US-Taiwan Planning Visit to Establish Collaborative Research: The Absolute Ages of Metamorphic Fabrics in a Young Mountain Belt

OISE-0803314（Wintsch，印第安纳州大学）美国-台湾规划访问建立合作研究：在一个年轻的山区带变质织物的绝对年龄摘要这个奖项支持了两个星期的规划访问台湾的PI和两名本科生在2008年初。这次访问的重点是定量地确定台湾中央山脉骨干板岩和达纳瑙杂岩的关键岩石中组构的发育时间。这是为了更好地了解台湾造山带许多构造的绝对年龄。在缺乏这些数据的情况下，科学界对山脉何时以及为何上升以及哪些结构是哪些过程的后果存在分歧。该项目将与国立台湾大学地球科学系的卢庆华教授和国立花莲教育大学地球科学研究所的蔡金和教授合作进行。

OISE-0803314 (Wintsch, Indiana University)U.S.-Taiwan Planning Visit to Establish Collaborative Research: The Absolute Ages of Metamorphic Fabrics in a Young Mountain BeltAbstract This award supports a two-week planning visit to Taiwan by the PI and two undergraduate students in early 2008. The focus of the visit will be establishing quantitatively the time of development of fabrics in the critical rocks of the backbone slates and the Tananao complex in the Central Range in Taiwan. This is part of an effort to better understand the absolute ages of many of the structures in the Taiwan orogenic belt. In the absence of these data, disagreements within the scientific community have flourished over when and why the mountains are rising and which structures are consequences of which processes. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Professor Ching-Hua Lo of the Department of Geosciences at National Taiwan University and Professor Chin-Ho Tsai of the Institute of Earth Sciences at National Hualien University of Education.