Our physicist Marco Piazzi has now finalized a very nice article that combines several methodologies for the investigation of the magnetic response of Fe rich inclusions in diamonds. Very exciting story!! For further reading the manuscript can be...
Read moreThe pressure‑induced phase transition(s) of ZrSiO4: revised
A new brilliant manuscript by Boriana and Naemi that finally revise the phase transition(s) of ZrSiO4 at high pressure conditions. In this manuscript published in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals they present the experimental proof for the...
Read moreEditors Selections: Notable papers on American Mineralogist (June 2019)
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...
Read moreViscosity experiments at superliquidus temperatures
Rheology is the key factor to understand dynamic processes and behavior of magma rising through volcanic conduit and lava emplacement on Earth or other terrestrial planets. Today we can monitor the evolution of magma and volcanic mixtures by...
Read moreNew insights into the zircon-reidite phase transition
Shock in meteorite impacts may transform zircon (ZrSiO4) into a denser polymorph, reidite, but the mechanism and significance of this transformation has been obscured by discrepancies between observations on natural and experimental samples. In...
Read moreSettimana del Pianeta Terra 2018
METEORITI, CRATERI DA IMPATTO E TUNNEL DI LAVA: IL CONTRIBUTO DELLE SCIENZE GEOLOGICHE ALLO STUDIO DEI MATERIALI EXTRATERRESTRI E DEGLI ANALOGHI PLANETARI E ALLA PREPARAZIONE DELLE FUTURE MISSIONI ESPLORATIVE PLANETARIE Mara Murri gave a really...
Read moreEuroplanet 2018
Mara Murri’s proposal “Cathodoluminescence as a tool for unravelling shock features of diamonds from impact craters” has been supported for 5 days of facility time by Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure funding scheme for a...
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