Magmatic processes as messengers of the composition and chemical differentiation of the deep Earth. The state and scale of chemical and isotopic heterogeneity of the earth mantle, through studies on MORBs abd OIBs, the origin and evolution of mantle reservoirs. The utramafic rocks (xenoliths, oceanic, orogenic and ophiolitic peridotites) as witnesses of the structure and composition of the upper mantle.
Metamorphic rocks as windows of plate tectonics: origin and evolution of oceanic basins and orogenic belts (e.g. Alps, Caledonides).
Relationships between metamorphism, fluids and deformation; subduction-zone metamorphism; mineralogical and chemical records of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism; subduction and exhumation tectonics; release of fluids and melts during subduction and fluid/melt interaction with mantle rocks, element recycling and genesis of the continental crust at convergent plate margins.
ELISABETTA RAMPONE (President)
MARCO SCAMBELLURI (President)
LAURA GAGGERO
PETROLOGY
