Mechanisms of Mantle Convection and Magma Migration

这项研究主要有两个方面。 一是 支持主要研究者之间的合作， 巴黎大学Claude Allegre教授， 同位素和其他地球化学数据的解释 地幔对流及其相关过程。 游戏的目的是 了解地幔动力学如何导致地球化学 大洋中脊玄武岩，洋岛玄武岩， 岛弧火山作用和大陆火山作用。 一个重要 问题是地幔对流是否是“混沌的”， 混沌对流的含义 第二个主要的推动力 研究是为了支持校长之间的合作 帝国理工学院的研究员和大卫斯宾塞教授， 岩浆断裂机制

There are two main thrusts to the research. The first is to support collaboration between the Principal Investigator and Professor Claude Allegre, University of Paris, on the interpretation of isotopic and other geochemical data in terms of mantle convection and related processes. The object is to understand how mantle dynamics leads to the geochemical signitures of mid-ocean ridge basalts, ocean island basalts, island arc volcanism, and continental volcanism. An important question is whether mantle convection is "chaotic" and the implications of chaotic convection. A second major thrust of the research is to support collaboration between the Principal Investigator and Professor David Spence, Imperial College, on the mechanisms of magma fracture.