Mesozoic to Present-Day Tectonics of the Eastern Yakut USSR: A Cooperative Research Program with the Yakut Science Center, Yakutsk, USSR

该奖项支持阿拉斯加大学与苏联雅库茨克雅库特科学中心地质研究所之间开展关于苏联东北部构造的合作研究的一个为期两年的项目。本项目将研究东部雅库特中生代到现代的构造及其对北冰洋和岩石圈过程演化的影响。这将通过考察科利米安构造环的发展及其对现今北美-欧亚板块边界的影响来完成。该项目最初将包括切尔斯基山脉（中央科利米安环）中生代岩石的古地磁研究和切尔斯基山脉北部及邻近地区的地震构造研究。该奖项支持古地磁样本的收集和分析，启动雅库特科学中心和阿拉斯加大学之间的地震数据交换，以及地震数据的合作分析。

This award supports a two year project to initiate cooperative studies between the University of Alaska and the Institute of Geology of the Yakut Science Center, Yakutsk, USSR, on the tectonics of the northeastern USSR. This project will study the Mesozoic to present-day tectonics of eastern Yakutia and its implications for the evolution of the Arctic Ocean and lithospheric processes. This will be done by examining the development of the Kolymian structural loop and its effects on the present-day North America- Eurasia plate boundary. This project will initially consist of studies of the paleomagnetism of Mesozoic rocks from the Cherskii Range (central Kolymian loop) and the seismotectonics of the northern Cherskii Range and adjacent areas. This award supports paleomagnetic sample collection and analysis, for the initiation of a seismic data exchange between the Yakut Science Center and the University of Alaska, and for cooperative analysis of seismic data.