COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A GIS DATABASE FOR STUDYING AND VISUALIZING TETHYAN PLATE COLLISIONS

0237481苏丹这个合作的地理信息学项目将涉及一个研究小组在伊利诺伊大学-芝加哥（花，N-0238199），休斯顿（汗，N-0237999），密苏里州（桑德沃尔，N-0238199）和纽约州立大学布法罗（苏丹，N-0237481）。 该小组将建立一个跨学科的地理信息系统数据库（特提斯），作为研究特提斯带板块碰撞反应的工具。 TETHYS将位于伊利诺伊大学超级计算机设施-StarTap的中心，这是一个高速（155 Mbps）的国家和国际研究网络流量对等点。 这一安排将满足对高速数据库查询、高速联网和高级可视化专门知识的预计需求。 该数据库将包括数字化地质图、结构指标、大地测量数据、遥感数据、基于样本的主要和微量元素丰度、放射性年龄、蛇绿岩、超高压变质岩、与碰撞有关的岩浆体的同位素丰度以及与地幔和地壳结构和结构有关的地震数据。 建设阶段完成后，TETHYS地理信息系统网络服务器将成为国家地球科学网络（GEON）的一个节点; GEON是一个致力于建立连接多学科地球科学数据集的固体地球地球科学网络基础设施的持续倡议。

0237481SultanThis collaborative geoinformatics project will involve a team of researchers at the University of Illinois - Chicago (Flower, EAR-0238199), Houston (Khan, EAR-0237999), Missouri (Sandvol, EAR-0238199) and SUNY-Buffalo (Sultan, EAR-0237481). The team will build an interdisciplinary GIS database (TETHYS) as a tool for studying plate collision responses in the Tethyan belt. TETHYS will reside at the University of Illinois Supercomputer Facility - hub of StarTap, a high speed (155 Mbps) peering point for national and international research network traffic. This arrangement will accommodate the projected need for high-speed database queries, high-speed networking and advanced visualization expertise. The database will include digitized geological maps, structural indicators, geodetic data, remote sensing data, sample-based major and trace element abundances, radiometric ages, isotopic abundances for ophiolites, ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks, collision-related magmatic bodies, and seismic data pertaining to mantle and crustal fabric and structure. On completion of the construction phase, the TETHYS GIS webserver will become a node of the national GEOscience Network (GEON); an ongoing initiative committed to creating solid earth geoscience cyberinfrastructure linking multidisciplinary geoscience data sets.***