EAGER Proposal - Exploratory Fieldwork in the Late Devonian of western Mongolia in the Summer of 2012

这是一个迫切的项目，旨在支持针对蒙古西部3.6亿年前的岩石进行的实地考察。这次实地考察将由乌兰巴托蒙古科学院的资深科学家亚林皮尔·阿里乌奇米格博士率领。野外工作的目标是研究这些古老的露头，以定位充满化石的岩石，这些岩石在时间上暴露出一条称为弗拉斯尼亚/法门边界的边界，以及其他显示重要演化和灭绝事件的关键间隔。研究人员希望扩大他们对这段时间内的关键生物和地球化学事件的了解，包括Kellwasser和Hangenberg海洋事件，这些事件反映了海洋中可能耗尽的氧气。

This is an EAGER project to support fieldwork targeting 360 million year old rocks in western Mongolia. The field trip will be led by Dr. Yarinpil Ariunchimeg, who is a senior scientist at the Mongolia Academy of Sciences in Ulaanbaatar. The goal of the fieldwork is to examine these ancient outcrops to locate rocks that are full of fossils that expose a boundary in time called the Frasnian/Famennian boundary as well as other key intervals that show important evolution and extinction events. The investigators hope to expand their knowledge of the key biotic and geochemical events during this time interval including the Kellwasser and Hangenberg oceanographic events, that reflect the possible depletion of oxygen in the oceans.