For more than a half century, my colleagues and I in the Stony Brook High Pressure Laboratory have profited from collaborations with French scientists in their laboratories in Orsay, Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Rennes. These interactions have included postdoctoral appointments of French colleagues in our laboratory as well as two année sabbatique by me; in 1983-84 , in the Laboratoire de Géophysique et Géodynamique Interne at the Université Paris XI in Orsay and in 2020-2003 in the Laboratoire des Méchanismes et Transfert en Géologie at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. The objective of this report is to relate this history and to illustrate the scientific advances which resulted from these collaborations.
Jaoul, O., Houlier, B., Cheraghmakani, M., Pichon, R. and Liebermann, R.C. (1987) Surface Destabilization and Laboratory-Induced Non-Stoichiometryin San Carlos Olivine. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 5, 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00307607
Houlier, B., Jaoul, O., Abel, F. and Liebermann, R.C. (1988) Oxygen and Silicon Self-Diffusion in Natural Olivine at T=1300°C. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 50, 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(88)90105-7
Bertran-Alvarez, Y., Jaoul, O. and Liebermann, R.C. (1992) Fe-Mg Interdiffusion in Single Crystal Olivines at Very High Pressure and Controlled Oxygen Fugacity: Technological Advances and Initial Data at 7 GPa. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 70, 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(92)90165-R
Jaoul, O., Bertran-Alvarez, Y., Liebermann, R.C. and Price, G.D. (1995) Fe-Mg Interdiffusion in Olivine Up to 9 GPa at T=600-900°C. Experimental Data and Comparison with Defect Calculations. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 89, 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(94)03008-7
Béjina, F., Raterron, P., Zhang, J., Jaoul, O. and Liebermann, R.C. (1997) Activation Volume of Silicon Diffusion in San Carlos Olivine. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 2597-2600. https://doi.org/10.1029/97GL02735
Béjina, F., Jaoul, O. and Liebermann, R.C. (1999) Activation Volume for Si Diffusion in San Carlos Olivine: Implications for Upper Mantle Rheology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 104, 25529-25542. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999JB900270
Raterron, P., Béjina, F., Doukhan, J.C., Jaoul, O. and Liebermann, R.C. (1998) Olivine/Fe-Metal Equilibrium under High Pressure: An ATEM Investigation. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 285-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002690050139
Badro, J., Fiquet, G., Liebermann, R., Ohtani, E. and Wang, Y. (2019) High-Pressure Mineral Physics Seminar, 9th Edition. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 351, 59-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2019.04.002
Poirier, J.P. and Liebermann, R.C. (l984) On the Activation Volume for Creep and Its Variation with Depth in the Earth’s Lower Mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 35, 283-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(84)90022-0
Ingrin, J. and Liebermann, R.C. (1989) Deviatoric Stress in a Girdle-Anvil Type High Pressure Apparatus: Effect on the Quartz-Coesite Phase Transformation. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 54, 378-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(89)90255-0
Remsberg, A.R., Boland, J.N., Gasparik, T. and Liebermann, R.C. (1988) Mechanism of the Olivine-Spinel Transformation in Co 2 SiO 4 . Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 498-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311131
Wang, Y., Liebermann, R.C. and Boland, J.N. (1988) Olivine as an in Situ Piezometer in High Pressure Apparatus. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 15, 493-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311130
Wang, Y., Poirier, J.-P. and Liebermann, R.C. (1989) Dislocation Dissociation in CaGeO3 Perovskite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 16, 630-633. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00223310
Wang, Y., Guyot, F., Yeganeh-Haeri, A. and Liebermann, R.C. (1990) Twinning in MgSiO3 Perovskite. Science, 248, 468-571. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.248.4954.468
Wang, Y., Guyot, F. and Liebermann, R.C. (1992) Electron Microscopy of (Mg,Fe)SiO 3 Perovskite: Evidence of Structural Phase Transitions and Implications for the Lower Mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 97, 12327-12347. https://doi.org/10.1029/92JB00870
Wang, Y., Martinez, I., Guyot, F. and Liebermann, R.C. (1997) The Breakdown of Olivine to Perovskite and Magnesiowüstite. Science, 275, 510-513. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.275.5299.510
Gwanmesia, G., Liebermann, R.C. and Guyot, F. (1990) Hot-Pressing and Characterization of Polycrystals of β-Mg 2 SiO 4 for Acoustic Velocity Measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 17, 1331-1334. https://doi.org/10.1029/GL017i009p01331
Guyot, F., Gwanmesia, G.D. and Liebermann, R.C. (1991) An Olivine to Beta Phase Transformation Mechanism in Mg 2 SiO 4 . Geophysical Research Letters, 18, 89-92. https://doi.org/10.1029/90GL02719
Reynard, B., Takir, F., Guyot, F., Gwanmesia, G.D., Liebermann, R.C. and Gillet, P. (1996) High-Temperature Raman Spectroscopic and X-Ray Diffraction Study of Beta Mg 2 SiO: Insights into Its High-Temperature Thermodynamic Properties and the Beta to Alpha Phase Transformation Mechanism and Kinetics. American Mineralogist, 81, 585-594. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-1996-5-605
Cordier, P., Raterron, P. and Wang, Y. (1996) TEM Investigation of Dislocation Microstructure of Experimentally Deformed Silicate Garnet. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 97, 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(96)03154-8
Voegelé, V., Ando, J.I., Cordier, P. and Liebermann, R.C. (1998) Plastic Deformation of Silicate Garnet: I. High Pressure Experiments. Physics of the Earth & Planetary Interiors, 108, 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00110-1
Decremps, F., Zhang, J. and Liebermann, R.C. (2000) New Phase Boundary and High Pressure Thermoelasticity of ZnO. Europhysics Letters, 51, 268-274. https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00347-0
Decremps, F., Li, B. and Liebermann, R.C. (2000) Single-Crystal Elasticity of ZnO at High Pressure. Proceedings of International Conference on High Pressure Sciene and Technology, Vol. 2, Honolulu, July 1999, 810-813.
Decremps, F., Zhang, J., Li, B. and Liebermann, R.C. (2001) Pressure-Induced Softening of Shear Modes in ZnO. Physical Review B, 63, Article ID: 224105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.224105
Lagarde, P., Flank, A.M., Tourillo, G., Liebermann, R.C. and Itie, J.P. (1992) X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure of Quartz. Application to the Structure of Densified Silica. Journal de Physique Archives, 2, 1043-1050. https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1992113
Li, B. and Liebermann, R.C. (2014) Study of the Earth’s Interior Using Measurements of Sound Velocities in Minerals by Ultrasonic Interferometry. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 233, 135-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2014.05.006
Li, B. and Neuville, D.R. (2010) Elasticity of Diopside to 8 GPa and 1073K and Implications for the Upper Mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 183, 398-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2010.08.009
Sinelnikov, Y.D., Chen, G., Neuville, D.R. and Liebermann, R.C. (1998) Ultrasonic Shear Velocities of MgSiO 3 -Perovskite at High Pressure and Temperature and Lower Mantle Composition. Science, 281, 677-679. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.281.5377.677
Kung, J., Li, B., Uchida, T., Wang, Y., Neuville, D. and Liebermann, R.C. (2004) In Situ Measurements of Sound Velocities and Densities across the Orthopyroxene →High-Pressure Clinopyroxene Transition in MgSiO 3 at High Pressure. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 147, 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2004.05.008
Gwanmesia, G.D., Zhang, J., Darling, K., Kung, J., Li, B., Wang, L., Neuville, D. and Liebermann, R.C. (2006) Elasticity of Polycrystalline Pyrope (Mg 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 ) to 9 GPa and 1000°C. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 155, 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2005.10.008
Chen, T., Gwanmesia, G.D., Ehm, L., Le Losq, C., Neuville, D.R., Phillips, B.L., Li, B. and Liebermann, R.C. (2019) Synthesis and Characterization of Polycrystalline in KAlSi 3 O 8 -Hollandite [Liebermannite]: Sound Velocities vs. Pressure to 13 GPa at Room Temperature. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 351, 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2018.09.009
Béjina, F., Jaoul, O. and Liebermann, R.C. (2003) Diffusion at High Pressure: A Review. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 139, 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9201(03)00140-7