Undergraduate Geodynamics Laboratory

本科生地球动力学实验室

• 批准号: 9351386
• 负责人: Peter Hudleston
• 金额: $ 2.3万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-07-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9351386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Geodynamics; Laboratory

9351386 Hudleston A new Geodynamics Laboratory is being created within the Department of Geology and Geophysics. This laboratory is for experimentation on processes of fundamental importance in various areas of the Earth Sciences, representing a variety of fields but all falling under the general rubric of continuum mechanics. Experimental topics include flow of water in open channels, porous media, lakes, and rotating basins; flow of complex geological materials such as debris; deformation of plastic materials in two and three dimensions; and plate motion on a fluid undergoing three-dimensional convection. The experiments are being coupled with computer models of the processes studied.The laboratory is a unique complement to the more traditional sample-oriented laboratories in our and other Earth Sciences Departments. It is giving students a unique opportunity to visualize and manipulate models of processes that they previously studied about mainly through lectures. Also, by grouping these experiments in one place, using generic, simple materials, and incorporating them in fundamental courses taught at the beginning of the undergraduate curriculum, the new laboratory is helping students appreciate the unity of the physics underlying many apparently diverse geologic processes. ***

9351386 Hudleston在地质和地球物理学系中正在创建一个新的地球动力学实验室。 该实验室是为了实验地球科学各个领域的基本重要性过程，代表了各种领域，但都属于连续力学的一般标题。实验主题包括在开放通道，多孔培养基，湖泊和旋转盆地中的水流；复杂地质材料（例如碎片）的流动；塑料材料在两个和三个维度中的变形；并在经历三维对流的液体上运动。 实验与所研究过程的计算机模型相结合。实验室是我们和其他地球科学部门中更传统的面向样品实验室的独特补充。 它为学生提供了一个独特的机会，可以看到和操纵他们以前主要通过讲座研究的过程模型。 同样，通过将这些实验在一个地方进行分组，使用通用的简单材料，并将它们纳入本科课程开始时教授的基本课程中，新实验室正在帮助学生欣赏许多显然多样化的地质过程的物理学的统一性。 ***