Collaborative Research: A GIS Database for Studying and Visualizing Tethyan Plate Collisions

这个地理信息学合作项目将涉及伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（Flower, EAR-0238199）、休斯顿大学（Khan, EAR-0237999）、密苏里大学（Sandvol, EAR-0238199）和纽约州立大学布法罗分校（Sultan, EAR-0237481）的一个研究小组。该小组将建立一个跨学科的地理信息系统数据库（TETHYS），作为研究特提斯带板块碰撞反应的工具。TETHYS将驻留在伊利诺伊大学超级计算机设施——StarTap的中心，StarTap是一个高速（155 Mbps）对等点，用于国内和国际研究网络流量。这种安排将满足对高速数据库查询、高速网络和高级可视化专业知识的预期需求。该数据库将包括数字化地质图、构造指标、大地测量数据、遥感数据、基于样品的主要元素和微量元素丰度、辐射年龄、蛇绿岩、超高压变质岩、碰撞相关岩浆岩的同位素丰度，以及与地幔和地壳结构和结构有关的地震数据。建设阶段完成后，TETHYS GIS网站服务器将成为国家地球科学网络（GEON）的一个节点；一项正在进行的倡议，致力于创建连接多学科地球科学数据集的固体地球科学网络基础设施

0238416FlowerThis collaborative geoinformatics project will involve a team of researchers at the University of Illinois - Chicago (Flower, EAR-0238199), Houston (Khan, EAR-0237999), Missouri (Sandvol, EAR-0238199) and SUNY-Buffalo (Sultan, EAR-0237481). The team will build an interdisciplinary GIS database (TETHYS) as a tool for studying plate collision responses in the Tethyan belt. TETHYS will reside at the University of Illinois Supercomputer Facility - hub of StarTap, a high speed (155 Mbps) peering point for national and international research network traffic. This arrangement will accommodate the projected need for high-speed database queries, high-speed networking and advanced visualization expertise. The database will include digitized geological maps, structural indicators, geodetic data, remote sensing data, sample-based major and trace element abundances, radiometric ages, isotopic abundances for ophiolites, ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks, collision-related magmatic bodies, and seismic data pertaining to mantle and crustal fabric and structure. On completion of the construction phase, the TETHYS GIS webserver will become a node of the national GEOscience Network (GEON); an ongoing initiative committed to creating solid earth geoscience cyberinfrastructure linking multidisciplinary geoscience data sets.***