Collaborative Research: REU: An Integrated Field-Laboratory Experience for Undergraduates: Constraints on Evolution of Southern Blue Ridge Mafic-Ultramafic Massifs

ryan9988077这个REU项目为本科生提供综合的实地和实验室研究经验。学生将解决有关北卡罗莱纳南蓝岭高级变质岩中基性和超基性岩石单元的起源和演化的问题。详细的野外观测、地球物理和构造分析以及成分信息将为这些岩石的起源及其构造历史提供一些新的限制。该计划的前4周将包括野外测绘、地球物理和结构数据的收集，以及利用南佛罗里达大学的设施进行地球化学采样，以处理和解释地球物理数据，并对野外收集的岩石样本进行化学分析。教师将作为讲师和向导参与研究活动，为学生提供相关地质问题的详细概述，并在现场技术，实验室协议和分析仪器的使用方面提供指导和培训，并帮助他们识别和制定研究问题。学生将在团队中工作，经常与教师互动，但不是经常互动，这使他们能够开发研究工具和解决问题的技能。这种研究环境使学生能够提高作为调查人员的技能和独立性，同时学习作为研究团队的一部分发挥作用。学生将在每年夏天的更广泛的研究目标中定义个人或小组研究问题。小组项目将包括实地和实验室组成部分，并在7周的计划中完成。学生们将在春季GSA东南分会会议上展示他们的成果。参与者将获得详细的变质地块地质填图经验、数字地图和数据汇编、地球物理数据收集和解释、地球化学分析技术，以及从开始到完成科学调查的经验。

Ryan9988077This REU project provides 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 in high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Southern Blue Ridge in North Carolina. Detailed field observations, geophysical and structural analysis and compositional information will provide some new constraints on the origins of these rocks, and on their tectonic history. The first 4 weeks of the program will involve field mapping, collection of geophysical and structural data, and sampling for geochemistry using facilities of the University of South Florida to process and interpret geophysical data and to chemically analyze rock samples collected in the field. The faculty will participate in research activities as instructors and guides, providing students with a detailed overview of the relevant geologic issues and with direction and training in field techniques, laboratory protocols, and the use of analytical instrumentation, and helping them identify and formulate research questions. Students will work in teams with frequent, but not constant instructor interaction, allowing them to develop research tools and problem-solving skills. This research environment allows students to increase both skill and independence as investigators, and at the same time learn to function as part of a research team. Students will define individual or small group research problems within broader research goals for each summer. Group projects will include both a field and a lab component and be completed during the 7-week program. Students will present their results at the Spring GSA Southeastern Section meeting. Participants will gain experience in detailed geologic mapping experience of a metamorphic terrane, digital map and data compilation, geophysical data collection and interpretation, geochemical analysis techniques, and in carrying a scientific investigation from initiation to fruition.