This volume is concerned primarily with the chemical and physical effects of shock waves on typical materials. It compares naturally occurring materials with similar materials produced by shock compression in the laboratory, providing clues about the environment and events that produced the natural materials.

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Experimental Techniques for the Simulation of Shock Metamorphism: A Case Study on Calcite / Shock Experiments on a Preheated Basaltic Eucrite / Structural Evolution of Quartz and Feldspar Crystals and their Glasses by Shock Compression / Shock Reactions of Carbon-Bearing Materials and their Cosmochemical Significance / Shock-Induced Phase Transitions in Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite / Shock Wave Chemistry and Ultrafine Diamond from Explosives in China / Redistribution of Radiogenic Lead in Plagioclase during Shock Metamorphism / Terrestrial Acidification at the K/T Boundary / Impact Processes of Ice in the Solar System