Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
Funds research into the processes that shape the Earth's interior and drive geohazards — from the core to the crust.
SPSE funds work on the dynamical processes that have shaped the Earth's structure over its whole age, and that underlie geohazards today.
The scope covers every scale in time and space, from the core out to the crust, and pulls in structural geology, tectonics and geophysics. Laboratory, field, theoretical and computational studies all count.
NSF names the returns plainly: better understanding o…
Dynamical processes evolving the structure of the Earth from core to crust over its full age, and the physics underlying geohazards — structural geology, tectonics and geophysics, by laboratory, field, theoretical and computational study.
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