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List of works by Sandra Piazolo

A deep rock laboratory in the Dellen impact crater

A new type of numerical experiment on the spatial and temporal patterns of localization of deformation in a material with a coupling of grain size and rheology

A spectroscopic and carbon-isotope study of mixed-habit diamonds: Impurity characteristics and growth environment

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 98 no. 1, December 2012

Analysing crystal distortions to deduce dislocation slip systems

scientific article published on 3 March 2021

Annealing in a Natural Laboratory: an EBSD and Cl Study of Calcite and Quartz Growth from Volumes of Rock Heated by a Nearby Melt Intrusion

Are polymers suitable rock analogs?

Atom probe tomography analysis of the reference zircon gj-1: An interlaboratory study

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Atomic worlds: Current state and future of atom probe tomography in geoscience

Boom boom pow: Shock-facilitated aqueous alteration and evidence for two shock events in the Martian nakhlite meteorites

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Brittle fracturing and fracture healing of zircon: An integrated cathodoluminescence, EBSD, U-Th-Pb, and REE study

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 92 no. 7, July 2007

Brittle-ductile microfabrics in naturally deformed zircon: Deformation mechanisms and consequences for U-Pb dating

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 97 no. 10, September 2012

Brittle-plastic deformation in initially dry rocks at fluid-present conditions: transient behaviour of feldspar at mid-crustal levels

article by Linus Brander et al published 19 August 2011 in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Carbonado revisited: Insights from neutron diffraction, high resolution orientation mapping and numerical simulations

Chemical and physical heterogeneity within native gold: implications for the design of gold particle studies

scientific article published in February 2021

Compositional boundary layers trigger liquid unmixing in a basaltic crystal mush

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Constraining High Oxide Mineral Concentrations in High-Grade Metamorphic Rocks: Insights from Multidisciplinary Analysis

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Controls on lineation development in low to medium grade shear zones: a study from the Cap de Creus peninsula, NE Spain

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Coupled extrusion of sub-arc lithospheric mantle and lower crust during orogen collapse: a case study from Fiordland, New Zealand

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Crystal plasticity and fluid availability govern the ability of titanite to record the age of deformation

scientific article published in October 2023

Crystallography of refractory metal nuggets in carbonaceous chondrites: A transmission Kikuchi diffraction approach

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Deformation Behavior and Inferred Seismic Properties of Tonalitic Migmatites at the Time of Pre-melting, Partial Melting, and Post-Solidification

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Deformation microstructures reveal a complex mantle history for polycrystalline diamond

Deformation-induced trace element redistribution in zircon revealed using atom probe tomography

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Deformation-resembling microstructure created by fluid-mediated dissolution-precipitation reactions

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Determining relative bulk viscosity of kilometre-scale crustal units using field observations and numerical modelling

scholarly article by Robyn L. Gardner et al published November 2017 in Tectonophysics

Direct Observations of the Dissolution of Fluorite Surfaces with Different Orientations

Dominance of microstructural processes and their effect on microstructural development: insights from numerical modelling of dynamic recrystallization

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Dynamics of ice mass deformation: Linking processes to rheology, texture, and microstructure

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Effect of local stress heterogeneities on dislocation fields: Examples from transient creep in polycrystalline ice

Effect of surface orientation on dissolution rates and topography of CaF2

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Evaluating quartz crystallographic preferred orientations and the role of deformation partitioning using EBSD and fabric analyser techniques

article published in 2010

Evaluating the importance of metamorphism in the foundering of continental crust

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Experimental deformation of deuterated ice in 3D and 2D: identification of grain-scale processes

article published in 2015

Fabric development during exhumation from ultrahigh-pressure in an eclogite-bearing shear zone, Western Gneiss Region, Norway

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Fluid-present deformation aids chemical modification of chromite: Insights from chromites from Golyamo Kamenyane, SE Bulgaria

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Full analysis of feldspar texture and crystal structure by combining X-ray and electron techniques

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 98 no. 1, December 2012

Generation of amorphous carbon and crystallographic texture during low-temperature subseismic slip in calcite fault gouge

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Hornblendite delineates zones of mass transfer through the lower crust

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Hydrothermal replacement of Aragonite by Calcite: interplay between replacement, fracturing and growth

Importance of surface structure on dissolution of fluorite: Implications for surface dynamics and dissolution rates

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In search of early life: Carbonate veins in Archean metamorphic rocks as potential hosts of biomarkers

scholarly article by Carl A. Peters et al published November 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Interaction of chemical and physical processes during deformation at fluid-present conditions: a case study from an anorthosite–leucogabbro deformed at amphibolite facies conditions

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Intracontinental Orogeny Enhanced by Far-field Extension and Local Weak Crust

scholarly article by David Silva et al published 9 November 2018 in Tectonics

Local partial melting of the lower crust triggered by hydration through melt-rock interaction: an example from Fiordland, New Zealand

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Maghemite soil nodules reveal the impact of fire on mineralogical and geochemical differentiation at the Earth’s surface

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Making EBSD on water ice routine

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Mass transfer in the lower crust: Evidence for incipient melt assisted flow along grain boundaries in the deep arc granulites of Fiordland, New Zealand

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Measurements and full-field predictions of deformation heterogeneities in ice

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Melt-present shear zones enable intracontinental orogenesis

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Messengers from the deep: Fossil wadsleyite-chromite microstructures from the Mantle Transition Zone

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Microstructural evolution during initial stages of static recovery and recrystallization: new insights from in-situ heating experiments combined with electron backscatter diffraction analysis

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Microstructure and fabric development in ice: Lessons learned from in situ experiments and implications for understanding rock evolution

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Multiscale heterogeneity control on the nucleation of a crustal shear zone: petro-structural investigation and U-Pb titanite dating from the Anzola shear zone (Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Southern Alps)

scientific article published on 30 August 2022

New apparatus for controlled general flow modeling of analog materials

Non-Destructive Residual Stress Investigations of Natural Polycrystalline Diamonds

Numerical simulations of microstructures using the Elle platform: A modern research and teaching tool

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Olivine Pseudomorphs after Serpentinized Orthopyroxene Record Transient Oceanic Lithospheric Mantle Dehydration (Leka Ophiolite Complex, Norway)

Orthopyroxene–omphacite- and garnet–omphacite-bearing magmatic assemblages, Breaksea Orthogneiss, New Zealand: Oxidation state controlled by high-P oxide fractionation

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Pinch and swell structures: evidence for strain localisation by brittle–viscous behaviour in the middle crust

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Pink color in Type I diamonds: Is deformation twinning the cause?

article by Daniel Howell et al published July 2015 in American Mineralogist

Post-deformational annealing at the subgrain scale: Temperature dependent behaviour revealed by in-situ heating experiments on deformed single crystal halite

Process of magnetite fabric development during granite deformation

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Quantification of mineral behavior in four dimensions: Grain boundary and substructure dynamics in salt

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Quantification of the microstructural evolution of polycrystalline fabrics using FAME: Application to in situ deformation of ice

article published in 2014

Quantitative Analysis of EBSD Data in Rocks and other Crystalline Materials: Investigation of Strain Induced Recrystallisation and Growth of New Phases

scholarly article published April 2012

Quantitative characterization of plastic deformation of single diamond crystals: A high pressure high temperature (HPHT) experimental deformation study combined with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)

Recurrent magmatic activity on a lithosphere-scale structure: Crystallization and deformation in kimberlitic zircons

scientific article published in 2017

Redox-freezing and nucleation of diamond via magnetite formation in the Earth's mantle

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Rheology, microstructure and crystallographic preferred orientation of matrix containing a dispersed second phase: Insight from experimentally deformed ice

scholarly article by Daria Cyprych et al published September 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Shape of pinch and swell structures as a viscosity indicator: Application to lower crustal polyphase rocks

article by Robyn L. Gardner et al published July 2016 in Journal of Structural Geology

Sillimanite deformation mechanisms within a Grt-Sil-Bt gneiss: effect of pre-deformation grain orientations and characteristics on mechanism, slip-system activation and rheology

Simulation of surface dynamics during dissolution as a function of the surface orientation: Implications for non-constant dissolution rates

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Sintering of CaF2 pellets as nuclear fuel analog for surface stability experiments

Strain localization in brittle–ductile shear zones: fluid-abundant vs. fluid-limited conditions (an example from Wyangala area, Australia)

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Strain localization in polycrystalline material with second phase particles: Numerical modeling with application to ice mixtures

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Stylolite interfaces and surrounding matrix material: Nature and role of heterogeneities in roughness and microstructural development

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Sub-structure characterization of experimentally and naturally deformed ice using cryo-EBSD.

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Subgrain Rotation Recrystallization During Shearing: Insights From Full-Field Numerical Simulations of Halite Polycrystals

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Substructure Dynamics in Crystalline Materials: New Insight from In Situ Experiments, Detailed EBSD Analysis of Experimental and Natural Samples and Numerical Modelling

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Surface morphology and structural types of natural impact apographitic diamonds

Symplectite formation in the presence of a reactive fluid: insights from hydrothermal experiments

Tectonic significance of deformation patterns in granitoid rocks of the Menderes nappes, Anatolide belt, southwest Turkey

article by Klaus Gessner et al published 26 April 2001 in International Journal of Earth Sciences

Temperature dependent grain boundary migration in deformed-then-annealed material: Observations from experimentally deformed synthetic rocksalt

The Anita Peridotite, New Zealand: Ultra-depletion and Subtle Enrichment in Sub-arc Mantle

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The Application of In Situ 3D X-Ray Diffraction in Annealing Experiments: First Interpretation of Substructure Development in Deformed NaCl

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The Weighted Burgers Vector: A Quantity for Constraining Dislocation Densities and Types Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction on 2D Sections through Crystalline Materials

The Weighted Burgers Vector: a new quantity for constraining dislocation densities and types using electron backscatter diffraction on 2D sections through crystalline materials.

scientific article published in March 2009

The application of GIS to unravel patterns of deformation in high grade terrains: a case study of indentor tectonics from west Greenland

scholarly article by Sandra Piazolo et al published 2004 in Geological Society Special Publication

The effect of Dauphiné twinning on plastic strain in quartz

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The effect of pre-tectonic reaction and annealing extent on behaviour during subsequent deformation: insights from paired shear zones in the lower crust of Fiordland, New Zealand

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The geodynamic evolution of Mesoarchean anorthosite complexes inferred from the Naajat Kuuat Complex, southern West Greenland

scholarly article by J. Elis Hoffmann et al published February 2012 in Precambrian Research

The importance of fracture-healing on the deformation of fluid-filled layered systems

scientific article published in October 2014

The influence of matrix rheology and vorticity on fabric development of populations of rigid objects during plane strain deformation

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The influence of phase and grain size distribution on the dynamics of strain localization in polymineralic rocks

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The initiation of strain localisation in plagioclase-rich rocks: Insights from detailed microstructural analyses

article by H. Svahnberg & Sandra Piazolo published October 2010 in Journal of Structural Geology

The integration of experimental in-situ EBSD observations and numerical simulations: a novel technique of microstructural process analysis.

scientific article published in March 2004

The link between water infiltration, deformation mechanisms and strain localisation in the mid crust – an example from the Badcall shear zone, NW Scotland

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The recognition of multiple magmatic events and pre-existing deformation zones in metamorphic rocks as illustrated by CL signatures and numerical modelling: examples from the Ballachulish contact aureole, Scotland

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The use of combined cathodoluminescence and EBSD analysis: a case study investigating grain boundary migration mechanisms in quartz

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Time for anisotropy: The significance of mechanical anisotropy for the development of deformation structures

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Time-lapse misorientation maps for the analysis of electron backscatter diffraction data from evolving microstructures

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Trace element homogeneity from micron- to atomic scale: Implication for the suitability of the zircon GJ-1 as a trace element reference material

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Ultrahigh temperature deformation microstructures in felsic granulites of the Napier Complex, Antarctica

scholarly article by Sandra Piazolo published in 2006

Understanding corrosion and carbonation effects on pore scale properties of geological reservoir rocks during CO2 injection and storage: Insights from X-ray Computed Tomography 

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

Understanding the emplacement of Martian volcanic rocks using petrofabrics of the nakhlite meteorites

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What happens to deformed rocks after deformation? A refined model for recovery based on numerical simulations

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