U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Neogene Siliceous Sediments of thePacific Region/June 1989/Santa Cruz, CA

该奖项将支持由加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的罗伯特·E·加里森教授和日本东京大学的饭岛佐马教授联合举办的研讨会--“太平洋地区的新近纪硅质沉积物”。与会者将于1989年6月21日至27日在加利福尼亚州的圣克鲁斯和圣巴巴拉举行会议，讨论新近纪富含有机物质和硅藻的沉积物，并参观选定的新近纪沉积盆地。这些沉积物在环太平洋的大部分地区被观察到，是加州和日本石油的主要来源和储存岩。此外，它们记录了重大的全球古海洋学事件，如加剧的上升流，因此具有相当大的经济和历史意义。将组织这次研讨会，讨论五大主题：生物分层和地质分层之间的关系；地壳中的旋回；沉积环境；成岩作用；以及自然资源和盆地分析。通过比较日本和加利福尼亚州新近纪沉积物的发展，并总结两国的最新研究成果，与会者应该不仅能够促进该领域的知识状况，而且还能够清楚地确定重大悬而未决的问题，并采取行动促进这一领域未来的跨太平洋合作研究。

This award will support a seminar, "Neogene Siliceous Sediments of the Pacific Region," organized jointly by Prof. Robert E. Garrison of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Prof. Azuma Iijima of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Participants will meet in Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, California, June 21 to 27, 1989 to discuss neogene organic-rich and diatomaceous sediments and to visit selected neogene sedimentary basins. These sediments, which are observed around much of the Pacific rim, are the major source and storage rocks for petroleum in both California and Japan. Furthermore, they record significant global paleoceanographic events, such as intensified upwelling, and thus have considerable economic and historical significance. The seminar will be organized so that five major themes are discussed: the correlation between biological and geological stratification; cycles in the earth's crust; depositional environments; diagenesis; and natural resources and basin analysis. By comparing the development of neogene sediments in Japan and California, and by summarizing the latest research results in both countries, participants should be able not only to advance the state of knowledge in the field, but also to clearly identify the significant unresolved issues and act to promote future trans-Pacific collaborative research in this area.