COLLABORATIVE RESERACH: Analysis of an Ancient Interarc Basin- The Missisquoi Formation of Vermont

在板块构造环境明确的现代背景下，弧间盆地在会聚带发展中的重要性和构造意义得到了认识。然而，它们在古代山系中的识别和表征需要仔细的地层学、构造、岩石学和地球化学工作，以重建它们的原始环境和后来的历史。佛蒙特大学和米德尔伯里学院的工作人员合作的这个项目将研究新英格兰西部的米西斯考伊地层，该地层被认为是弧前盆地矿床。广泛的野外测绘和地球化学研究的结果有望帮助将塔肯造山的Missisquoi组置于板块构造的范围内，从而进一步完善对奥陶纪塔康造山的理解。

The importance and tectonic significance of interarc basins in the development of convergent zones are recognized in modern settings where the plate tectonic environment is well defined. However their identification and characterization in ancient mountain systems require careful stratigraphic, structural, petrologic and geochemical work in order to reconstruct their original setting and subsequent history. This collaborative project between workers at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College will examine the Missisquoi Formation in western New England that has been suggested to represent a fore-arc basin deposit. Results of extensive field mapping and geochemical studies are expected to help place the Missisquoi Formation of the Taconic orogeny in Plate Tectonic terms this allowing further refinements on understanding the Ordovician Taconic orogeny.