Upgrade of Hydrothermal Facilty

这笔拨款提供了54,408美元，作为弗吉尼亚理工大学热液设施升级的部分费用支持。大部分要求的设备将在内部制造，例如重建冷密封炸弹的炉，更换阀门，并在冷密封装置中添加传感器，以便在实验期间连续监测压力。该设施的升级将允许世界上顶尖的实验热液地球化学家和他的学生继续他们的富有成效的研究，利用在地质样品中引入合成流体包裹体的新技术，作为在高压下三相系统中存在的热化学条件的指标。这些技术在矿体岩石成因和构造研究中具有一定的应用价值。＊＊＊

9614272 Bodnar This grant provides $54,408 as partial support of the costs of upgrading the hydrothermal facility at Virginia Tech. Much of the requested equipment will be manufactured in-house, such as the re-building of furnaces for cold-seal bombs and replacing valves and adding transducers to the cold-seal setups to allow continuous monitoring of pressure during experiments. Upgrade of this facility will allow on of the top experimental hydrothermal geochemists in the world and his students to continue their productive research utilizing the novel technique of introducing synthetic fluid inclusions in geological samples to be used as indicators of the thermochemical conditions existing in three- phase systems at elevated pressures. These techniques have application to ore body petrogenesis and tectonic studies. ***