Undergraduate Geologic and Paleontologic Studies of the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming

9619908巴特尔斯阿尔比恩学院俄勒冈州立大学网站结合了地质科学系的实验室研究和怀俄明州西南部的实地研究。每个本科生项目都结合阿尔比恩学院和密歇根大学正在进行的联合研究项目，研究格林河盆地始新世地层地质学或脊椎动物古生物学的一个严格受限制的方面。这些始新世沉积物和它们所包含的脊椎动物群记录了落基山脉盆地保存下来的一段时间，当时不同的沉积环境和现代脊椎动物的相互作用取代了6500万年前恐龙灭绝后出现的脊椎动物。大多数现代脊椎动物群体的祖先动物的化石遗骸保存在各种古代湖泊、湖缘、曲流河和冲积扇沉积中。学生参与者从全国各地招募，将实地工作和复杂的实验室分析与全面的报告准备和演示相结合。个别调查从脊椎动物古生物学问题到沉积物地球化学等主题中挑选出来。在该项目的实地和实验室阶段，学生都得到了来自不同机构的各种知名科学家的建议和帮助。

9619908 Bartels The Albion College REU Site combines laboratory studies in the department of Geological Sciences with field research in southwestern Wyoming. Each undergraduate project examines a tightly constrained aspect of the geology or vertebrate paleontology of the Eocene formations of the Green River Basin in conjunction with an on-going joint Albion College-University of Michigan research program. These Eocene sediments and the vertebrate faunas they contain record an interval when Rocky Mountain basins preserved a unique combination of varied depositional environments and the interplay of modern vertebrates replacing those that appeared after the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The fossil remains of animals ancestral to most modern vertebrate groups are preserved in variety of ancient lake, lake-margin, meandering stream, and alluvial fan deposits. Student participants, recruited from across the nation, combine field work and sophisticated laboratory analyses with thorough report preparation and presentation. Individual investigations are selected from topics ranging from issues in vertebrate paleobiology to sediment geochemistry. In both field and laboratory phases of the project, students are advised and assisted by a diverse body of established scientists from a variety of institutions.