Erosion, Deposition, and Weathering Across the Solar System

Dr. Jani Radebaugh is a Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University, England. She studies landscape evolution in the Solar System with a focus on volcanic landforms and lava lake temperatures on Earth and Io, dune formation and evolution on Earth, Titan and Pluto and yardangs of Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan. She also studies landforms on Earth through field studies in the Sahara, Arabia, Australia, the Altiplano, Ethiopia and Antarctica. Dr. Alexander Morgan is a Research Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Arizona. His research interests are focused on how flowing water has shaped the Martian surface. He uses remote sensing observations with numerical models to quantify the erosion of early Martian landscapes. He also conducts field work at sites that are morphologic, climatic, or lithologic analogues to Mars, including the Atacama Desert, northern Canada, and the Australian Outback.

1. Overview of Erosion across the Solar System and Grand Tour 2. Weathering and sediment production 3. Mass wasting 4. Fluvial processes 5. Shorelines and Deltas 6. Aeolian erosion and deposition 7. Glacial processes 8. Low-temperature ices: Erosion and Deposition 9. Modeling landscape evolution through time 10. Conclusions/Synthesis