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Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography, Environmental methodologies as a means of achieving insight into the evolution
Geoscience, Soils of those landforms.
Advocates: Peter Heaney; Sasha Wilson
Dave Bish and Jeff Post have inspired a generation of environ- T93. Friends of Hoth, Episode VI: Return of the
mental scientists to harness X-ray diffraction to illuminate clay Small, Icy, and Ocean Worlds
structures. This session welcomes contributions in the broad areas Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary
of soil and nanoparticle crystallography and geochemistry. Geology and Geomorphology Division
Discipline: Planetary Geology
T89. Early Career Investigators in Mineralogy and Advocates: Erin Leonard; D. Alex Patthoff; Emily S. Martin
Crystallography We seek abstracts relating to surface, structural, and tectonic
Endorsers: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and processes; interior, and thermal evolution; and planetary analogs
Volcanology Division; Mineralogical Society of America as they pertain to icy satellites in the outer solar system. This
Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography, Petrology, Igneous, includes experimental, observational, and theoretical approaches.
Petrology, Metamorphic
Advocates: Tyler Spano; Si Chen T94. Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution of
This session provides a platform for early-career, student, and Mars
postdoctoral mineralogists and crystallographers to share their Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary
research and provide fresh perspectives, new ideas, and creative Geology and Geomorphology Division; SEPM (Society for
answers to mineralogical problems. Sedimentary Geology); GSA Karst Division; GSA Limnogeology
Division
T90. Gemological Research in the Twenty-First Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology
Century—Gem Minerals and Localities Advocates: Elena Favaro; Matthew Chojnacki
Endorsers: Geochemical Society; Mineralogical Society of This session focuses on aeolian, fluvial, glacial, lacustrine, and
America crater degradation processes to investigate the geomorphology and
Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography, Economic Geology, landscape evolution of Mars. We welcome research using martian
Geoscience Information/Communication orbital and rover data, as well as terrestrial analogues.
Advocates: James Shigley; Wuyi Wang; Barbara Dutrow;
John W. Valley; Caroline Nelms T95. Impact Cratering in Space and Time
Gemstones are among the most recognized of all minerals. This Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Structural
session focuses on diverse aspects of gems, including exploration, Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry,
deposits and their formation, identification, as well as mineral Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Continental Scientific
inclusions in gems and their geological implications. Drilling Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division
Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Continental Scientific Drilling,
T91. Volatile Cycles from Earth’s Surface to the Structural Geology
Core: In Honor of 2020 Mineralogical Society of Advocates: Jeffrey Plescia; Christian Koeberl
America Medalist Jin Liu Impact cratering is probably the primary geologic process for
Endorsers: Mineralogical Society of America; High Pressure solid bodies throughout the solar system. This session focuses on
Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR); GSA the geologic, geochemical, and geophysical signatures of impacts,
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; the impact flux, and implications for geologic evolution.
Geochemical Society
Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography T96. Martian Dark Streaks—Wet or Dry?
Advocate: Hokwang Mao Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary
Recent advances in mineral physics have revealed a number of Geology and Geomorphology Division
unexpected transitions and phenomena, such as super-oxidation Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geomorphology, Geophysics/
and super-ionization in volatile-bearing minerals that lead to para- Geodynamics
digm change in our understanding of volatile cycles. Advocates: David Stillman; Amit Mushkin; Katie Primm
This session explores observations and formation mechanisms
PLANETARY GEOLOGY of non-polar martian dark streaks (Recurring Slope Lineae, slope
streaks, or similar). We welcome research utilizing orbital and rover
T92. Best Practices and Exciting Discoveries in data, as well as terrestrial analogues or laboratory experiments.
Identifying, Mapping, and Analyzing Planetary
Landforms and Terrestrial Analogues T97. Planetary Exploration and Education: How We
Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Learn about Our Solar System and Beyond
Geology and Geomorphology Division Endorsers: GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Geoscience
Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geomorphology, Geoinformatics Education Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; National
Advocates: Kelsey Crane; Jon Rich Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)
We welcome abstracts that investigate the methodology of Disciplines: Planetary Geology, Geoscience Education
planetary and terrestrial landform analysis or that explore these Advocates: Nicholas Patrick Lang; Robert Jacobsen

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