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

这笔赠款支持开发一种新的方法，使用双激光技术在高温下测量多晶样品的热导率。这项技术将以捕虏体样品的形式应用于实际的下地壳和上地幔岩石。通过在澳大利亚悉尼的麦格理大学进行拟议的研究，开发新的实验技术的成本将保持在最低水平，在那里，将为该项目免费提供工业激光研究单位和岩石圈建模单位的资源和专业知识，该单位将提供大量具有良好特征的捕虏体样本。在该项目成功完成后，获得的新技术将被转移到美国。在那里，额外的资金，它将成为正在进行的本科生研究工作的基础，以表征岩石圈材料的热性质。

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.