Modern Carbonate Environments, Diagenesis, Soil Formation and Pleistocene Analogues

本研讨会面向本科院校教授历史地质学、古生物学、岩石学或相关领域课程的教师，他们对现代碳酸盐岩几乎没有经验。研讨会的目的是扩大学员对现代碳酸盐沉积物、古代碳酸盐的前驱物质以及影响它们的沉积变化的理解。将研究的具体课题包括碳酸盐分泌生物、沉积物、沉积环境、碳酸盐成岩作用、土壤形成和更新世类似物的解释。该讲习班还将为学员提供获取特定碳酸盐环境照片和收集样本的机会，这些样本可用于加强其本国机构的教学。将为每位与会者编写并提供一本约100页的指南。将向每位与会者提供一套需要特殊设备的特写幻灯片，包括水下照片和显微照片等材料。该项目包括日常实地工作、实验室和讲座，将在巴哈马圣萨尔瓦多的巴哈马野战站举行。由于大部分野外工作将涉及浮潜，参与者必须会游泳。

This workshop is addressed to undergraduate college faculty who teach courses in historical geology, paleontology, petrology, or related fields, and who have had little or no experience in modern carbonates. The purpose of the workshop is to expand the participant's understanding of modern carbonate sediments, precursors of ancient carbonates, and post depositional changes that affect them. Specific topics to be examined include carbonate-secreting organisms, sediments, environments of deposition, carbonate diagenesis, soil formation and interpretation of Pleistocene analogues. This workshop will also provide the participant with an opportunity to acquire photographs of specific carbonate environments and to collect samples which may be used to enhance instruction at his/her home institution. A guidebook, approximately 100 pages in length, will be prepared and provided for each participant. Sets of slides of features requiring special equipment will be provided to each participant including such material as underwater photographs and photomicrographs. The program involves daily field work, labs and lectures and will be held at the Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas. As much of the field work will involve snorkeling, participants must be able to swim.//