Sentences with phrase «study crustal»

Focus of Study I use GPS to study crustal motion in Greenland, Antarctica, South America, and the islands of the South Pacific.

Focus of Study Using GPS and other remote sensing techniques to study crustal deformation in Antarctica.

Geologists like Avouac and his colleagues, who are interested in tectonics — the study of the earth's surface and the way it changes — can use tools such as GPS and seismology to study crustal deformation that is taking place today.

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Wright, Steinn Sigurdsson, professor of astrophysics and Arpita Roy, graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics, and lead author of the study, realized that the absence of maria, which is due to a difference in crustal thickness between the side of the moon we see and the hidden side, is a consequence of how the moon originally formed.

These studies show that from the High Plains of Colorado to eastern Kansas, the crustal thickness or density correlates with a decline in elevation, from about 2 kilometers in the west to near sea level in the east.

The study, Lifetime and size of shallow magma bodies controlled by crustal - scale magmatism, was led by researchers at ETH Zurich, and also included researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

«The main point is that the crustal bathymetry is complex,» says David Lund, a paleoceanographer at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point, who was not involved with the study.

«For the first time we could obtain images of the deeper crustal structure in the region where the Walvis Ridge joins the African continent, in order to study the impact of a mantle plume» explains Trond Ryberg from GFZ.

«The actual hazard is the same, but now we have a much better understanding of the complete crustal magma system,» says study co-author Robert B. Smith, a research and emeritus professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah.

«Devising stable geometrical reference frames for use in geodetic studies of vertical crustal motion.»

Focus of Study I'm currently studying seismology on a variety of scales, from volcanic media to continental scale crustal analyses.

Scientists are studying this mound to gain an understanding of the interaction of crustal rocks and seawater, and to learn how sulfide mounds on land were formed millions of years ago.

«Overall, this new image of Yellowstone's crustal magma reservoir provides a better understanding of the magmatic volume, melt configuration, and fluid state that control its potential for future volcanism and its joint volcano ‐ earthquake hazard, as well as a basis for assessing temporal changes in the reservoir properties that could portend new volcanism,» the researchers wrote in their study.

Collecting data from NASA's satellite Gravity and Recovery Climate Experiment, known as GRACE, and GPS measurements of the bedrock on the edges of the ice sheet, the Denmark Technical Institute's National Space Institute in Copenhagen was able to show that crustal uplift due to ice loss has gone up by 1.5 inches between October 2005 and August 2009 along the northwest coast, a change that study co-author John Wahr calls «very dramatic».

Active research areas in the Solid Earth Sciences division of CIRES include studies of earthquake and other geologic hazards, sea level change, mountain building, plate tectonics, and landscape and crustal evolution.