Specializing in high-precision isotopic analyses, elemental abundances, and petrology. Our main areas of research are in the fields of cosmochemistry and mantle and crustal geochemistry.
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The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites.
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Dec 9, 2020
New Study Helps Pinpoint When Earth’s Plate Subduction Began
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Five UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2020
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