Project INDEPTH - Phase II Planning

9304808纳尔逊该奖项将支持国际合作项目第二阶段的规划，该项目旨在收集喜马拉雅/西藏高原碰撞带的深层地震反射和相关的地球物理和地质数据。这个名为INDEPTH(西藏和喜马拉雅山脉的国际深部剖面)项目的试点阶段于去年夏天(1992年)由一个由美国和中国科学家组成的团队在西藏南部成功地完成了一个中国地震反射团队。试验项目的费用由美国国家科学基金会大陆动力学项目和中国领导的地质矿产部共同承担。首席调查员在初步研究中证明了“概念证明”之后，将在1994年夏季继续进行INDEPTH数据采集的下一阶段工作。然而，为了做到这一点，有必要：1.召集他们的科学顾问团队和INDEPTH的其他潜在的美国和外国参与者一起审查试点调查结果的最终分析，确定下一个要向他们的中国同事推荐的剖面点，设计核心地震实验，并协调这些其他小组更广泛地参与INDEPTH。2.派遣印度国家海洋研究所的科学家代表团前往中国，谈判下一阶段的国际海洋研究所数据采集工作，参加由中方举办的研讨会，讨论先导研究的联合结果，最重要的是在西藏寻找下一个剖面点。该奖项将支持这些关键的规划活动。***

9304808 Nelson This award will support planning for the second phase of an international collaborative project to collect deep seismic reflection and related geophysical and geological data across the Himalaya/Tibet Plateau collision zone. The pilot phase of this project, termed INDEPTH (INternational DEep Profiling of Tibet and the Himalaya) was successfully completed last summer (1992) by a team of U. S. and Chinese scientists operating a Chinese seismic reflection crew in southern Tibet. The cost of the pilot project was shared by NSF's Continental Dynamics Program and China's Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources. Having demonstrated "proof of concept" with the pilot study, the principal investigators will proceed with the next phase of INDEPTH data acquisition during the summer of 1994. In order to do this, however, the need to: 1. Bring their Science Advisory Team and other potential U.S. and foreign participants in INDEPTH together to review final analyses of the pilot survey results, to identify the next profiling site to recommend to their Chinese colleagues, to design the core seismic experiments and to coordinate the broader participation by these other groups in INDEPTH. 2. Send a delegation of INDEPTH scientists to China to negotiate the next phase of INDEPTH data acquisition, participate in a workshop being held by the Chinese to discuss the joint results of the pilot study, and most importantly scout the next profiling site in Tibet. This award will support these critical planning activities. ***