Origin and History of Glacial Deposits in West Central Minnesota

明尼苏达州中西部冰川沉积物的起源和历史

• 批准号: 9619586
• 负责人: James F Cotter
• 金额: $ 5.14万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-15 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9619586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Origin; History; Glacial; Deposits; West

9619586 Cotter The goal of the 1997 U.M.M. REU project is to nurture the development of underrepresented individuals in the geological sciences. Ten undergraduate women will be actively involved in field and laboratory research to determine the origin and history of glacial and postglacial deposits in west-central Minnesota. These studies will employ varying geologic research techniques including, sediment analysis (characterization of till and sediment facies), provenance studies (basic field descriptions and identifications, sedimentary petrography, till magnetic properties, and till geochemistry) and paleoecology assessments (micropaleontology, palynology, sedimentology and clay chemistry.) This research can be readily accomplished by the undergraduate at relatively little expense, yet will contribute substantially to the understanding of the glacial geology of the area.

9619586科特1997年UM.M.Reu项目的目标是培养地质科学中代表性不足的个人的发展。十名本科生将积极参与实地和实验室研究，以确定明尼苏达州中西部冰川和冰后沉积的起源和历史。这些研究将采用不同的地质研究方法，包括沉积物分析(冰川和沉积相的特征)、物源研究(基本野外描述和识别、沉积岩石学、冰川磁学和冰川地球化学)和古生态评估(微古生物学、孢粉学、沉积学和粘土化学)。这项研究可以很容易地由本科生以相对较少的费用完成，但将大大有助于了解该地区的冰川地质。