Welcome to the website of MAPPeTs, the Research group in Mineralogy, Applied Petrography and Petrology of Trieste.

The MAPPeTs research group combines petrographic, mineralogical and geochemical tools to investigate the genesis and evolution of magmas, the nature of the Earth's lower crust and upper mantle and the geological processes recorded in terrigenous sediments. In the last few decades, the skills acquired by our group have been used also for collaborations in the field of archaeometry.