U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Late Cretaceous Paleoecology of Egypt

描述：该奖项是对新泽西州普林斯顿大学地球科学系的Gerta Keller教授和埃及阿斯旺南谷大学地质系的Hassan El-Amin Mohamed教授和Abdel-Aziz A.Tantawy教授的合作项目的支持。双方计划研究这些岩石，这些岩石最初沉积在白垩纪的特提斯海道，后来暴露在埃及各地。这项研究可以提供对古生态、气候和海平面波动、生物变化以及伴随而来的丰富矿物和有机沉积的洞察。主要目的是在综合多学科研究的基础上，从古生物学、地质学、矿物学和地球化学等多学科的角度对晚白垩世古环境的这些方面进行研究。预计这些结果将对晚白垩世气候变化、海平面波动和生物多样性的逐渐减少产生关键的见解，这些生物多样性最终导致6500万年前白垩纪动物的大规模灭绝。范围：这一奖项将允许在北非白垩纪研究方面拥有丰富研究经验的著名美国地质学家和一个新成立的埃及大学的活跃小组之间的合作。埃及团队与德国和瑞士的地质学家合作，在埃及的这一领域拥有研究经验，将能够为这一努力做出重大贡献。这一提议符合INT的目标，即在对双方都有利的领域加强美国与外国的合作。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些合作活动。

9811030KellerDescription: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Professor Gerta Keller of the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey and Professors Hassan El-Amin Mohamed and Abdel-Aziz A. Tantawy of the Geology Department at South valley University in Aswan, Egypt. The two sides plan to study the rocks originally deposited in the Cretaceous Tethyan seaway and later exposed throughout Egypt. The study can provide insight into the paleoecology, climate and sea level fluctuations, the biotic changes and attendant mineral and organic-rich deposits. The main objective is to investigate these aspects of the late Cretaceous paleoenvironment based on an integrated multi-disciplinary study that includes a wide array of modern methods from paleontology, geology, mineralogy and geochemistry. The results are expected to yield critical insights into late Cretaceous climate changes, sea level fluctuations and the progressive terminal decrease in biotic diversity that ultimately led to the mass extinction of the Cretaceous fauna 65 million years ago.Scope: This award will allow collaboration between an eminent US geologist with extensive research experience in the study of the Cretaceous period in North Africa and an active group at a new Egyptian University. The Egyptian team has experience in studies in this field in Egypt in collaboration with geologists from Germany and Switzerland, and would be able to contribute significantly to this effort. This proposal meets the INT objective of increasing US-foreign collaboration in areas that benefit both sides. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.