Japan Long-Term Research Visit: A Comparative Study of Triassic Reefs and Reef Organisms Between North America and Japan

日本长期考察访问：北美与日本三叠纪珊瑚礁及珊瑚生物的比较研究

• 批准号: 9207232
• 负责人: George Stanley
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1994-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9207232&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Japan; Long; Term; Research; Visit

This award will support a twelve month long-term visit by Professor George D. Stanley, Department of Geology, University of Montana to Japan for a cooperative research project with Professor Minoru Tamura, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University. The research will include a comparative study of triassic reefs and reef organisms between North America and Japan. The project will investigate fossiliferous outcrops of reeflike Triassic limestone on the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu. It will also involve a detailed taxonomic and paleoecologic study of corals, sponges and other reef-building biotas as well as a microfacies analysis of the enclosing carbonate rocks. Study of the Japanese fossils and rock types will form the basis for a comparison with similar-age deposits and fossils in the European Alps and in western North America. Results of the research will be integrated with previous research to produce a synthesis of reef-building and the distribution of the reef organisms during the early Mesozoic. This project will constitute an important step in an ongoing attempt toward a global synthesis of early Mesozoic reef biotas in the Tethyan and circum-Pacific regions. Professor Tamura is an established researcher with long-time interests and publications on Triassic fossils from southern Japan. Kumamoto University contains many fossils of interest. In addition, the best curated collections of Triassic corals reside in Kyushu University at nearby Fukuoka. Professor Stanley is one of the leading world authorities on Triassic reefs and their constituent faunas. It is believed that this will be a very productive collaboration and that their research efforts will continue after the formal agreement has terminated.

这笔奖金将支持蒙大拿大学地质学系乔治·D·斯坦利教授对日本为期12个月的长期访问，这是他与熊本大学教育学院田村实教授的一个合作研究项目。这项研究将包括对北美和日本三叠纪珊瑚礁和珊瑚礁生物的比较研究。该项目将调查日本九州岛和本州岛上类似礁石的三叠纪石灰岩露出地面的化石。它还将涉及对珊瑚、海绵和其他造礁生物群的详细分类和古生态研究，以及对周围碳酸盐岩的微相分析。对日本化石和岩石类型的研究将为与欧洲阿尔卑斯山和北美西部类似时代的沉积物和化石进行比较奠定基础。这项研究的结果将与以前的研究相结合，以综合中生代早期的珊瑚礁建造和珊瑚礁生物的分布情况。该项目将是特提斯和环太平洋地区早中生代珊瑚礁生物群全球合成努力的重要一步。田村教授是一位长期对日本南部三叠纪化石感兴趣并发表文章的知名研究员。熊本大学有许多令人感兴趣的化石。此外，最好的三叠纪珊瑚收藏收藏在附近福冈的九州大学。斯坦利教授是世界上研究三叠纪生物礁及其组成动物群的主要权威之一。人们相信，这将是一次非常富有成效的合作，在正式协议终止后，他们的研究努力将继续下去。