Acquisition of a UNIX Workstation Laboratory for Geomorphic Analysis of Digital Topography and Other Geological Applications of GIS

9712065打印机这笔赠款提供14,758美元，作为购买一台具有更大内存和磁盘存储的工作站以及使用数字高程模型(DEM)进行地貌学研究的地理信息系统软件费用的一半。该设施将用于探索北美主要流域地貌、海拔、侵蚀和构造之间的基本关系，将有助于确定导致这些盆地侵蚀的主要地貌因素，并将检验安赫特定律，该定律将盆地规模的侵蚀速度与地形起伏联系起来。这些研究对我们理解构造和气候之间的关系具有全球意义。该设施还将支持地下水和流域水文学、环境和资源分析以及地质测绘方面的研究。***

9712065 Pinter This grant provides $14,758 as one-half support of the costs of acquiring a workstation with expanded memory and disk storage and GIS software for studies in geomorphology utilizing digital elevation models (DEMs). This facility will be used to explore fundamental relationships between relief, elevation, erosion and tectonics for major drainage basins in North America, will help to characterize the dominant geomorphic agents responsible for erosions in these basins and will test Anhert's Law, which relates basin-scale erosion rates and topographic relief. These studies have global relevance to our understanding of the relationships between tectonics and climate. This facility will also support studies in groundwater and watershed hydrology, environmental and resource analyses and geologic mapping. ***