Collaborative Research: Relationships between seismic and petrological Moho and implicatio — NSF Award to SUNY at Stony Brook (NY,
Terrestrial land surfaces rise above the ocean surface because they are underlain by crustal rocks, a layer of material with relatively low density sitting on top of the higher density mantle rocks. The thickness of the crust is important for investigations of earthquake hazards, and the growth and evolution of contine
| Award title | Collaborative Research: Relationships between seismic and petrological Moho and implicatio |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2424658 |
| Awardee | SUNY at Stony Brook |
| City | STONY BROOK |
| State | NY |
| Amount obligated | $107,128 |
| Principal investigator | Weisen Shen |
| Program | Geophysics |
| Start date | 09/01/2024 |
| Abstract | Terrestrial land surfaces rise above the ocean surface because they are underlain by crustal rocks, a layer of material with relatively low density sitting on top of the higher density mantle rocks. The thickness of the crust is important for investigations of earthquake hazards, and the growth and evolution of continents through time. Energetic waves caused by earthquakes travel faster through mantle rocks than crustal rocks. Seismologists typically observe a sharp change in wave velocities at |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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