Crystal Structures as Geobarometers part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
Kent Ratajeski Published Jan. 4, 2005 Description This exercise is based on the recent formulation of a geobarometer based on the crystal structure of clinopyroxene (Nimis, 1995; 1998; 1999). This method relates ...

Part 3: Use the Clinopyroxene Geobarometer part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
Download the CpxBar program Download the CpxBar geobarometry program for Windows/Excel from the research page of Paolo Nimis at the University of Padua in Italy. Before doing anything else, read the short ...

Part 2: Examine the Structures of Natural Clinopyroxenes part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
Download the crystal structures Based on the crystal structure visualization software you will be using, follow the step-by-step instructions shown in the tabs below for downloading the crystal structures of ...

Teaching Notes part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
Context Audience: Mid to upper level undergraduate petrology course. Skills and concepts that students must have mastered: This activity assumes students have already had a course in mineralogy and are familiar ...

Part 1: Reading Assigment and Questions part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
Reading assignment Skim the following papers.... Nimis, P. (1995) A clinopyroxene geobarometer for basaltic systems based on crystal-structure modeling. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 121, 115-125. ...

Directions part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Cpx Geobarometer
The instructions for this exercise have 3 main parts. Part 1 - Read about the clinopyroxene structural geobarometer Part 2 - Download and examine the structures of natural clinopyroxenes Part 3 - Download and use ...