U.S. - Argentina Cooperative Research on Permian Plants from Argentina and Antarctica: Distribution in Time and Space

该奖项支持南极古植物学的研究， 由俄亥俄州州立大学的托马斯和伊迪丝·泰勒主持 与阿根廷的Sergio Archangelsky合作， 布宜诺斯艾利斯自然科学博物馆。 这项工作是一个 二叠纪植物研究的延伸 山脉，南极洲。 它将继续合作， 通过研究二叠纪植物群， 现场和实验室。 实地工作将包括 植物化石的收集和沉积物的检查 环境和古生态的化石遗址。 数据 将与二叠纪遗址收集的类似数据进行比较 1988-1989年和1989-1990年实地考察期间 季 利用有关字段的详细信息 关系和花卉组成，这将是可能的， 对比这两个地区的生物地层。 该提案中概述的研究代表了一种拼贴- 一个研究二叠纪植物化石的项目 阿根廷南部和南极洲。 美国 泰勒和泰勒（Taylor and Taylor）在收藏方面拥有专业知识 从南极洲的一些地点获得的。 阿根廷同事 （Archangelsky，Cuneo和Andreis）具有二叠纪的专业知识 巴塔哥尼亚的植物和沉积环境。 这 计划提供了一个独特的机会，接口这两个 数据集，并提供二叠纪的协同评价 冈瓦纳大陆的植物群 之间的相关性 这些植物群和其他冈瓦纳大陆的植物群 重要的是了解地理因素，如 植物的迁徙和进化， 生物地层学图表。

This award supports research in antarctic paleobotany to be conducted by Thomas and Edith Taylor of Ohio State University in cooperation with Sergio Archangelsky of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires. The work is an extension of a study of Permian plants from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. It will continue cooperative work on fossil floras from Patagonia by examining Permian floras in the field and in the laboratory. Field work will include collection of fossil plants and examination of the depositional environment and paleoecology of the fossil sites. The data will be compared with similar data gathered on Permian sites in Antarctica during the 1988-1989 and 1989-1990 field seasons. Utilizing detailed information about field relationships and floral composition, it will be possible to correlate biostratigraphy of these two areas. The research outlined in this proposal represents a colla- borative program designed to examine fossil plants of Permian age from southern Argentina and Antarctica. The U.S. component (Taylor and Taylor) have expertise in collections obtained from sites in Antarctica. Their Argentine colleagues (Archangelsky, Cuneo and Andreis) have expertise with Permian plants and depositional environments from Patagonia. This program provides a unique opportunity to interface these two data sets and to provide a synergistic evaluation of Permian floras from this sector of Gondwana. Correlations between these floras and those from other Gondwana continents are important in understanding biogeographic factors such as floral migration and evolution, as well as being indispensable in developing biostratigraphic charts.