Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Facility for Triangle Area Universities: North Carolina, Duke, North Carolina State

该合同为热电离源质谱仪的采购提供了一半的资金，该质谱仪将由三角研究大学（北卡罗来纳大学、杜克大学和北卡罗莱纳州立大学）的地球科学系操作。两家机构已共同承诺为此次收购提供必要的剩余资金。新仪器将成为三角大学微量分析联盟分析设施的一部分，并将主要用于铀-铅、铷-锶和钐-钕同位素分析，从而解释海洋沉积物、海洋碳酸盐地层、现代陆地沉积环境、以及大陆岩石圈的结构和演化。

This award provides one-half the funding for the acquisition of a thermal ionization source mass spectrometer that will be operated by the geoscience departments of the Research Triangle Universities (University of North Carolina, Duke University and North Carolina State University). The institutions have jointly committed the necessary remaining funds for this acquisition. The new instrument will be part of the analytical facilities of a Triangle Universities consortium for microanalysis, and will be used primarily for uranium-lead, rubidium-strontium and samarium-neodymium isotopic analyses leading to interpretations of oceanic sediments, marine carbonate stratigraphy, the modern terrestrial sedimentary environment, and the structure and evolution of the continental lithosphere.