Upper Mantle Convection as a Possible Mechanism for Plate Tectonics Fig. 19. 8
X-ray Radiography and Tomography at high pressure: Application of multianvil press APS BL-BMD 13 250 ton Radiography Micro-tomography PF BL 14 C (MAX-III) 700 ton SPring-8 BL 04 B 1 (SPEED-1500) 1500 ton
High Pressure Systems 1. Large volume press: Kawai-type Multi-anvil apparatus (3000 t、1500 t, 1000 t、700 tプレス) Developed in Japan and now used world wide: Large sample volume: 1 cm 3 in 10 GPa 2. Diamond anvil cell Double sided laser heating Nd: YAG, YLF, and CO 2 laser for heating at high pressure. : combined with Raman spectroscopy, Xray diffraction