The seismic and petrological signature of magma migration beneath the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland The Reykjanes Peninsula is located in southwest Iceland, and if one includes the nearby capital city of Reykjavik, hosts more than 60% of the population of the entire country. From a geological perspective, the peninsula features a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge […]
Seismic imaging of the Macquarie Ridge Complex: A search for incipient subduction Subduction initiation is a crucial step in the global subduction cycle, but it remains one of the unresolved challenges of plate tectonics. Nearly half of all active subduction zones initiated during the Cenozoic (last 65 million years) which underlines the importance of this
Improving the earthquake resilience of Indonesia’s new capital city The goal of the project is to help improve the earthquake resilience of Indonesia’s new capital city, the construction of which will take place over the next decade or so in east Kalimantan. The building of a new city requires accurate information on the likely level
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NBOSS: northern Borneo Seismic Survey The northern Borneo Orogeny Seismic Survey (nBOSS) project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Cambridge, the University of Aberdeen, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, and the Malaysia Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia). The project aims to use seismology to understand the deep geology and tectonics of northern Borneo, which lies at the
