Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100089

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140100089

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle. The climate change debate has focused scientific attention on Earth’s exogene carbon-cycle. However, Earth has another, much deeper carbon-cycle which is poorly understood. In addition to exerting a profound influence on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over time scales from thousands to billions of years, it is critically important in many processes in the Earth’s deep mantle. The major means by which the deep carbon-cycle is replenished is via subduction of carbonate-bearing oceanic crust. The project proposes a high-pressure experimental and field-based program to understand the fate of this carbonate during its journey from the exosphere, through subduction zones and into the deep mantle.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mineralogy and Crystallography | Geology | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Diamond Exploration |

Other Keywords

Diamond Exploration | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Geology | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | Mineralogy and Crystallography

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