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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Elastic Thermobarometry arrives in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Check out the new paper by Matt, Mattia and Matteo where they present an overview of the development of the last few years of elastic geothermobarometry...
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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...
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Resetting of zircon inclusions in garnet: Implications for elastic thermobarometry “Elastic thermobarometry of host-inclusion systems for back-calculating pressure (P) and temperature (T) conditions of inclusion entrapment relies on the...
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Deciphering the tectonometamorphic history of subducted metapelites using quartz-in-garnet and Ti-in-quartz (QuiG–TiQ) geothermobarometry In this paper, Pauline Jeanneret and co-authors characterized the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Lower...
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Hydrous peridotitic fragments of Earth’s mantle 660 km discontinuity sampled by a diamond “The internal structure and dynamics of Earth have been shaped by the 660 km boundary between the mantle transition zone and lower mantle. However...
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