Collaborative Research: Establishment of a Geodetic Crustal Dynamics Network in Eastern Indonesia Using the Global Positioning System

该项目涉及使用全球定位系统 (GPS)在印度尼西亚东部，一个广泛变形的地区， 澳大利亚和东南亚的大陆边缘以及大洋 太平洋和菲律宾海的板块在 速率为80至110毫米/年。板块构造概念无法解释 印度尼西亚等扩散变形带的演化 除了非常一般地因为变形不限于 边界清晰的刚性板的边缘。 因此，印度尼西亚的研究 像这样的地方对于发展更广泛的 全球构造理论和扩大我们的知识， 板块相互作用的动力学 印尼东部正处于 大陆和海洋地壳元素的集合， 最终会形成一个复杂的山脉带 应变 这种变形区域内的场是一阶观测 可以限制地壳和上层地壳的行为 山的建筑。

This project involves using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in eastern Indonesia, a region of broad deformation where the continental margins of Australia and Southeast Asia and the oceanic plates of the Pacific and Philippine Sea are coming together at rates of 80 to 110 mm/yr. Plate tectonic concepts do not explain the evolution of Indonesia and other diffusely deforming belts except very generally because deformation is not confined to the edges of well-defined, rigid plates. Hence, the study of Indonesia and places like it will be critical in developing more general theories of global tectonics and expanding our knowledge of the dynamics of plate interactions. Eastern Indonesia is at the stage of assembly of the crustal elements, both continental and oceanic, that will eventually form a complex mountain belt. The strain field within such deforming regions is a first-order observation that can constrain ideas about the behavior of the crust and upper mantle in mountain building.