Geodynamics

Solar System

Iron volcanism on metallic asteroids?

Editorial Team 3 July 10, 2019

A metallic asteroid with iron volcanism (Elena Hartley)

This week, Francis Nimmo, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (University of California Santa Cruz), tells us about volcanism on metallic asteroids! Around and after the formation of the solar system (4.5 billion years ago onwards), volcanoes on some of the gigantic bodies of the asteroid belt might have erupted … iron. Explanations. One way in which we can learn abou ...[Read More]

Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record

Editorial Team 3 October 12, 2018

Credit: Modified by Iris van Zelst from Pixabay

Apart from our own planet Earth, there are a lot of Peculiar Planets out there! In this series we take a look at a planetary body or system worthy of our geodynamic attention, and this week we are back to our own solar system, more precisely to our neighbour Mars. In this post, Robert Citron, PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the links between oceans, shorelines, ...[Read More]