Instrumentation for Rapid Temperature Measurement at Depth on the Wenchuan Fault

汶川断层深度快速测温仪器

• 批准号: 0913828
• 负责人: Emily Brodsky
• 金额: $ 3.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0913828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Rapid; Temperature; Measurement; Depth

In this Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER), an international research team plans to mobilize and drill a technically complex deep borehole into the fault zone that generated the devastating May 12, 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake. A group led by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences will drill the hole. This project will support an upgrade to instrumentation that will be deployed in the first borehole through the fault. The upgrade will allow rapid temperature measurements through time as long as the sensors are operational at depth. This project will enable the investigators to obtain a rare data set that will be used to investigate fault friction which is the single most important physical process in an earthquake. The work also represents an important collaboration between scientists from the U.S. and China.

在这项探索性研究小额赠款（SGER）中，一个国际研究小组计划在2008年5月12日汶川地震发生的断裂带上部署和钻探一个技术复杂的深井。 由中国地质科学院领导的一个小组将钻探这个洞。 该项目将支持对将部署在第一个穿过断层的钻孔中的仪器进行升级。 只要传感器在深度运行，升级将允许快速测量温度。 该项目将使研究人员能够获得一个罕见的数据集，用于研究断层摩擦，这是地震中最重要的物理过程。 这项工作也代表了美国和中国科学家之间的重要合作。