OSCAR is a multi-institute NERC funded research project that aims to investigate the coupling of hydrothermal flow between the ocean and the lithosphere; its impact on the evolution of the oceanic crust and on basin-scale circulation.
Oceanographic and Seismic Characterisation of heat
dissipation and alteration by hydrothermal fluids
at an Axial Ridge
A NERC-Funded Collaborative Research Project
OSCAR is a multi-institute NERC funded research project that aims to investigate the coupling of hydrothermal flow between the ocean and the lithosphere; its impact on the evolution of the oceanic crust and on basin-scale circulation.