Acquisition of a Four-Wheel Drive Vehicle for Field Researchin Mesozoic Arc-Related Basins of California, Arizona and Baja California

这项提案要求获得资金，用于在下加利福尼亚州、亚利桑那州和加利福尼亚州的困难地形中进行地质实地工作的四轮驱动实地作业车。首席调查员参与了两个需要广泛实地工作的NSF项目：“下加利福尼亚州中生代沉积和火山岩与弧线相关研究的演变”和“加利福尼亚州和南加州中生代古橄榄岩和层间变火山岩的地层学和地质年代学”。一辆四轮驱动的汽车将使加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的首席研究员和她的同事们的现场密集型项目得以高效进行。他们的项目有助于理解6000多万年前发生在美国西部会聚板块边缘的潜在过程和由此产生的地理变化。

This proposal requests funds to acquire a 4-wheel drive field vehicle for geologic field work in difficult terrain in Baja California, Arizona and California. The principal investigator is involved in two NSF projects requiring extensive field work: "The Evolution of Arc-Related Studies of Mesozoic Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks, Baja California" and "Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Mesozoic Eolianites and Interstratified Metavolcanic Rocks, California and Southern California". A 4-wheel drive vehicle will allow the field-intensive projects of the principal investigator and her colleagues at the University of California-Santa Barbara to be carried out efficiently. Their projects are contributing to an understanding of the underlying processes and resulting geographic changes that occurred at convergent plate margins in the Western U.S. over 60 million years ago.