Acquisition of Equipment for the Study of the Kinetics of Bubble Nucleation and Growth in Magmas

这项奖励提供50%的资金，用于购买图像处理系统和高温工作台，用于岩相显微镜。该系统将在加州理工学院地质和行星科学部安装和运行。该研究所致力于提供配套资金。该设备将用于定量研究和解释与天然岩浆相对应的一系列化学成分中硅酸盐熔体中气泡的成核和生长。岩浆中气泡的定量模型是解释火成岩和火山起源的重要一步，并有助于理解地球上H2O和CO2等关键气体的质量平衡。

This award provides 50% funding for the acquisition of an image processing system and high-temperature stage for use with a petrographic microscope. The system will be installed and operated in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. The Institute is committed to providing matching funds. The equipment will be used to study and interpret quantitatively the nucleation and growth of bubbles in silicate melts in a range of chemical compositions corresponding to natural magmas. A quantitative model of bubbling in magmas is an important step leading to an interpretation of the origin of igneous rocks, volcanos, and an understanding of the Earth's mass budget of critical gases such as H2O and CO2.