Instrument Purchase: University of South Carolina X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory

这笔拨款用于购买飞利浦PW2400 x射线荧光光谱仪的部分费用。该仪器将用于执行主要和痕量化学分析，以支持nsf资助的地球科学研究项目，由PI和南卡罗来纳大学的其他研究人员，以及东南地区其他机构的研究人员，包括克莱姆森，查尔斯顿学院，本尼迪克特学院，百年学院和萨凡纳河环境科学野外站。美国国家科学基金会支持的将使用该仪器的项目包括爱达荷州南部与羽流相关的火山活动、加利福尼亚北部海岸山脉的蛇绿岩（海洋地壳）、巴基斯坦科希斯坦的弧火山活动和相关矿床、南阿巴拉契亚地区卡罗莱纳地体和其他外来增生地体的火山岩和深成岩，以及卡罗莱纳皮埃蒙特中部的榴辉岩和相关高磷麻粒岩的研究。除了这项资助的合作研究者（Shervais, Dennis, McGee），南卡罗来纳大学刚刚聘请了两名造山系统领域的新教员（James Knapp和Matthew Kohn），他们将在他们的研究中使用该仪器。＊＊＊

9805160 Shervais This grant provides partial support for the costs of acquiring a Philips PW2400 x-ray fluorescence spectrometer. This instrument will be used to perform major and trace chemical analyses of bulk rock samples in support of NSF-funded research projects in the Earth Sciences by the PI and other investigators at the University of South Carolina, and by investigators at other institutions in the southeastern region, including Clemson, the College of Charleston, Benedict College, Centenary College, and the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station. Projects supported by NSF which will use this instrument include investigations of plume-related volcanism in southern Idaho, ophiolites (ocean crust) in the Coast Ranges of northern California, arc volcanism and associated mineral deposits in Kohistan (Pakistan), volcanic and plutonic rocks of the Carolina terrane and other exotic accreted terranes in the southern Appalachians, and eclogites and related high-P granulites of the central Carolina Piedmont. In addition to the co-investigators of this grant (Shervais, Dennis, McGee), the University of South Carolina has just hired two new faculty members in the area of orogenic systems (James Knapp and Matthew Kohn) who will use this instrument in their research. ***