REU Site: Digital Mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) Database Construction and Geospatial Analysis of Regional Strike-slip Shear Zone Deformation

这个为期3年的项目每年与9名学生合作，使用最新的数字技术，对缅因州沿海地区的大量露头进行精密数字制图、数据库建设和分析。这些岩石暴露揭示了石英脉和花岗岩侵入体，这些侵入体已被区域变形和离散的脆性断裂带构造变形，这些构造将用于研究北方阿巴拉契亚山脉的晚古生代走滑剪切作用。每个项目年包括为期8周的夏季研究课程，包括实地调查、GIS数据库建设、结构和空间分析以及最后的地质综合。学生研究人员将为美国东北地质学会（NEGSA）会议准备几份摘要和随附的海报，以报告实地调查结果和解释。项目数据，实地照片和支持图像将由学生准备口头陈述，他们的家庭机构教师导师的监督下，他们的家庭部门。谁是完成大三，谁是地质学，地理学或环境科学专业的本科生从全国各地招募这个研究计划，重点是那些学生从较小的学院和大学，提供很少的机会，本科参与研究。该研究计划使参与的学生接触到最新的数字地图技术和地理空间分析技术的使用和局限性，这些技术应用于科学领域项目。该项目中的详细数字测量生成了前所未有的地质特征和关系的新地图，这些地图将用于测试、改进和更新北方阿巴拉契亚山脉发展中晚古生代斜向板块会聚的构造模型。这种经验促进了研究中的探索和发现意识，同时促进了参与学生在改变生活的实地体验中使用跨学科技能和同行动手学习。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划共同资助。

This 3-year project works with 9 students per year using the latest digital technologies in a program of precision digital mapping, database construction and analysis of extensive outcrops in coastal Maine. These rock exposures reveal quartz veins and granite intrusions that have been deformed by regional deformation and discrete brittle fault zone configurations that will be used to study Late Paleozoic strike-slip shearing in the Northern Appalachians. Each project year includes an 8-week summer research session of field survey, GIS database construction, structural and spatial analysis and final geologic synthesis. Student researchers will prepare several abstracts and accompanying posters for the Northeast Geological Society of America (NEGSA) meeting to report on the field survey results and interpretations. Project data, field photos and supporting imagery will be used by the students to prepare an oral presentation to their home departments under the supervision of their home institution faculty mentors. Undergraduate students who are finishing their junior year and who are majoring in geology, geography or environmental science are recruited from across the country for this research program with a focus on those students from smaller colleges and universities that offer little opportunity for undergraduate involvement in research. This research program exposes the participating students to the use and limitations of the latest digital mapping technologies and geospatial analysis techniques as applied to a scientific field project. The detailed digital surveying in this project generates new maps of never-before-seen geologic features and relationships that will be used to test, refine and update a tectonic model for Late Paleozoic oblique plate convergence in the development of the Northern Appalachians. The experience fosters a sense of exploration and discovery in research while promoting the use of interdisciplinary skills and peer-to-peer hands-on learning in a life-changing field experience for the participating students. This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.