Elastic geobarometry: stress, strain, and uncertainty Elastic geobarometry is becoming one of the most reliable methods for retrieving pressures and temperatures of entrapment of inclusions into a host from both natural and experimental samples...
Read moreImpact diamonds in ureilites by catalytic growth involving Fe-Ni-silicide
Impact diamonds in ureilites by catalytic growth involving Fe-Ni-silicide: The example of Kenna meteorite The occurrence of shock-induced diamonds in ureilite meteorites is common and is used to constrain the history of the ureilite parent...
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 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 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 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 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...
Read moreEosFit-Pinc: A simple GUI for host-inclusion elastic thermobarometry” —Reply to Zhong et al
Zhong et al. (2020) argue that the solution for entrapment conditions of inclusions presented by Guiraud and Powell (2006) is as equally valid as that proposed by Angel et al. (2017). In addition they propose a third calculation route based on...
Read moreImpact shock origin of diamonds in ureilite meteorites
The origin of diamonds in ureilites is still a debated issue among the scientific community, with significant implications for the sizes of early Solar System bodies. We investigated three diamond-bearing ureilites by a multimethodological...
Read moreQuartz metastability at high pressure: what new can we learn from polarized Raman spectroscopy
Quartz metastability at high pressure: what new can we learn from polarized Raman spectroscopy? Despite all the work we have done on it, quartz can still surprise us! In their new paper Marta, Boriana, Ross and Matteo characterize the Raman...
Read moreZirconology
Establishing a protocol for the selection of zircon inclusions in garnet for Raman thermobarometry In his latest manuscript Nicola investigate in depth the effects of zircon radiation damages onto their raman spectra and in turn how this affects...
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