TY - JOUR
T1 - Shock Compression of Fluorapatite to 120 GPa
AU - Rucks, M. J.
AU - Winey, J. M.
AU - Toyoda, Y.
AU - Gupta, Y. M.
AU - Duffy, T. S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank K. Zimmerman and N. Arganbright at the Institute for Shock Physics for their invaluable experimental assistance. We thank the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for their loan of one of the Durango apatite samples used in this study. This work was supported by the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Agency under Cooperative Agreement DE‐NA0003957.
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PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Apatite is a phosphate mineral relevant to shock metamorphism in planetary materials. Here, we report on the response of natural fluorapatite from Durango, Mexico, under shock wave loading between 14.5 and 119.5 GPa. Wave profile measurements were obtained in plate-impact experiments conducted on [0001]-oriented fluorapatite single crystals. To 30 GPa peak stresses, we observed a two-wave structure indicating an elastic-inelastic response with elastic wave amplitudes of 10.5–13.1 GPa. Between 39.1 and 62.1 GPa, a complex wave structure was observed involving the propagation of three waves. At and above 73.7 GPa, only a single shock wave was observed. The data above 73.7 GPa provided the following linear shock velocity—particle velocity relationship: Us = 6.5(2) + 0.78(6) up, (mm/μs). Above 80 GPa, the densities in the shocked state exceed both the extrapolated 300-K density of fluorapatite and the predicted 300-K density for a mixture of the high-pressure assemblage, tuite, and CaF2. This result indicates that fluorapatite undergoes a transition to a denser structure under shock loading at these conditions. The shock response of fluorapatite is observed to be similar to that of enstatite but stiffer than quartz and albite at the stresses examined in this work.
AB - Apatite is a phosphate mineral relevant to shock metamorphism in planetary materials. Here, we report on the response of natural fluorapatite from Durango, Mexico, under shock wave loading between 14.5 and 119.5 GPa. Wave profile measurements were obtained in plate-impact experiments conducted on [0001]-oriented fluorapatite single crystals. To 30 GPa peak stresses, we observed a two-wave structure indicating an elastic-inelastic response with elastic wave amplitudes of 10.5–13.1 GPa. Between 39.1 and 62.1 GPa, a complex wave structure was observed involving the propagation of three waves. At and above 73.7 GPa, only a single shock wave was observed. The data above 73.7 GPa provided the following linear shock velocity—particle velocity relationship: Us = 6.5(2) + 0.78(6) up, (mm/μs). Above 80 GPa, the densities in the shocked state exceed both the extrapolated 300-K density of fluorapatite and the predicted 300-K density for a mixture of the high-pressure assemblage, tuite, and CaF2. This result indicates that fluorapatite undergoes a transition to a denser structure under shock loading at these conditions. The shock response of fluorapatite is observed to be similar to that of enstatite but stiffer than quartz and albite at the stresses examined in this work.
KW - apatite
KW - dynamic compression
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U2 - 10.1029/2022JE007642
DO - 10.1029/2022JE007642
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148752659
SN - 2169-9097
VL - 128
JO - Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets
JF - Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets
IS - 2
M1 - e2022JE007642
ER -