Brendan Anzures
Planetary Petrologist | JETS
Brendan Anzures
Planetary Petrologist
JETS
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Biography
Brendan Anzures is a planetary petrologist and geochemist with a spectroscopist twist interested in the chemical, thermal, and redox evolution of airless rocky bodies in the early solar system (Mercury, meteorites, and asteroids). He uses high-pressure, high-temperature and low-pressure, high-temperature experiments as well as meteorites to understand the chemical behavior of planetary materials at depth and at the surface, with a particular focus on the behavior of volatiles (S, C, F, Cl, H).
Education
Ph.D.
Geological Sciences
Brown University
2021
M.S.
Geological Sciences
Brown University
2018
B.S.
Geology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2016
Education
Ph.D., Geological Sciences, 2021
Brown University
M.S., Geological Sciences, 2018
Brown University
B.S., Geology, 2016
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Laboratories
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McCubbin F.M. and Anzures B.A. (2025) Mercury. In Treatise on Geochemistry 3rd Edition Edited by D. Weis and A. Anbar. Elsevier, 257-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00109-1
Anzures, B.A., Parman, S.W., Milliken, R.E., Namur, O., Cartier, C., McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Prissel, K., Iacovino, K., Lanzirotti, A., Newville, M. (2025) An oxygen fugacity-temperature-pressure-composition model for sulfide speciation in Mercurian magmas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 388, 61-77.
Crossley, S.D., Setera, J.B., Anzures, B.A., Iacovino, K., Buckley, W.P., Eckley, S.A., O’Neal, E.W., Maisano, J.A., Simon, J.I. and Righter, K. (2025). Percolative sulfide core formation in oxidized planetary bodies. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.3233.
Anzures, B.A., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Rowland II, R.L., Moore, G.M., Prissel, K., Morris, R.V., Klima, R.L., Stockstill-Cahill, K.R., Agresti, D.G. (2024) Synthesis and Characterization of Fe-Poor Olivine with Applications to the Surface of Mercury. American Mineralogist.
Anzures, B. A., McCubbin, F. M., Erickson, T. M., Jakubek, R. S., Fries, M. D., Le, L. (2024) First widespread occurrence of rare phosphate chladniite in a meteorite, winonaite Graves Nunataks (GRA) 12510: implications for phosphide – phosphate redox buffered genesis in meteorites. American Mineralogist, 170-194.
McCubbin, F.M., Lewis, J.A., Barnes, J.J., Boyce, J.W., Gross, J., McCanta, M.C., Srinivasan, P., Anzures, B.A., Lunning, N.G., Elardo, S.M., Keller, L.P., Prissel, T.C., Agee, C.B. (2023) On the Origin of Fluorine–Poor Apatite in Chondrite Parent Bodies. American Mineralogist.
Schultz, C.D., Anzures, B.A., Milliken, R.E., Hiroi, T., Robertson, K. (2023) Assessing the Spatial Variability of the ~3 µm OH/H2O Absorption Feature in CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Nagaoka, Y., Suda, M., Yoon, I., Chen, N., Yang, H., Liu, Y., Anzures, B.A., Parman, S.W., Wang, Z., Grunwald, M., Yamamoto, H.M., Chen, O. (2021) Bulk Grain–Boundary Materials from Nanocrystals. Chem 7(2), 509–525.
Mouser, M.D., Dygert, N., Anzures, B.A., Grambling, N.L., Hrubiak, R., Kono, Y., Shen, G., Parman, S.W. (2021) Experimental Investigation of Mercury’s Magma Ocean Viscosity: Implications for the Formation of Mercury’s Cumulate Mantle, Its Subsequent Dynamic Evolution, and Crustal Petrogenesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126(11), e2021JE006946
Anzures, B.A., Parman, S.W., Milliken, R.E., Lanzirotti, A., Newville, M. (2020) XANES Spectroscopy of Sulfides Stable Under Reducing Conditions. American Mineralogist, 105(3), 375–381.
Schaible, M.J., Sarantos, M., Anzures, B.A., Parman, S.W., Orlando, T.M. (2020) Contribution of Photon Stimulated Desorption (PSD) to Sulfur in Mercury’s Exosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125(8), e2020JE006479.
Anzures, B.A., Parman, S.W., Milliken, R.E., Namur, O., Cartier, C., Wang, S. (2020) Effect of Sulfur Speciation on Chemical and Physical Properties of Very Reduced Mercurian Melts. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 286, 1–18.
Palumbo, A. M., Deutsch, A.N., Bramble, M.S., Tarnas, J.D., Boatwright, B.D., Lark, L.H., Nathan, E.M., Wilner, J. A., Chen, Y., Anzures, B.A., Denton, C.A., Tokle, L., Casey, G., Pimentel, A.G., Head, J.W., Ramsley, K.R., Shah, U., Kothandhapani, A., Gokul, H.P., Mehta, J., Vatsal, V. (2019) Scientific Exploration of Mare Imbrium with OrbitBeyond, Inc.: Characterizing the Regional Volcanic History of the Moon. New Space, 7(3), 137–150.
Anzures, B.A., Watson, H.C., Kono, Y., Yu, T., Wang, Y. (2019) Compression of Porous Aluminum: Combined Ultrasonic and Microtomography Measurements with Lattice– Boltzmann Permeability Simulations. High Pressure Research, 39(3), 438–456.
Boukaré, C.–E., Parman, S.W., Parmentier, E.M., Anzures, B. (2019) Production and Preservation of Sulfide Layering in the Mercury’s Mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(12), 3354–3372.