Deep-water sedimentation: processes, architecture and chronology

深水沉积：过程、结构和年代学

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-04217
• 负责人: Piper, David
• 金额: $ 2.19万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=683410
• 关键词: Deep; water; sedimentation; processes; architecture

The grant will support graduate students working on seafloor geology on the continental margin off Eastern Canada. Students will be registered in a regular university graduate program, but much of their study and research will take place at the Geological Survey of Canada at Bedford Institute of Oceanography. With additional territory that will be acquired through the United Nations Law of the Sea process, Canada will need a new generation of scientists to properly understand and manage her vast marine territories. Seafloor conditions largely result from erosion and sedimentation which took place when most of Canada, including its continental shelves were covered by ice, and this framework is only slightly modified by modern processes. Students supported by this grant will investigate how sediment is and was transported from the shelf to the deep sea, how sediment is transported southward and westward in the Labrador Current, how deep canyons were cut, and how such sediment impacts the use of seabed resources. Studies of modern sediments also provide important analogues for understanding how ancient rocks formed, including deep-water reservoirs for oil and gas.

该补助金将支持研究生在加拿大东部大陆边缘从事海底地质学工作。学生将在一个正规的大学研究生课程注册，但他们的大部分学习和研究将在加拿大地质调查局在贝德福德海洋研究所进行。由于将通过联合国海洋法进程获得更多的领土，加拿大将需要新一代的科学家来适当了解和管理其广阔的海洋领土。海底状况主要是由侵蚀和沉积造成的，当时加拿大大部分地区，包括其大陆架，都被冰覆盖，这一框架仅因现代进程而略有改变。由该补助金支持的学生将调查沉积物是如何从大陆架运输到深海的，沉积物是如何在拉布拉多海流中向南和向西运输的，深峡谷是如何被切割的，以及这些沉积物如何影响海底资源的使用。对现代沉积物的研究也为理解古代岩石的形成提供了重要的类比，包括深水油气藏。