1) Improved age control, especially biostratigraphic framework for the Cenozoic

2) Radiocarbon dating calibration curve through detailed AMS dating of Plio-Pleistocene.

3) Determine age of uplift the Murray Ridge and the Little Murray Ridge. Relationship to and age of the R unconformity seen on west Indian continental margin.

4) Determine age of extension of the continental margins, extent and age of seaward-dipping reflector series.

5) Geochemistry and age of the basement, location of the continent-ocean transition.

6) Documentation of the Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Persian Gulf.

7) High resolution record of Plio-Pleistocene paleoceanography.

8) Record of the biotic and biogeochemical evolution of the Arabian Sea.

9) Location and evolution of the Arabia-India plate boundary.

10) Reconstruction of the mass flux into the Arabian Sea and Makran margin, and the nature of the source terrains.

11) Investigation of the Ormara Plate, real or not?  Significance?

12) Chronology of deformation in the Makran, difference in the east versus west.

13) Investigation of the existance and significance of the Oman Line.

14) Documentation of the rates of modern deformation and strain accommodation.

15) Documentation of the stratigraphy of the Kirthar Foldbelt.

16) Investigation of regional geochemical changes and their signficance for the windblown dust record into the Arabian Sea.