U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Research: Silicic Magmatism in Northern Patagonia: Constraints from the Somoncura Magmatic Belt, Argentina

Saini-Eidukat0073993这个美国-阿根廷项目由社会、行为和经济科学局的国际项目司以及地球科学局的岩石学和地球化学计划资助，支持法戈北达科他州州立大学的Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat博士与阿根廷国立德尔苏尔大学的Daniel A.Gregori博士和Ernesto BJerg博士合作研究巴塔哥尼亚北部的硅质岩浆作用。它的主要目标是将Somoncura岩浆带的硅质岩置于现代板块构造地质环境中。这项对南美洲南部硅质岩成因的研究将有助于将这些岩石与构造和构造研究联系起来，并对测试与冈瓦那超大陆解体有关的模型具有重要意义。除了PI，来自北达科他州的本科生以及一名来自阿根廷的研究生也将参与其中。使用的设施将包括法戈州立大学、阿根廷巴伊亚·布兰卡的南国立大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和明尼苏达州的麦卡莱斯特学院。

Saini-Eidukat0073993This US-Argentina project funded by the Division of International Programs in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and the Petrology and Geochemistry Program of the Directorate for Geosciences supports Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat of North Dakota State University, Fargo, to work with Drs. Daniel A. Gregori and Ernesto Bjerg at Universidad Nacional Del Sur in Argentina on a study of silicic magmatism in Northern Patagonia.This project is a geochronological, geochemical and radiogenic isotope study of silicic magmatism in Somoncura region of Northern Patagonia in Argentina. Its primary objective is to place the silicic rocks of Somoncura Magmatic Belt in a modern plate tectonic geologic context.This study of the origin of the silicic rocks in southern South America will help link these rocks with structural and tectonic studies and is important for testing models having a bearing on the break-up of the supercontinent of Gondwana. In addition to the PIs, undergraduate students from North Dakota State will be involved as well as a graduate student from Argentina. Facilities used will be those at Fargo State, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Macalester College in Minnesota.***