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Edited by David Walker, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, and approved February 4, 2011 (received for review November 10, 2010)
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- Published in issue March 29, 2011.
- Published first March 14, 2011.
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- Eglantine Boularda,1,
- Alexandre Gloterb,
- Alexandre Corgnea,c,
- Daniele Antonangelia,
- Anne-Line Auzendea,
- Jean-Philippe Perrillatd,e,
- François Guyota, and
- Guillaume Fiqueta
- aInstitut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 7590, Université Paris Diderot, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France;
- bLaboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud 11, CNRS UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay, France;
- cInstitut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, UMR 5277 Université de Toulouse—CNRS, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France;
- dEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility, B.P. 220, 38043 Grenoble cedex, France; and
- eUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, UMR 5570 CNRS, 2 rue Raphaël Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
Edited by David Walker, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, and approved February 4, 2011 (received for review November 10, 2010)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: boulard{at}impmc.jussieu.fr.
Author contributions: E.B., F.G., and G.F. designed research; E.B., A.C., D.A., A.-L.A., J.-P.P., F.G., and G.F. performed research; A.G. and J.-P.P. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; E.B., A.G., F.G., and G.F. analyzed data; E.B., A.G., A.C., D.A., A.-L.A., J.-P.P., F.G., and G.F. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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