NERC Approved Projects 2006
List of projects:
| Ref No | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| P. Clift | Dating Major Drainage Changes Linked to Surface Uplift in Eastern Tibet Through Pb Isotope Analysis of Detrital K-Feldspars in the Song Hong Basin, Vietnam | |
| N. Allison | Predicting sea surface temperatures from fossil coral skeletons | |
| N. Kelly | Analysing thin zircon overgrowths using Ion Microprobe as a key to dating elusive tectonothermal events in the Lewisian of NW Scotland? Technique Development Time Only | |
| A. Brearly | Metasomatic alteration of mantle xenoliths from the Rio Puerco volcanic field, New Mexico, USA: Insights into upper mantle metasomatism at the transition from the Colorado Plateau to the Rio Grande Rift | |
| M. Elliot | An investigation in the control of pH on the distribution of Mg in the shell of the giant marine bivalve Tridacna gigas | |
| K. Darling | Trace elements variations across walls of planktonic foraminiferal tests: potential tracers of ocean vertical thermal and nutrient structure? | |
| D. Schmidt | Boron isotopes in planktic foraminifers: conceptual understanding through in-situ analysis | |
| R. Burgess | U-Pb dating of lunar baddeleyite | |
| V. Smith | Trace element and volatile composition of melt inclusions and trace element zoning in plagioclase phenocrysts from the 10.5ka Upper Toluca Pummice, Nevado de Toluca, Mexico | |
| O. Reubi | Control of magmatic and degassing dynamics on the volcanic activity at Volcan de Colima, Mexico: insight from trace element, H2O and CO2 contents of melt inclusions | |
| R. Brooker | The H2O and CO2 content of kimberlitic magmas; thier capacity to carry volatiles to shallow depths | |
| G. Turner | Plutonium geochemistry of meteorites. | |
| M. Humphreys | H2O diffusion in melt inclusions as geospeedometer for explosive volcanic eruptions | |
| S. Redfern | Slab-derived melts from the Earths lower mantle: possible plume sources and the global Nb budget | |
| I. Fairchild | Annual sulphate abundance cycles and secular sulphur isotopes variations in speleothems | |
| T. Elliott | Tracing re-cycled material in the upper mantle | |
| D. Condon | Assessing pre-treatment techniques for improving the accuarcy of microbeam (SIMS and LA-PIMMS) U-Pb geochronology | |
| J. Maclennan | Melt mixing, crystallisation and degassing in the magma chambers that feed large basaltic eruptions: The record from olivine-hosted inclusions of the 1783 Laki basalt | |
| S. Harley | Analysisng thin Zircon overgrowths using Ion Microprobe - a key to dating elusive tectonothermal events in the Lewisian of NW Scotland | |
| S. Kasemann | High resolution isotope investigation of the paleoatmospheric carbon dioxide levels: The neoproterozoic climatic extremes as a test study | |
| M. Gillespie | The origin and evolution of the Caledonian Granites in Scotland: stable and radiogenic isotopic constraints from micro-analysis of zircons and related minerals | |
| T. Elliott | The fate of subducted crust | |
| IMP 284/1006 | M. Cusack | Disentangling biological, ontogenetic and environmental influences on oxygen isotope composition of brachiopod and bivalve shells |
| IMP 285/1006 | C. Hawkesworth | Crustal differentiation in arcs: deep or shallow? |
| IMF 288/1006 | D. Schmidt | Variations in boron isotopes and trace elements in foraminifers: biomineralisation or ecology? |
| IMF 290/1006 | D. Pyle | The melt inclusion record of magma degassing at Etna, Sicily |
| IMF 291/1006 | J. Blundy and O. Reubi | Magmatic evolution and volatile contents recorded by melt inclusions from the Minoan eruption of Santorini, Greece and implications for caldera-forming eruptions |
| IMF 292/1006 | G. Jenkin | Quantifying the release of base metals into hydrothermal ore forming systems |
| IMF 294/1006 | T. Elliott and R. Abell | Lithium isotopes in foraminiferal hosted calcite |
| IMF 296/1006 | A. Finch | Coral calcifying fluid pH (indicated by δ11B) and skeletal δ18O and Sr/Ca in coral skeletons |
| IMF 297/1006 | S. Kohn | The fluorine concentration of the mantle: Constraints from experimental fluorine partitioning studies |