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Fabrizio Nestola

Fabrizio Nestola

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Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
10051
World Ranking
4149
National Ranking
97

Overview

Fabrizio Nestola is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and focuses on research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Materials Science. Their work extensively covers specialized subfields such as Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The research topics addressed by Fabrizio Nestola include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Crystal Structures and Properties
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Frequent co-authors in Nestola's publications are Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Radek Škoda, and Atali A. Agakhanov.

Key publication venues for their work include:

  • Mineralogical Magazine
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • American Mineralogist
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • МИНЕРАЛОГИЯ (MINERALOGY)

Among recent papers featuring Fabrizio Nestola's contributions are:

  • Impact shock origin of diamonds in ureilite meteorites, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Deep carbon through time: Earth's diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds, 2020, American Mineralogist
  • Mineral inclusions are not immutable: Evidence of post-entrapment thermally-induced shape change of quartz in garnet, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Hydrous peridotitic fragments of Earth's mantle 660 km discontinuity sampled by a diamond, 2022, Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond

    DG Pearson;FE Brenker;F Nestola;J McNeill

  • Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

    Steven B. Shirey;Pierre Cartigny;Daniel J. Frost;Shantanu Keshav

  • EosFit7-GUI: A new graphical user interface for equation of state calculations, analyses and teaching

    Javier Gonzalez-Platas;Matteo Alvaro;Fabrizio Nestola;Ross Angel

  • Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth’s deep mantle

    Evan M. Smith;Steven B. Shirey;Fabrizio Nestola;Emma S. Bullock

  • Olivine hydration in the deep upper mantle: Effects of temperature and silica activity

    John Smyth;D. J. Frost;F. Nestola;F. Nestola;C. M. Holl

  • Electrical conductivity anisotropy of dry and hydrous olivine at 8 GPa

    Brent T. Poe;Claudia Romano;Fabrizio Nestola;Joseph R. Smyth

  • Blue boron-bearing diamonds from Earth’s lower mantle

    Evan M. Smith;Steven B. Shirey;Stephen H. Richardson;Fabrizio Nestola

  • CaSiO 3 perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle

    F. Nestola;N. Korolev;M. Kopylova;N. Rotiroti

  • Geobarometry from host-inclusion systems: The role of elastic relaxation

    Ross J. Angel;Mattia L. Mazzucchelli;Matteo Alvaro;Paolo Nimis

  • EosFit-Pinc: A simple GUI for host-inclusion elastic thermobarometry

    Ross J. Angel;Mattia L. Mazzucchelli;Matteo Alvaro;Fabrizio Nestola

  • How large are departures from lithostatic pressure? Constraints from host–inclusion elasticity

    R. J. Angel;P. Nimis;M. L. Mazzucchelli;M. Alvaro

  • Elastic geothermobarometry: Corrections for the geometry of the host-inclusion system

    Mattia L Mazzucchelli;Pamela C Burnley;Ross J Angel;Simone Morganti

  • A simple and generalised P–T–V EoS for continuous phase transitions, implemented in EosFit and applied to quartz

    Ross J. Angel;Matteo Alvaro;Ronald Miletich;Fabrizio Nestola

  • Thermal expansion of plagioclase feldspars

    M Tribaudino;Ross John Angel;F Camara;Fabrizio Nestola

  • First crystal-structure determination of olivine in diamond: Composition and implications for provenance in the Earth's mantle

    Fabrizio Nestola;Paolo Nimis;Luca Ziberna;Micaela Longo

  • Elastic behavior, phase transition, and pressure induced structural evolution of analcime

    G. Diego Gatta;G. Diego Gatta;Fabrizio Nestola;Fabrizio Nestola;Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

  • Development of crystallographic preferred orientation and microstructure during plastic deformation of natural coarse-grained quartz veins

    Giorgio Pennacchioni;Luca Menegon;Bernd Leiss;Fabrizio Nestola

  • Diamond–garnet geobarometry: The role of garnet compressibility and expansivity

    Sula Milani;Fabrizio Nestola;Matteo Alvaro;Daria Pasqual

  • Olivine with diamond-imposed morphology included in diamonds. Syngenesis or protogenesis?

    F. Nestola;P. Nimis;R.J. Angel;S. Milani

  • First evidence of hydrous silicic fluid films around solid inclusions in gem-quality diamonds

    Paolo Nimis;Matteo Alvaro;Matteo Alvaro;Fabrizio Nestola;Ross John Angel

  • The high-temperature P21/c-C2/c phase transition in Fe-free pyroxene (Ca0.15Mg1.85Si2O6): Structural and thermodynamic behavior

    Mario Tribaudino;Fabrizio Nestola;Fernando Cámara;Maria Chiara Domeneghetti

  • geochemistry: Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth's deep mantle

    Evan M. Smith;Steven B. Shirey;Fabrizio Nestola;Emma S. Bullock

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross J. Angel
Ross J. Angel University of Padua
Paolo Nimis
Paolo Nimis University of Padua
Jeff W. Harris
Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow
Luca Bindi
Luca Bindi University of Florence
Steven B. Shirey
Steven B. Shirey Carnegie Institution for Science
Daniel J. Frost
Daniel J. Frost University of Bayreuth
Frank E. Brenker
Frank E. Brenker Goethe University Frankfurt
Matteo Massironi
Matteo Massironi University of Padua
Joseph R. Smyth
Joseph R. Smyth University of Colorado Boulder
Murli H. Manghnani
Murli H. Manghnani University of Hawaii at Manoa

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