Geologists simulate deep earthquakes in the laboratory
Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
More than 20 years ago, geologist Harry Green, now a distinguished professor of the graduate division at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues discovered a high-pressure failure mechanism that they proposed then was the long-sought mechanism of very deep earthquakes (earthquakes occurring at more than 400 km depth).