Shaunna Morrison

Jul 3, 2023 | pubs.geoscienceworld.org | Anirudh Prabhu |Shaunna Morrison |Peter Fox

Durable and information-rich, minerals are the only ancient relics that offer direct, solid glimpses of eons of planetary transformation (Hazen et al. 2022). It is important to extract the abundance of information contained in these mineral samples to improve our understanding of the evolution of our planet, our solar system, and the role our planet’s evolving geosphere played in the origin and proliferation of life.

Jun 26, 2023 | pubs.geoscienceworld.org | Robert Hazen |Shaunna Morrison |Anirudh Prabhu

The mineral kingdom has experienced dramatic increases in diversity and complexity through billions of years of planetary evolution as a consequence of a sequence of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Each new formational environment, or “mineral paragenetic mode,” has its own characteristic attributes, including the stage of mineral evolution and geological age, ranges of T, P, duration of formation events, and other environmental influences on mineral formation.