Collaborative Study: Re-evaluation of the Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) and Tasmania (Australia)

这个奖项支持了对晚古生代冈瓦纳冰期沉积物的初步研究。这些沉积物代表了地球最后一次从冰库转变为温室世界。该项目将产生新的地层学，沉积学和地球化学数据，从塔斯马尼亚（澳大利亚）的冰近沉积。其成果将是一个强有力的、区域规模的年代地层框架，可以纳入全球观点。如果成功的话，这项研究将为在南极洲北方维多利亚地进行类似的沉积工作铺平道路。这项工作的结果将有助于建立过去气候的模型。在更广泛的影响方面，社会将受益于对冰室气候模式期间气候变率和幅度的见解，包括从冰室到温室气候状态过渡期间的变化，这可能适用于当前地球自身的气候在不久的将来。

AbstractThis award supports a pilot study of deposits from the late Paleozoic Gondwanan ice age. These deposits represent the last time that the earth transitioned from an ice-house to greenhouse world. This project will generate new stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geochemical data from ice-proximal deposits in Tasmania (Australia). The outcome will be a robust, chronostratigraphic framework of regional scale that can be incorporated into global views. If successful, this study will pave the way work on similar deposits in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The results from this work will contribute to models of past climates. In terms of broader impacts, society will benefit from insights gained on rates and magnitudes of climate variability during icehouse climate modes, including changes during the transition from icehouse to greenhouse climate states, which may apply to the current earth's own climate in the near future.