Cyclicity in magmatic arc systems

该项目的目的是确定火山活动大陆边缘，如火环，如何演变和控制新大陆地壳的起源。该项目预计将产生新的知识，关于大陆如何形成在这样的边缘使用新的发现，表明他们经历周期性加热和岩浆活动。预期的结果是一个很好的解决热岩浆的时间历史的一个理想的例子，这样的利润。这将带来重大益处，例如了解新大陆地壳如何形成，以及提高对大陆边演变过程中何时形成重要铜和金矿床的预测性。

This project aims to determine how active volcanic continental margins, such as the Ring of Fire, evolves and control the origin of new continental crust. This project expects to generate new knowledge regarding how continents form in such margins using new findings that suggest they undergo cyclical heating and magmatism. The intended outcome is a finely resolved thermal-magmatic temporal history of an ideal example of such a margin. This should provide significant benefits, such as an understanding of how new continental crust forms, and increased predictability of when in the evolution of continental margins significant copper and gold deposits form.