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Overview

Sandra Piazolo is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and is recognized for contributions in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of specialized subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main themes in their work focus on Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Publications by Sandra Piazolo span various prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Lithos
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Their recent papers include:

  • Lightning strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorus reduction on early Earth, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Chemical and physical heterogeneity within native gold: implications for the design of gold particle studies, 2021, Mineralium Deposita
  • Melt-present shear zones enable intracontinental orogenesis, 2020, Geology
  • The Winchcombe meteorite-A regolith breccia from a rubble pile CM chondrite asteroid, 2022, Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Microstructures reveal multistage melt present strain localisation in mid-ocean gabbros, 2020, Lithos

Their frequent collaborators include Nathan R. Daczko, Patrick Trimby, Luke Daly, Martin Lee, and Sammy Griffin, indicating a continuous cooperative relationship within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Deformation-induced trace element redistribution in zircon revealed using atom probe tomography

    Sandra Piazolo;Alexandre La Fontaine;Patrick Trimby;Simon Harley

  • Tectonic significance of deformation patterns in granitoid rocks of the Menderes nappes, Anatolide belt, southwest Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Sandra Piazolo;Talip Güngör;Uwe Ring

  • Controls on lineation development in low to medium grade shear zones: a study from the Cap de Creus peninsula, NE Spain

    Sandra Piazolo;Cees W. Passchier

  • Evaluating quartz crystallographic preferred orientations and the role of deformation partitioning using EBSD and fabric analyser techniques

    Mark Peternell;Pavlína Hasalová;Christopher J.L. Wilson;Sandra Piazolo

  • Halogen-bearing minerals in syenites and high-grade marbles of Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: monitors of fluid compositional changes during late-magmatic fluid-rock interaction processes

    Gregor Markl;Sandra Piazolo

  • The initiation of strain localisation in plagioclase-rich rocks: Insights from detailed microstructural analyses

    Henrik Svahnberg;Sandra Piazolo

  • Brittle-ductile microfabrics in naturally deformed zircon: Deformation mechanisms and consequences for U-Pb dating

    Sandra Piazolo;Sandra Piazolo;Håkon Austrheim;Martin Whitehouse

  • The effect of Dauphiné twinning on plastic strain in quartz

    Luca Menegon;Sandra Piazolo;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Temperature dependent grain boundary migration in deformed-then-annealed material: Observations from experimentally deformed synthetic rocksalt

    S. Piazolo;M. Bestmann;D.J. Prior;C.J. Spiers

  • Microstructural evolution during initial stages of static recovery and recrystallization: new insights from in-situ heating experiments combined with electron backscatter diffraction analysis

    Michel Bestmann;Sandra Piazolo;Chris J. Spiers;David J. Prior

  • Are polymers suitable rock analogs

    Saskia M. ten Grotenhuis;Sandra Piazolo;T. Pakula;Cees W. Passchier

  • Stability of high-Al titanite from low-pressure calcsilicates in light of fluid and host-rock composition

    Gregor Markl;Sandra Piazolo

  • Effect of surface orientation on dissolution rates and topography of CaF2

    José R. A. Godinho;Sandra Piazolo;Sandra Piazolo;L. Z. Evins

  • Lightning strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorus reduction on early Earth.

    Benjamin L. Hess;Sandra Piazolo;Jason Harvey

  • Stylolite interfaces and surrounding matrix material: Nature and role of heterogeneities in roughness and microstructural development

    Marcus Ebner;Sandra Piazolo;Francois Renard;Francois Renard;Daniel Koehn

  • Microstructure and fabric development in ice: Lessons learned from in situ experiments and implications for understanding rock evolution

    Christopher J.L. Wilson;Mark Peternell;Sandra Piazolo;Vladimir Luzin

  • Chemical and physical heterogeneity within native gold: implications for the design of gold particle studies

    Robert John Chapman;David Archibald Banks;Michael Thomas Styles;Richard David Walshaw

  • The geodynamic evolution of Mesoarchean anorthosite complexes inferred from the Naajat Kuuat Complex, southern West Greenland

    J. Elis Hoffmann;J. Elis Hoffmann;Henrik Svahnberg;Sandra Piazolo;Sandra Piazolo;Anders Scherstén

  • Structure of grain boundaries in wet, synthetic polycrystalline, statically recrystallizing halite - evidence from cryo-SEM observations

    O Schenk;J L Urai;Sandra Caroline Piazolo

  • Dominance of microstructural processes and their effect on microstructural development: Insights from numerical modelling of dynamic recrystallization

    S. Piazolo;P. D. Bons;M. W. Jessell;L. Evans

  • Making EBSD on water ice routine.

    D J Prior;K Lilly;M Seidemann;M Vaughan

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan R. Daczko
Nathan R. Daczko Macquarie University
Paul D. Bons
Paul D. Bons University of Tübingen
David J. Prior
David J. Prior University of Otago
Mark Jessell
Mark Jessell University of Western Australia
John Wheeler
John Wheeler University of Liverpool
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Christopher J.L. Wilson
Christopher J.L. Wilson Monash University
Daniel Koehn
Daniel Koehn University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University
Andrew Putnis
Andrew Putnis Curtin University

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