Seminar in Planetary Geology
Instructor: Chris Condit/Laurie Brown
Spring 2021

This is a 1 credit seminar, and involves discussing a single journal paper each week. Majors in any science field are welcome, and no prior knowledge of planetary geology is

required. Meeting time is Wednesday at 2:45 virtually via Zoom at https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/2640834595

 

Paper # 1 for February 10th Laurie Brown - Additional Paper Paper # 2 for February 17th - Chris Condit Paper # 3 for March 3rd - Don Sluter Paper # 4 for March 10th - Caitlin Moeller - Three papers from Chris: #1, #2, #3. Paper # 5 for March 17th - Dan Tjapkes Online version (includes videos) Paper # 6 for March 24th - Kaitlyn Suarez Paper #2 Paper # 7 for March 31st - Matt Collins No Paper for April 7th Paper # 8 for April 21st - Alina Valop Paper # 9 for April 28th - TBA #1. Mars-IceAgeinPolarDeposits2018-Smith-Science2016 #2. Mars-PolyphaseMid-LatitudeGlaciation-Hepburn_et_al-2020-JGR__Planets #3. Mars_LateAmazonianGlaciation2008 General Reference Papers: The Geologic History of Mars  19 Pages Overview of Lunar Geoscience  85 Pages Taylor - Lunar Magma Ocean 7 Pages Taylor - Moon Revisited 6 Pages The Mons Rumker volcanic complex: A candidate for the Chang E-5 mission Link to Caleb's Comments on the Mons Rumke paper