T40 Advanced Characterization of the Structures and Behaviors of Minerals

Sunday, 7 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  METHANE HYDRATE-SMECTITE CLAY COMPLEXES IN NA-EXCHANGED NONTRONITE AND K-EXCHANGED MONTMORILLONITE
  K. Kelkar, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and S. Guggenheim, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and A.F. Koster van Groos, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  78000 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  HIGH-TEMPERATURE SYNCHROTRON XRD STUDIES OF ZN/MN-OXIDES: A COMPARISON OF DEHYDRATION MECHANISMS IN CHALCOPHANITE AND WOODRUFFITE
  Jeffrey Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Peter J. Heaney, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Jonathan C. Hanson, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY
  78096 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  PRESSURE-INDUCED STABILIZATION OF ORDERED PARANATROLITE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE PARANATROLITE CONTROVERSY
  Yongjae Lee, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY and Joseph A. Hriljac, Univ of Birmingham, Birmingham, N/A and John B. Parise, Stony Brook, NY and Thomas Vogt, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY
  78494 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  IN SITU X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDY OF CS ION EXCHANGE INTO H-TS
  Aaron J. Celestian, Stony Brook Univ, Stony Brook, NY and Dmitri G. Medvedev, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Akhilesh Tripathi, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and John B. Parise, Stony Brook Univ, Stony Brook, NY and Abraham Clearfield, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX
  79870 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  COMPOSITION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF SYNTHETIC PYRITE DOPED WITH AS, CO AND NI
  Stephen W. Lehner, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Kaye Savage, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN
  78344 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  VARIATIONS OF RESISTIVITY AND CARRIER TYPE FOR SYNTHETIC PYRITE DOPED WITH AS, CO, AND NI: IMPLICATIONS FOR OXIDATION
  Stephen W. Lehner, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Kaye Savage, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and John C. Ayers, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  78139 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  AN IN SITU STUDY OF THE I2/A TO IMAB PHASE TRANSITION IN SIO2 MOGANITE USING HARD MODE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
  Peter J. Heaney, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Jeffrey Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and David A. McKeown, Catholic Univ of America, Washington, DC and Elizabeth A. Johnson, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  78486 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  ELASTICITY OF MINERALS AT HIGH-TEMPERATURE: NOVEL PHASE TRANSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO GEOPHYSICS
  Jennifer Mae Jackson, Universityf of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Universityf of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Michael A. Carpenter, Univ of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Jay D. Bass, Universityf of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  79381 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  IMPROVED PHASE DIFFERENTIATION AND ORIENTATION IMAGING VIA COMBINED EBSD AND EDS
  Matthew M. Nowell, TSL/EDAX, Draper, UT and Stuart I. Wright, TSL/EDAX, Draper, UT and Rene de Kloe, TSL/EDAX, Draper, UT
  76658 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY FOR GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  Heiner Friedrich, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Laura van Poppel, Arziona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Jacob Spinsby, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Thomas J. Zega, U.S. Naval Rsch Lab, Washington, DC and Peter R. Buseck, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ
  80187 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  NANOSCALE STRAIN MAPPING: A NEW LOOK AT DEFECT STRUCTURES IN MINERALS
  Craig L. Johnson, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Martin J. Hÿtch, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Vitry-sur-Seine, N/A and Peter R. Buseck, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ
  80511 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  POLYSOME-WIDTH VARIATION IN PALYGORSKITE-SEPIOLITE MINERALS: A TEM AND AFM INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL VARIATION AND TRANSFORMATION
  Mark P.S. Krekeler, George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA and John Rakovan, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH and S. Guggenheim, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  78229 (Technical Sessions)