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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Can inclusions be symmetry broken? Murri and co-authors recently studied the role of symmetry-breaking strains in quartz inclusions entrapped in zircon by ab initio simulations. They discovered that for deformations expected for real cases the...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Using polarized Raman spectroscopy to study the stress gradient in mineral systems with anomalous birefringence Our PhD student Nicola Campomenosi using experimental results coupled with selected finite element models showed that the ratio...
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Another score for Mattia Mazzucchelli! In his new manuscript Mattia tackles the key issue of extending elastic barometry to anisotropic inclusions in cubic host! The change of strain in the inclusion can now be modelled using the axial equations...
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This short course, organized by Silvio Ferrero and Pierre Lanari aims to offer to PhD students and early carrier scientists working in the fields of metamorphic petrology, petrochronology and geochemistry a detailed overview of the most recent...
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In his new paper Nicola Campomenosi addresses the issues related to the release of the residual pressure in the inclusion due to exposure to the external pressure after polishing of the thin section. He illustrates with a careful set of...
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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...
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Check our our latest paper on Finite Element modelling of stresses in inclusions by Mattia L. Mazzucchelli on Geology. Elastic geothermobarometry on inclusions is a method to determine pressure-temperature conditions of mineral growth independent...
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