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About the research
How did core formation and magma ocean melting control volatile and siderophile element distributions during planet formation?
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The group conducts experimental petrology that reproduces high pressures and temperatures to study magma ocean crystallization and melting pathways. Researchers experimentally determine trace element partitioning, isotopic tracer behavior, and redox state to constrain mantle differentiation mechanisms. The lab performs geochemical and petrographic analyses of meteorites and OSIRIS-REx Bennu samples to reconstruct asteroid alteration and formation pathways. He is building a laboratory at Rochester to simulate planetary interiors and run high pressure and temperature experiments connecting results to planetary compositions.
Selected publications
2 listedVolatile element depletion of the Moon—The roles of precursors, post-impact disk dynamics, and core formation
Science Advances
Activity model for 36 elements in Fe-Ni-Si-S-C liquids with application to terrestrial planet accretion and mantle geochemistry: new data for Ru, Re, Pt, Os, Ti, Nb, and Ta
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
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