Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Richard Wirth
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 3.3, Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials
Telegrafenberg, C 120
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1371
Fax: +49 331 288 1402
Mail: richard.wirth@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Structure of mineral interfaces
- Intergranular amorphous layers along mineral interfaces
- Deformation during phase transformation
- Transmission electron microscopy TEM
- Analytical electron microscopoy AEM
- Electron energy-loss spectroscopy EELS
Projects:
- Nanometre sized mineral and melt inclusions in minerals from mantle peridotites
- Nanometre sized inclusions in kimberlitic and metamorphic diamonds
- Structure of silicate grain boundaries
- Amorphous intergranular layers along interfaces in mantle xenoliths