U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: Mixed Carbonate- Siliciclastic Peritidal Sediments & Environments of the La Paz Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico

这笔美国-墨西哥奖将支持斯坦福大学的James Ingle教授和墨西哥拉巴斯跨学科科学码头中心的Rodolfo Cruz-Orozco教授之间的研究合作。研究人员的目标是研究墨西哥下加利福尼亚南部拉巴斯地区不寻常的、具有重要地质意义的亚热带浅水碳酸盐岩环境。研究结果将直接应用于该气候敏感区的现代、第四纪和新生代海洋学和古气候史的解释；了解构造活动环境下碳酸盐沉积物的形成和保存；在拟议的生态保护区监测和保护脆弱的海洋环境。该项目将有助于进一步促进墨西哥和美国科学家和研究生之间的国际科学合作，并将大大拓宽我们对加利福尼亚湾南部浅层碳酸盐岩环境的了解，这些环境虽然研究很少，但环境独特，地质意义重要。＊＊＊

9722507 Ingle This U.S.-Mexico award will support a research collaboration between Prof. James Ingle of Stanford University and Prof. Rodolfo Cruz-Orozco of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas in La Paz, Mexico. The researchers aim to study unusual and geologically important subtropical shallow water carbonate environments in the La Paz area of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Results of this research will have immediate application to the interpretation of the modern, Quaternary, and Cenozoic oceanographic and paleoclimatic history of this climatically sensitive region; understanding the formation and preservation of carbonate sediments in tectonically active settings; and monitoring and protection of fragile marine environments in a proposed ecological reserve. This project will help to further international scientific collaboration between Mexican and U.S. scientists and graduate students and will substantially broaden our understanding of the little studied but environmentally unique and geologically important shallow carbonate environments of the southern Gulf of California. ***