Geochemical Core Logging of Gulf of Papua Sediments for Source-to-Sink Studies

0742288提供PetersonAbstractFunds，以便使用新安装的XRF扫描仪在巴布亚新几内亚近海边缘巡航期间收集的一套岩芯上生成定量元素数据，巴布亚新几内亚是源到汇倡议的重点地点。考虑到这些岩芯对S2S倡议的重要性以及收集巨型活塞芯已经投入的时间和资金，用XRF记录仪对这些岩芯进行表征将非常有用。这将使PIS和其他研究人员能够更好地解释巴布亚海湾沉淀物的不同来源，从而了解这些来源随着时间的推移发生了怎样的变化。学生将参与对岩心的分析，并将为他们的研究做出贡献。这些分析也将对该地区的其他工人有用。

0742288 PetersonAbstractFunds are provided to generate quantitative elemental data using the newly installed XRF scanner on a suite of cores collected during a MARGINS cruise offshore Papua New Guinea, a focus site for the Source-to-Sink initiative. The characterization of the cores with the XRF logger would be very useful considering the importance to these cores to S2S initiative and the time and funds already invested to collect the giant piston cores. This will allow the PIs and other researchers to better interpret the diverse sources of the sediment to the Gulf of Papua sink would lead to an understanding of how the sources have changed over time.Students will be involved in the analysis of the cores and would contribute to their research. The analyses will also be useful to other workers in the area.