Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Amount

$418,590.00

Award Date

9/08/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Deep earthquakes, some of which are among the largest and most damaging of all earthquakes, have been a paradox since their discovery in the 1920s. The combined increase of confining pressure and temperature with depth inhibits frictional sliding, the pri