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Mark A. Evans
Associate
Professor of Geology
Central Connecticut State University
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities |
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Work
on these projects can go toward research credits or a Senior Thesis.
Training will be provided.
Contact Dr. Evans at
evansmaa@ccsu.edu for more information or just stop by NC237.
1) Examining
paleo-fluids in the Sawtooth
Range thrust system in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta.
The goal is to understand fluid evolution and migration during thrust
faulting. Also, we would like to examine the relationship of fluids to
rock remagnetization. This project is in cooperation with Dr. Doug Elmore
at the University of Oklahoma. (long term project dependent on funding,
short term ready to go)
 | Project duration:
variable: one semester to one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
sample preparation, thin sectioning, fluid inclusion microthermometry,
vein mineral petrography. Possible stable isotope analysis at Yale University. |
| Field work: (for
long term projects only) 7 to 10 days in Montana and/or Alberta, possible camping and
backpacking. Sample collection and recording structural data. |
2) Studying
the paleohydrology and structural geology of the Hartford Basin, Connecticut. The goal is
to understand fluid (water, hydrocarbon, and ore fluid) movement during
the Triassic-Jurassic rifting event. This project has already provided some interesting insight into fluid evolution and migration within
a deforming rift basin.
| Project duration:
variable: one semester to one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
sample preparation, thin sectioning, fluid inclusion microthermometry,
vein mineral petrography. Possible stable isotope analysis at Yale
University. |
| Field work: day
trips to localities within 1-2 hours drive from New Britain. Sample
collection and recording structural data. |
3) Examining
the distribution of fracture systems by stratigraphic level in the
Hartford Basin, Connecticut. The goal is to understand paleo-stress
system history during the Triassic-Jurassic rifting event.
| Project duration:
variable: one semester to one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
structural data analysis |
| Field work: day
trips to localities within 1-2 hours drive from New Britain. Recording
structural data. |
4) Studying the
paleohydrology of the Narragansett Basin, Rhode Island. The goal is
to understand fluid (water, hydrocarbon, and ore fluid) movement during
the Alleghanian Orogeny. This is a new project that will extend my
Appalachian paleofluid studies into an Alleghenian deformed area of the
northern Appalachians.
| Project duration:
variable: one semester to one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
sample preparation, thin sectioning, fluid inclusion microthermometry,
vein mineral petrography. Possible stable isotope analysis at Lehigh University. |
| Field work: day
trips to localities within 2-3 hours drive from New Britain. Sample
collection and recording structural data. |
5) Examining
the relationship between deformation mechanisms and the anhysteretic
magnetic susceptibility (AMS) in sandstones. The goal is to determine how
rock magnetic response varies with rock strain.
| Project duration:
variable: one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
sample preparation, thin-sectioning, scanning electron microscopy, rock
strain petrography, AMS analysis at Trinity College, Hartford. |
| Field work: 5 to 7
days in central
Pennsylvania, Maryland and northern West Virginia.
Sample collection with a rock drill and recording structural data. |
6) Studying the physical limnology,
paleosedimentology and climatology of a small lake atop Talcott Mountian
in north Central Connecticut. This project is in coopereration with Dr.
Christoph Geiss at Trinity College in Hartford.
| Project duration:
variable: one semester to one academic year (longer term also possible) |
| Laboratory work:
Loss on ignition analysis, palynology, diatom study, AMS analysis
at Trinity college. |
| Field work: occasional, 30 minutes from
campus. |
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