Differentiation: Building the Internal Architecture of Planets, May 7–10, 2018, Pasadena, California

Abstract

The second topical conference in the LPI's The First Billion Years initiative focuses on planetary differentiation, which created the basic architecture of the planets and established the initial chemical and physical conditions for all subsequent stages of planetary evolution. Understanding these processes requires input from many types of investigations including petrologic, isotopic, trace element, and paleo-magnetic analysis of samples; geophysical probes of deep planetary structure; and experimental and numerical simulations.