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Rock‐forming silicates
Author(s) -
Hazen Robert M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg021i006p01399
Subject(s) - geology , focus (optics) , earth science , astrobiology , mineralogy , geophysics , physics , optics
Rock‐forming silicates are the focus of an active and diverse research effort. In the past quadrennium many researchers have examined these complex phases to gain an understanding of unifying principles of crystal chemistry and physics, while other mineralogists and petrologists have looked to natural silicates as a key to deducing the thermal and barometric history of their host rocks. The framework for the research described in this review is built on two fundamental questions. The first question is posed implicitly by many of the experimentalists who study silicates: