Nuclear-blast induced nanotextures in quartz and zircon within Trinitite

Lussier, AJ; Rouvimov, S; Burns, PC; Simonetti, A

Lussier, AJ (reprint author), Univ Notre Dame, Dept Civil & Environm Engn & Earth Sci, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA.

AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, 2017; 102 (1-2): 445

Abstract

The intense heat and pressure resulting from the detonation of the world's first nuclear device in the New Mexico desert, July 16, 1945, severely alte......

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