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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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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Elastic thermobarometry of ultrahigh-pressure metapelites from the Brossasco Isasca unit (Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps) In her first paper Giulia Mingardi applied zircon-in-garnet (ZiG) and chemical thermobarometry to garnet-bearing...
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Resetting of zircon inclusions in garnet: Implications for elastic thermobarometry “Elastic thermobarometry of host-inclusion systems for back-calculating pressure (P) and temperature (T) conditions of inclusion entrapment relies on the...
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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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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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Quoting the really nice paragraph by the Editors of American Mineralogist about our paper: “stangaronite….”! Stangarone et al. (page 830) used density functional theory (DFT) simulations of the structures of zircon and reidite...
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In her latest study Claudia Stangarone carried out ab initio hybrid Hartree-Fock/Density Functional Theory simulations to determine the structure and vibrational modes of zircon, ZrSiO4, as a function of different applied strains. In her...
Read more Quoting the really nice paragraph by the Editors of American Mineralogist about our paper: Stressed out! On page 2032 of the December issue of American Mineralogist, Campomenosi et al. provide a detailed analysis of strain mapping via Raman...
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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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