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Johnston et al. 2002
Johnston, C.T., Wang, S., Bish, D.L., Dera, P., Agnew, S.F. and Kenney, J.W. (2002). Novel pressure-induced phase transformations in hydrous layered materials. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015402. issn: 0094-8276.

High-pressure Raman and X-ray diffraction data on single crystals of hydrous layer-structure minerals, dickite and gibbsite, reveal structural phase transitions occurring between 2.0 and 2.5 GPa. In the case of dickite, this is the first documented occurrence of a pressure-induced phase transformation in a 1:1 phyllosilicate. Above the transition the structure of individual 1:1 layers remains unchanged, whereas the stacking of individual layers and the interlayer topology change significantly. Similar to dickite, single-crystal Raman spectra of gibbsite show large perturbations in the v(OH) region and suggest that the interlayer OH groups play a critical role in the phase transformation.

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Mineralogy and Petrology, Crystal chemistry, Mineral Physics, High-pressure behavior, Mineral Physics, Optical, infrared, and Raman spectroscopy, Mineral Physics, X ray, neutron, and electron spectroscopy and diffraction
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Geophysical Research Letters
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