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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Come and see us at SIMP in Catania. The Conference of the “Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia” SIMP where we will present some of the new exciting results on elastic barometry and metorite impact processes. Here below you...
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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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EPSC 2018 Early Career Researcher (ECR) Bursary Application has been awarded to Mara Murri to attend the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin (16th – 21st September 2018).
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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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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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In this paper, we test the available experimental calibrations for clino and orthopyroxenes as geothermometer by determining their site in synthetic samples grown from a hydrous nepheline basanite in a piston-cylinder apparatus at 1050 °C at...
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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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An exact solution to the problem in elastic geobarometry of combining non-linear Equations of State (EoS) with the elastic relaxation for elastically isotropic spherical host-inclusion systems without any approximations of linear elasticity is...
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The new review manuscript by Ross Angel “40 years of mineral elasticity: a critical review and a new parameterisation of equations of state for mantle olivines and diamond inclusions” has just been published online on Physics and...
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Continuous phase transitions in minerals, such as the α–β transition in quartz, can give rise to very large non-linear variations in their volume and density with temperature and pressure. In Angel et al 2017 we present a simplified description...
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