Minerals in Apollo 15 basalts as insights to lava flow processes on the Moon

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The Apollo 15 mission landed astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irvine onto the surface of the Moon on the 30th July 1971. The mission visited an area on the nearside of the Moon, to the SW corner of the Imbrium … Continue reading →

New group paper: QEMSCAN as a method of semi-automated crystal size distribution analysis: Insights from Apollo 15 mare basalts

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The journey a magma takes through the crust and during eruptive processes has been well studied on Earth in places such as in Iceland and Hawaii. However, magmatism is a fundamental planetary-scale process that occurs on many rocky bodies throughout … Continue reading →

Introductions from our 1st Year PhD students

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Over the past few months, 3 PhD students have joined our research group. Read on to see what projects they’ll be working on during the next 3 years and to find out about upcoming PhD projects starting in 2019. Marissa … Continue reading →