Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Time-resolved diffraction of shock-released SiO2 and diaplectic glass formation

  • A. E. Gleason,
  • C. A. Bolme,
  • H. J. Lee,
  • B. Nagler,
  • E. Galtier,
  • R. G. Kraus,
  • R. Sandberg,
  • W. Yang,
  • F. Langenhorst,
  • W. L. Mao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01791-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Our understanding of shock metamorphism and thus the collision of planetary bodies is limited by a dependence on ex situ analyses. Here, the authors perform in situ analysis on shocked-produced densified glass and show that estimates of impactor size based on traditional techniques are likely inflated.