Diffusion of selected volatile elements and their isotopes in silicate melts and glasses
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Authors
Fortin, Marc-Antoine
Issue Date
2019-05
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Geology
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Abstract
The fourth chapter of this dissertation deals with the diffusion of N in natural rhyolitic glass. Concentration profiles are obtained from in-diffusion experiments by nuclear reaction analysis. The data suggest that N diffuses too slowly in silicic glasses to be used as a dating technique for archeological materials, but slow enough for pumice vesicles to successfully trap the N composition of ancient atmospheres at the time of their eruption.
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May 2019
School of Science
School of Science
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY