EAGER: Geological and Paleontological Exploration of the Southern Weyto Basin, Ethiopia - A Potential Dataset for Climate Change Impacts on a Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna

EIGER：埃塞俄比亚魏托盆地南部的地质和古生物勘探--气候变化对上更新世哺乳动物FaunaDavid DeGustaEAR-0937501的潜在影响数据集，斯坦福大学摘要埃塞俄比亚的Weyto盆地(又名Chew Burir盆地)南部似乎包含大量沉积沉积物，其中可能有重要的哺乳动物动物群。这一特征是基于地质图、遥感数据和非常简短的地面调查。Pi计划对南部的Weyto进行系统调查，以确定其地质和古生物属性。如果初步指标是准确的，该地区可能提供有助于检验古生物学和地质学中的多个重要假说的沉积物。这里要求提供资金，对韦托盆地南部进行为期一个月的地质和古生物学调查，以评估这些矿床用于测试三组主要假说的潜力：气候变化与哺乳动物进化之间的关系、阿法尔盆地和奥莫-图尔卡纳盆地动物群的生物地理差异，以及东非裂谷、隆起和干旱化之间的关系。

EAGER: Geological and Paleontological Exploration of the Southern WeytoBasin, Ethiopia -- A Potential Dataset for Climate Change Impacts on a Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian FaunaDavid DeGustaEAR-0937501, Stanford UniversityABSTRACTThe southern portion of Ethiopia's Weyto Basin (aka Chew Bahir Basin) appears to contain substantial sedimentary deposits with potentially significant mammalian faunas. This characterization is based on geological maps, remote sensing data, and very brief ground survey. PI plans to systematically survey southern Weyto to determine its geological and paleontological attributes. If the preliminary indicators are accurate, this area may provide deposits useful for testing multiple important hypotheses in paleobiology and geology. Funding is requested here for a one month geological and paleontological survey of the southern Weyto basin to evaluate the potential of these deposits for testing three main sets of hypotheses: the relationship between climate change and mammalian evolution, the biogeographic divergence of the Afar and Omo-Turkana Basin faunas, and the relationship between rifting, uplift, and aridification in East Africa.