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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0342543
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The role of melting of oceanic crust within the subduction factory: A melt inclusion approach. Continental crust is ultimately generated in subduction zones, where oceanic crust is recycled back into the mantle along deep ocean trenches, producing island arcs. Processes occurring in the subduction 'factory' are poorly understood, but dehydration of old subducted oceanic crust is usually invoked to provide water that triggers mantle melting and arc magmatism. Evidence is accumulating that in many locations the subducted oceanic crust may melt, rather than simply dehydrate. I will test this using studies of melt inclusions (droplets of melt trapped by crystals growing in the magma), and will better constrain the input-output budgets of the subduction factory.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2003
End Date: 12-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $110,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Inorganic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified
