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

9805160雪威这笔赠款为购买飞利浦PW2400型X射线荧光光谱仪提供部分支持。这台仪器将用于对大量岩石样品进行主要和微量的化学分析，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调查人员，以及东南部地区其他机构的调查人员，包括克莱姆森学院、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的调查人员使用。美国国家科学基金会将支持的使用该仪器的项目包括调查爱达荷州南部与羽流有关的火山活动、加利福尼亚州北部海岸山脉的蛇绿岩(洋壳)、科希斯坦(巴基斯坦)的弧形火山和伴生矿藏、卡罗莱纳地体的火山和深成岩以及阿巴拉契亚山脉南部的其他奇异增生地体，以及卡罗莱纳州中部山前的榴辉岩和相关的高磷麻粒岩。除了这项资助的联合研究员(Shervais、Dennis、McGee)外，南卡罗来纳大学刚刚在造山系统领域聘请了两名新的教职员工(詹姆斯·纳普和马修·科恩)，他们将在他们的研究中使用这台仪器。***

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. ***