Grant: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Primary Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Amount
$700,003.00
Award Date
8/07/2009
Administering Agency
CDFA Number
47.082
CDFA Program Title
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support
Description
The thin, rocky shell of the Earth, the lithosphere, is broken into a mosaic of thin plates that are in constant motion. Along some boundaries between plates, one slides beneath the other and is consumed in a process known as subduction. Most of great ear