U.S.-Senegal Cooperative Research: Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils Stratigraphy & Paleoenvironments in the Southwest Taoudeni Basin, West Africa

美国-塞内加尔合作研究：早寒武世小贝壳化石地层学

• 批准号: 9000915
• 负责人: Stephen Culver
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-09-15 至 1993-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9000915&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Senegal; Cooperative; Research; Early

This proposal requests funds to permit Dr. Stephen J. Culver, Department of Geological Sciences, Old Dominion University, and Dr. Ramzy Khatib, Department of Geology, University of Dakar, Senegal, to enhance, for a period of 24 months, their cooperation, presently supported in part under NSF Grant No. EAR-8816137, on early Cambrian small shelly fossils, stratigraphy, and paleoenvironments in the southwest Taoudeni Basin, West Africa. The paleontologic goal of extensive sample collecting was realized but the other goal of that project, the determination of paleoenvironments, was only partially achieved. The present project will provide support for additional field work by the collaborators and travel by Dr. Khatib to Old Dominion University (1) to undertake x-ray diffraction and radiographic analyses of samples and (2) to collaborate on results and interpretations. The project will add to our knowledge of the stratigraphy of the Paleozoic basins and fold belts in West Africa. It will refine our understanding of the distribution of earliest Cambrian schemes. The project also will result in interpretations of the environments in which these organisms lived, died, and accumulated as fossils. This project is relevant to the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in developing countries through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit.

这项建议要求提供资金，以允许老道明大学地质科学系的Stephen J.卡尔弗博士和塞内加尔达喀尔大学地质学系的Ramzy Khatib博士在为期24个月的时间内加强他们的合作，目前这一合作得到了国家科学基金会第号补助金的部分支持。Ear-8816137，关于西非陶德尼盆地西南部早寒武世小壳化石、地层和古环境。大量采集样本的古生物学目标已经实现，但该项目的另一个目标--古环境的确定--只有部分实现。本项目将为合作者的更多实地工作提供支助，并支持Khatib博士前往老多米尼恩大学(1)对样品进行X射线衍射和射线照相分析，以及(2)就结果和解释进行合作。该项目将增加我们对西非古生代盆地和褶皱带的地层学知识。它将加深我们对最早寒武纪方案分布的理解。该项目还将解释这些生物作为化石生活、死亡和积累的环境。该项目与发展中国家科学计划的目标相关，该计划旨在通过交流科学信息、想法、技能，提高美国科学家和工程师与发展中国家同行之间的合作水平，和技术，并通过在互利问题上的合作。