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

我们现在知道，分离断层沿着地球洋中脊系统的很大一部分出现。 该研讨会将于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，将汇集一个国际跨学科的科学家小组，讨论这些重要但鲜为人知的特征。 它将集中在识别我们对拆离断层及其起源的认识中的重要空白。在塞浦路斯特罗多斯蛇绿岩的实地考察将使参与者能够在一个容易到达的地方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、形成机制以及与容纳不寻常深海生物的流体渗漏的关联上。 更广泛的影响的工作是强大的培训早期职业教师，研究生和博士后resaerchers在这些结构的认识，特点和影响。将编写一卷文件，总结目前的知识状况，并查明在这些重要和多产的构造环境方面的知识差距，从而促进讲习班成果的广泛传播。

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.