Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2000/00343
Quantifying chemical weathering rates of silicate minerals.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor M Lee, University of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PA Bland, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering
- Grant held at:
- University of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Earth Surface Processes
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Planetary science
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- This research programme aims to quantify natural weathering rates of silicate minerals, in particular olivine and pyroxene, in order to address issues of fundamental importance to the habitability of our environment. Associated aims are to characterise weathering mechanisms at the nanometre-scale and to determine the impact of climate on rates and mechanisms of weathering and on the composition of weathering products. As many of the variables in natural weathering environments are poorly understood or hard to determine, this project proposes a novel approach of using a suite of meteorites with comparable pre-weathering mineralogical and chemical properties that have been weathered in very different climatic regions over a range of known timescales. Results will have implications for fields as diverse as palaeoclimate modelling, mineralogy and planetary geology.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2000/00343
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £9,021
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|
| £404 | £8,617 |
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