Open questions on carbonaceous matter in meteorites Every year several tons of extraterrestrial material reach Earth’s surface but only a fraction of it ends up in the hands of geoscientists. In their recently published comment, Oliver...
Read more
Our former postdoc Joseph P. Gonzalez funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has been appointed by The New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) Office of Cultural Education as a Museum Scientist in mineralogy and...
Read more
Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research to Oliver Christ Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Oliver Christ that has been awarded the Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research! We wish you the best for your research!!...
Read more
Watch the video of the talk given by Giulia Mingardi at the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv”
Read more Giulia Mingardi is the winner of the “3MT 2024 Edition @UniPv” The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research to a general audience in English in less than three minutes. The Three Minute...
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
Matteo Alvaro and Marco Scambelluri nominated Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is pleased to announce the new Fellows for 2023. Fellows are MSA members who have contributed...
Read more
Inclusion deformation triggers fractures in the host In her recent paper Marta Morana and co-authors stumbled on the least expected behavior for quartz inclusions trapped in garnet while exploring their behavior at high temperature conditions...
Read more
How does recorded temperature changes upon impact shock? Anna Barbaro and co-authors estimated temperature by a graphite-thermometer based on micro-raman spectroscopy data, on 5 ureilitic fragments (FRO 95028, FRO 01089, FRO 97013, FRO 01088 and...
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
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...
Read more