Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

Amount

$270,002.00

Award Date

7/19/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

One of the unsolved paradoxes in the earth sciences is how fluid-assisted mass transfer occurs at convergent plate boundaries. Subduction causes rapid P-T changes in the downgoing slab and juxtaposes rocks of very different geochemical characteristics. Ma