Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Henkes, Gregory | Glotch, Timothy D. | Rasbury, Troy | Hemming, Sidney | Osinski, Gordon | .
Date
2017-05-01
Keywords
Geology
Department
Department of Geosciences
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77638
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Impact cratering is an important geologic process that has affected all objects in the Solar System. The goal of this work is to understand how this process affects the mineralogy and geochemistry of planetary surfaces. Studies of extraterrestrial materials (e.g. | laboratory studies of meteorites) and studies of planetary surfaces via orbiter or lander missions encounter impacted and shocked materials. Therefore, knowing how this secondary process of cratering has altered the rocks and minerals is critical to our ability to deconvolve the secondary effects of shock from the original primary geology. Specifically, I seek to understand impact metamorphism in three ways: 1) identification and characterization of impact materials using a variety of optical and spectroscopic techniques, 2) identification and characterization of the mineralogical structure changes and mechanisms associated with impact cratering and 3) constraining how structural changes affect geochemistry, particularly our ability to obtain radiometric dates of these samples. | 156 pages
Recommended Citation
Jaret, Steven Jeremy, "Changes in Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Quartz and Feldspars in Response to Impact Cratering" (2017). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3433.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3433