Tectonic Controls on Formation and Evolution of Permian Depositional Basins in the Transantarctic Mountains as Interpreted from Strata Exposed Areas.

该奖项支持对暴露在地下的地层进行调查。 沉积在主要前陆的横贯南极洲的山脉 与冈瓦纳造山带相邻发展起来的盆地 晚古生代和早中生代。 主要特点 包括前陆盆地，暴露在中部的泛寒武纪 山;一个假设的古地理高;和一个 克拉通内盆地，暴露于维多利亚地南部。 这些海盆和高压之间的关系尚未解决 由于缺乏尼姆罗德和伯德之间地区的数据 冰川。 建议的沉积学和地层学分析 将识别和关联单位，并确定因素， 控制了盆地的形成、演化、沉降和沉积 在两个盆地。

This award supports an investigation of the strata exposed in the Transantarctic Mountains which were deposited in a major foreland basin that developed adjacent to the Gondwanide orogenic belt during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic. Major features include the foreland basin, exposed in the central Transantarctic Mountains; a hypothetical paleogeographic high; and an intracratonic basin, exposed in southern Victoria Land. Relationships between these basins and the high are unresolved due to a lack of data in the area between the Nimrod and Byrd Glaciers. The proposed sedimentologic and stratigraphic analysis will identify and correlate units and determine the factors that controlled the formation, evolution, subsidence and sedimentation in the two basins.