Japan Long-Term Research Visit: A Comparative Study of Triassic Reefs and Reef Organisms Between North America and Japan

该奖项将支持12个月的长期访问， 乔治教授D.斯坦利大学地质系 蒙大拿州到日本进行合作研究项目， 熊本教育学部田村实教授 大学 该研究将包括一项比较研究， 三叠纪的珊瑚礁和珊瑚生物， 日本 该项目将调查 日本九州岛上的礁状三叠纪石灰岩， 本州 它还将涉及详细的分类和 珊瑚、海绵和其他造礁作用的古生态学研究 并进行了微相分析 碳酸盐岩 日本化石和岩石类型研究 将构成与类似年龄沉积物进行比较的基础 以及欧洲阿尔卑斯山和北美西部的化石。 研究结果将与以前的研究相结合 来综合分析珊瑚礁的形成和 中生代早期的珊瑚礁生物。 该项目将 这是一个重要的步骤， 特提斯早中生代礁生物群的全球综合， 环太平洋地区。 田村教授是一位著名的 对三叠纪有着长期兴趣和出版物的研究者 日本南部的化石。 熊本大学包含许多 感兴趣的化石 此外，最好的收藏品 生活在福冈附近的九州大学。 史丹利教授是世界上其中一位 三叠纪生物礁及其组成动物群。 据信 这将是一个非常富有成效的合作， 研究工作将在正式协议达成后继续进行。 终止

This award will support a twelve month long-term visit by Professor George D. Stanley, Department of Geology, University of Montana to Japan for a cooperative research project with Professor Minoru Tamura, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University. The research will include a comparative study of triassic reefs and reef organisms between North America and Japan. The project will investigate fossiliferous outcrops of reeflike Triassic limestone on the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu. It will also involve a detailed taxonomic and paleoecologic study of corals, sponges and other reef-building biotas as well as a microfacies analysis of the enclosing carbonate rocks. Study of the Japanese fossils and rock types will form the basis for a comparison with similar-age deposits and fossils in the European Alps and in western North America. Results of the research will be integrated with previous research to produce a synthesis of reef-building and the distribution of the reef organisms during the early Mesozoic. This project will constitute an important step in an ongoing attempt toward a global synthesis of early Mesozoic reef biotas in the Tethyan and circum-Pacific regions. Professor Tamura is an established researcher with long-time interests and publications on Triassic fossils from southern Japan. Kumamoto University contains many fossils of interest. In addition, the best curated collections of Triassic corals reside in Kyushu University at nearby Fukuoka. Professor Stanley is one of the leading world authorities on Triassic reefs and their constituent faunas. It is believed that this will be a very productive collaboration and that their research efforts will continue after the formal agreement has terminated.