Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2000/00023
High resolution fluid-flow patterns at the Nankai convergent plate margin
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor A Maltman, Aberystwyth University, Inst of Geography and Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Bolton, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Grant held at:
- Aberystwyth University, Inst of Geography and Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Tectonic Processes
- Hydrogeology
- Abstract:
- ODP Legs 190/196, Nankai Trough, are aimed at resolving fundamental problems concerning hydromechanical processes at a plate margin dominated by terrigenous clastic sediments. A gas-probe permeameter on Leg 190 will provide direct shipboard measurements of permeability variations in quite unprecented quantity and detail. Funding is sought primarily for a PhD studentship to integrate these permeability data with physical properties of the cores and, eventually, with LWD data from Leg 196. The data will be calibrated and expanded upon by laboratory tests on whole round cores at varying fluid pressures. Directional Hg-porosimetry and image analysis will be used to determine the factors that control the differing flow paths. The topic is well defined, international, and involves potentially very versatile new technologies, thus forming an ideal PhD project. The results may well be a centrepiece of the Nankai drilling results and a valuable UK springboard into the impending SEIZE programme.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2000/00023
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Ocean Drilling Programme
This grant award has a total value of £13,654
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £3,243 | £586 | £9,825 |
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