FEC for participation on IODP Leg 313

了解海平面波动的历史，原因和影响是地球系统研究的一个令人信服的目标。今天，不仅世界范围内的海岸线侵蚀的影响是显而易见的，而且这种变化的速度显然在增加。尽管上个世纪全球海平面上升约为1.8 mm/y（Church和白色，2006年），但今天的速率约为3.25 mm/y（Cazenave等人，2009年），部分原因是人为影响（巴内特，1990年）。此外，在许多沿海地区，由于当地沉降的额外影响，死亡率仍然较高。地质记录显示，全球海平面波动远超过100米（Donovan等人，1979），速率高达20-40 mm/y（费尔班克斯，1989;斯坦福大学等人，2006年）。一般来说，新泽西边缘是研究新生代海平面变化历史（最近~ 5000万年）及其与层序地层学关系的理想地点，原因如下：-，快速沉积速率。- 构造稳定性。- 保存完好的、适合年龄控制的世界性化石是整个感兴趣时间段该边缘沉积物的特征。- 存在大量的地震、测井和钻孔数据，可用于制定总体目标和选择适当的钻井地点。

Understanding the history, cause, and impact of sea level fluctuations is a compelling goal of Earth system research. Not only are worldwide effects of encroaching shorelines evident today-the rate of this change is clearly increasing. Whereas global sea level rise during the previous century was ~1.8 mm/y (Church and White, 2006), today that rate is ~3.25 mm/y (Cazenave et al., 2009), in part due to anthropogenic influences (Barnett, 1990). Furthermore, in many coastal regions the rate is still higher because of the additional effect of local subsidence. The geologic record shows that global sea level has fluctuated by well over 100 m (summaries in Donovan et al., 1979) at rates as high as 20-40 mm/y (Fairbanks, 1989; Stanford et al., 2006). The New Jersey margin in general is an ideal location to investigate the Cenozoic history (last ~50 million years) of sea-level change and its relationship to sequence stratigraphy for several reasons: -,Rapid depositional rates. - Tectonic stability. - Well-preserved, cosmopolitan fossils suitable for age control characterize the sediments of this margin throughout the time interval of interest. - There exists a large set of seismic, well log, and borehole data with which to frame the general objectives and choose appropriate drill sites.