To address the sparse and inconsistent thermal expansion data previously available for almandine and spessartine garnets, this study “Revised PVT equations of state for almandine and spessartine garnets: implications for...
Read more
Elastic thermobarometry using quartz inclusions in garnet (QuiG) faces reliability issues in high-temperature terranes due to tensile strain. To investigate this problem, the authors analysed QuiG results from Adirondack metapelites alongside...
Read more
Crystal Palace is a program designed to automate the organization and analysis of refined crystal structures from parametric studies (varying pressure, temperature, or composition) using CIF files, eliminating the risks of manual data entry for...
Read more
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...
Read more
First evaluation of stiff-in-soft host–inclusion systems We all have been habit to work and think about inclusions being preserved by their very stiff host. But have you ever wondered what would happen when a stiff inclusion has been entrapped...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
Equation of state of spinel (MgAl2O4): implications for elastic geobarometry of peridotites and chromitites Spinel is potentially one of the best minerals for elastic geobarometry, but the large uncertainties in the published equation of state...
Read more
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...
Read more
Looking for the next “bible” for diamond research? “After more than 80 volumes of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (RiMG), we now have a volume on diamond—Diamond: Genesis, Mineralogy and Geochemistry. ” Are you...
Read more
Garnet EoS: a critical review and synthesis All available volume and elasticity data for the garnet end-members grossular, pyrope, almandine and spessartine have been re-evaluated for both internal consistency and for consistency with...
Read more
New thermoelastic properties for Zircon Alix Ehlers has now published a new manuscript where the thermal-pressure equation of state for zircon (ZrSiO4) that characterizes its thermoelastic behavior at metamorphic conditions has been determined...
Read more