Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$232,214.00

Award Date

6/29/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Oceanic core complexes (OCC) expose intrusive mafic rocks and lenses of mantle ultramafic rock, that are controlled by long-lived detachment faulting within the axial zone of a spreading center. The PI will analyze existing MCS OBS data at Atlantis Massif