GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Geochemistry/Mineralogy/Petrology (GMP)

The research programs in geochemistry at Brown address a wide variety of geological problems, utilizing observational, analytical, and experimental approaches. The principal active research areas presently are: geochronological and isotope tracer studies of tectonic processes in orogenic belts, including direct dating of deformational fabrics and shear zones; time-dependent aspects of a number of major long and short-term geological processes, especially mass transport and isotope diffusion rates in mineral structures and along mineral grain boundaries.