Paleobotany and Biostratigraphy of the Allan Hills Area

该奖项支持对南极洲维多利亚州南部艾伦山地区的巨型绿叶植物和孢粉植物区系的调查。该项目的目标是使用现代方法收集这些植物群(即，将植物群置于其古生态和地层环境中)，并详细描述其中所含植物的特征。这些数据将提供分类、古生态、古气候和生物地理信息，可与南极洲和冈瓦那其他更知名的植物群(例如，横贯北极山脉中部的植物群)进行比较。

This award supports an investigation of the megafloras and palynofloras of the Allan Hills area in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The objectives for this project are to collect these floras using modern methods (i.e., placing the floras within their paleoecologic and stratigraphic settings) and to characterize the plants contained therein in detail. These data will provide taxonomic, paleoecologic, paleoclimatic and biogeographic information that can be compared with other better-known floras (e.g., from the central Transantarctic Mountains) in Antarctica and in Gondwana.