Ricardo Hector Omarini
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Dear Colleagues,
We are sad to inform you that Ricardo Hector Omarini, aged 69, left us on last week.
Ricardo was Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina), where he began his career after getting graduated at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, the town where he was born on March 17, 1946.
Ricardo was a petrologist working mainly on igneous and metamorphic rocks, from the Andes and also from Antarctica, where he studied Deception Island. He published more than 100 papers on major journals, books and proceedings of meetings.
In the past decades he mainly collaborated with Italian researchers in studying the magmatic evolution of the Central Andes, giving a fundamental contribution for a better understanding of magma petrogenesis and its relation with the tectonic setting.
Ricardo was much more than an Argentinian colleague with Italian origins. He was passionate, hard worker, enthusiastic, and of continuous inspiration for the working group. At the same time, he was humble, reserved and honest, but with an open, joyful and optimistic attitude, which made him very much appreciated.
Ricardo was a researcher who truly believed in international cooperation for the pleasure of understanding geology. For many of us, he has been the invaluable and pleasant teacher of the geology of the Andes. Now, for many of us, the Andes will not be the same without him.
Roberto Mazzuoli, Valerio Acocella, Anna Gioncada, Joel Ruch, Luigina Vezzoli
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