Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research

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项目编号	1535812
	Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research
	Sonia Tikoo-Schantz
主持机构	Rutgers University New Brunswick
项目开始年	2016
	2016-04-01
项目结束日期	2018-03-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Continuing grant
项目经费	159068(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	This award will provide funding to acquire a sensitive instrument to measure magnet properties of rocks in the paleomagnetism laboratory at Rutgers University. The instrumentation will be used to promote progress in the earth sciences. This new instrumentation will support the laboratory development and research program of a female, early-career researcher. Access to the instrumentation will also support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. This system will be the only one of its kind in operation in the entire Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Paleomagnetic studies provide a powerful window into the histories of Earth and other planetary bodies. As rocks form, they record magnetizations which can be measured in the laboratory to infer both the orientation and, in many cases, the intensity of the ambient field at the time of formation. The new system will be used to address a diversity of problems in the earth and planetary sciences including (1) paleolatitude studies to test different tectonic models for India-Eurasia convergence during the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, (2) determining the magnetic effects of hypervelocity impact events on target rocks to guide the interpretation of the magnetizations of cratered planetary surfaces, and (3) constraining the physical processes that generated ancient dynamo magnetic fields on other planetary bodies.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Earth Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69366
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sonia Tikoo-Schantz.Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research.2016.