Geological Record of Southern Ocean Sedimentation

该奖项将支持美国与英国科学家合作的一个项目，该项目将整合和综合来自南极周围盆地、南大西洋、南太平洋和印度洋的海洋钻探项目和深海钻探项目站点的数据。该项目的基本目标是确定南极洲周围底水形成的历史，并追踪冈瓦纳大陆解体后环极流的发展。这将通过绘制和解释显示南部海洋在新生代沉积物分布变化的地图来完成。这些数据将与稳定同位素和其他时间序列以及钻井现场的动物数据相结合。除了进一步确定新生代古海洋学外，该项目的数据和解释对于确定该地区未来的海洋钻探目标也很重要。＊＊＊

9314029 Davies This award will support the U.S. contribution to a cooperative project with British scientists which will integrate and synthesize data from Ocean Drilling Project and Deep Sea Drilling Project sites in the circum Antarctic basins, the south Atlantic and the southern Pacific and Indian Oceans. The basic objective of the project is to determine the history of bottom water formation around Antarctica and to trace the development of the Circum Polar Current in response to the breakup of Gondwana. This will be accomplished through the preparation and interpretation of maps showing changes in sediment distribution in the southern oceans through the Cenozoic. These data will be integrated with stable isotope and other time-series and faunal data from drilling sites. In addition to further defining Cenozoic paleoceanography, the data and interpretations from this project will be important in defining future ocean drilling objectives in the region. ***