REU Site: Digital Mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) Database Construction and Geospatial Analysis of Regional Strike-slip Shear Zone Deformation

这个为期3年的项目每年与9名学生合作，使用最新的数字技术，在缅因州沿海广泛的露头进行精确的数字测绘、数据库建设和分析。这些岩石暴露揭示了被区域变形和离散的脆性断裂带配置变形的石英脉和花岗岩侵入体，这些配置将被用于研究阿巴拉契亚山脉北部晚古生代的走滑剪切作用。每个项目年包括为期8周的夏季实地调查研究会议、地理信息系统数据库建设、结构和空间分析以及最终地质综合。学生研究人员将为美国东北地质学会(NEGSA)会议准备几份摘要和配套海报，以报告实地调查结果和解释。学生将使用项目数据、现场照片和辅助图像，在母校教师导师的监督下，准备向本国部门进行口头演示。这个研究项目从全国各地招募即将完成大三学业的地质学、地理学或环境科学专业的本科生，重点是那些没有多少机会让本科生参与研究的较小学院和大学的学生。这项研究计划让参与的学生了解最新的数字测绘技术和地理空间分析技术在科学领域项目中的应用和局限性。该项目中的详细数字测量生成了前所未有的地质特征和关系的新地图，将用于测试、完善和更新阿巴拉契亚山脉北部发展过程中晚古生代斜向板块会聚的构造模型。这一经历培养了学生在研究中的探索和发现意识，同时促进了跨学科技能的使用和在改变学生生活的领域体验中的点对点实践学习。这个网站是由国防部与NSF REU计划共同资助的。

This 3-year project works with 9 students per year using the latest digital technologies in a program of precision digital mapping, database construction and analysis of extensive outcrops in coastal Maine. These rock exposures reveal quartz veins and granite intrusions that have been deformed by regional deformation and discrete brittle fault zone configurations that will be used to study Late Paleozoic strike-slip shearing in the Northern Appalachians. Each project year includes an 8-week summer research session of field survey, GIS database construction, structural and spatial analysis and final geologic synthesis. Student researchers will prepare several abstracts and accompanying posters for the Northeast Geological Society of America (NEGSA) meeting to report on the field survey results and interpretations. Project data, field photos and supporting imagery will be used by the students to prepare an oral presentation to their home departments under the supervision of their home institution faculty mentors. Undergraduate students who are finishing their junior year and who are majoring in geology, geography or environmental science are recruited from across the country for this research program with a focus on those students from smaller colleges and universities that offer little opportunity for undergraduate involvement in research. This research program exposes the participating students to the use and limitations of the latest digital mapping technologies and geospatial analysis techniques as applied to a scientific field project. The detailed digital surveying in this project generates new maps of never-before-seen geologic features and relationships that will be used to test, refine and update a tectonic model for Late Paleozoic oblique plate convergence in the development of the Northern Appalachians. The experience fosters a sense of exploration and discovery in research while promoting the use of interdisciplinary skills and peer-to-peer hands-on learning in a life-changing field experience for the participating students. This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.