U.S.-Azerbaijan Cooperative Research: Geochemistry and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Maikop Series, Azerbaijan--Climatic and Tectonic Signals in the Sedimentary Record

这是一个计划美国和阿塞拜疆就阿塞拜疆Maikop系的地球化学和层序地层学进行长期合作研究的项目。主要调查人员是犹他大学的Cari Johnson和阿塞拜疆国家科学院地质研究所的Malakhat Efendiyeva。Maikop系列是一套页岩，它们很可能是20世纪和21世纪最丰富的石油资源之一--南里海盆地的源岩。如果我们能够解释为什么南里海盆地拥有世界上沉积速度最快、厚度最厚的沉积序列，以及包含大量石油源岩和储集岩的沉积序列，这将是我们对世界各地沉积盆地理解的重大进步。这一地球科学研究项目实现了将美国和中东欧的顶尖专家聚集在一起，在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同利益和能力强的领域结合互补努力和能力的计划目标。

This is a project to plan for long-term U.S.-Azerbaijan collaborative research on the geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy of the Maikop series in Azerbaijan. The principal investigators are Cari Johnson from the University of Utah and Malakhat Efendiyeva from the Geological Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. The Maikop series is a set of shales, which are likely the source rock for one of the most prolific petroleum resources of the 20th & 21st centuries, the South Caspian Basin. If we can explain why the South Caspian Basin contains the most rapidly deposited and thickest sedimentary successions anywhere and one that contains substantial source and reservoir rocks for petroleum, this would be a major advancement in our understanding of sedimentary basins everywhere. This project in earth sciences research fulfills the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central/Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.