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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS001 Oral Presentation 1721<br />

High-temperature elasticity of high-pressure minerals: new insights from<br />

gas-medium ultrasonic interferometry<br />

Prof. Ian Jackson<br />

Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Gabriel D. Gwanmesia, Sytle M. Antao, Jennifer Kung, Sally M. Rigden, Robert C.<br />

Liebermann<br />

The internally heated gas-medium high-pressure apparatus provides an attractive environment for the<br />

study of high-temperature elasticity of geological materials under essentially hydrostatic conditions. Use<br />

of a compound steel-alumina acoustic buffer rod, and a soft-iron cup as a refractory pressuretransmitting<br />

medium surrounding the cylindrical sample, allows precise measurements of elastic wave<br />

speeds by ultrasonic interferometry to 1300C at 300 MPa confining pressure. However, for the<br />

necessarily small (

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