REU: The Role of Fluids in the Thermal and Deformational Evolution of the Whipple Mountain Metamorphic Core Complex

流体在大规模地壳伸展的构造和热演化中的作用尚未完全了解。该项目将研究可能与流体有关的热变化以及大气水在这种系统中可以渗透到的深度。研究方法是研究已被充分研究的科迪勒兰变质岩心杂岩（加利福尼亚州东南部惠普尔山脉）中流体-岩石相互作用的氧、氢同位素特征。结果将适用于伸展构造的热模型和构造模型。

The role of fluids in the structural and thermal evolution of large-scale crustal extension is not fully understood. This project will examine possible fluid-related thermal variations and the depth to which meteoric waters can penetrate in such systems. The research approach is to study the oxygen and hydrogen isotopic characteristics of fluid-rock interactions in a well-studied Cordilleran metamorphic core complex (Whipple Mountains of southeastern California). Results will be applicable to thermal and tectonic models for extensional tectonic regimes.