Earth’s Moon, when viewed from Earth, always shows the same face. The compositional, topographic, and structural asymmetry between the Moon’s nearside and farside hemispheres has …
The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary is the world’s most ubiquitous plate boundary system, separating the high viscosity lithosphere from the underlying convecting mantle asthenosphere. Thoroughly characterizing the …
Volcanic hazards monitoring relies heavily on constraints offered by geophysical inversions to decipher the structure of subvolcanic magmatic systems. Over the past decades a multidisciplinary …
This dissertation explores the recent history of non-polar ice-rich paleodeposits on Mars, primarily through the analysis of pedestal craters. Pedestal craters are defined by having …
Volatile elements (C, H, F, S, and Cl) have a profound impact on the evolution and differentiation of planetary bodies and their atmospheres. Therefore, constraining …
This thesis details advances in experimental deformation methods applied to investigate the creep behavior of antigorite serpentinite. Antigorite is present in downgoing slabs and nearby …
The system of plate tectonics governs the transport of material between Earth’s interior, hydrosphere, and atmosphere to create a dynamic planetary surface that sustains life. …
Thermal infrared spectroscopic measurements record not only compositional information about the properties of a target but also information about the environmental conditions in which the …
Recent development of biomarker-based paleoclimate proxies provides new analytical capabilities through which paleoenvironmental change can be inferred. Here, I explore the utility of these organic …