U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research: Comparative Stratigraphic/Paleontological Studies of the Cretaceous Period in the Colorado Plateau and the Jindong Formation of South Korea

该提案要求提供资金，允许马丁·G。洛克利， 丹佛科罗拉多大学地质系， 和地质系的杨承永博士一起研究， 韩国庆北国立大学，为期24年 几个月，一个合作研究计划，以完成 对白垩纪恐龙足迹层的研究， 韩国金洞组。 这项研究的基础广泛， 包括地层学、沉积学、 环境和古生物的研究。 杨博士以前的工作表明， 超过150个履带支承层， 厚度超过300米 电流 资料表明，金东组具有较大的 恐龙足迹的集中度 存款。 这个地方代表了一个独特的湖泊 沉积环境 先前的研究已经证明 韩国的足迹代表了一种非常不寻常的恐龙 雷龙和大型鸟脚类恐龙 经常光顾同一个地方 全球大多数其他赛道 表明这两个群体是相互排斥的。 该项目将提供一个独特的研究机会， 美国科学家。 这也将使他能够比较 他对科罗拉多恐龙足迹的研究结果 高原地区与金东研究中获得的结果 韩国南部海岸的编队。 美国和 韩国的合作者都是德高望重的科学家， 成功合作的记录。 该项目将 让他们联合收割机结合他们的知识和技能， 效益 该项目与《公约》的目标有关， 美国--韩国合作科学计划，旨在 提高美国和韩国之间的合作水平 科学家和工程师通过科学交流， 信息、想法、技能和技术， 在互惠互利的问题上进行合作。 杨医生的 参与该项目得到了韩国的支持 科学和工程基金会。 这个项目 将增加国际合作的层面， Lockley博士的研究获得了NSF资助，资助号为1008618206。

This proposal requests funds to permit Dr. Martin G. Lockley, Department of Geology, University of Colorado at Denver, to pursue with Dr. Seong-Young Yang, Department of Geology, Kyungpook National University, Korea, for a period of 24 months, a program of cooperative research to complete the study of the dinosaur track-bearing beds of the Cretaceous, Jindong Formation of South Korea. The study is broad based, involving the analysis of the stratigraphy, depositional environments, and paleontology of the Jindong Formation. Previous work by Dr. Yang has revealed that there are in excess of 150 track-bearing layers in a formation that is a little more than 300 meters in thickness. Current information suggests that the Jindong Formation has a greater concentration of dinosaur tracks than any comparable deposit. This site represents a unique lacustrine depositional environment. Previous studies have demonstrated that the Korean tracks represent a very unusual dinosaur community in which brontosaurs and large ornithopods frequented the same area. Most other tracksites worldwide show these two groups to be mutually exclusive. This project will provide a unique research opportunity for the U.S. scientist. It also will allow him to compare the results of his studies of dinosaur tracks in the Colorado plateau region with those obtained in studies of the Jindong Formation on the southern coast of South Korea. The U.S. and Korean collaborators are highly respected scientists who have a record of successful collaboration. This project will allow them to combine their knowledge and skills for mutual benefit. This project is relevant to the objectives of the U.S.-Korea Cooperative Science Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and Korean scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit. Dr. Yang's participation in the project is supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF). This project will add an international cooperative dimension to Dr. Lockley's research under NSF Grant No. EAR-8618206.