US-Taiwan Planning Visit to Establish Collaborative Research: The Absolute Ages of Metamorphic Fabrics in a Young Mountain Belt

OISE-0803314(印第安纳大学温契)美台计划访问建立合作研究：年轻山区变质组构的绝对年龄该奖项支持国际和平组织和两名本科生于2008年初对台湾进行为期两周的计划访问。访问的重点将是定量确定台湾中部山脉主干板岩和塔南澳杂岩关键岩石的组构发育时间。这是为了更好地了解台湾造山带许多构造的绝对年龄的努力的一部分。在缺乏这些数据的情况下，科学界内部对山脉何时以及为什么上升，以及哪些结构是哪些过程的结果的分歧很大。该项目将与台湾大学地球科学系的罗庆华教授和花莲教育大学地球科学研究所的蔡金和教授合作进行。

OISE-0803314 (Wintsch, Indiana University)U.S.-Taiwan Planning Visit to Establish Collaborative Research: The Absolute Ages of Metamorphic Fabrics in a Young Mountain BeltAbstract This award supports a two-week planning visit to Taiwan by the PI and two undergraduate students in early 2008. The focus of the visit will be establishing quantitatively the time of development of fabrics in the critical rocks of the backbone slates and the Tananao complex in the Central Range in Taiwan. This is part of an effort to better understand the absolute ages of many of the structures in the Taiwan orogenic belt. In the absence of these data, disagreements within the scientific community have flourished over when and why the mountains are rising and which structures are consequences of which processes. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Professor Ching-Hua Lo of the Department of Geosciences at National Taiwan University and Professor Chin-Ho Tsai of the Institute of Earth Sciences at National Hualien University of Education.