Jed Mosenfelder's Research

My research focuses on determination of the physical and chemical properties of minerals at high pressure and temperature. Most of my projects employ (relatively) large-volume high-pressure apparatus (piston-cylinder and multi-anvil) and analytical tools such as electron microscopy and infrared and raman spectroscopy.

Currently, I have two major projects:

Incorporation of OH in olivine at high pressure and temperature

Synthesis of high-pressure phases for use in shock-wave experiments

Projects on the back-burner include:

A new survey of OH in natural olivines

Effect of OH on the kinetics of the olivine to wadsleyite transformation

Incorporation of OH in rutile and kyanite at high P and T

These are some of my past projects:

Transformation behavior of olivine in subducting slabs

Determination of the strength of wadsleyite at high pressure and temperature

Pressure dependence of OH solubility in coesite

Kinetics of the coesite to quartz transformation
Synthesis of coesite and stishovite samples for a wide variety of people!

Links to more details on all of these are in the works, stay tuned....

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