Topics

• Mineralogical, petrological and geochemical studies of mantle xenoliths, orogenic peridotites and the mantle section of ophiolites 
• Inferences on mantle composition and evolution from the study of volcanic rocks 
• The role of volatile components in mantle processes
• Experimental studies on production, migration and emplacement of mantle melts and fluids, as well as fluid/melt-rock reactions
• Mass transfer in convergent and divergent plate margins
• Geophysical studies of Earth's mantle
• Numerical models on the Earth's mantle and crust-mantle interaction
• Alteration, serpentinization and carbonation of peridotites and associated rocks