Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Structure and Evolution of the Rocky Mountains - beginning Phase 2 Geodynamic Processes

合作研究：落基山脉的岩石圈结构和演化——第二阶段地球动力学过程的开始

• 批准号: 0003582
• 负责人: Eric Erslev
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2002-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Lithospheric; Structure; Evolution

0003582ErslevThe western U.S. is one of the best places in the world to study continental evolution because there is a preserved unique record of the growth, stabilization, maturation, rifting, and incipient dismemberment of a continent. In particular, we can see how older lithospheric structures (in this case Archean and Proterozoic) influenced younger tectonic events, including development of the huge, presently active, orogenic plateau that dominates the western U.S. and the progressive dismemberment and dispersal of continental fragments along its active western margin. Continents are the long-term record keepers of plate interactions before 200 Ma. However, accumulated modification often obscures the previous record. The western U.S. is unique in that this part of the continent was assembled in the Proterozoic around an Archean "cratonic core", then was truncated in the Phanerozoic at a high angle so as to create a new continental margin oblique to the Precambrian structures. The result was the creation of a wide region - the western U.S. - where nature "caught" all stages of structural reactivation and continental modification.The main goal of the CD-ROM (Continental Dynamics of the Rocky Mountains) Project is to understand the processes of formation and modification of continental lithosphere. Phase 1 of the CD-ROM experiment was a three year project to improve our structural and petrologic knowledge of the lithosphere and to test the hypothesis that the lithospheric structure produced during assembly of southwestern North America has profoundly influenced physical and chemical modification of the continental lithosphere during all subsequent magmatic and tectonic events, including those related to the ongoing asthenospheric flow. The principal investigators studied two Proterozoic structures with a range of seismic and geologic methods: the Cheyenne Belt and the Jemez lineament. Reflection, refraction, and teleseismic investigations are providing crustal - and lithospheric - scale images of major structures. A more complete picture of the evolution of the lithosphere has been added by geologic studies of Precambrian shear zones and Phanerozoic structures, xenolith studies, and geomorphologic and exhumation studies of present landforms. Phase 1 brought together 18 investigators from 14 institutions, including collaboration with a German-funded refraction team. With these awards, one year of funding is provided to continue to process, interpret, and integrate the diverse data sets generated in Phase 1 and to begin developing geodynamic models. The Principal Investigators will also explore new methods of data integration towards the goal of developing a "master model" for lithospheric structure.***

0003582Erslev美国西部是世界上研究大陆演化的最佳地点之一，因为这里保存着有关大陆生长、稳定、成熟、裂谷和初期分裂的独特记录。 特别是，我们可以看到更古老的岩石圈结构（在这种情况下是太古宙和元古代）如何影响更年轻的构造事件，包括主导美国西部的巨大的、目前活跃的造山高原的发展，以及沿着其活跃的西缘的大陆碎片的逐步肢解和分散。 大陆是 200 Ma 之前板块相互作用的长期记录保存者。 然而，累积的修改往往会掩盖以前的记录。 美国西部的独特之处在于，这部分大陆在元古代围绕太古代“克拉通核心”聚集，然后在显生宙以高角度截断，从而形成与前寒武纪构造倾斜的新大陆边缘。 其结果是形成了一个广阔的区域 - 美国西部 - 大自然“捕获”了结构重新激活和大陆改造的所有阶段。CD-ROM（落基山脉大陆动力学）项目的主要目标是了解大陆岩石圈的形成和改造过程。 CD-ROM实验的第一阶段是一个为期三年的项目，旨在提高我们对岩石圈的结构和岩石学知识，并检验北美西南部组装过程中产生的岩石圈结构深刻影响了所有后续岩浆和构造事件（包括与正在进行的软流圈流动相关的事件）期间大陆岩石圈的物理和化学变化的假设。 主要研究人员使用一系列地震和地质方法研究了两个元古代构造：夏延带和杰梅兹线。 反射、折射和远震研究提供了主要结构的地壳和岩石圈尺度图像。 通过对前寒武纪剪切带和显生宙结构的地质研究、捕虏体研究以及对现有地貌的地貌和折返研究，增加了关于岩石圈演化的更完整的图景。 第一阶段汇集了来自 14 个机构的 18 名研究人员，其中包括与德国资助的验光团队的合作。 通过这些奖项，将提供一年的资金来继续处理、解释和整合第一阶段生成的不同数据集，并开始开发地球动力学模型。 首席研究员还将探索新的数据集成方法，以实现开发岩石圈结构“主模型”的目标。***