T50. OPEN - Often Petrology Entails Novelties

Within geosciences, petrology remains a powerful and fundamental discipline for understanding how the solid Earth works. In the last decades, petrology has benefited from improvements in analytical and computational techniques that now provide unprecedented tools to unlock the time-integrated information preserved into rock-forming minerals and microstructures. Recently, petrology has been hybridised by aspects of chemistry and biology, revealing new insights into how life thrived on an inorganic rocky substrate.
This session is therefore OPEN to all the new results, discussions and ideas generated by metamorphic and igneous petrologists in their quest to understand the nature and evolution of Earth and planetary bodies. Studies on lithosphere evolution and differentiation, mountain building processes, chemical element cycles, genesis of ore deposits, fluid/melt production and transfer in the Earth's crust are some of the several topics that we seek to explore at all scales of investigation, from field-driven petrology to laboratory and computational petrology.