Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0342467

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0342467

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Water storage in the earth's mantle - understanding the process of OH incorporation in olivine. The amount of water in the Earth's mantle is thought to be sufficient to replace the surface oceans more than ten times. Whether this water exists in a fluid, melt, or mineral is important for understanding a range of mantle properties. The entire upper mantle water budget may be accommodated at defect sites in the mineral olivine. However, defects found in natural olivine do not correspond to those produced experimentally. Therefore, previous conclusions on water storage in the mantle are questionable. To address this problem the mechanism of water incorporation in olivine will be investigated using experimental petrology and spectroscopy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2004

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $87,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Chemical Spectroscopy | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Earth sciences | Chemical sciences

Other Keywords

Chemical Spectroscopy | Chemical sciences | Earth sciences | Geology | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Mineralogy And Crystallography

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