Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101710

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE140101710

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Investigating the formation of the continents: Ontong Java Plateau as a modern day analogue. The formation of the continents has been obscured by billions of years of history. It has been proposed that the Ontong Java Plateau is a modern day analogue for the continents. The Ontong Java Plateau is a huge submerged volcanic edifice, half the size of Australia. This project will seismically image the interior of the Earth beneath the Ontong Java Plateau and use these images as constraints to develop a model for its origin and evolution. This work has implications for understanding the formation of the continents and the factors that have enabled their stability for billions of years. A better understanding of continent formation may benefit Australia by yielding insights into economic resources, plate tectonics and geohazards.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $381,620.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Seismology and Seismic Exploration | Geophysics | Geodynamics | Tectonics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Natural Hazards not elsewhere classified |

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