December 2020 - Mineralogy lab

Extensive fluid‐rock interaction and pressure solution in a UHP fluid pathway recorded by garnetite Lago di Cignana, Western Alps

22/12/2020 2705

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...

Garnet sand reveals rock recycling processes in the youngest exhumed high- and ultrahigh-pressure terrane on Earth

22/12/2020 2365

This recent publication by Baldwin et al., in collaboration with new lab group member Joseph Gonzalez studied inclusion bearing detrital garnets from the actively exhuming (ultra)high-pressure terrane in eastern Papua New Guinea. Individual...

Now available: “A Grüneisen tensor for rutile and its application to host-inclusion systems”

01/12/2020 2455

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...