REU Summer Program Participants for 1997/1998:

Alex Becker, Colorado State Univ.
John Collins, State Univ. West Georgia
Bonnie Frey, Univ. South Florida
Phyllis Gaskin, Middle Tennessee St. Univ.
Scott Lucas, Tennessee Tech. Univ.
Sam Manooch, Western Carolina Univ.
Julie O'Leary, Univ. Wisconsin
Jim Palmer, Univ. South Florida
Kyla Simon, Univ. Miami (FL)
Tom Slusser, Western Carolina Univ.
Kim Stonesifer, Univ. Arkansas at Little Rock
Trista Thornberry, Oberlin College

Graduate Field Assistant: Michael Emilio, USF
Laboratory Assistants: Ron Bek and Suzie Norrell, USF

Field Program: June 8th-June 28th, 1997
Laboratory Program and Windup: June 28th-August 1st, 1997

Abstracts of Research presented at the 1998 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting, Charleston, WV:

LITHOLOGIES AND STRUCTURE OF THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC/ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, NC

GEOCHEMICAL RESULTS FROM A SECTION OF THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC/ ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, NC

CONSTRAINTS ON CURRENT MODELS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC/ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, WESTERN NC

Post-Summer REU Research Results:

Kyla Simons (Univ. Miami): RARE EARTH ELEMENT SYSTEMATICS OF THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC/ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, NC

Tom Slusser (Western Carolina Univ.): GEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON AMPHIBOLITES IN THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, NC

REU-Related Research:

M. Emilio, J.G. Ryan, V.L. Peterson: STUDY OF THE METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE BUCK CREEK MAFIC/ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX, NC

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