This README.txt file was generated on Oct 17, 2022 by M. J. Rucks

GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Title of Dataset: "Shock compression of fluorapatite to 120 GPa: Wave Profile Data"

2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Melinda J. Rucks
		Institution: Princeton University
		Email: mrucks@princeton.edu

	B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Tom S. Duffy
		Institution: Princeton University
		Email: duffy@princeton.edu

3. Date of data collection: January 2020 - October 2021

4. Geographic location of data collection: Institute for Shock Physics at Washington State University

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This work was supported by the Department of 
Energy/National Nuclear Security Agency under Cooperative Agreement DE-NA0003957.

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: N/A

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: N/A

5. Recommended citation for this dataset: 
Rucks, M. J., Winey, J. M., Toyoda, T., Gupta, Y. M., & Duffy, T. S. (2022). Shock compression of fluorapatite to 120 GPa: Wave Profile Data. Princeton University. 
Please also cite the accompanying paper. 
Rucks, M. J., Winey, J. M., Toyoda, T., Gupta, Y. M., & Duffy, T. S. (in review). 
Shock compression of fluorapatite to 120 GPa Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
1. File list:
Wave_profile_data.csv
	csv file containing time and velocity data for all experiments discussed in the accompanying paper:
	Row 1 includes the run number and the peak stress acheived, which will match Table 1 provided in the accompanying paper. 
	Columns below this point will include time in microseconds, and velocity in mm/microseconds
METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
Wave profiles were collected during plate-impact experiments using VISAR and PDV techniques