Collaborative Research: Paleogene to Neogene Depositional Sequences on the New Jersey Coastal Plain: A Drilling Project

该项目涉及美国中大西洋地区钻孔的综合样带，以解决渐新世-近代全球海平面变化的大陆边缘记录。这些变化受到冰川静止（冰量）变化的控制。需要从露头到深海的被动大陆边缘样带来评估海平面变化的时间和幅度。该样带需要陆上和海上钻井（ODP Leg 150）。主要研究人员将在新泽西州大西洋城岛海滩附近的新泽西州海岸平原和开普梅钻三个连续取芯和测井钻孔。该项目将由罗格斯大学、LDGO/哥伦比亚大学和美国地质勘探局东部地区分部共同努力。多学科应用磁地层学、生物地层学、sr同位素地层学和氧同位素冰川沉降曲线，结合地震地层学，将陆上和海上油井联系在一起，将提供全面的数据集。海平面变化的地质记录为发展全球古气候变化模式提供了事实约束。

This project involves an integrated transect of boreholes on the U.S. mid-Atlantic region to address the continental margin record of the Oligocene-Recent global sea-level changes. These changes have been controlled by glacioeustatic (ice-volume) variations. Transects of passive continental margins from outcrop to the deep sea are needed to evaluate the timing and amplitude of sea-level variations. The transect requires drilling both onshore and offshore (ODP Leg 150). The Principal Investigators will drill three continuously cored and logged boreholes in the New Jersey coastal plain near Island Beach, Atlantic City, and Cape May, NJ. The project will be a collaborative effort among Rutgers, LDGO/Columbia, and the Eastern Regional Branch of the USGS. The multidisciplinary use of magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, Sr-isotope stratigraphy and oxygen isotope glacioeustatic curves combined with seismic stratigraphy to tie together onshore and offshore wells will provide a comprehensive data set. The geologic record of sea level changes gives factual constraints for developing models of global paleoclimatological change.