Magmas Under Pressure: Advances in High-Pressure Experiments on Structure and Properties of Melts

Magmas under Pressure: Advances in High-Pressure Experiments on Structure and Properties of Melts summarizes recent advances in experimental technologies for studying magmas at high pressures. In the past decade, new developments in high-pressure experiments, particularly with synchrotron X-ray techniques, have advanced the study of magmas under pressure. These new experiments have revealed significant changes of structure and physical properties of magmas under pressure, which significantly improves our understanding of the behavior of magmas in the earth’s interior.

This book is an important reference, not only in the earth and planetary sciences, but also in other scientific fields, such as physics, chemistry, material sciences, engineering and in industrial applications, such as glass formation and metallurgical processing.

Includes research and examples of high-pressure technologies for studying the structure and properties of magmaSummarizes the current knowledge on the structure and properties of high-pressure magmaHighlights the importance of magma in understanding the evolution of the earth’s interior

Magmas in the Earth's interior 1. Primary mantle melts 2. Carbon-bearing magmas in the Earth's deep interior 3. The influence of pressure on the properties and origins of hydrous silicate liquids in Earth's interior 4. Melting in the Earth's deep interior Advances in experimental studies of melts at high pressures 5. X-ray diffraction structure measurement 6. X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurement 7. Synchrotron Mossbauer spectroscopy measurement 8. Vibrational properties of glasses and melts 9. Density and elasticity measurements for liquid materials 10. Viscosity measurement 11. Electrical conductivity measurement Current knowledge on structure and properties of magmas under pressure 12. Structure and properties of silicate magmas 13. Densification mechanisms of oxide glasses and melts 14. Silicate glasses under ultrahigh pressure conditions 15. Melts under extreme conditions from shock experiments 16. Simulation of silicate magmas under pressure