Papua New Guinea Seismic Deployment – 2014 (Part 3)

By Nick Harmon and Saikiran Tharimena: This is the final part of our blog chronicling our seismic deployment in Papua New Guinea which is part of a collaborative project with colleagues at JAMSTEC, University of Tokyo, University of Southampton, University of Rhode Island and Stanford University. Click here to read the first part of our… Read More Papua New Guinea Seismic Deployment – 2014 (Part 3)

Kate Rychert features in Nature on “The slippery base of a tectonic plate”

Last week, Kate Rychert had a news and views piece published in the journal Nature discussing the recent discovery of a sharp base to the lithosphere (<1km) beneath New Zealand (Nature Letter: A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate). Surprisingly, a 10 km thick low-seismic-velocity channel was also found at the base of… Read More Kate Rychert features in Nature on “The slippery base of a tectonic plate”