This page provides links to Mineral Physics sites relevant to
the Reference Earth Model effort.
Subgroup coordinator: Don Weidner
If you would like to contribute, please contact Guy Masters (
gmasters@ucsd.edu)
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CHiPR |
The Center for High Pressure Research (CHiPR),
seeks to advance high-pressure technology in both diamond-anvil cell and
multi-anvil high-pressure, high-temperature environments, to use and improve
the application of synchrotron radiation to high-pressure studies, and to
develop in situ and ex situ characterization methods compatible with
microscopic high-pressure samples.
CHiPR is guided by two central scientific objectives:
- to understand the
deep interiors of planets, especially the Earth's mantle and core, through
quantitative study of the materials likely to be present in such
environments,
- to use pressure as a probe of the structure, bonding,
energetics, and physical properties of solids to improve fundamental
understanding of high-pressure chemical and physical phenomena.
CHiPR is committed to a strong educational component for a community
diverse in its needs and demographics. We provide continuity and
flexibility for external and internal collaborations in our unique
laboratories, and we engage in outreach programs to a varied community
in academia, federal laboratories, industry, and the general public.
CHiPR outreach page
CHiPR core institutions
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Useful links (non-Chipr)
Cornell Mineral Physics Labortory uses
Diamond-Anvil Cell to study the physical properties and chemical reactions of minerals
under high pressures (several Mbars) and high temperatures (several thousands deg C).
High Pressure
Mineral Physics Lab (University of Washington) measures sound velocities of mantle
minerals under mantle conditions of pressure and temperature.
Lindhurst Laboratory of
Experimental Geophysics (Caltech) is employed for high pressure and impact
research on earth and planetary materials.
Bayerisches Geoinstitut (Bayreuth, Germany)
pursues and develops experimental high-temperature/high-pressure research in the
fields of mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry and geophysics.
Facilities include several multi-anvil presses, and equipment for structural analysis,
chemical analysis and in-situ determination of properties.
Jay Bass (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) research on elastic
properties of solids and fluids which are relevant to the composition of Earth's
interior,
lab pictures.
Hartmut Spetzler (University of Colorado),
GHz Ultrasonic Interferometry in a Diamond Anvil Cell,
home page.
William Minarik (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Petrochemistry and
Experimental Petrology Group (RSES, Australian National University) summary
of research projects.
High-pressure Geophysics and Geochemistry at the School of Ocean and Earth
Science and Technology, Hawaii: summary of research projects.
David Kohlstedt (Geophysics and Materials Research laboratory,
University of Minnesota), faculty home page.
Orson Anderson (IGPP, UCLA), faculty home page.
Tom Duffy (Princeton), faculty home page.
Lars Stixrude (University of
Michigan) Home page
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