Fig. 4: Bright-field transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of recovered quartz disc prepared by focused ion beam preparation. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Bright-field transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of recovered quartz disc prepared by focused ion beam preparation.

From: Evidence for a rosiaite-structured high-pressure silica phase and its relation to lamellar amorphization in quartz

Fig. 4

The image shows abundant amorphous lamellae parallel to basal, rhombohedral, and prismatic planes in quartz compressed along the c-axis (vertical in the image). The viewing direction is along the [0\(\bar{1}\)10] direction, i.e. vertical to the compression direction.

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