U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Science Program: A Comparative Studyof Pleistocene and Pre Pleistocene Glacial Sedimentary Processes

美国的这个奖-巴西合作社 科学计划支持合作研究 在地质学中， 詹姆斯·F博士科特大学 明尼苏达州，莫里斯和A.C.博士。罗查- 圣保罗大学的坎波斯 巴西圣保罗。 研究的目的是 确定卵石路面的来源， 比较研究的例子， 美国的明尼苏达河流域， 巴西的巴拉那盆地。 该项目将研究巨石路面， 明尼苏达河流域的更新世 和伊塔拉雷亚群（晚古生代）， 巴西巴拉那盆地， 确定产生碎屑的过程 集中、安置和改造。 合作扩大了知识基础， 这两个群体在某种程度上是不可能的， 集团单独行动。该项目汇集 美国集团的专业知识， 晚更新世冰川沉积， 巴西在沉积物和沉积物 结构分析 美国集团，位于 在以本科为主的环境中，将 让本科生接触到前沿研究。

This award from the U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Science Program supports collaborative research in geology to be conducted by Dr. James F. Cotter of the University of Minnesota, Morris and by Dr. A.C. Rocha- Campos of the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The goal of the research is to determine the origin of boulder pavements by comparative study of examples from the Minnesota River Valley in the U.S. and the Parana Basin in Brazil. The project will study boulder pavements from the Pleistocene of the Minnesota River Valley and the Itarare Subgroup (Late Paleozoic) of the Parana Basin in Brazil in order to determine the processes which resulted in clast concentration, emplacement and modification. The collaboration expands the knowledge base of the two groups in a way impossible for either group acting alone. The project brings together the expertise of the U.S. group with recent and late Pleistocene glacial deposits with the Brazilian expertise in sediment and sedimentary structure analysis. The U.S. group, situated in a predominantly undergraduate setting, will expose undergraduates to front-line research.