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GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Research Synopsis: My research centers on understanding the roles of melting, melt migration, and mantle dynamics on the long-term evolution of the interior of the Earth and other planetary bodies. This includes convective motions that give rise to largest scales of mantle overturn, that we associate with plate tectonics on the Earth, as well as smaller scales of motion associated with intraplate and plate boundary volcanism. An understanding of the physics and scaling laws governing these processes allows predictions of planetary behavior which can be compared with available observations.
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