Deep-sea study of the Earth's crust receives $1.65 million NSERC-CREATE grant

(University of Ottawa) Professor Mark Hannington of the University of Ottawa's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and his team have just received a $1.65-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.Along with an international team of land-based geologists and marine scientists, Hannington is looking for clues about the origins of the Earth's crust and the resources it contains by probing plate tectonics in the deep-sea environment.