Geological and Paleontological Research in Pakistan

巴基斯坦的地质和古生物学研究

• 批准号: 9114390
• 负责人: John Kelley
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-10-01 至 1991-10-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9114390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geological; Paleontological; Research; Pakistan

Technical Narrative: This proposal will allow Dr. S.M. Raza, Deputy Director of the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) to participate in collaborative research with Dr. John J. Kelley, Brown University. Since 1973, a geological and paleontological field project has been operative in the Siwalik region in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP). Dr. Raza has been a key participant in the project since its beginning. The primary goal of the current research is to look for Miocene hominoids in the erosional debris deposited in the Siwalik Hills of Pakistan by the uplift of the Himalaya Mountains. The excavation site is fossiliferous and highly informative about earlier states of higher primate evolution. Another research goal which has evolved into a large multidisciplinary effort is to reconstruct the physical and vegetational settings of past environments and thus come to an understanding of the evolution of South Asian mammal faunas and their habitats. The project will proceed simultaneously in fieldwork, fossil data base construction and analysis. Dr. Raza will be in the United States during the next two summers to carry out his research within the project context and to prepare a special issue on the Siwalik for the Journal of Human Evolution. The proposal requests funds for equipment and supplies necessary for the proper curation and utilization of the more than 40,000 fossil speciments collected by the Siwalik project. Finally, funds are requested for the PI to visit Pakistan to install a computerized fossil database and for the training of the GSP staff. Scope: Apart from the mutual benefits to both institutions and to scientific knowledge from this cooperative research, the project will develop human resources through training and promote institution building not only by strengthening the institutional links with the GSP but by funding the remaining equipment needed to make their magnetostratigraphy laboratory a thoroughly up-to- date facility. This is appropriate for a country that, in terms of its paleontological wealth, is one of the richest in the developing world.

技术说明：本提案将允许S. M.博士拉扎， 巴基斯坦地质调查局副局长， 参与 与约翰·J·凯利博士的合作研究， 布朗大学。 自1973年以来，地质和古生物学 年在西瓦利克地区实施了一个实地项目， 巴基斯坦地质调查局（GSP）。 博士 拉扎一直是该项目的关键参与者， 开始. 当前研究的主要目标是寻找 对于中新世人科动物在侵蚀碎屑沉积在 喜马拉雅山脉隆起处的巴基斯坦西瓦利克山 山脉 发掘现场是一个多产的， 关于更高级灵长类进化的早期状态的信息。 另一个研究目标已经发展成为一个大的 多学科的努力是重建物理和 过去环境的植被设置，从而达到一个 了解南亚哺乳动物区系的演变， 他们的栖息地。该项目将同时在 野外调查、化石数据库建设和分析。 拉扎博士 在接下来的两个夏天里， 在项目背景下进行研究，并准备一份 《人类进化杂志》关于西瓦利克的特刊。 该提案要求提供必要的设备和用品 为了妥善管理和利用超过40，000 西瓦利克项目收集的化石化石。 最后， 要求为PI提供资金访问巴基斯坦， 计算机化的化石数据库，并用于培训GSP 工作人员 范围：除了对两个机构和 从这项合作研究中获得的科学知识， 将通过培训开发人力资源， 体制建设不仅要加强体制建设， 与普惠制的联系，但通过资助所需的其余设备， 使他们的磁性地层学实验室成为一个 日期设施。 这对一个国家来说是合适的， 它的古生物学财富，是世界上最丰富的古生物学财富之一。 发展中国家的团结合作