Why mineral interfaces matter

Throughout Earth, rocks respond to changing physical and chemical conditions by converting one rock type to another. These conversions have conventionally been described in terms of solid-state mechanisms, in which new minerals nucleate and grow through exchange of elements by diffusion. The slow ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Putnis, Andrew
Format: Journal Article
Published: The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18999