Primary Recipient

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY

Amount

$133,227.00

Award Date

7/08/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

One of the basic tenets of plate tectonics is that quasi-rigid plates traverse the surface of the Earth, with significant deformations confined to regions near plate boundaries. While this idea works well in the oceans, it has had to be modified substanti