COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The Closure of Iapetus and Creationof the Old Red Continent in Great Britain

本研究将对英国下古生代岩石进行古地磁分析，以确定志留纪和奥陶纪东部阿瓦洛尼亚的运动和伊阿普图斯洋的闭合历史。最近绘制了阿瓦洛尼亚东部古地理背景的大致图景，这项工作将提供亟需的限制。这一结果将对阿巴拉契亚-加莱昂内德造山带的板块构造重建具有广泛的意义。它们还将为认识再磁化现象提供额外的标准，这对对构造问题感兴趣的地球物理学家来说相当重要。

This study will conduct paleomagnetic analyses of lower Paleozoic-aged rocks in Britain in order to define the movement of Eastern Avalonia and closure history of the Iapetus Ocean during the Silurian and Ordovician. A broad picture of the paleogeographic setting of Eastern Avalonia has been recently developed and this work will provide much needed constraints. The results will be of broad significance to plate tectonic reconstructions of the Appalachian - Caleonide orogen. They will also provide additional criteria for the recognition of remagnetization phenomena, which is of considerable importance to geophysicists interested in tectonic problems.