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Geology

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Doctoral Dissertations

2021

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The Pilot Knob Magnetite, Pilot Knob Hematite, And Shepherd Mountain Iron Oxide Deposits In Southeast Missouri -- Local Expressions Of A Magmatic-Hydrothermal Plumbing System?, Bolorchimeg N. Tunnell Jan 2021

The Pilot Knob Magnetite, Pilot Knob Hematite, And Shepherd Mountain Iron Oxide Deposits In Southeast Missouri -- Local Expressions Of A Magmatic-Hydrothermal Plumbing System?, Bolorchimeg N. Tunnell

Doctoral Dissertations

“The Southeast Missouri Iron Metallogenic Province in the Midwestern USA contains seven major and several minor IOA/IOCG-type deposits, all of which are spatially associated with the early Mesoproterozoic (1.50-1.44 Ga) magmatism in the St. Francois Mountains terrane. This Ph.D. project focuses on the Pilot Knob deposits, i.e., the deeper largely massive Pilot Knob Magnetite (PKM) and the shallower Pilot Knob Hematite (PKH) deposits, and the Shepherd Mountain deposit that are located less than 2.1 km distance from one another. The first precise age for the formation of the PKM ore is constrained at 1438±5.8 Ma using apatite U-Pb method. Petrographic …


Neogene Dinoflagellate Cysts From The Tropical Americas, Damian Cardenas Jan 2021

Neogene Dinoflagellate Cysts From The Tropical Americas, Damian Cardenas

Doctoral Dissertations

"Marine palynomorphs, mainly dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs, constitute excellent proxies for biostratigraphic and paleoceanographic studies in neritic sequences. Neogene marine palynological studies have mostly focused on the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in the scarcity of dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from tropical latitudes. Forty samples encompassing the late Chattian-late Burgidalian time interval (~24.1- 17.3 Ma) in the Southern Caribbean were analyzed for their marine palynological contents. A biostratigraphic scheme for the region is proposed and includes the upper Chattian-lower Aquitanian Minisphaeridium latirictum Interval Zone (~23.9-22.0 Ma), the upper Aquitanian Achomosphaera alcicornu Interval Zone (~22.0-20.3 Ma), and the Burdigalian Cribroperidinium tenuitabulatum Interval Zone …