Jan, You should e-mail Brad Hacker about this. eric Quoting Jan ter Heege <[log in to unmask]>: > Dear all, > > I am looking for a paper or thesis with the original quartz grain growth > data used to calibrate the relation quoted in Pierce ML, Christie JM (198 > 7) > Kinetics of grain growth in quartz aggregates. Trans. AGU 68(16):422 > (originating from Pierce 1987, Kinetics of recovery and grain growth in > hydrostatitcally annealed quartz aggregates, Unpubl. M.Sc. thesis UCLA). > > We would like to use the data for a proper comparison with our experiment > al > grain growth data on different quartz rocks. I have been trying to get a > hold of this data for some time now, but sofar without success. Reference > s > to the AGU abstract and M.Sc, thesis are given in a number of papers deal > ing > with piezometry and mineral growth, such as Hacker et al. 1990/1992, Joes > ten > 1991, Abalos et al. 1996. However, the original data is not given. > > Of course, we will use proper referencing to the original data and author > s > in our paper. > > Can anyone help ? > > Jan ter Heege > > Dr. J.H. ter Heege > Experimental Petrology > Institute for Geology, Mineralogy & Geophysics > Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany > tel: +49-234-3224141 > fax: +49-234-3214433 > [log in to unmask] > > >