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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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...
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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...
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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...
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