Collaborative Research: REU: An Integrated Field-laboratory Experience for Undergraduates: Constraints on the Tectonic Evolution of Ultramafic Massifs in the Southern Blue Ridge

9619932瑞安这个REU项目将为本科生提供综合的野外和实验室研究体验。学生们将研究北卡罗来纳州西部和佐治亚州北部阿巴拉契亚山脉南部高级变质带中Buck Creek和Lake Chatuge复合体的镁铁质和超镁铁质岩石单元的起源和演化。人们对阿巴拉契亚镁铁质和超镁铁质岩石的起源及其构造意义进行了激烈的辩论。利用详细的野外观察、构造分析和成分信息，学生们将为这些岩石的起源及其构造演化提供一些新的约束条件。该项目的前半部分将利用西卡罗来纳大学的设施进行为期四周的实地测绘、采样和结构分析。在项目的后半部分，学生们将使用南佛罗里达大学的分析设施对现场采集的岩石样本进行化学分析。教师将作为向导全面参与研究活动，为学生提供有关地质问题的详细概述，并帮助他们确定和制定研究问题；作为教师，为他们提供现场技术、实验室方案和分析仪器使用方面的指导和培训。

9619932 Ryan This REU project will provide undergraduate students with an integrated field and laboratory research experience. Students will tackle questions about the origins and evolution of mafic and ultramafic rock units of the Buck Creek and Lake Chatuge complexes, in the high-grade metamorphic belt of the Southern Appalachians of western North Carolina and northern Georgia. The origins of Appalachian mafic and ultramafic rocks and their tectonic implications are actively debated. Using detailed field observations, structural analysis and compositional information, the students will provide some new constraints on the origin of these rocks and their tectonic evolution. The first half of the project will involve four weeks of field mapping, sampling and structural analysis using facilities at Western Carolina University. In the second half of the project, students will use the analytical facilities of the University of South Florida to chemically analyze rock samples collected in the field. The faculty will participate fully in research activities as guides, providing students with a detailed overview of the relevant geologic issues, and helping them identify and formulate the research questions; and as instructors, providing them with direction and training in field techniques, laboratory protocols, and the use of analytical instrumentation.