Seismic survey at the Mariana trench will follow water dragged down into the Earth's mantle

Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 07:31 in Earth & Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, was cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson.

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