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Mineral transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

S. A. T. Redfern
S. A. T. Redfern*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
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*E-mail: satr@cam.ac.uk
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One of the major goals of mineral science is attaining an understanding of the atomic-scale mechanisms and dynamics of minerals that control their structural transformations as a function of pressure, temperature or chemical composition in the natural environment. Examples of research programmes that sail under this heading include those devoted to observing and modelling the role of phase transformations on controlling mineral microstructures, ordering, elasticity, transport, premelting and exsolution. The geological relevance and intrinsic importance (as being representative of specific properties or thermodynamic/ kinetic behaviour) of mineral transformations has long been appreciated. It prompted the recent initiation of a network on Mineral Transformations (http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/mintrans/) under the European Union TMR Programme. In response to this development, a special session on Mineral Transformations was held at the EUG congress in Strasbourg last year.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 155 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2000

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