Upgrade of Hydrothermal Facilty

9614272博德纳尔这笔赠款提供54,408美元，作为升级弗吉尼亚理工大学热液设施的部分费用。所要求的许多设备将在内部制造，例如重建冷封炸弹的熔炉，更换阀门，并在冷封装置上增加传感器，以便在实验期间连续监测压力。该设施的升级将使世界顶尖实验热液地球化学家及其学生能够继续他们的生产性研究，利用在地质样品中引入合成流体包裹体的新技术，将其用作高压下三相系统中存在的热化学条件的指示器。这些技术在矿体岩石成因和构造研究中都有应用。***

9614272 Bodnar This grant provides $54,408 as partial support of the costs of upgrading the hydrothermal facility at Virginia Tech. Much of the requested equipment will be manufactured in-house, such as the re-building of furnaces for cold-seal bombs and replacing valves and adding transducers to the cold-seal setups to allow continuous monitoring of pressure during experiments. Upgrade of this facility will allow on of the top experimental hydrothermal geochemists in the world and his students to continue their productive research utilizing the novel technique of introducing synthetic fluid inclusions in geological samples to be used as indicators of the thermochemical conditions existing in three- phase systems at elevated pressures. These techniques have application to ore body petrogenesis and tectonic studies. ***