Origin and History of Glacial Deposits in West Central Minnesota

9619586科特1997年UM.M.Reu项目的目标是培养地质科学中代表性不足的个人的发展。十名本科生将积极参与实地和实验室研究，以确定明尼苏达州中西部冰川和冰后沉积的起源和历史。这些研究将采用不同的地质研究方法，包括沉积物分析(冰川和沉积相的特征)、物源研究(基本野外描述和识别、沉积岩石学、冰川磁学和冰川地球化学)和古生态评估(微古生物学、孢粉学、沉积学和粘土化学)。这项研究可以很容易地由本科生以相对较少的费用完成，但将大大有助于了解该地区的冰川地质。

9619586 Cotter The goal of the 1997 U.M.M. REU project is to nurture the development of underrepresented individuals in the geological sciences. Ten undergraduate women will be actively involved in field and laboratory research to determine the origin and history of glacial and postglacial deposits in west-central Minnesota. These studies will employ varying geologic research techniques including, sediment analysis (characterization of till and sediment facies), provenance studies (basic field descriptions and identifications, sedimentary petrography, till magnetic properties, and till geochemistry) and paleoecology assessments (micropaleontology, palynology, sedimentology and clay chemistry.) This research can be readily accomplished by the undergraduate at relatively little expense, yet will contribute substantially to the understanding of the glacial geology of the area.