Development of a Structural and Stratigraphic Framework for the McMurdo Sound Region, Western Ross Sea.

该奖项由国家科学基金会极地计划办公室南极地质和地球物理计划提供，为一个研讨会提供支持，以开发罗斯海西部麦克默多海湾地区的构造和地层框架。近年来，关于麦克默多海峡南部横贯北极山脉和维多利亚陆地盆地的构造、地层、地貌演变、冰川历史和火山年代学等方面积累了大量新的信息。该地区还获得了新的地震、磁力和重力数据。讲习班的参加者将结合裂谷盆地建筑的现代知识来评估和综合新旧数据集。讲习班的主要目标是为麦克默多海湾南部地区的裂谷/裂谷-侧翼耦合系统建立一个最新的区域结构和地层框架，将火山和冰川过程作为这一独特地球动力系统的主要驱动因素。讲习班活动将改善和加强关于南极科学问题的国际合作，并将有助于发展一个与国际伙伴关系密切的科学界，以促进未来的跨学科研究。研讨会的结果将在国际科学研讨会、侧重于南极研究前沿的未来规划研讨会上报告，并通过已建立的社区万维网进行报告，以确保广泛传播

This award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation, provides support for a workshop to develop a structural and stratigraphic framework for the McMurdo Sound region of the western Ross Sea. Extensive new information has accumulated in recent years on the structure, stratigraphy, landscape evolution, glacial history, and volcanic chronology of the Transantarctic Mountains and Victoria Land Basin in the southern McMurdo Sound region. New seismic, magnetic and gravity data have also been acquired in the area. Participants in the workshop will assess and synthesize both old and new data sets in the context of modern knowledge of the rift basin architecture. The principle objective of the workshop is to produce an updated, regional structural and stratigraphic framework for the coupled rift/rift-flank system in the southern McMurdo Sound region, incorporating volcanic and glacial processes as key drivers of this unique geodynamic system.Broader ImpactThe workshop will be international in scope, with participants from Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The workshop activities will improve and enhance international collaboration on Antarctic sciences questions and will help to develop a well-integrated science community with international partnerships for future interdisciplinary research. Workshop results will be reported at international science symposia, future planning workshops focused on Antarctic research frontiers, and via established community World Wide Web sites, to ensure broad dissemination