Dr. Thomas Griffiths, MSc
Thomas Griffiths

Joachim-Mrosko, B., Konzett, J., Ludwig, T., Griffiths, T., Habler, G., Libowitzky, E., & Stalder, R. (2023). Al and H incorporation and Al-diffusion in natural rutile and its high-pressure polymorph TiO2 (II). In V. V. Schijndel, K. Cutts, I. Pereira, M. Guitreau, S. Volante, & M. Tedeschi (Eds.), Minor Minerals, Major Implications: Using Key Mineral Phases to Unravel the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Crust (pp. 123-147). The Geological Society of London. Geological Society Special Publications Vol. 537 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6829367.v1

Peres, S., Griffiths, T., Colle, F., Iannini Lelarge, S., Masotta, M., Pontesilli, A., & Mancini, L. (2023). Discerning different nucleation mechanisms in synthetic trachybasalts: example from three Titanomagnetite populations in single experiments. Paper presented at MinWien2023, Wien, Austria.

















Habler, G., & Griffiths, T. (2017). Crystallographic orientation relationships. In Mineral reaction kinetics: microstructures, textures, chemical and isotopic signatures (pp. 541-585). European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland.

Discerning different nucleation mechanisms in synthetic trachybasalts: example from three Titanomagnetite populations in single experiments

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

17 Sep 202321 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nanoinclusions in apparently inclusion-free sector-zoned pegmatoid garnet – their impact on P, Ti and Na concentrations

Victoria Kohn (Speaker), Taisia Alifirova (Contributor), Nina Daneu (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

30 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is the cause of lattice rotation in clinopyroxene dendrites?

Thomas Griffiths (Speaker), Gerlinde Habler (Contributor), Olga Ageeva (Contributor), Christoph Sutter (Contributor), Ludovic Ferrière (Contributor) & Rainer Abart (Contributor)

26 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in synthetic trachybasalts: microstructural evidence from Titanomagnetite crystals of different populations

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

23 Apr 202328 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Petrogenetic information stored in needle-shaped rutile inclusions in pegmatoid garnet

Victoria Kohn (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Eugen Libowitzky (Contributor), Olga Ageeva (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Studying the nature, variability and relative frequencies of crystallographic and shape orientation relationships between TiO2 inclusions and their garnet host crystal

Gerlinde Habler (Speaker), Victoria Kohn (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Taisia Alifirova (Contributor) & Nina Daneu (Contributor)

22 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Heterogeneous nucleation of crystals in synthetic trachybasalts

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

21 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


GARNET GROWTH IN A KYANITE-BEARING PERALUMINOUS PEGMATOID FROM THE MOLDANUBIAN ZONE (BOHEMIAN MASSIF, AT)

Victoria Kohn (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Taisia Alifirova (Contributor), Nina Daneu (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

12 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Atomic scale structure of garnet-rutile interfaces in host-inclusion systems

Taisia Alifirova (Speaker), Nina Daneu (Contributor), Victoria Kohn (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Aleksander Rečnik (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Micro- to nanoscale features of rutile needles in metapegmatite garnet

Taisia Alifirova (Speaker), Nina Daneu (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

12 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kinetic crystallization of a high-K basalt melt undercooled in laboratory: Implications for modeling open conduit dynamics at Stromboli volcano

Simone Costa (Speaker), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Silvio Mollo (Contributor), Patrizia Landi (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor), Stefano Peres (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Re-equilibration of clinopyroxene-titanomagnetite clusters: the effect of isothermal annealing time and melt water content

Thomas Griffiths (Speaker), Gerlinde Habler (Contributor), Stefano Peres (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Matteo Masotta (Contributor)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Titanomagnetite-clinopyroxene clustering in synthetic trachybasalts: Insight into nucleation mechanisms from new experimental samples

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor), Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor) & Lucia Mancini (Contributor)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Rutile Inclusions in Garnet: Microstructure and Orientation Relationships of a Garnet Host Crystal and Rutile Inclusions in a Pegmatite from the Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif, AT)

Victoria Kohn (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

21 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Synchrotron radiation microtomographic analysis of a synthetic trachybasalts: insight into titanomagnatite nucleation mechanisms

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Fabio Colle (Contributor), Stefano Iannini Lelarge (Contributor), Lucia Mancini (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor) & Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor)

21 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


COMBINING CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIPS AND MICROSTRUCTURES TO DETERMINE MINERAL INCLUSION ORIGINS

Thomas Griffiths (Keynote speaker), Victoria Kohn (Contributor), Taisia Alifirova (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

1 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Using electron backscatter diffraction to determine the formation mechanism of mineral inclusions in garnet

Thomas Griffiths (Speaker), Victoria Kohn (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

29 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The effect of melt water content and isothermal annealing time on the formation and evolution of clinopyroxene-titanomagnetite clusters

Stefano Peres (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Matteo Masotta (Contributor) & Alessio Pontesilli (Contributor)

26 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Crystallographic and Shape Orientation Relationships Between a Pegmatite Garnet Host Crystal and Rutile Inclusions (Moldanubian Zone, Bohemian Massif, AT).

Victoria Kohn (Speaker), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Rainer Abart (Contributor) & Gerlinde Habler (Contributor)

25 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Understanding the growth mechanism of solid-state reaction in oxides from the atomic interface structures

Chen Li (Speaker), Gerlinde Habler (Contributor), Thomas Griffiths (Contributor), Petr Jerabek (Contributor), L.C. Götze (Contributor), Timothy Pennycook (Contributor), Clemens Mangler (Contributor), Jannik C. Meyer (Contributor) & Rainer Abart (Contributor)

21 Aug 201725 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Using EBSD to study host-inclusion crystallographic orientation relationships

Thomas Griffiths (Speaker)

22 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Mineral reactions and deformation of solid-phase inclusions and their host crystals

Thomas Griffiths (Contributor)

3 Sep 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



GInA: Mineral inclusions in garnet: nanostructure-texture-genesis

Habler, G., Rečnik, A., Alifirova, T., Kohn, V., Griffiths, T., Abart, R., Ageeva, O., Daneu, N., Dražić, G. & Komelj, M.

1/12/1930/11/23

Project: Research funding



Mineral reactions and deformation in host-inclusion settings

Habler, G., Grasemann, B., Abart, R., Griffiths, T., Eberlei, T., Kovaleva, E. & Rogowitz, A.

1/10/1030/09/15

Project: Research funding


Department of Lithospheric Research

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1090 Wien
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thomas.griffiths@univie.ac.at