Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2001/00380
Millennial-scale climate control on the structure of the Amazon Fan?
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor MA Maslin, University College London, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr T Ramsay, Cardiff University, Sch of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr P Burgess, Shell International Exploration & Produc, Global Stratigraphic Prediction Team
- Grant held at:
- University College London, Geography
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Land - Ocean Interactions
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Quaternary Science
- Palaeoenvironments
- Abstract:
- The central problem in sequence stratigraphy is the degree to which deposition on submarine fans is controlled by climate induced changes in sea-level, sediment supply or internal depositional dynamics of the fan system. The Amazon Fan provides a meaning of unravelling this crucial problem. Our central hypothesis is that shifts or avulsions of the Amazon Fan were caused by millennial-scale changes in climate. By radio carbon dating the hemipelagic tops or drapes over the sand units deposited during each of the eight rapid avulsions we can correlate shifts in Amazon sedimentation with other high resolution global eustatic and climatic records. The results will determine whether global or local processes dominate the sedimentation of the Amazon Fan, hence substantiate or refute current sequence stratigraphic interpretations of Quaternary and ancient submarine fans.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2001/00380
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £31,728
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £10,913 | £3,238 | £12,557 | £5,020 |
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