In his latest manuscript Gabriele show us how to determine the thermo-elastic behaviour of rutile combining X-ray diffraction data at highP and high T together with direct elastic measurements. The manuscript then presents a series of...
Read moreEquations of State of stiff anisotropic minerals: The example of rutile
Gabriele Zaffiro, in his new manuscript presents an assessment of the thermo-elastic behaviour of rutile based on X-ray diffraction data and direct elastic measurements available in literature. Gabriele’s results confirm that the...
Read moreElastic geobarometry using zircons
In her latest study Claudia Stangarone carried out ab initio hybrid Hartree-Fock/Density Functional Theory simulations to determine the structure and vibrational modes of zircon, ZrSiO4, as a function of different applied strains. In her...
Read moreMagnesiochromite inclusions in diamonds: what do they tell us?
In this new nice chapter of the saga of the orientation of inclusions in diamonds Paolo Nimis proposes the mechanical interaction between euhedral crystals in a fluid-rich environment as the most likely mechanism to produce the observed...
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