The Deep Earth

How it controls our environment

• ©Ken-ichiro Hisada

To understand some of the movement we see at the Earth's surface, scientists examine the deep interior of our planet by observing different seismic waves from earthquakes as they travel through the planet. give us a detailed insight into the geological structures and tectonic processes that shape the crust. They are therefore relevant to natural resource exploration, the distribution and management of groundwater resources and the study and mitigation of natural hazards such as earthquakes. They define the processes that control the evolution of the landscape and soils.

The Earth's surface, including our habitable environment, is a response to, and controlled by, processes deep within the Earth. Earth scientists using, among others, geophysical and geodynamical techniques, research deep Earth processes (ranging from changes in the Earth's magnetic field to plate tectonics) to enable a better understanding of the working of the Earth as a planet.

Related IGCP Projects:

474 Images of the Earth's Crust (website)
Bruce R. Goleby (Australia), L.D. Brown (United States), F.A. Cook (Canada), O. Oncken (Germany), G.S. Fuis (United States), R.W. Hobbs (United Kingdom), Songlin Li (China), D.M. Finlayson (Australia) 2003-2007

516 Geological Anatomy of East and South East Asia
Ken-ichiro Hisada (Japan), Punya Charusiri (Thailand), Byung-Joo Lee (Rep.of Korea), Xiaochi Jin (China) 2005-2009