Sentences with phrase «study subduction zones»

To understand the evolution of the Earth, it is essential to study the subduction zones.

There it will seek out new species and habitats; it may also study subduction zones, where oceanic crust is recycled back into the earth's mantle.

«I was just blown away that there were people who were studying subduction zones and mountain belts and all of these things that I had been interested in but I didn't know that I was interested in,» he says.

Not exact matches

The findings could apply to other faults with similarly thick sediment, such as the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, suggests study coauthor Andre Hüpers, a geophysicist at the University of Bremen in Germany.

The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the area could be more prone to producing larger quakes than subduction zone areas farther south with less compact sediments.

A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be linked to compact sediments along large portions of the subduction zone.

The study of new linkages between the two types of seismic activity, published in Nature Geoscience on Sept. 11, may help promote better understanding of earthquake hazard posed by subduction zones, a type of fault responsible for some of the world's most powerful earthquakes.

«These kinds of long - streamer marine seismic studies provide the best tools available to the science community to efficiently probe subduction zones in high resolution,» said co-author Suzanne Carbotte, a research professor at Columbia University.

Intriguingly, the part of the subduction zone that broke was not the part that had built up the most stress, according to a ground - motion study of northern Chile's seismic gap by Marianne Métois, a geophysicist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, and her colleagues (M. Métois et al.Geophys.

Lead author of the study, Dr Caroline Eakin, Research Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, said: «The process of consuming old seafloor at subduction zones, where great slabs of oceanic material are swallowed up, drives circulation in the Earth's interior and keeps the planet going strong.

The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

Thus, the study could improve the understanding of the geochemical processes in subduction zones of the earth.

The study, published February 12 in Nature Geoscience, focused on the Costa Rica subduction zone where the Cocos plate slowly dives beneath the overriding Caribbean plate.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.