Universite Paris-Sud & Universite Paris-Saclay launched a website for the structural geology collection at University of South Paris (Paris-Sud). They call it the “StructuroTheque“.
The website allows you to investigate the items in details through a zoom lens as well as providing some details about the structure’s details and location of origin. Items are categorized by
The website allows you to view the collection as a flat gallery and on a map.
Citation: Jacobsen, E. (2016), Seismic wave videos combine sight and sound, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO060261. Published on 04 October 2016.
A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth – From Plate Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics
2016 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer
Caroline Beghein, U.C. Los Angeles
The deepest part in Earth’s oceanic crust is the Mariana Trench which is a located in the western Pacific ocean east of the Mariana islands near the Philippines and Japan. The trench is the location where two tectonic plates meet (converge), the pacific and Philippines plates. The Challenger Deep is its deepest point to which four descents have been made to. Its reaches a reaches a depth of about 11 km.
Location of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western pacific ocean.
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