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I study the properties of a variety of other natural and synthetic mantle minerals under high pressure, primarily using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. These minerals include garnets, oxides, silica, silicates, nitrides, and more.

   ![garnets](/sites/g/files/omnuum11631/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/raf/files/garnets4.png?itok=-JVeiNfO) 

 

Five natural garnets (plus ruby) in a diamond anvil cell*Related publications:*  
[Chidester et al., 2018](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/103/5/749/530656/high-pressure-phase-behavior-and-equations-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext)  
[Fischer et al., 2018](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/103/5/792/530659/Equations-of-state-and-phase-boundary-for)  
[Shofner et al., 2016](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/101/1/211/40572/the-w-wo2-oxygen-fugacity-buffer-wwo-at-high?redirectedFrom=fulltext)  
[Pigott et al., 2015](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL066577)  
[Jacobsen et al., 2008](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/93/11-12/1823/44675/compression-of-single-crystal-magnesium-oxide-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext)