Zircon (ZrSiO4) is a common accessory mineral in nature, occurring in a wide variety of
sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. Known to incorporate an assortment of minor …

Studies at high pressures and temperatures are helpful for understanding the physical
properties of the solid state, including such classes of materials as, metals, semiconductors …

Hypervelocity impact processes are uniquely capable of generating shock metamorphism,
which causes mineralogical transformations and deformation that register pressure (P) and …

We present the results of a series of hydrothermal experiments on grains from two partially
metamict zircon samples from Sri Lanka in the temperature range 350 to 650° C and with …

AVO 4 orthovanadates are materials of fundamental and technological importance due to
the large variety of functional properties exhibited by them. These materials have potential …

Mineral inclusions may develop residual pressures (P incl) during cooling and exhumation
because of differential expansion and compression relative to the host entrapping mineral …

Upon exhumation and cooling, contrasting compressibilities and thermal expansivities
induce differential strains (volume mismatches) between a host crystal and its inclusions …

To ascertain the progressive stages of shock metamorphism of zircon, samples from three
well‐studied impact craters were analyzed by optical microscopy, scanning electron …

The full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within the density
functional theory is used to investigate the structural and electronic properties of ZrSiO4 in its …

Zircon (ZrSiO 4) is used to study impact structures because it responds to shock loading and
unloading in unique, crystallographically controlled manners. One such phenomenon is the …