Sentences with phrase «deep earth structure»

The USArray component of EarthScope is a continental - scale seismic and magnetotelluric observatory designed to provide a foundation for integrated studies of continental lithosphere and deep Earth structure over a wide range of scales.

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This theme has deep affinities with H. Richard Niebuhr's Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, as well as Michael Polanyi's description of tacit knowledge and similar writings.

This cubic form of ice (crystal structure shown) is found only at very high pressures such as those deep in Earth's interior.

Because such shifts in olivine change the structure of earth's subducted lithosphere, the new phase transition mechanism could help explain the origins of some deep earthquakes.

If the structure of Martian water is highly pressurised, perhaps we might expect to find organisms adapted to high pressure life similar to piezophiles on Earth, such as deep sea bacteria and other organisms that thrive at high pressure.

Now, a computer modeling approach, developed by University of Maryland seismologist Vedran Lekic and colleagues at the University of California Berkeley, has produced new seismic wave imagery which reveals that the rising plumes are, in fact, influenced by a pattern of finger - like structures carrying heat deep beneath Earth's oceanic plates.

About year ago, Garnero, McNamara, and SESE associate professor Dan Shim reported that two gigantic structures of rock deep in the Earth are likely made of something different from the rest of the mantle.

United States Seismic Array — A network of seismic stations, including portable ones that will be moved across the entire United States over a 10 - year period, will map subtle differences in the seismic energy traveling through our planet, yielding an improved understanding of deep - earth structures.

Because we can not sample the deep Earth, we must deduce its composition either by looking at the clues hidden in igneous and metamorphic rocks, or by examining proxies for composition and structure such as the three - dimensional variation of the velocity of seismic waves produced by earthquakes and sampled by networks of seismometers on the surface.

Although this region is far too deep for researchers to ever observe directly, instruments that can measure the propagation of seismic waves caused by earthquakes allow them to visualize changes in Earth's interior structure; similar to how ultrasound measurements let medical professionals look inside of our bodies.

First higher - resolution continental - scale seismic images of the structure and characteristics of the deep earth beneath polar regions.

The upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment may be able to measure the internal structure of Earth by looking at neutrinos from the sun that penetrate our planet.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

When the smoke cleared, the methane eruption craters were plainly visible — a rim of sloped and ejected earth surrounding a black, gun - barrel like structure tunneling deep into the ground.