Hydrology of Meteoric Diagenesis - Holocene Calcarenites of Ocean Bight, Great Exuma Island, Bahamas

发展中国家科学计划奖将支持 由罗伯特·金斯伯格教授领导的美国研究小组 迈阿密大学与一群巴哈马人合作 以R博士为首的科学家V. Cant，Chief Hydrologist of the 巴哈马政府。 拟议研究的目的是 提供了一个详细的案例研究的流星成岩作用的一个 全新世沉积存款。 该砂体以大型 紧靠更新统的袋状海滩岸线存款 巴哈马群岛大埃克苏马岛的石灰岩。 这项研究将 记录水文地质学的所有相关方面， 砂体的水文地球化学和岩相学特征。 拟议的研究将有助于我们了解 早期大气碳酸盐成岩作用与 海洋岛屿的物理和化学水文学。 的 研究的水文地质方面将被应用于确定 一个潜在的重要水资源的数量和质量 巴哈马政府的直接利益。 通过使 一组对沉积学感兴趣的地质学家， 地球化学和水文地质学，并允许他们合作， 与巴哈马水资源科学家谁最了解 地下淡水的存在和水文地质框架 该奖项实现了科学的目标， 发展中国家方案。

This Science in Developing Countries Program award will support a group of U.S. researchers headed by Professor Robert Ginsburg of the University of Miami to collaborate with a group of Bahamian scientists headed by Dr. R. V. Cant, Chief Hydrologist of the Bahamian government. The purpose of the proposed research is to provide a detailed case study of the meteoric diagenesis of a Holocene sediment deposit. This sand body occurs as a large pocket-beach strandline deposit that abuts against Pleistocene limestones at Great Exuma Island, Bahamas. The research will document all relevant aspects of the hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry and petrography of the sand body. The proposed study will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between early meteoric carbonate diagenesis and the physical and chemical hydrology of ocean islands. The hydrogeologic aspects of the study will be applied to define the quantity and quality of a potentially important water resource of immediate interest to the Bahamian government. By bringing together a team of geologists with interests in sedimentology, geochemistry and hydrogeology, and allowing them to collaborate with Bahamian water-resources scientists who best know the occurrence of fresh ground water and the hydrogeologic framework of the islands,this award fulfills the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program.