RUI: High Temperature Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Lower Crustal and Upper Mantle Xenolith Samples and the Thermal Structure of Continental Lithosphere

该资助支持开发一种新方法，使用双激光技术测量多晶样品的热导率。该技术将以捕虏体样品的形式应用于实际的下地壳和上地幔岩石。通过在澳大利亚悉尼的麦考瑞大学进行拟议的研究，开发新实验技术的成本将保持在最低限度，在那里，工业激光研究单位和岩石圈建模单位的资源和专业知识以及许多具有良好特征的捕虏体样品将免费提供给该项目。在项目顺利完成后，获得的新技术将被转让给美国。在那里，额外的资金将成为正在进行的本科生研究工作的基础，以表征岩石圈材料的热特性。

This grant supports the development of a new method to measure the thermal conductivities of poly-crystalline samples at elevated using a dual-laser technique. This technique will be applied to actual lower crustal and upper mantle rocks in the form of xenolith samples. Costs for the development of new experimental techniques will be kept to a minimum by performing the proposed research at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where the resources and expertise of an Industrial Laser Research Unit, and a Lithospheric Modeling Unit with numerous well-characterized xenolith samples will be available to the project at no direct cost. At the successful completion of the project, the new technology gained will be technology gained will be transferred to the US. where, additional funding, it will become the basis on an ongoing undergraduate research effort to characterize thermal properties of lithospheric materials.