AGU Chapman Conference on Detachments in Oceanic Lithosphere: Deformation, Magmatism, Fluid Flow, and Ecoystems

拆离断层现在已知沿地球洋中脊系统的很大一部分发生。这个研讨会将于2010年5月在塞浦路斯以美国地球物理联合会查普曼会议的名义举办，它将汇集一个国际的、跨学科的科学家小组来讨论这些重要的、但人们知之甚少的特征。它将侧重于确定我们对剥离断层及其起源的认识中的重要空白。在塞浦路斯Troodos蛇绿岩的实地考察将使参与者能够在一个容易到达的地点详细检查这些结构的主要特征。重点将放在它们的构造意义、形成机制以及与流体渗漏的联系上，流体渗漏是不寻常的深海生物的宿主。在培训早期职业教师、研究生和博士后研究人员认识、特征和这些结构的影响方面，这项工作的更广泛影响是强大的。通过编写一卷论文，将促进讲习班成果的广泛传播，这些论文总结了目前的知识状况，并指出了这些重要和多产的构造环境的知识方面的重要差距。

Detachment faults are now known to occur along a large portion of the earth's mid-ocean ridge system. This workshop, which is being run as an American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference in Cyprus in May of 2010, will bring together an international, interdisciplinary group of scientists to discuss these important, yet little understood, features. It will focus on identifing important gaps in our knowledge of detachment faults and their origin. Field excursions at the Troodos Ophiolite in Cyprus will allow participants to examine in detail, in an easily accessible location, key features of these structures. Empahsis will be on their tectonic significance, mechanisms of formation, and association with fluid seeps that host unusual deep sea organisms. Broader impacts of the work are strong in terms of training early career faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral resaerchers in the recognition, characteristics, and impacts of these structures. Broad dissemination of workshop results will be facilitated by the production of a volume of papers that summarize the present state of knowledge and that identify important gaps in knowledge of these important and prolific tectonic settings.