ROW: Analysis of Alluvial Architecture and Paleosols Using Remote Sensing

行:利用遥感分析冲积层结构和古土壤沉积盆地的发展历史最好通过多学科研究项目来重建，该项目不仅包括更多传统的研究，如构造地质学和沉积学，以及仍然处于实验阶段的技术，如遥感。遥感可以比单独通过实地研究更有效和更容易地提供大量数据，从而加强流域分析。此外，卫星图像显示的区域视角可以激发对地质问题的新疑问和见解，并揭示在地面上不易看到的特征。这项研究是对正在进行的怀俄明州比格霍恩盆地冲积矿床实地研究的扩展，通过使用卫星图像和数字图像处理技术的光谱数据，从局部扩展到区域范围。主要目的是提高对产生下始新世威尔伍德组冲积构造的沉积学和构造过程的认识。第二个目标是测试和完善在过去几年对威尔伍德组的研究中确定的大规模古土壤循环的概念。该项目旨在通过提供现代遥感技术和数据处理的经验，扩大首席研究员的科学专业知识和研究能力。它为探索创新技术提供了难得的机会，这些技术不仅可以用于研究大角盆地的发展史，还可以用于未来的研究项目。

ROW: ANALYSIS OF ALLUVIA ARCHITECTURE AND PALEOSOLS USING REMOTE SENSING The developmental history of sedimentary basins is best reconstructed using a multidisciplinary research program that includes not only more traditional studies such as structural geology and sedimentology, but also techniques that are still experimental, such as remote sensing. Remote sensing can enhance basin analysis by providing large quantities of data more efficiently and more easily than can be accomplished through field research alone. In addition, the regional perspective shown in satellite images can stimulate new questions and insights into a geologic problem and reveal features that are not readily visible on the ground. This research is an expansion of ongoing field research of alluvial deposits in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming from a local to a regional scale by using spectral data from satellite images and digital image processing techniques. The major objective is to improve understanding of the sedimentologic and tectonic processes which produced the alluvial architecture of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation. The second goal is to test and refine concepts of large-scale paleosol cycles determined during the past several years of research on the Willwood Formation. This project is designed to broaden the Principal Investigator's scientific expertise and research capabilities by providing experience with modern remote sensing techniques and data processing. It offers a rare opportunity to explore innovative techniques that can be used not only in studying the developmental history of the Bighorn Basin but also in future research projects.