Bernardo Cesare - Research
Interests
LP-HT metamorphism and
anatexis in
the
crustal
xenoliths of the Neogene Volcanic Province of SE Spain - Genesis and
significance
of the restitic xenoliths at El Joyazo and Mazarron
- P-T-t-D conditions and behaviour of the
fluid phase during the
partial
melting of graphitic metapelites. Partial melting and formation of
restite
and anatectic, S-type granite. Search of the possible protolith of the
xenoliths. (in collaboration with M.T. Gomez-Pugnaire, A.
Alvarez-Valero
and Gp. Venturelli)
- Age of the partial melting events, and
residence times of
crustal
anatectic
magmas (in collaboration with D. Rubatto and M.T. Gomez-Pugnaire)
- Evaluation of isotopic (dis)equilibrium
in the xenoliths of El
Joyazo
(in
collaboration with S. Tommasini and G. Perini)
- Petrophysical properties of the lower
crust beneath the Alboran
Domain
(in collaboration with F. Ferri, R. Sassi and L. Burlini)
- Microstructures of melt distribution
and segregation during
partial
melting
(in collaboration with C. Rosenberg)
- Composition of natural anatectic melts
- Study of the melt
inclusions
(in
collaboration with D. London and A. Acosta)
- Reaction coronae of Crd-Kfs-Her-melt
around garnet (PhD thesis
of A.
Alvarez-Valero)
- Genesis of ovoidal garnets in the
xenoliths of El Joyazo (PhD
thesis of
A. Alvarez-Valero)
The
above
studies on the the crustal xenoliths
of
the Neogene Volcanic Province of SE Spain are part of the Westmed
Euromargins, Project an ESF (European
Science Foundation) Eurocore.