Collaborative Research: Developing a Quantitiative Understanding of Clinoform Formation, Gulf of Papa

这是一个研究导致巴布亚湾（GoP）大陆架上陆形发育的沉积物运输和积累过程的项目。陆架斜形是大陆边缘地层学的主要组成部分，但人们对形成它们的过程知之甚少。通过现场研究（地震剖面和活塞取心）和数值模拟相结合，可以在地质时间尺度上对中陆架斜形发育进行定量认识。这些研究将验证一个假设，即形成当今斜形地貌的主要机制是流体泥浆的跨陆架重力流，而下层地层可能是在不同条件下形成的，以响应海平面上升速度和沉积物供应的变化。

This is a project to study the processes of sediment transport and accumulation that lead to development of the clinoforms on the Gulf of Papua (GoP) continental shelf. Shelf clinoforms are the dominant components of continental-margin stratigraphy, but little is known about the processes that create them. By combining field research (seismic profiling and piston coring) and numerical modeling, quantitative understanding of mid-shelf clinoform development at geologic time scales can be developed. These studies will test the hypothesis that the predominant mechanism for creating the present-day clinoform morphology is across-shelf gravity flow of fluid muds, whereas underlying strata may have formed in different conditions in response to changing rates of sea-level rise and sediment supply.