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

现在已知的是，沿地球大洋中脊系统的很大一部分发生了滑脱断层。这一讲习班将于2010年5月在塞浦路斯举行的美国地球物理联盟查普曼会议上举行，届时一个国际跨学科科学家小组将齐聚一堂，讨论这些重要但鲜为人知的特点。它将集中于找出我们对滑脱断层及其成因的认识上的重要空白。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、形成机制以及与异常深海生物所在的流体渗漏的关联上。这项工作的更广泛的影响是在培训早期职业教师、研究生和博士后研究人员对这些结构的认识、特征和影响方面产生强烈的影响。将通过编写大量论文来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，并查明了这些重要和多产的构造背景方面的重要知识差距。

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.