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Emplacement Mechanisms And Magma Driving Pressure Of The Proterozoic Curecanti Pluton; The Black Canyon Of The Gunnison, Colorado, Gordon Leonard Hicks
Emplacement Mechanisms And Magma Driving Pressure Of The Proterozoic Curecanti Pluton; The Black Canyon Of The Gunnison, Colorado, Gordon Leonard Hicks
Masters Theses
There is significant obliquity between the margins of the Curecanti pluton, an internal foliation, a coeval swarm of ~400 pegmatite dikes just west of the pluton, and the host rock foliation. This pluton is a 5 km-long, 3 km-wide, and 0.4 km-thick sheet of monzogranite exposed in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO. The pluton is discordant along most of its length, but has a >100-m-thick root at its western margin subparallel to the foliation in the host rock gneisses. A cordierite + anthophyllite + staurolite + garnet schist from the Vernal Mesa pluton aureole was previously dated (1.4 …
The Urban Heat Island And Its Influence On Precipitation In Denver, Colorado, Diana Thunen
The Urban Heat Island And Its Influence On Precipitation In Denver, Colorado, Diana Thunen
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Anthropogenic modification of the climate is an unintended yet serious effect of urbanization and it is happening in every city across the globe in the form of the urban heat island. The purpose of this study was to see if Denver, Colorado exhibits evidence of an urban heat island using meteorological data and if there has been a change in precipitation amounts since the urbanization of the city. It was concluded that Denver, Colorado does have an urban heat island that varies seasonally throughout the year with an average magnitude of 3.57°C during the day and 3.82°C at night. The …