COLLABORATIVE RESESARCH: Tectonic Processes During Ridge Subduction and Plate Reorganization: The Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Alaska

9307169 Pavlis 大多数构造过程最终都是由板块运动驱动的，但是除了最简单的情况之外，两者之间的联系通常是模糊的。 最近对阿拉斯加楚加奇变质杂岩体的研究表明，该杂岩体的历史不仅与洋脊俯冲密切相关，而且与改变俯冲洋脊附近板块构造的北太平洋板块重组密切相关。 这一假设将在本项目中通过三维结构分析、地质年代学和地球化学技术进行检验。 结果对新生代早期北太平洋板块重建具有重要意义，最终导致库拉板块消亡。 此外，它还提供了检查伴随脊-沟-脊三联结相互作用的深层过程的机会，其中涉及三联结一侧的高度倾斜组件。

9307169 Pavlis Most tectonic processes are ultimately driven by plate motions, however the tie between the two is generally obscure except in the simplest cases. Recent work in the Chugach Metamorphic Complex of Alaska suggests that the history of the complex is intimately tied not only to ridge subduction but to a North Pacific plate reorganization that changed the plate configuration in the vicinity of the subducting ridge. This hypothsis will be tested in this project by three dimensional structural analysis, geochronology and geochemical techniques. Results have important implications for early Cenozoic North Pacific plate reconstructions that ultimately ended with demise of the Kula plate. In addition it offers the opportunity to examine deep seated processes that accompany ridge-trench- ridge triple junction interactions that involves a highly oblique component on one limb of the triple junction.