Paleomagnetic Study Designed to Establish and Refine the Early Paleozoic Reference Poles of East Antarctica

该奖项支持对南极洲东部的古地磁研究，那里的早古生代参考极还没有很好地建立起来。此次调查将提供5.5亿至4.5亿年前（早寒武纪至晚奥陶纪）东南极洲克拉通区南维多利亚地（SVL）的新极点。南极东部寒武系和奥陶系岩石的新古地磁资料将约束早古生代冈瓦纳的视极漂移路径，增加我们对南极东部早古生代构造演化的认识。

This award supports a paleomagnetic study of East Antarctica where early Paleozoic reference poles are not well established. The investigation will provide new poles from South Victoria Land (SVL) in cratonic East Antarctica for the time period between 550 and 450 million years ago, (the Early Cambrian to the Late Ordovician). New paleomagnetic data from East Antarctic Cambrian and Ordovician rocks will constrain the early Paleozoic Gondwana apparent polar wander path and increase our understanding of East Antarctic's early paleozoic tectonic evolution.