U.S.-Pakistan Workshop 'Indo-Asia Continental Collision, Islamabad, Pakistan, January 2009'

0817563 khan该奖项支持将于2009年1月在巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡举行的美国-巴基斯坦研讨会“印度-亚洲大陆碰撞”。美国组织者是Shuhab Khan博士，外国组织者是来自巴基斯坦奎达俾路支省大学矿物学卓越中心的Khalid Mahmoud博士和Abdel S. Khan博士，以及巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡Quaid-I-Azam大学地球科学系的Zulfiqar Ahmed博士。该奖项支持美国科学家参加在印度-亚洲碰撞带西部边缘的巴基斯坦协调研究的研讨会，他们将在那里开发测试印度-亚洲板块碰撞模型的方法。在伊斯兰堡进行两天的讨论之后，将在跨印度河山脉（伊斯兰堡、科哈特、卡拉巴）和奎达地区实地进行几天的讨论，专门为专门的地球化学和同位素研究选择详细的研究地点和初步取样。研讨会的一个成果将是制定提交给美国国家科学基金会的合作提案。研讨会将汇集来自美国、巴基斯坦和欧洲的地球科学家，探讨如何将遥感和层析成像研究与蛇绿岩和弧火山的地球化学、同位素和地质年代学研究结合起来。该小组将对巴基斯坦的蛇绿岩代表与印亚碰撞有关的海洋前弧复合体残余物的假设进行测试。科学家将计划如何利用遥感、InSAR、GPS和实地技术研究该地区的主要走滑断层，以评估碰撞导致的大陆内部变形机制。智力价值：21世纪地球科学家面临的一个基本问题是大陆是如何进化的。讲习班将采取的解决这一广泛的构造问题的办法是综合巴基斯坦的实地、遥感、地球化学和同位素年龄研究。西喜马拉雅山脉的这一部分被认为是大陆之间碰撞的一个例子，其中包括一个岛弧。研讨会研究讨论的一个重点将是巴基斯坦北部和西部关键地区海洋开放和关闭的时间，这一问题尚未得到很好的解决。该研讨会是一个确定科学目标和启动连贯合作方法的机会。巴基斯坦蛇绿岩和弧岩的综合遥感、地球化学和同位素工作将为我们理解喜马拉雅碰撞的时间和性质以及相关的变形机制提供重要的限制。更广泛的影响：研讨会将包括来自美国和巴基斯坦的研究生和几名早期职业教师，其中包括女性。在研讨会上最终确定的研究项目将建立在目前地质学、地球物理学、地球化学和地球科学数据库开发方面的合作联系上。这个合作研究项目还将增进美国、欧洲和巴基斯坦科学家之间的了解。

0817563 KhanThis award supports a US-Pakistan Workshop, "Indo-Asia Continental Collision", to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan, in January 2009. The U.S. organizer is Dr. Shuhab Khan and the foreign organizers are Dr. Khalid Mahmoud and Dr. Abdel S. Khan, both from the Center of Excellence in Mineralogy, University of Balochistan in Quetta, Pakistan and D. Zulfiqar Ahmed, Earth Sciences Department, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, in Pakistan. The award supports U.S. scientists to attend the workshop to coordinate research in Pakistan, the western margin of the Indo-Asia collision zone, where they will develop ways to test India-Asia plate collision models. Two days of discussion in Islamabad will be followed by several days in the field in the Trans-Indus Ranges (Islamabad, Kohat, Kalabagh) and in the Quetta area, dedicated to selection of detailed study sites and preliminary sampling for specialized geochemical and isotopic studies. One outcome of the workshop will be the development of collaborative proposals for submission to the National Science Foundation. The workshop will bring together geoscientists from the U.S., Pakistan and Europe and will explore how to combine remote sensing and tomographic studies with geochemical, isotopic, and geochronologic studies on ophiolites and arc volcanics. The group will develop tests of the hypothesis that ophiolites in Pakistan represent remnants of intra-oceanic forearc complexes, related to Indo-Asia collision. Scientists will plan how to use remote sensing, InSAR, GPS and field techniques in studies of the major strike slip faults in this region to assess intra-continental deformation mechanisms resulting from the collision. Intellectual Merit: A fundamental question facing 21st century geoscientists is how continents evolve. The approach to this broad tectonic question to be taken in the workshop is to integrate field, remote sensing, geochemical and isotopic age studies in Pakistan. This part of the western Himalayas is considered an example of the collision between continents involving an intervening island-arc. One focus of the workshop's research discussion will be on the timing, which is as yet poorly resolved, of ocean opening and closing in the critical area of north and western Pakistan. The workshop is an opportunity to define scientific objectives and launch a coherent collaborative approach. Integrated remote sensing, geochemical and isotopic work on ophiolites and arc rocks in Pakistan should provide significant constraints on our understanding of the timing and nature of the Himalayan collision and related deformational mechanisms. Broader Impact: The workshop will include graduate students and several early career faculty members, including females, from U.S. and Pakistan. Research programs to be finalized at the workshop will build on current collaborative links in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and geoscience database development. The collaborative research project will also enhance understanding between US, European and Pakistani scientists.