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Geography, Geology and the Environment

NERC New Investigator grant

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Posted on 21 November 2011

Dr. Brian O'Driscoll has been awarded a NERC New Investigator Grant of £81,550 for a project entitled 'Scales of preservation and root causes of mantle heterogeneities in the Iapetan Ocean convecting upper mantle'.

The project, in collaboration with scientists from University College Dublin, the University of Maryland (USA) and SCRIPPS Institute for Oceanography (USA) will examine the manner in which evidence of the formation and destruction of an ancient ocean (Iapetus) is preserved in the underlying oceanic mantle.

To achieve these goals, very precise measurements of platinum-group elements (including osmium isotopes) will be made on samples of ophiolites (which represent fragments of ancient oceanic mantle) that occur in both Scotland and Norway.

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