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| Project Leader: | Maria Pesek pesekmaria@tamu.edu Geology and Geophysics |
| Faculty Mentor: | Nicholas Perez, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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W 4:10PM – 5:10 PM |
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Team Size:
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3 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Team members have the opportunity to present their work as a team at the department research symposium and Student Research Week if desired. |
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Team Needs:
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Description:
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This project aims to define the timing and spatial pattern of exhumation and fluvial incision in the Oregon Cascades to investigate how along-strike variability of exhumation and the development of high topography may be indicative of interactions between lithospheric and surface processes. Team members will reconstruct the exhumation pathway across the range by assisting in mineral separation techniques for apatite and zircon grains in plutonic rocks and feldspar grains in basalts that will later be subject to low-temperature (U-Th)/He dating and Ar/Ar dating, respectively.
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