Review Articles and Car Stereos
I've picked up a few more articles regarding my project. Prof. Hauck has noted more than once how useful review articles can be. I happened to find two this week, one entitled "Diffusion in solid-Earth systems" (Watson, Baxter) and another "Diffusion in minerals at high pressure: a review" (Bejina et al.) I've been looking at them and found them extremely useful. The latter attempts to create a database of diffusion rates above 1 GPa. In this database, there are values for diffusion in olivine. However, the only elements represented are Mg, Fe, and Ni. There doesn't seem to be much research done into trivalent cation diffusion yet unless I'm just unable to find information on the topic, which wouldn't surprise me. I'm having trouble finding articles on combustion synthesis but I know they have to be out there somewhere. I have a few other articles printed as well, and a few I have to find in hard copy at the library.
If GeoRef and ISI Web of Science were boxers, ISI would win by TKO in the first round. GeoRef has yet to satisfactorily find enough articles, where ISI gives me too many results, all of which are pertinent to my searches, if not always my research.
I also spliced the wires to my car stereo back together while waiting to pick up my sister from work. It's working again. It's been a productive day.
Comments
Posted by: Jim Van Orman
Posted on: March 24, 2008 01:05 PM
Clark--there is another review article/diffusion database that you should look at by John Brady, 1995. It's in a book, one of a series of three titled AGU Reference Shelf (or something close to that).