Lei Liang

Singing Earth Project (Lei Lab) is about listening to the earth’s own harmonies hidden in rocks.

Rocks are made of different minerals that deform at different speeds, with each constituent experiencing time differently. Some rocks from deep within Earth are brought to the surface in a violent eruption at supersonic speed. This extremely rapid transport process preserves the information these rocks record and help us understand the inaccessible regions of the planet.

Each rock is a book of time.

The second book of Mineral Harmonies was created by our “Singing Earth” team (see credit below) in close collaboration with geologist Emily Chin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Credits

Lei Liang, Principal Investigator
Emily Chin, Principal Scientific Advisor
Charles Deluga, Researcher / Software Developer
Lindsey Gu, Intern

And contributions made by Yifan Guo as well as other participants in Lei Liang’s “Hearing Extremes” seminar at UC San Diego.