The Papua New Guinea region is a MARGINS focus site for the Source to Sink initiative. The goal of the initiative is to develop a quantitative understanding of margin sediment dispersal systems and associated stratigraphy (sediment or rock strata formations).
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Year: 2008
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The New Zealand region is a MARGINS focus site for the Source to Sink initiative. New Zealand is a major source of terrigenous sediment, supplying ~1% of the suspended load to the Earth's oceans.
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Year: 2008
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This western Pacific Ocean area has been chosen as the site of the MARGINS Subduction Factory experiment in the Mariana arc system.
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This region including the southern islands of Japan, the Japan trench and the Nankai trough has been selected by MARGINS for focused study. Most of the world's great earthquakes and tsunamis initiate in the zone of underthrusting or seismogenic zone of subduction zones. The Seismogenic Zone Experiment (SEIZE) hopes to understand the relationship among earthquakes, deformation, and fluid flow in this environment.
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Year: 2008
Details: MARGINS Focus Site
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The Gulf of California has been selected as one of two MARGINS focus sites for the study of rifting of continental lithosphere. The Gulf is particularly well suited to a large-scale study of rift processes, because it is actively rifting, contains clear rift segments that will enable reconstruction of the entire rift-drift history across unambiguous conjugate margins, has a reasonably well understood geologic and tectonic history, shows along-strike variations in extensional style, and is logistically accessible.

The Central America region is the MARGINS focus site for the Subduction Factory Initiative, the Seismogenic Experiment (SEIZE) Initiative and Costa Rica-Nicaragua focus area.
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Year: 2008
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Poster about Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis presented at Google Earth workshop, May 5 and 6, 2008, CU/LASP, Boulder CO.
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Year: 2008
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Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
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Image shows seafloor features caused by glacial erosion during times when the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers covered this area. Map width is ~180 km. Seafloor bathymetry is embedded within a satellite image of the present ice edge from MODIS.
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Year: 2008
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Feature: Antarctica:PineIslandBay
Investigator: Frank Nitsche
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The plowing action of moving ice masses cuts linear depressions, or ice gouges, into the seafloor sediments (center) and bedrock (lower right). Okuma Bay, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Map width is ~25 km. Image made using GeoMapApp.
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Year: 2008
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Feature: RossSea
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Continental slope off the western Antarctic Peninsula showing network of submarine channels incising the slope above the subduction trough. Map width is ~90 km. Image made using GeoMapApp.
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Year: 2008
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Feature: AntarcticPeninsula
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