Dropping Seismic Instruments on the Mariana Trench (VIDEO)

Washington University in St. Louis

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Seismologists have just returned from a cruise in the Western Pacific to lay the instruments for a seismic survey that will follow the water chemically bound to or trapped in the down-diving Pacific Plate at the Mariana trench, the deep trench to which Avatar director James Cameron is poised to plunge. This video combines an interview of co-PI Doug Wiens of Washington University in St. Louis and the videos he took on the cruise.

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Doug Wiens/Clark Bowen/WUSTL

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