Viscosity has been determined during isothermal crystallization of an andesite from Tungurahua volcano (Ecuador). Viscosity was continuously recorded using the concentric cylinder method and employing a Pt-sheathed alumina spindle at 1 bar and from 1400°C to subliquidus temperatures to track rheological changes during crystallization. The disposable spindle was not extracted from the sample but...

In the last few decades, for estimation of original equilibrium conditions mantle and deep crustal rocks, several empirical as well synthetic thermometers have been proposed. Various types rocks from earth, moon or meteorites contain two coexisting pyroxenes. Petrologists long recognised potential high Ca low pyroxenes to yield thermometric calculations. Several models proposed pyroxene in deca...

We present Thermobar, a new open-source Python3 package for calculating pressures, temperatures, and melt compositions from mineral mineral-melt equilibrium. Thermobar allows users to perform calculations with >100 popular parametrizations involving liquid, olivine-liquid, olivine-spinel, pyroxene only, pyroxene-liquid, two pyroxene, feldspar-liquid, feldspar, amphibole amphibole-liquid, gar...

Introduction: Shock metamorphism is one of the most fundamental processes in the history of Martian meteorites. Especially, shergottites experienced strong shock effects (>30 GPa) most likely when they were ejected from Mars [e.g., 1]. " Maskelynitization " of plagioclase and formation of shock melts are major effects due to this severe shock. QUE94201 (QUE) and Dhofar 378 (DHO) are basaltic sh...

Introduction: Primary igneous plagioclase is found in approximately 10 % of type I chondrules in CO chondrites [1]. The presence of plagioclase has potential to help interpret conditions of chondrule formation, if the conditions of plagioclase nuclea-tion and growth are understood. Because primary plagioclase typically contains a significant albite component, the presence of this mineral is sig...

High-resolution Fourier spectra in the 0.9-2.5 ym region were measured for sixteen asteroids. These data were combined with 0.3-1.1 um spectrophotometry and 3.0-3.5 urn narrowband photometry for compositional analysis. Comparison spectra of meteorites and terrestrial minerals were measured in the laboratory, some under simulated asteroidal conditions of pressure and temperature. Spectra of elev...