Brown University Planetary Geology
The structure, composition, and evolution of solid-body planets, satellites,
and small bodies throughout the Solar System provide important references for
understanding the Earth. The Planetary Geosciences group explores the processes
that shape planetary surfaces through analysis of features and their composition,
geologic analogs, theoretical modeling and laboratory experiments. Planetary
surfaces are collages of processes driven from below and above; consequently,
constraints on surface processes through time also relate to the evolution of
planetary interiors (e.g., nature of mantle convection) and the planetary
environment in the broadest sense (from its atmosphere to its collisional
history).
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