Mark Richards

Research Description

Mark is a professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. His research is focused mostly on large-scale geodynamic processes in the Earth’s interior, and their surface expressions such as plate tectonics and mantle plume-related volcanism. For this project, Mark is working to understand how seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact may have affected Deccan Traps volcanism, and how the magmatic plumbing systems feeding large igneous provinces work, particularly the circumstances that lead to flood volcanism.