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EVPLab - UNIVERSITY OF ROMA TRE

The Laboratory of Experimental Volcanology and Petrology (EVPLab) of the Departement of Geology (University of Roma Tre) has been established in 2007/2008. It is provided of the main instrumentations and facilities to measure physical and chemical properties of magmas.
Instrumentations in the Laboratory of Experimental Volcanology allow determination of the following properties:

- Transport properties: low and high T viscosity of liquid and liquids + crystals and bubbles. Density and thermal expansivity
- Calorimetric and thermodynamic properties.
- Magmatic crystallization studies.
- Raman spectroscopy measurements

Experties
- Internal energy of melts and crystals (enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity) as a function of temperature, during processes as partial melting, solidification, the advective transport of heat, and volatile exsolution and degassing;

- High T volumetric properties (molar volume, density, thermal expansivity), governing the buoyancy forces associated with transport of melt and magmatic mixtures;

- The role of volatiles, such as C-oxide species, F-, Cl- and S- species, on the rheology of silicate liquids and on the degassing processes;

- Combined effect of crystals and vesicles on the rheology of magmas at various deformation regimes (constant load and strain rate);

- Crystallization studies of magmas;

- Textural studies on erupted products for the understanding of the degassing mechanisms

News

November2015

The EVPLab team warmly welcomes the new Phd student Stefania Sicola

September 2015

Claudia Romano, Alessandro Vona and Ileana Garozzo will join the Congresso congiunto SIMP-AIV-SoGeI-SGI "Il pianeta dinamico: sviluppi e prospettive a 100 anni da Wegener. Claudia Romano will be convener of session P11: Estimating time and rates in volcanic processes. Alessandro Vona and Ileana Garozzo will join with an oral contribution on rheology and crystallization kinetics and with two posters on textural analysis of 2000 Miyakejima eruption and mud eruption ascent velocities.

July 2015

Vona, A., G. Giordano, A. A. De Benedetti, R. D'Ambrosio, C. Romano, and M. Manga (2015), Ascent velocity and dynamics of the Fiumicino mud eruption, Rome, Italy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064571 has been accepted for publication.

January 2015

Ileana Garozzo gave her annual talk on the second year advances of her PhD Thesis on the textural analyses applied to the 2000 Miyakejima volcano.

Past events:

November 2014 - Claudia Romano and Alessandro Vona will join Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste to perform X-Ray tomography on volcanic samples in collaboration with Dr. Daniele Giordano, Dr. Fabio Arzilli and Dr. Lucia Mancini.

October 2014 - Silvia Campagnola, Ileana Garozzo and Guido Giordano joined the Rittmann Conference that will be held at Nicolosi (Ct), with an oral contribution and two posters.

September 2014 - Claudia Romano and Ileana Garozzo joined the School of Volcanology in Pantelleria. Claudia Romano gave a talk on "Transport properties of magmas and eruptive dynamics"

May-June 2014 - Ileana Garozzo and her tutors Claudia Romano, Guido Giordano and Alessandro Vona leave for the first sampling campaign on the Myakejima and Fuji volcanoes (with colleague from Geological Survey of Japan, Nobuo Geshi)

28th April 2014 - Roma Tre – Dept. Sciences – Room B1 – Activity of the Scuola Dottorale in Geologia dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse of Roma Tre:

Silvia Campagnola discuss her PhD thesis on "Large-scale Plinian eruptions of the Colli Albani and the Campi Flegrei volcanoes: insights from textural and rheological studies" and Andrea Di Piazza discuss his PhD thesis on "The evolution of Turrialba volcano plumbing system". Scientific committee: Prof. Michael Robert Carroll (Camerino University); Prof. Walter Landini (Pisa University); Prof. Riccardo Petrini (Pisa University)

7th February 2014 - Roma Tre – Dept. Sciences – Room E – Activity of the Scuola Dottorale in Geologia dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse of Roma Tre:

Inauguration of the XXIX cycle of the PhD School in Earth Sciences

9th January 2014 – Roma Tre – Dept. Sciences – Room E – Activity of the Scuola Dottorale in Geologia dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse of Roma Tre:
Silvia Campagnola gave her annual talk on the third year advances of her PhD Thesis on the textural and rheological analyses applied to the Colli Albani and the Campi Flegrei volcanoes

9th January 2014 – Roma Tre – Dept. Sciences – Room E – Activity of the Scuola Dottorale in Geologia dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse of Roma Tre:
Andrea Di Piazza gave his annual talk on the third year advances of his PhD Thesis on the the evolution of Turrialba volcano plumbing system

7th January 2014 – Roma Tre – Dept. Sciences – Room E – Activity of the Scuola Dottorale in Geologia dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse of Roma Tre:
Andrea Schito gave his annual talk on the first year advances of his PhD Thesis on the techniques of detection of thermal maturity of organic matter.