Conveners:
Nicola Campomenosi (Università di Genova)
Marta Morana (Università di Firenze)
Mara Murri (Università di Pavia)
Paola Comodi (Università di Perugia)
A better understanding of the geological processes occurring in our planet requires a deep knowledge of how minerals and rocks behave under ambient and non-ambient conditions. The first high-temperature high-pressure experiment was probably carried out by Sir James Hall between the 18th and the 19th century on limestones. Since then, significant theoretical and technological advances have been made, which allow us to make solid hypotheses on the composition and structure of our planet from the crust to the inner core. Nevertheless, there are still many open questions, which include many topics in Earth sciences and at different scale, from plate tectonics and vulcanism, to electronic spin transitions in Fe-bearing compounds. This session aims to collect contributions whose main goal is the understanding of chemical and physical properties of crystalline solids under various thermodynamic conditions, at high pressure and low and high temperature, so to simulate the condition ranging from the Earth surface down to the inner core by implementing laboratory experiments (e.g. vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Brillouin scattering, etc.), first-principles calculations or their combination.