Diamonds are usually thought of as products of the deep Earth, crystallising under enormous static pressure far below our feet. But some diamonds form somewhere far stranger: in space! Until now, however, extraterrestrial diamonds were assumed to...
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When minerals are entrapped within host minerals during high-pressure and high-temperature metamorphic processes, their residual stress state serves as an elastic geobarometer to reconstruct their initial entrapment conditions. Traditional models...
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2025 Humboldt Research fellowship a Giulia Mingardi Giulia Mingardi, currently completing her PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in cotutelle with the University of Pavia at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Fiorenzo Mazzi...
Read moreJust for fun we did test notebookLM capabilities to produce simple summary of large texts in a form of a conversation using the recent paper by Nicola Campomenosi and the results without further input is incredible. certainly is not perfect but...
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New chapter for host-inclusion systems studies We finally started a new chapter on mineral host-inclusion studies by investigating processes that go beyond simple elasticity. The study of mineral rheology, how rocks and minerals deform under...
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Our former postdoc Joseph P. Gonzalez funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has been appointed by The New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) Office of Cultural Education as a Museum Scientist in mineralogy and...
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Watch the video of the talk given by Giulia Mingardi at the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv”
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Come and see us at EGU 2024 in Wien!! Here below a list of the oral presentations by our researchers: Monday 15th April 2024 14:55: EGU24-2301 – What can we learn from X-ray diffraction and seismic velocities across the alpha-beta quartz...
Read more Giulia Mingardi is the winner of the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv” The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research to a general audience in English in less than three minutes. The Three Minute...
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First evaluation of stiff-in-soft host–inclusion systems We all have been habit to work and think about inclusions being preserved by their very stiff host. But have you ever wondered what would happen when a stiff inclusion has been entrapped...
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Are you working with mixed-phase inclusions? Ross J. Angel and co-authors finally provide the recipes to work out the elastic response of mixed-phase inclusions. Their study published in the European Journal of Mineralogy presents the theory of...
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First high-pressure laboratory experiment on host-inclusion systems In his new manuscript Nicola Campomenosi describes the results of the first laboratory experiments where quartz in garnet host-inclusion systems have investigated under high...
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