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Petrology at High Pressure and Temperature

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High pressure and high temperature laboratory work with rocks and minerals is beginning to explain some fundamental geophysical observations, and to provide solutions to important problems of the Earth's interior.

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NEWTON, R. Petrology at High Pressure and Temperature. Nature 224, 314–317 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224314a0

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