Modern Carbonate Environments, Diagenesis, Soil Formation and Pleistocene Analogues

本课程专为教授历史地质学、古生物学、岩石学或相关领域课程的本科学院教师而设计，他们对现代碳酸盐几乎没有或没有经验。其目的是扩大参与者对现代碳酸盐沉积物、古代石灰石的前体以及影响它们的沉积后变化的理解。要研究的具体主题包括碳酸盐分泌生物、沉积物、沉积环境、碳酸盐成岩作用、土壤形成和更新世沉积物的解释。该项目包括日常野外工作、实验室和讲座，将在巴哈马圣萨尔瓦多的巴哈马野外站举行。实验室练习可以在参与者的家庭机构进行，将利用在日常实地考察中收集的样本。将为每位与会者编写并提供一份约100页的指南。

This workshop is designed for undergraduate college faculty who teach courses in historical geology, paleontology, petrology, or related fields, and who have had little or no experience in modern carbonates. Its purpose is to expand the participant's understanding of modern carbonate sediments, precursors of ancient limestones, and post-depositional changes that effect them. Specific topics to be examined include carbonate- secreting organisms, sediments, environments of deposition, carbonate digenesis, soil formation and interpretation of Pleistocene deposits. The program involves daily field work, labs and lectures and will be held at the Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas. Laboratory exercises, which can be conducted at the participants home institutions, will utilize samples collected on daily field trips. A guidebook, approximately 100 pages in length, will be prepared and provided for each participant.