Sentences with phrase «detect earth crust»

Not exact matches

Unlike a GPS method proposed last year, which detects seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's crust to distant receivers, the new ground - based system takes real - time measurements of vertical ground motion — the type of fault movement more likely to produce tsunamis (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2006JB004640).

Windjana also contains an unexpectedly high amount of the mineral orthoclase, a potassium - rich feldspar that is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth's crust that had never before been definitively detected on Mars.

Shirzaei and colleagues took a different approach, using a constellation of satellites — the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) satellites — to detect alterations in Earth's crust driven by underlying pressure fluctuations.

From hundreds of kilometers away in space, orbiting instruments can detect subtle buckling of the earth's crust

Stein and Mian Liu, a geophysicist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, find that GPS equipment installed throughout the region has failed to detect strain building up in Earth's crust that would be required to trigger fresh quakes.