项目编号: | 1551054
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项目名称: | Collaborative Research: Characterizing and Modeling Crustal Recycling |
作者: | Bradley Hacker
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承担单位: | University of California-Santa Barbara
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批准年: | 2016
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开始日期: | 2016-02-15
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结束日期: | 2019-01-31
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资助金额: | 332772
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资助来源: | US-NSF
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项目类别: | Standard Grant
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国家: | US
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语种: | 英语
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特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Earth Sciences
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英文关键词: | recycling
; recycling-related hypothesis
; collaborative us-tajik-romanian project
; research opportunity
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英文摘要: | Recycling of Earth's crust back down into the deep Earth has been invoked to explain a wide variety of Earth processes, including changes in the forces that move tectonic plates, and how the thickness and composition of Earth's crust evolved. All of these processes take place at depths inaccessible to humans. A volcanic eruption in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan has brought to light pieces of rock from 90 km deep in Earth that can be used to test recycling-related hypotheses. This project will provide training and research opportunities for graduate student Madeline Shaffer and several undergraduate students. Visits to local elementary schools will expose potential future scientists to Earth science. Continued development of the laser-ablation split-stream technique will benefit the broad range of visitors to their laboratory.
This collaborative US-Tajik-Romanian project has a two-pronged approach: 1) Laboratory geochronology and petrology that will constrain the timescale of recycling, and the compositions, densities and wavespeeds of the recycling materials. With some assumptions about protolith composition, the evolution in these physical properties can be calculated. 2) Geodynamic modeling of recycling crustal sections with different compositions and layers in different thermal gradients. The models will yield the calculated evolution of the physical properties of recycling crust and determine the types of crustal sections that may recycle. Because the Pamir-Tibetan Plateau is an archetypal continent-continent collision, ideas developed there can be applied globally. |
资源类型: | 项目
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标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/92855
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Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划 科学计划与规划
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Recommended Citation: |
Bradley Hacker. Collaborative Research: Characterizing and Modeling Crustal Recycling. 2016-01-01.
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