Marine Geology and Geophysics (MG&G) | PD 17-1620
National Science Foundation
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About this opportunity
Synopsis The Marine Geology and Geophysics Core Program supports research on all aspects of the geology and geophysics of the present ocean basins and margins, as well as those of the Great Lakes.The Program supports science that includes:Structure, composition, tectonics, and evolution of the oceanic lithospherePaleoceanography, paleoclimate, and sea level changeSubmarine volcanology, petrology and geochemistry of the oceanic crust and upper mantle lithosphereMarine hydrogeology, water-rock interaction, seeps and gas hydratesHydrothermal venting and in situ fluid processes, and associated geochemistryGeochemical indicators of life operating below the seafloorMarine sedimentology, stratigraphy, sediment transport, and diagenesisMid-ocean ridge spreading, back-arc rifting, transform process...