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 National Science
Foundation Award #9117444 |
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Constraints on the Place of Antarctica in the Cambrian World
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| Investigator(s): |
Albert Rowell (PI)
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| Sponsor: |
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, KS 66045 7858643441
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| Start Date/Expiration Date |
1992-06-01 to 1996-11-30 (amended 1994-07-07) |
| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$252,316 |
| Abstract: Greater Antarctica was in tropical latitudes and part of east Gondwana during the Cambrian. A recent hypothesis postulates: (i) that the North American and combined Australian/East Antarctic cratons were juxtaposed in the Late Proterozoic, and (ii) that their Pacific-facing margins were initiated as a conjugate rift pair during latest Proterozoic-Early Cambrian interval. This award supports a test of this hypothesis because its acceptance has profound implications of shared geologic history. This work will compare in detail Cambrian events and faunas, concentrating in regions where the two continental masses are inferred to have been closes: south-western United States and the Queen Maud-Pensacola mountains segment of Antarctica. |
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| NSF Org: |
OPP - Office of Polar Programs |
| Award Number: |
9117444 |
| Award Instrument: |
Continuing grant |
| Program Manager: |
Scott Borg
OPP Office of Polar Programs
O/D OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
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| NSF Program(s): |
ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS, ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS
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| Field Application(s): |
Geological Sciences, Other Sciences NEC, Polar Programs-Related |
| Program Reference Code(s): |
EARTH SYSTEM HISTORY, 1304
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| Program Element Code(s): |
5112
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