Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C510308/1
Experimental investigation of deep seismic processes using new in situ multi anvil techniques.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor D Dobson, University College London, Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PG Meredith, University College London, Earth Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University College London, Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Properties Of Earth Materials
- Mantle & Core Processes
- Geohazards
- Abstract:
- 'The mechanism and tectonic interpretation of deep earthquakes remains one of the major questions in seismology and rock mechanics' - Wiens (2001). Members of the Laboratory for Mineral, Ice and Rock Physics at UCL propose to use new laboratory experimental techniques to investigate the mechanisms and processes of deep seismogenesis, in collaboration with members of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI) and State University of New York at Stony Brook. We have developed new experimental techniques which allow us to perform in situ stress-strain measurements and simultaneous microseismic analysis (locations and moment tensor analyses) under the P-T conditions of the subducting slab. The newly developed multi-anvil capabilities (acoustic emission (AE), independent strain control and in situ stress measurement) allow us, for the first time, to interrogate the various hypotheses regarding the origin deep seismicity which have been proposed over the last half-century, but which still remain essentially un-tested to date.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C510308/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £227,648
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £8,583 | £119,904 | £29,670 | £14,334 | £55,157 |
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