Lin-gun Liu, Taiwanese geoscientist (1942 –
Found that silicate perovskite could form from all the major upper-mantle materials such as olivine, pyroxene and garnet
Silicate perovskite from phase transformation of pyrope-garnet at high pressure and temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett. 1:277-80, 1974
Saw that silicate perovskite comprises most of the mantle from the transition zone downwards
With A.E. Ringwood found that phase C could hold water
First synthesized phase D
Phase transformations in serpentine at high pressure and temperatures and implications for subducting lithosphere. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 42:255-62, 1986
SYNTHESIZED NEW PHASES/MODIFICATIONS
New silicate perovskites. Geophys. Res. Lett. 14:1077-82, 1987
A new high pressure phase of Ca2Al2SiO4 and implications for the Earth’s interior. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 40:401-6, 1978
A fluorite isotype of SnO and a new modification of TiO: implications for the Earth’s lower mantle. Science 199:422-4, 1978
With W.A. Bassett & J. Sharry. New high pressure modifications of GeO2 and SiO2. J. Geophys. Res. 83:2301-5, 1978
High pressure NaAlSiO. The first silicate calcium ferrite isotope. Geophys. Res. Lett. 4:183-6, 1977
Synthesis of a new high pressure phase of manganese dioxide. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 29:104-6, 1976
With A.E. Ringwood. Synthesis of a perovskite-type polymorph of CaSiO3. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 28:209-11, 1975
Synthesis of a new high-pressure phase of tin dioxide and some geophysical implications. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 9:338-43, 1974
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
An alternative interpretation of lower mantle materials mineral associations in diamonds (2002)
The causes of the major seismic discontinuities in the transition zone of the Earth’s mantle (1995)
With H. Kao. A hypothesis for the seismogenesis of double seismic zone (1995)
With L. Wu. Bulk modulus and equation of state. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 70(1-2):78-84, 1992
Effects of H20 on the phase behaviour (1987)
Structural considerations in high-pressure phase transformations of simple crystals. High Temp. High Pressures 13:387-8, 1981
High pressure phase transformations in baddeleyite and zircon. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 44:390-6, 1980
The mineralogy of an eclogitic earth mantle. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 23:262-7, 1980
On the 650 km seismic continuity. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 42:2028, 1979
High pressure Ca2SiO4, the silicate K2NIF – isotype with crystalchemical and geophysical implications. Phys. Chem. Miner. 3(3):291-9, 1978
High pressure phase transformations of albite, jadeite and nepheline. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 37:438-44, 1978
The post-spinel phase of forsterite. Nature 262:770-2, 1976
The high pressure phases of MgSiO3. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 31:200-8, 1976
Post-oxide phases of olivine and pyroxene and mineralogy of the mantle. Nature 258:510-2, 1976
Post-oxide phases of olivine and pyroxene and mineralogy of the mantle. Nature 258:510-2, 1975
With T. Takahashi & W.A. Bassett. Isothermal compressions of a spinel phase of Co2SiO4 and magnesian ilmenite. J. Geophys. Res. (1974)
A dense modification of BaO and its crystal structure. J. appl. Phys. 42:3702-4, 1971
HONORS
Lingunite Gillet, Chen, Dubrovinsky & El Goresy 2000 (Mineral)