RUI: High Temperature Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Lower Crustal and Upper Mantle Xenolith Samples and the Thermal Structure of Continental Lithosphere

这项赠款支持开发一种新的方法来衡量 多晶样品的热导率在升高 使用双激光技术。 这项技术将应用于 捕虏体形式的实际下地壳和上地幔岩石 样品 开发新实验技术的费用 将通过在以下地点进行拟议的研究， 麦考瑞大学，悉尼，澳大利亚，在那里的资源和 一个工业激光研究单位的专业知识， 具有大量特征良好的捕虏体样品的建模单元 将免费提供给该项目。 在 项目顺利完成，新技术获得 获得的技术将转移到美国。其中， 额外的资金，它将成为一个持续的基础， 本科生研究工作，以表征热性能 岩石圈物质

This grant supports the development of a new method to measure the thermal conductivities of poly-crystalline samples at elevated using a dual-laser technique. This technique will be applied to actual lower crustal and upper mantle rocks in the form of xenolith samples. Costs for the development of new experimental techniques will be kept to a minimum by performing the proposed research at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where the resources and expertise of an Industrial Laser Research Unit, and a Lithospheric Modeling Unit with numerous well-characterized xenolith samples will be available to the project at no direct cost. At the successful completion of the project, the new technology gained will be technology gained will be transferred to the US. where, additional funding, it will become the basis on an ongoing undergraduate research effort to characterize thermal properties of lithospheric materials.