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

美国-埃及合作研究：埃及晚白垩世古生态学

• 批准号: 9811030
• 负责人: Gerta Keller
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811030&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Egypt; Cooperative; Research; Late

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.

9811030 Keller描述：该奖项是为了支持新泽西普林斯顿大学地球科学系Gerta Keller教授与哈桑El-Amin Mohamed教授和Abdel-Aziz A.埃及阿斯旺南谷大学地质系的坦塔维说。 双方计划研究最初沉积在白垩纪特提斯海中，后来暴露在整个埃及的岩石。 这项研究可以深入了解古生态、气候和海平面波动、生物变化以及随之而来的矿物和有机物丰富的沉积。 主要目的是调查晚白垩世古环境的这些方面的综合多学科研究的基础上，包括广泛的现代方法，从古生物学，地质学，矿物学和地球化学。 研究结果有望对白垩纪晚期的气候变化、海平面波动以及生物多样性的逐渐减少提供重要见解，最终导致6500万年前白垩纪动物群的大规模灭绝。该奖项将允许一位在北非白垩纪研究方面具有丰富研究经验的杰出美国地质学家与一个活跃的研究小组进行合作。新埃及大学 埃及小组在埃及与德国和瑞士的地质学家合作进行这一领域的研究方面有经验，能够为这一努力作出重大贡献。这一提议符合INT的目标，即在有利于双方的领域增加美国与外国的合作。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。