Award Abstract # 0222285
Collaborative Research: Submarine Earthquake Geology in the Marmara Seismic Gap

NSF Org: OCE
Division Of Ocean Sciences
Recipient: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Initial Amendment Date: August 21, 2002
Latest Amendment Date: July 15, 2005
Award Number: 0222285
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Bilal U. Haq
OCE
 Division Of Ocean Sciences
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: September 1, 2002
End Date: August 31, 2006 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $232,631.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $232,631.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2002 = $137,805.00
FY 2003 = $94,826.00
History of Investigator:
  • Marie-Helene Cormier (Principal Investigator)
    mhcormier@uri.edu
  • Leonardo Seeber (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Columbia University
615 W 131ST ST
NEW YORK
NY  US  10027-7922
(212)854-6851
Sponsor Congressional District: 13
Primary Place of Performance: Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Rt 9W
Palisades
NY  US  10964
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
17
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): F4N1QNPB95M4
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Marine Geology and Geophysics
Primary Program Source: app-0102 
app-0103 
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 162000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.050

ABSTRACT

Funds are provided to process the data collected on two geophysical cruises in the Sea of Marmara. The PIs will combine the results from the collected chirp, sidescan, and bathymetric data with detailed sedimentology of piston cores and land-based observations to work out the configuration of the fault zone and to determine the history of paleoseismicity by correlating submarine landslides and turbidites to individual paloearthquakes. The work will have important societal relevance as it will lead to better understanding of the nature of deformation associated with the earthquakes and their history in the region.

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