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High Pressure Elastic Behavior of Synthetic Mg3Y2(SiO4)3 Garnet up to 9 GPa
Table 3
Elastic parameters derived from the Birch-Murnaghan EoS of Mg3Y2(SiO4)3 garnet, as compared with previous studies of pyrope garnet.
| | Sample | (GPa) | | Reference |
| | Pyrope | | | | | | 171 (3) | 1.8 (7) | Sato et al. (1978) [15] | | | 175 (1) | 4.5 (5) | Levien et al. (1979) [17] | | | 172.8a | 3.8 (1.0) | Leger et al. (1990) [18] | | | 174 (3) | 4.0a | Hazen et al. (1994) [20] | | | 171 (2) | 4.4 (2) | Zhang et al. (1998) [22] | | | 167 (6) | 4.6 (3) | Zou et al. (2012) [6] | | | 171 (1) | 4.0a | Zou et al. (2012) [6] | | Mg3Y2(SiO4)3 | 145 (3) | 8.5 (9) | This study | | | 158 (2) | 4.0a | This study |
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Fixed at this value during data processing.
Numbers in brackets are error in last digits.
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