Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140100622
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Water in the deep Earth. Water has profound influence on many deep Earth processes ranging from melting to plate movements. Water in deep Earth is replenished by subduction. A significant part of water can be stored in nominally anhydrous minerals, such as olivine, pyroxene and garnet that result from the breakdown of hydrous phases within the subducted lithosphere. The project proposes a combined experimental and analytical project to determine how much water is transported to the deeper mantle in these minerals. This project aims to determine the incorporation mechanisms of water into these key minerals and to establish an Australian facility for water determination in minerals that has the sensitivity needed for studying deep Earth materials.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 12-2016
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $250,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Mineralogy and Crystallography | Geology | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | Extraterrestrial Geology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water not elsewhere classified |
