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 Curator Liz Cottrell and a team of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and internsinvestigate the long-term geochemical evolution of the solid Earth, from the initial stages of planetary differentiation to ongoing two-way geochemical exchange between the Earth’s surface and deep interior. The high-pressure experimental laboratory in the Department of Mineral Sciences is capable of achieving pressures from 1 atmosphere to over 200 gigapascals (deep into Earth’s core). Experimental results are compared with chemical and spectroscopic analyses of natural volcanic samples in order to understand the fundamental processes that shape our planet