Acquisition of Equipment for the Study of the Kinetics of Bubble Nucleation and Growth in Magmas

该奖项提供50%的资金用于收购一个 图像处理系统和与图像处理系统一起使用的高温台 岩相显微镜该系统将安装和运行 地质和行星科学司 加州理工学院。该研究所致力于 提供配套资金。 这些设备将用于研究和解释 定量研究了硅酸盐中气泡的成核和生长 熔融物的化学成分范围与天然的 岩浆岩浆中气泡的定量模型是一个重要的 这一步导致了对火成岩起源的解释， 火山，并了解地球的质量预算， 关键气体如H2O和CO2。

This award provides 50% funding for the acquisition of an image processing system and high-temperature stage for use with a petrographic microscope. The system will be installed and operated in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. The Institute is committed to providing matching funds. The equipment will be used to study and interpret quantitatively the nucleation and growth of bubbles in silicate melts in a range of chemical compositions corresponding to natural magmas. A quantitative model of bubbling in magmas is an important step leading to an interpretation of the origin of igneous rocks, volcanos, and an understanding of the Earth's mass budget of critical gases such as H2O and CO2.