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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Mara Murri marks the beginning of the new year with an incredibly nice paper showing the effect of non-hydrostatic stresses on the structure of alpha-quartz. This investigation carried out through ab initio hybrid Hartree–Fock/DFT simulations...
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In his new paper published in Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie Ross Angel explains the development of the past year that led to the current version of the stRAinMAN program. This allows the strains acting on inclusions trapped in their host to...
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In his new paper Nicola Campomenosi addresses the issues related to the release of the residual pressure in the inclusion due to exposure to the external pressure after polishing of the thin section. He illustrates with a careful set of...
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In her new paper published on American Mineralogist, Mara Murri, describes a method for determining the strains in quartz inclusions from Raman spectroscopy using the concept of the phonon-mode Grüneisen tensor, which we determine by ab initio...
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Check our our latest paper on Finite Element modelling of stresses in inclusions by Mattia L. Mazzucchelli on Geology. Elastic geothermobarometry on inclusions is a method to determine pressure-temperature conditions of mineral growth independent...
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Our paper on elastic barometry illustrates the difficulties related to Raman measurements on non-cubic inclusions has just been published on American Mineralogist. In her manuscript Chiara Anzolini give us an idea of the greatest source of errors...
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