News
Congratulations to Valentin Bonnet Gibet who
has been awarded an Outstanding
Student Presentation Award by the SEDI
Section at the AGU fall meeting 2023 for his
presentation on the "Formation
of Differentiated Rocks on Mars in Absence of Plate
Tectonics".
Publications
Check out the new JGR
paper of Valentin Bonnet Gibet on the positive
feedback between crustal thickness and melt extraction
that may be at the origin of the Martian dichotomy!
In slushy magma oceans, unstable
asymmetric growth of planetary stagnant lid may occur
because of the large pressure dependence of the mantle
rheology. This instability may have given rise to the
lunar dichotomy.
Hierarchical cracks on the floor of
Martian and Lunar craters may not have the same origin:
look at our new
EPSL paper on this subject.
Post-doc hiring
Applications are invited
for a post-doctoral research scientist to join the ERC
project CRUSLID based at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon, France. Read more ...