Heller Hall display case project
Thesis: “Creating a custom calibration for a portable X-ray Fluorescence instrument using the Biwabik iron formation, Minnesota"
Project: Origin of Neoarchean metasedimentary rocks near Pike Lake, Vermilion District, Northeast, Minnesota.
Project: Origin of Neoarchean metasedimentary rocks near Pike Lake, Vermilion District, Northeast, Minnesota.
Project: Origin of Neoarchean metasedimentary rocks near Pike Lake, Vermilion District, Northeast, Minnesota.
Project: Origin of Neoarchean metasedimentary rocks near Pike Lake, Vermilion District, Northeast, Minnesota.
Project:
Quantifying physical characteristics of granular cherty material to determine transport history and depositional setting of iron formation from the ~1.9 Ga Mesabi Iron Range, MN.
Check out Kendall's work here > https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018AM/webprogram/Paper321622.html
https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/213998
Project: Broadly constraining Proterozoic ocean pH by determining primary and secondary carbonate mineral reactions in iron formation from the ~1.9 Ga Mesabi Iron Range, MN
Project: A textural and mineralogical investigation of early diagenetic reactions in the ~1.9 Ga Biwabik iron formation, MN
Project: Sample preparation and cutting
Projects: Initial characterization of the Freedom Formation, sample preparation, SEM characterization of samples, microscopy
We work in Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic terranes in northern Minnesota and Canada to create geochemical maps, and stratigraphic models. We also work with collaborators in modern hot spring systems, which serve as analogs to early Earth and early Martian environments.
We are located close to the Department of Natural Resources drill core library, allowing us to tackle stratigraphy, sedimentology, and alteration projects at the basin-scale. We are also working to create a standard library of customized, rock-type specific pXRF calibrations to improve regional, non-destructive geochemical mapping.
Our lab houses transmitted and reflected light microscopes, and sample preparation equipment for element and isotope analysis. On campus, we have access to a shared instrument laboratory with SEM, XRD, and XRF capabilities.
We are currently recruiting for summer and fall undergraduate researchers! Interested in sedimentology and geochemistry? Read the article here: https://scse.d.umn.edu/earth-environmental-sciences-department/news/rock-paradox to learn more about our recent research. Interested in petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks? Read more…
UMD undergraduate students Anthony Wetzel and Kendall Johnson just completed their 2017-18 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Projects (UROPs) and presented their research at the UROP Showcase. You can read more about their research here in the Read more…
Undergraduate Earth and Environmental Sciences major Stephen Hanson has been working since January 2016 to characterize the mineralogy and textures of several samples of ~1.9 Ga chemical sedimentary rocks called iron formation from the Mesabi Read more…
