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Kimberly Tait is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research program is focused on using minerals as probes to study solar system evolution, with a strong emphasis on Martian meteorites and rare lunar samples. Tait oversees access to these materials through museum collections, leveraging a variety of analytical techniques to expand observations of mineralogical constituents in extraterrestrial samples. Her work employs modern methods of chemical and structural analysis to inform petrological history, aiming to understand substitution mechanisms of major and trace elements in mineral crystal structures and geological environments. This research provides critically important tools for petrogenetic reconstructions of the geological processes that shaped terrestrial planets and moons. Tait's exploration of the mineralogy of rare extraterrestrial samples is vital for unraveling the complex chronology of magmatism and the crystallization history of magmas, including the differentiation processes and conditions of crystallization in the crust of ancient bodies.
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