Originally from Brazil, Bruna is a research fellow at the University of Padua in Italy. Her research involves the study of anatexis and fluid regime of the deep portions of the continental crust using melt and fluid inclusions. Find out more about her work here.
Claudio Scarpati is currently aggregate professor of Physical Volcanology and Volcanology at University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and a visiting professor of Volcanology at Brigham Young University (USA). Using a series of detailed case studies Professor Scarpati’s research centres around identifying and quantifying the processes involved in explosive volcanism. His main research interests include: evaluation of […]
Geologists working very hard as we do. One of the many reasons I love the Alps is because one can transect the entire crust from fiamme-bearing ignimbrites at Crevacuore to … … the mantle as seen here near Balmuccia where fresh peridotite is intruded by peroxenite dikes. The Balmuccia Peridotite is located up the Val […]
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Pompeii and Vesuvius as part of a tour of the volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian Sea (here). Looking back through these photos, I am still amazed at the level of destruction of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and yet the immense force of destruction also provided […]
This eclogitic blueschist was collected from Chamois, Italy in the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite. At this locality, smooshed pillow basalts are clearly seen at the top of the ophiolite section although in most areas the primary magmatic textures have been obliterated by high pressure metamorphism. This sample contains glaucophane, jadite/omphacite, lawsonite (pseudomorphs), and other secondary minerals. The […]
