffraction analysis with GSE_ADA/RSV software

    Przemyslaw Dera;Kirill Zhuravlev;Vitali Prakapenka;Mark L. Rivers

  • Effect of Pressure and Temperature on Structural Stability of MoS2

    Nirup Bandaru;Ravhi S. Kumar;Daniel Sneed;Oliver Tschauner

  • Determination of the high-pressure crystal structure of Ba W O 4 and Pb W O 4

    D. Errandonea;J. Pellicer-Porres;F. J. Manjón;A. Segura

  • New transformations of CO(2) at high pressures and temperatures.

    Oliver Tschauner;Ho-kwang Mao;Russell J. Hemley

  • Melting of Cu under hydrostatic and shock wave loading to high pressures

    Qi An;Sheng-Nian Luo;Li-Bo Han;Lianqing Zheng

  • In situ high-pressure x-ray diffraction study of H2O ice VII

    Maddury Somayazulu;Jinfu Shu;Chang-sheng Zha;Alexander F. Goncharov

  • P-V-T equation of state of platinum to 80GPa and 1900K from internal resistive heating/x-ray diffraction measurements

    Chang-Sheng Zha;Kenji Mibe;William A. Bassett;Oliver Tschauner

  • Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions

    Paul D. Asimow;Chaney Lin;Luca Bindi;Chi Ma

  • Laser-induced shock waves in condensed matter: some techniques and applications

    S. N. Luo;D. C. Swift;T. E. Tierney;D. L. Paisley

  • Discovery of davemaoite, CaSiO3-perovskite, as a mineral from the lower mantle.

    Oliver Tschauner;Shichun Huang;Shuying Yang;Munir Humayun

  • Novel broken symmetry phase from N(2)O at high pressures and high temperatures.

    Maddury Somayazulu;Achintya Madduri;Alexander F. Goncharov;Oliver Tschauner

  • Ahrensite, γ-Fe2SiO4, a new shock-metamorphic mineral from the Tissint meteorite: Implications for the Tissint shock event on Mars

    Chi Ma;Oliver Tschauner;John R. Beckett;Yang Liu

  • Tissintite, (Ca, Na, □)AlSi2O6, a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite

    Chi Ma;Oliver Tschauner;John R. Beckett;Yang Liu

  • Rutile solubility in NaF–NaCl–KCl-bearing aqueous fluids at 0.5–2.79 GPa and 250–650 °C

    Elizabeth A. Tanis;Adam Simon;Youxue Zhang;Paul Chow

  • Panguite, (Ti4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca)1.8O3, a new ultra-refractory titania mineral from the Allende meteorite: Synchrotron micro-diffraction and EBSD

    Chi Ma;Oliver Tschauner;Oliver Tschauner;John R. Beckett;George R. Rossman

  • Liebermannite, KAlSi3O8, a new shock-metamorphic, high-pressure mineral from the Zagami Martian meteorite

    Chi Ma;Oliver Tschauner;John R. Beckett;George R. Rossman

  • Chenmingite, FeCr2O4 in the CaFe2O4-type Structure, a Shock-induced, High-pressure Mineral in the Tissint Martian Meteorite

    Chi Ma;Oliver Tschauner;John R. Beckett;Yang Liu

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