Samples of olivine (Fo 0 Fa 100 , Fo 60 Fa 40 , Fo 80 Fa 20 , and Fo 100 Fa 0 ) and of spinel (Fo 50 Fa 50 , Fo 0 Fa 100 , where Fo is forsterite and Fa is fayalite) were subjected to pressures up to 250 kilobars in a diamond anvil press and were heated in situ up to ∼1700°C by an infrared beam from a continuous-wave YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser. The brightness temperature was determined from the intensity of incandescence of the sample by means of an optical pyrometer. X-ray diffraction patterns of the samples, obtained after quenching and unloading, show conclusively that these compositions disproportionate to (Mg,Fe)O and SiO 2 (stishovite) under these conditions.
Takayuki IshiiTsubasa SakaiHiroshi KojitaniDaisuke MoriYoshiyuki InagumaYoshitaka MatsushitaKazunari YamauraMasaki Akaogi
Achim MüllerNorbert SchladerbeckErich KrickemeyerH. BöggeK.R. SchmitzEckhard BillAlfred X. Trautwein
B. MATKOVIĆS. PopovićBiserka GržetaR. Halle