New release of EosFit A new release of the EosFit software suit for equation of statecalculations is now available from www.rossangel.com This new versionsupports new EoS types, calculation of heat capacities, new utilitiesfor fitting unit-cell...
Read moreCrossing isomekes: elastic geothermobarometry of quartz and zircon in garnet from UHP rocks
Crossing isomekes: elastic geothermobarometry of quartz and zircon in garnet from UHP rocks Characterizing the pressure and temperature (PT) histories of eclogite-facies rocks is of key importance for unravelling subduction-zone processes at all...
Read moreBarringer award to Anna Barbaro
Barringer award to Anna Barbaro The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research has been established as a memorial to recognize the contributions of Brandon, Moreau, Paul, and Richard Barringer to the field of meteoritics and the...
Read moreElastic geobarometry beyond cubic hosts
Elastic geobarometry beyond cubic hosts In this publication, Joseph Gonzalez, Mattia Mazzucchelli developed and tested a new model for elastic thermobarometry that will allow for the use of non-cubic host minerals. Previously, reliable...
Read moreEntraPT finally online and published
EntraPT finally online and published. EntraPT is a web-based application for elastic geobarometry freely accessible at the “Fiorenzo Mazzi” experimental mineralogy lab webpage (www.mineralogylab.com/software). It provides an easy-to-use tool to...
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A nice new article in Horizon the EU research & innovation magazine “What happens below Earth’s surface when the most powerful earthquakes occur” hosts some of our latest findings on the MIR kimberlite pipe…. What happens...
Read moreUnder Pressure: High-Pressure Metamorphism in the Alps
Under Pressure: High-Pressure Metamorphism in the Alps In the new volume of Elements “Shedding Light on the European Alps” Lucie Tajčmanová, Paola Manzotti and Matteo Alvaro contributed with the article “Under Pressure...
Read moreZircon in garnet elastic Barometry: problems and perspectives
Zircon in garnet elastic Barometry: problems and perspectives In the “boutique outcrop” Dora Maira Massif, Western Alps the ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) whiteschists of the Brossasco-Isasca unit provides a natural laboratory in which to...
Read moreAlexander von Humboldt fellowship awarded to Mattia Mazzucchelli and Nicola Campomenosi
Alexander von Humboldt fellowship awarded to Mattia Mazzucchelli and Nicola Campomenosi 2020 and 2021 have been two difficult although extremely productive years. Two of our bright PhD students Mattia Mazzucchelli and Nicola Campomensi have been...
Read moreExtensive fluid‐rock interaction and pressure solution in a UHP fluid pathway recorded by garnetite Lago di Cignana, Western Alps
Extensive fluid‐rock interaction and pressure solution in a UHP fluid pathway recorded by garnetite Lago di Cignana, Western Alps Fluids released by dehydration reactions in subducting slabs can result in dissolution and related mass transfer...
Read moreGarnet sand reveals rock recycling processes in the youngest exhumed high- and ultrahigh-pressure terrane on Earth
This recent publication by Baldwin et al., in collaboration with new lab group member Joseph Gonzalez studied inclusion bearing detrital garnets from the actively exhuming (ultra)high-pressure terrane in eastern Papua New Guinea. Individual...
Read moreNow available: “A Grüneisen tensor for rutile and its application to host-inclusion systems”
Go have a look at the new publication on American Mineralogist by Kira Musiyachenko where she demonstrates with ab-initio calculations that pure rutile inclusions in metamorphic garnets do not develop positive residual pressures upon exhumation...
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