MARINE GEOLOGY and GEOPHYSICS

Marine Geologists and Geophysicists at the University of Hawaii have a variety of projects underway around the world.

 

Coastal Geology Group (CGG)
The Coastal Geology Group (CGG) conducts marine geologic research in the Hawaiian Islands with the goal of improving our understanding of coastal processes and coastal records of environmental change.

Easter Microplate
Sidescan, bathymetric, gravity and magnetics geophysical data presented by the GLORI-B/SeaBeam 2000 survey of the East Pacific Rise between the Easter and Juan Fernandez microplates.

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
GMT is a free, public-domain collection of ~60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color.

Hawaii Mapping Research Group (HMRG)
The Hawaii Mapping Research Group (HMRG) is an organization of scientists and engineers who build and operate seafloor mapping systems.

Hotspotting and Plate Reconstruction
A new way emerges to find the earth's hidden heat sources... and a reconstruction of Southwest Pacific paleogeography for the timespan 100 Ma to the present.

Kilauea South Flank
A 1998 marine seismic survey across several of the giant submarine landslides around the Hawaiian Islands, focusing on the Hilina slump, off the south flank of Kilauea volcano, on the Big Island.

Lau Basin
Publications and images of the Lau Basin, an extensional transform zone.

Manus Basin
Publications and images of backarc spreading, rifting, and microplate rotation between transform faults in the Manus Basin.

MARGINS
The MARGINS Program seeks to understand the complex interplay of processes that govern continental margin evolution.

Mariana Trough
The northern Mariana Trough is the site of active rifting which split a volcanic arc forming a backarc basin between the now extinct remnant arc volcanoes of the West Mariana Ridge and active Mariana Arc.

Rabaul Caldera
Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea has been the site of a number of historic volcanic eruptions, most notably the 1937-1943 eruptions and the most recent eruptive phase, commencing 19 September.

Woodlark Basin
Woodlark Basin data, articles, and bibliography made available to the public, hosted by the MARGINS Program.

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