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Centre for Dynamic Earth and the Solar System (CeDESS)

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 CeDESS researches the structure, composition and dynamics of planetary bodies in our solar system, including importantly our own home planet Earth.

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Current research topics

    •  The origin of life and the volatile content of meteorites
    •  Earthquake history and paleoseismology of major faults in South East Asia
    •  Development of space missions to Venus to study its tectonics and dynamics
    •  Mantle sources of Icelandic magmatism
    •  Velocity and density structure of Earth’s lowermost mantle

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