EPSC 2018 Early Career Researcher (ECR) Bursary Application has been awarded to Mara Murri to attend the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin (16th – 21st September 2018).
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Europlanet 2018
Mara Murri’s proposal “Cathodoluminescence as a tool for unravelling shock features of diamonds from impact craters” has been supported for 5 days of facility time by Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure funding scheme for a...
Read moreDetermine strains on inclusions from Raman measurements
In her new paper published on American Mineralogist, Mara Murri, describes a method for determining the strains in quartz inclusions from Raman spectroscopy using the concept of the phonon-mode Grüneisen tensor, which we determine by ab initio...
Read moreExperimental validation of intracrystalline “geothermometry” for rocks
In this paper, we test the available experimental calibrations for clino and orthopyroxenes as geothermometer by determining their site in synthetic samples grown from a hydrous nepheline basanite in a piston-cylinder apparatus at 1050 °C at...
Read moreFirst evidence that Raman does not measure stresses on inclusions
Our paper on elastic barometry illustrates the difficulties related to Raman measurements on non-cubic inclusions has just been published on American Mineralogist. In her manuscript Chiara Anzolini give us an idea of the greatest source of errors...
Read moreEosFit-Pinc released
An exact solution to the problem in elastic geobarometry of combining non-linear Equations of State (EoS) with the elastic relaxation for elastically isotropic spherical host-inclusion systems without any approximations of linear elasticity is...
Read more40 Years of mineral elasticity a critical review and new equation of state for mantle olivines
The new review manuscript by Ross Angel “40 years of mineral elasticity: a critical review and a new parameterisation of equations of state for mantle olivines and diamond inclusions” has just been published online on Physics and...
Read moreContinuous phase transitions in EosFit
Continuous phase transitions in minerals, such as the α–β transition in quartz, can give rise to very large non-linear variations in their volume and density with temperature and pressure. In Angel et al 2017 we present a simplified description...
Read moreThermo-elastic behavior of grossular garnet
In her manuscript Sula Milani provides for the first time consistent the thermo-elastic parameters for grossular garnet using simultaneous fitting of pressure-volume-temperature data combined with either adiabatic (KS) or isothermal bulk modulus...
Read moreIMA Ph.D. Student Award to Mattia Mazzucchelli
Our Ph.D. student Mattia Mazzucchelli has been awarded the “Ph.D. Student Award 2016” by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA). Since 2016, IMA inaugurated its Ph.D. Student Award, aimed at supporting outstanding students in...
Read more2016 Barringer Award to Mara Murri
Mara Murri, our master degree student, just got awarded a research grant from the “Barringer Family Fund for meteorite impact research” to carry out a project that is aimed at understanding the possible mechanisms of micro-diamonds retrieved in...
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