S3. Mineral physics and crystal chemistry: crucial tools for Earth Sciences

Conveners and Chairpersons: Ross Angel (CNR, Padova), Fabrizio Nestola (Università di Padova)
This session is to celebrate the career of Prof. Maria Chiara Domeneghetti

 

 

ORAL SESSIONS

Tuesday 16 September 2025 [09.00-10.30]

Sala Mantegna

3-1     09.00 - 09.20
[KEYNOTE] Boffa Ballaran T.*, Criniti G., Huang R. & Kurnosov A. : Relationship between the crystal chemistry of mantle minerals and their elastic properties

3-2     09.20 - 09.30
Ardit M.*, Belmonte D., Menescardi F., Conte S., Dondi M. & Cruciani G. : Structural response of orthorhombic perovskites to non-ambient conditions

3-3     09.30 - 09.40
Comboni D., Garbarino G., Hanfland M. & Nazzareni S.* : High-pressure and phase transitions in dalyite, a Zr-silicate

3-4     09.40 - 09.50
Cerantola V.*, Frulla F., Sahle Ch.J., Longa C., Muller H., Aslandukova A., Bykov M., Campione M., Capitani G., Dubrovinsky L., Hanfland M., Malaspina N. & Bykova E. : Structural complexity of humboldtine (FeC2O4·2H2O) at high pressures

3-5     09.50 - 10.00
Zucchini A.*, Pennacchioni L., Masotta M., Boffa Ballaran T., Fastelli M., Gallego Perra S., Figueiredo Eoares Rodrigues J.O., Garbarino G. & Comodi P. : Effect of cation disorder on the high pressure behavior of ankerite

3-6     10.00 - 10.10
Ranellucci F.*, Ulian G. & Valdrè G. : Calculation of elastic moduli and equation of state of dolomite through a Density Functional theory model. A benchmark study of the Hamiltonians.

3-7     10.10 - 10.20
Miletich R.*, Miloš S., Romanenko A.V., Rashchenko S.V., Shatskiy A.F. & Likhacheva A.Y. : Transformation mechanism of the isosymmetric high-pressure transition in rhombohedral K2Ca2(CO3)3

3-8     10.20 - 10.30
Angel R.J.*, Mazzucchelli M., Baratelli L., Schweinle C.F., Gonzalez-Platas J., Balic-Zunic T., Alvaro M. : Crystal Palace: new program for organising crystal structure data

Tuesday 16 September 2025 [11.30-13.00]

Sala Mantegna

3-9     11.30 - 11.50
[KEYNOTE] Carpenter M.* : Strain and elasticity as critical determinants of trace element partitioning, solid solution formation and phase transitions

3-10     11.50 - 12.00
Kahlenberg V.* & Merlino S. : On the incorporation of the larger alkali ions (Rb,Cs) into tobermorite related phases

3-11     12.00 - 12.10
Malcherek T.* & Husdal T. : Unusual coordination in novel polyoxometallate-like crystal structures

3-12     12.10 - 12.20
Morana M.*, Minelli A., Bulled J., Bindi L. & Lepore G.O. : Exploring disorder via X-ray diffuse scattering in cupropearceite, [Cu6As2S7][Ag9CuS4], a member of the pearceite-polybasite group

3-13     12.20 - 12.30
Barbaro A.*, Nestola F., Singerling S., Nava J. & Brenker F.E. : Ureilitic carbon defects at the nanoscale

3-14     12.30 - 12.40
Belmonte D.*, Menescardi F. & Ceresoli D. : Molecular dynamics study of high-pressure melting of CaO: simple structure, complex behavior

3-15     12.40 - 12.50
Curetti N. & Tribaudino M.* : Lead and Sr-feldspar revisited: new room and high pressure Raman data

3-16     12.50 - 13.00
Schorn S.*, Yang Z., Buhre S., Botcharnikov R. & Moulas E. : Experimental constraints on the kinetics of the albite = jadeite + quartz reaction depending on grain size and reaction overstepping

Tuesday 16 September 2025 [15.30-17.00]

Sala Mantegna

3-17     15.30 - 15.50
[KEYNOTE] Welch M.* & Najorka J. : Amphiboles under extreme pressure: potassic-richterite, eckermannite and the role of polysomatism

3-18     15.50 - 16.00
Perna M.G.*, Rodriguez Vega A., Parlapiano F., Humpreys-Williams E., Nestola F., Biagioni C., Rosatelli G. & Stoppa F. : Interconnectivity between crystal chemistry and crystallography in Eudialyte-Group Minerals: A new discovery from the Sierra La Vasca Alkaline Volcanic Complex, Coahuila, Mexico

3-19     16.00 - 16.10
Magnani N.* & Capitani G. : Columbite-tantalite minerals from Val Vigezzo (VCO province, Piedmont, Italy): a preliminary study

3-20     16.10 - 16.20
Baratelli L.*, Cámara F., Murri M. & Alvaro M. : Omphacite in host-inclusion systems: a new tool for elastic geothermobarometry

3-21     16.20 - 16.30
Gilio M.*, Mazzucchelli M.L. & Alvaro M. : The pressure-induced stiffening of quartz and its effect on the strain-stress relationship. Implications for elastic geobarometry

3-22     16.30 - 16.40
Campomenosi N.*, Oliveri S., Belmonte D., Carbone C., Prencipe M. & Mihailova B. : Coesite under non-ambient conditions via in situ Raman spectroscopy and first principles calculations

3-23     16.40 - 16.50
Alvaro M.*, Campomenosi N. & Gilio M. : Crystallography tools for Investigating mineral rheology through host-inclusion systems

3-24     16.50 - 17.00
Nestola F., Alvaro M.* & Angel R.J. : Celebrating the career of Prof. Chiara Domeneghetti: a legacy of research in mineralogical sciences


POSTER SESSION

Tuesday 16 September 2025

Poster Area 1

3-25     Booth 1
Adami L.*, Ardit M., Bonadiman C., Dondi M., Mancinelli M., Lepore G.O., Spagnoli E., Nodari L., Tassinari R., Zoleo A., Montegrossi G. & Di Benedetto F. : When colour makes minerals unique: the case of the green dolomite from Malentrata (Pomarance, Tuscany, Italy)

3-26     Booth 2
Cámara F.*, Belmonte D. & Comboni D. : Thermoelastic behavior and temperature induced structural evolution of grossite; experimental and ab-initio calculation data

3-27     Booth 3
Chrappan Soldavini B. & Merlini M.* : Crystal-chemistry and thermo-elastic behavior of chlorite: implications for shear accommodation in subduction zones

3-28     Booth 4
Illuminati G.*, Mesto E., Bellatreccia F. & Schingaro E. : Determination of Al/Si Ordering in K-feldspars: comparison of methods

3-29     Booth 5
Lotti P.*, Comboni D., Chrappan Soldavini B., Merlini M. & Gatta G.D. : Polymorphic behavior of leucite under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions: insights from synchrotron single-crystal diffraction

3-30     Booth 6
Mazzucchelli M.L.*, Moulas E. & Schmalholz S.M. : Mechanisms of growth of unstrained crystals under stress: implications for mineral equilibria in deforming rocks

3-31     Booth 7
Mingardi G.*, Gasc J., Crichton W.A., Boffa Ballaran T., Kurnosov A., Schubnel A. & Alvaro M. : Experimental insights into the α–β quartz transition at high-pressure and high-temperature

3-32     Booth 8
Murri M.* : Unravelling the thermal history of rocks using pyroxene intracrystalline geothermometry

3-33     Booth 9
Nestola F.*, Anzolini C., Curtolo A., Gilio M., Alvaro M., Pearson G., Novella D., Pamato M.G., Day M.C., Timmerman S. & Harris J.W. : Corundum inclusions in diamonds: a new tool for diamond geobarometry

3-34     Booth 10
Novais-Rodrigues E.*, Nestola F., Boffa Ballaran T. & Withers A.C. : The high-pressure conversion of merrillite to tuite in the upper mantle

3-35     Booth 11
Perchiazzi N.*, Ferraris C. & Vignola P. : Crystal-chemical studies on zirconosilicates from Tamazeght intrusive complex, Morocco