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

现在已知分离断层沿地球洋中脊系统的大部分地区发生。 该研讨会将于 2010 年 5 月在塞浦路斯举行，作为美国地球物理联合会查普曼会议的一部分，将汇集一个国际跨学科科学家小组来讨论这些重要但鲜为人知的特征。 它将侧重于确定我们对分离断层及其起源的认识中的重要差距。塞浦路斯特罗多斯蛇绿岩的实地考察将使参与者能够在易于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、形成机制以及与容纳不寻常的深海生物的流体渗漏的关联上。 这项工作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、特征和影响方面具有强大的更广泛影响。编写大量论文将有助于研讨会成果的广泛传播，这些论文总结了目前的知识状况，并确定了这些重要而丰富的构造环境知识中的重大差距。

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.