August 20, 2012
The Caribbean islands have been pushed east over the past 50 million years, driven by the movement of the Earth’s viscous mantle against the more rooted South American continent, new research by geophysicists in USC… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: continental plates, earth sciences, earthquake, meghan miller, national science foundation, natural science, nature geoscience, nsf, tectonics, thorsten becker
April 27, 2011
For the first time, an active delamination of continental lithosphere has been found beneath the Colorado Plateau. Meghan Miller, assistant professor of earth sciences in USC Dornsife, and her team’s discovery is… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: earth, earth sciences, meghan miller, natural sciences, nature, publication