Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP130100722

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP130100722

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Earth's best-preserved Archean boninites: do they finally resolve the Archean mantle plume - plate tectonics controversy? Subduction typically starts on the modern Earth with the eruption of chemically distinctive rocks known as boninites. This project will study remarkably well preserved 2.85 billion year old boninites from Western Australia that may finally establish whether modern-style plate tectonics operated in the first half of Earth's history.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-2014

End Date: 03-2018

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ore Deposit Petrology | Geology | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | Tectonics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Zinc Ore Exploration | Precious (Noble) Metal Ore Exploration | Copper Ore Exploration |

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