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

小行星9805160 该补助金为购买Philips PW2400 X射线荧光光谱仪的费用提供部分支持。该仪器将用于对大块岩石样品进行主要和痕量化学分析，以支持南卡罗来纳州大学的PI和其他研究人员以及东南地区其他机构的研究人员在地球科学方面的NSF资助的研究项目，这些机构包括克莱姆森、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考察站。美国国家科学基金会支持的项目将使用这一仪器，包括调查在爱达荷州南部，奥菲耶茨，（海洋地壳）在北方加州海岸山脉，弧火山作用和相关的矿藏在科希斯坦（巴基斯坦），卡罗莱纳山脉的火山岩和深成岩以及阿巴拉契亚山脉南部的其他外来增生岩，以及卡罗莱纳中部皮埃蒙特的榴辉岩和相关的高磷麻粒岩。除了这项资助的共同研究者（Shervais、Dennis、McGee）之外，南卡罗来纳州大学刚刚聘请了造山系统领域的两名新教师（James克纳普和Matthew Kohn），他们将在研究中使用这种仪器。 ***

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. ***