solid-phase installation

The connection of chemical composition and physical properties in mountain rocks of the Earth's crust and mantle and their dynamic changes under different thermobaric conditions

Determining the physical parameters of geomaterials under high temperature and pressure conditions is necessary in connection with the fundamental issues of geology and geophysics. It is also aimed at solving applied problems, such as establishing relationships between physical parameters and chemical components of rocks under the earthly conditions of temperature and pressure.

Elastic moduli of spodumene crystal at pressures up to 2,0 Gpa

The velocities of longitudinal and transverse waves in the six inequivalent crystallographic directions and also the density for spodumene crystal was studied by ultrasonic impulse method in a modified solid-phase installation of high quasihydrostatic pressure up to 2.0 GPa. For samples of spodumene crystal which are oriented with crystallophysical axes the two velocities of transverse waves was obtained during their propagation along each of directions (for different directions of displacement in the wave).