Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665038

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0665038

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Thallium isotopes: a novel geochemical tracer to map recycling in Earth's mantle. This project will transfer to Australia an advanced new methodology: the characterisation of thallium isotopic signatures in the mantle system introduced during recycling of crustal material. This will allow the tracking of fluid processes in the mantle system in a completely new way and will provide significant new information about the fluids that can percolate up from subduction zones. The source of most economically interesting elements in the crust is from mantle-derived fluids, so their characterisation is critical to an understanding of the whole ore-forming process. Hence, this study will provide unique new information to apply to this important large-scale Earth problem.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Earth sciences | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology

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