Deep sea reveals linkage bet­ween earth­quake and carbon cycle
(World News Austria)

Image: The German Sonne is one of the best technically equipped research vessels currently available. (Credit: Universität Hamburg/LDF/V M.Hartig/Meyer Werft) An international team led by the Innsbruck geologists Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut, and Michael Strasser could quantify for the first time the entire trench-wide volume of marine sediments that were remobilized by the magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki earthquake in 2011 and transported into the up to 8 km deep Japan Trench. This was facilitated within a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and in collaboration with researchers from...