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A New Discovery Of The Lower Cretaceous In Istanbul, Turkey, Orhan Kaya, Jost Wiedmann, Heinz Kozur, Ülker Özdemi̇r, Sacit Özer, Louise Beauvais
A New Discovery Of The Lower Cretaceous In Istanbul, Turkey, Orhan Kaya, Jost Wiedmann, Heinz Kozur, Ülker Özdemi̇r, Sacit Özer, Louise Beauvais
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Geological Evolution And Basin Models During Neotectonic Episode In The Eastern Anatolia, Fuat Şaroğlu, Yücel Yilmaz
Geological Evolution And Basin Models During Neotectonic Episode In The Eastern Anatolia, Fuat Şaroğlu, Yücel Yilmaz
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Geology Of The Baski̇l (Elaziğ) Area And The Petrology Of Baski̇l Magmatics, H.Jerf Asutay
Geology Of The Baski̇l (Elaziğ) Area And The Petrology Of Baski̇l Magmatics, H.Jerf Asutay
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
The study area which covers the region around Baskil on Eastern Taurus Range comprises of Keban metamorphics and Baskil magmatics overlain by a Tertiary sedimentary cover. The Keban metamorphics are represented by regional and contact metamorphic rocks in the study area. Calc schist and marble associations are widespread on regional scale. Between Baskil granite and Keban metamorphics exomorphism and endomorphism zones have been developed. Metasomatic effects are observed in the contact metamorphic rocks which reflect the pyroxene-hornfels facies. The sedimentary sequence begins with Middle Paleocene (Thanetian) aged rocks in the study area. The same sequence, however, has been deposited starting …
Geology And Petrology Of The Kizildağ Ophiolite (Hatay), Okan Tekeli̇, Murat Erendi̇l
Geology And Petrology Of The Kizildağ Ophiolite (Hatay), Okan Tekeli̇, Murat Erendi̇l
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
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Geology Of The Western Part Of The Eastern Taurus Belt (Sse Of Turkey), Sait Meti̇n, Abdülkadir Ayhan, İbrahim Papak
Geology Of The Western Part Of The Eastern Taurus Belt (Sse Of Turkey), Sait Meti̇n, Abdülkadir Ayhan, İbrahim Papak
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Geology Newsletter- 1986, Department Of Geology
Geology Newsletter- 1986, Department Of Geology
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A Hydrogeologic Investigation Of The Balkema Wetland, Daniel V. Fronczek
A Hydrogeologic Investigation Of The Balkema Wetland, Daniel V. Fronczek
Masters Theses
The Balkema wetland, located In southwestern Kalamazoo County, Michigan, represents complex biological and hydrologic Interaction between surface water and a two-aquifer hydrologic system. Situated on the southeastern flank of the Kalamazoo moraine, the glacial geology of the area plays a key role in the understanding of the hydrogeologic function of the wetland. A two-aquifer system, an upper unconfined, and a lower confined, Interact In the vicin ity of the wetland where the c la y /till aqulclude dividing the two systems 1s absent. Various parameters, both hydrologic and geochemical, were measured In the study area, Including specific conductance values of …
Late Pleistocene Sciurids From Kokoweef Cave, H. Thomas Goodwin
Late Pleistocene Sciurids From Kokoweef Cave, H. Thomas Goodwin
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Three local (Tamias panamintinus, Ammospermophilus leucurus and Spermophilus variegatus) and five extralocal (Tamias minimus, Tamias palmeri, Marmota flaviventris, Spermophilus townsendii, and Spermophilus lateralis) sciurid species (Sciuridae) were identified from the late Pleistocene-early Holocene Kokoweef Cave paleofauna. This fauna was the first documentation of T. minimus, T. palmeri and S. townsendii from the Pleistocene of the Mohave Desert. The 30-ft sedimentary sequence apparently recorded the mid-to late-Wisconsian introduction of S. lateralis into the Kokweef fauna but otherwise documented general taxonomic stability. The ecological diversity of the fauna was consistent with--but did not require--the hypothesis of more equable late Pleistocene climates, and …
The Stratigraphy, Petrology, And Depositional Environments Of The Maryville Limestone (Middle Cambrian) In The Vicinity Of Powell And Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Michael Glenn Kozar
The Stratigraphy, Petrology, And Depositional Environments Of The Maryville Limestone (Middle Cambrian) In The Vicinity Of Powell And Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Michael Glenn Kozar
Masters Theses
The Maryville Limestone (Middle Cambrian) is part of the nearly 600 meter thick Conasauga Group, which crops out along a series of northeasterly trending strike belts in the Valley and Ridge Province of the southern Appalachians. The interlayered limestone, shale, and dolostone comprising the Conasauga result from the interfingering of the Conasauga Shale to the west and northwest and the Honaker Dolomite to the east and southeast. Apart from detailed lithologic and paleoenvironmental work concerning Conasauga strata in southwestern Virginia and northeasternmost Tennessee, few studies have examined the Maryville in detail in east Tennessee.
In the study area, a total …
Mechanisms Responsible For Sinkhole Flooding On An Urbanized Karst Terrain: South Sunrise / Media Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Thomas Feeney
Mechanisms Responsible For Sinkhole Flooding On An Urbanized Karst Terrain: South Sunrise / Media Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Thomas Feeney
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Sinkhole flooding on the urban karst area of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was studied by investigating past flood events in the South Sunrise/Media Drive Sinkhole. The actual flood levels of four floods were compared to levels calculated by an empirical runoff determination method. Outflow capacity tests and dye tracing revealed the nature of drainage within the karst depression.
The Soil Conservation Service runoff determination method and the three-hour maximum rainfall event were used to estimate the level of flooding. Three of the four flood events studied provided deviations between the actual and calculated flood levels of less than 0.26 feet (0.08 …
Structural, Remote Sensing And Multivariate Correlation Methods As Aids To Mineral Exploration, Central Ireland, D.W. Coller, M.F. Critchley, J.M. Dolan, Ciaran Mcdonnell, C.J. Murphy, W.E.A. Phillips, D.J. Sanderson
Structural, Remote Sensing And Multivariate Correlation Methods As Aids To Mineral Exploration, Central Ireland, D.W. Coller, M.F. Critchley, J.M. Dolan, Ciaran Mcdonnell, C.J. Murphy, W.E.A. Phillips, D.J. Sanderson
Books/Book chapters
This work discusses structural, remote sensing and multivariate correlation methods as aids to mineral exploration in West Central Ireland. The work was performed as part of the EU-funded CREST project.
Fracture Detection In A Volcanic Oil Reservoir Using Discriminant Analysis Of Well Log Data, Joseph William Cross
Fracture Detection In A Volcanic Oil Reservoir Using Discriminant Analysis Of Well Log Data, Joseph William Cross
OES Theses and Dissertations
A new method of detecting fractures using well logs is presented. The technique uses discriminant analysis to distinguish fractured from unfractured reservoir rock and was developed for the volcanic pay zone of Jatibarang oilfield, West Java, Indonesia.
The a priori information required to derive the discriminant function was provided by 22 wells known to penetrate intervals of either fractured or unfractured volcanics. The samples consisted of these 22 intervals digitized in one-meter increments (1256 meters total thickness). The discriminating variables were the petrophysical measurements made by 10 different types of well logs.
Discriminant analysis correctly classified 94.2% of the total …
Slack-Water Deposits And The Magnitude And Frequency Of Flash Floods, Eastern Kentucky, Russell G. Shepherd, Lisa K. Bienkowski
Slack-Water Deposits And The Magnitude And Frequency Of Flash Floods, Eastern Kentucky, Russell G. Shepherd, Lisa K. Bienkowski
KWRRI Research Reports
The potential for predicting flood magnitude and frequency using sediments deposited in backwater areas during flash floods was investigated on the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky, a region n9torious for flash flooding. Slack-water deposits are abundant in the area at tributary mouths and bedrock channel expansions. They are identifiable on geologic quandrangle maps, and are locally good potential indicators of maximum flood-crest elevations. However, in this humid region, flash floods could not be distinguished from non-flash floods using slack-water sedimentology.
The results from the slack-water deposits studied indicate that they offer limited potential for predicting flash floods because 1) intense …
Pinuxylon Woolardii Sp. Nov., A New Petrified Taxon Of Pinaceae From The Miocene Basalts Of Eastern Oregon, William D. Tidwell, Lee R. Parker, Vaughn K. Folkman
Pinuxylon Woolardii Sp. Nov., A New Petrified Taxon Of Pinaceae From The Miocene Basalts Of Eastern Oregon, William D. Tidwell, Lee R. Parker, Vaughn K. Folkman
Faculty Publications
Specimens of the new species Pinuxylon wollardii have been collected from Miocene strata near Kurkee, OR. These petrified specimens are unique in that, due to weathering, individual tracheids and ray cells can be separated for detailed SEM studies. This species is characterized by its high number of ray cells; numerous rays; large resin ducts which are commonly paired; primarily uniseriate pitting, two to five (usually three) small, oval or cirular pinoid pits per crossfield; and smooth walls on its transverse (ray) tracheids. The latter character relates this species to taxa in the subgenus Haploxylon of Pinus. Pinuxylon woolardii is most …
Karstification Of The Pennyroyal Plain Behind The Retreating Chester Escarpment: Warren, Simpson & Logan Counties, Kentucky, Anthony Able
Karstification Of The Pennyroyal Plain Behind The Retreating Chester Escarpment: Warren, Simpson & Logan Counties, Kentucky, Anthony Able
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Hydrogeologic investigations were conducted on the drainage systems of an area of the Pennyroyal sinkhole plain of south central Kentucky. The degree of karstification of five area streams was studied to develop an understanding of the evolution of drainage as the landscape changes from a sandstone caprock plateau to a limestone sinkhole plain. The Chester Upland, capped by the Big Clifty Sandstone, possesses predominantly surface drainage and the Pennyroyal Plain, formed on Mississippian limestones, possesses considerable subsurface drainage. As the Chester Upland Escarpment retreats and surface streams are onto the limestones, the streams evolve to become subsurface streams. The five …
Geology Of The Söke-Selçuk-Kuşadasi Region And Petrochemical Features Of The Volcanic Rocks, Tuncay Ercan, Umur Akat, Erdoğdu Günay, Yılmaz Savaşçin
Geology Of The Söke-Selçuk-Kuşadasi Region And Petrochemical Features Of The Volcanic Rocks, Tuncay Ercan, Umur Akat, Erdoğdu Günay, Yılmaz Savaşçin
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Cliff-Height And Slope-Angle Relationships In A Chronosequence Of Quaternary Marine Terraces, San Clemente Island, California, Russell Crittenden, Daniel R. Muhs
Cliff-Height And Slope-Angle Relationships In A Chronosequence Of Quaternary Marine Terraces, San Clemente Island, California, Russell Crittenden, Daniel R. Muhs
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Zusammenfassung. Eine Abfolge quartarer Strandterrassen auf ~an Clemente Island, Kalifornien, liefert einen Rahmen fur die quantitative Analyse der Anderungen an vom Meer verlassenen Kustenkliffen als Funktion der Zeit. Es wurde eine Abschatzung der Anwendbarkeit von BUCKNAM & ANDERSON (1979) log-lin~arer Beziehung zwischen Wandhohe und Hangwinkel durchgefuhrt, indem Brandungskliffhohe und maximale Hangwinkel verwendet wurden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine regelhafte Zunahme des Hangwinkels mit dem Logarithmus der Kliffhohe, und Kliffe einer bestimmten Hohe zeigen m,it der Zeit eine Abnahmedes maximalen Hangwinkels. 1m ganzen waren die Relationen schwacher als fur FluBterrassen und Bruchstufen in unverfestigten Materialen, aber die Methode kann wahrscheinlich verwendet werden, …
A Structural Investigation Of A Basement-Involved Thrust System In Southern Sphinx Mountain Quadrangle (Madison Range) Southwestern Montana, Jeffrey Scott Brown
A Structural Investigation Of A Basement-Involved Thrust System In Southern Sphinx Mountain Quadrangle (Madison Range) Southwestern Montana, Jeffrey Scott Brown
Masters Theses
The Madison Range is the eastern limb of the Laramide Rocky Mountain foreland Madison-Gravelly Arch. The main segment of the Madison thrust system in the map area is the basement-involved Scarface thrust which dips westward, trends north-northwest, and places Archean rocks onto an overturned footwall of Cambrian through Cretaceous rocks. Foliation of Archean rocks in the footwall is folded with overlying sedimentary rocks.
The Shedhorn Mountain thrust splays from the Scarface thrust. It is exposed north and south of the Shedhorn Mountain anticline, but is blind beneath it. The Taylor fault, an east-dipping back thrust, is inferred to be associated …
Cretaceous Paleomagnetism Of The Methow-Pasayten Belt, Washington, Russ R. Burmester, Myrl E. Beck Jr., Julian L. Granierer
Cretaceous Paleomagnetism Of The Methow-Pasayten Belt, Washington, Russ R. Burmester, Myrl E. Beck Jr., Julian L. Granierer
Geology Faculty Publications
Detailed demagnetization experiments isolated a characteristic remanent magnetization in ten stable sites from the upper Cretaceous Winthrop and Midnight Peak Formation in the Methow-Pasayten belt of north-central Washington. This remanence agrees best between opposite limbs of a fold (the Goat Peak syncline) when corrected for 46% of tilt. This is consistent with magnetization acquired during deformation. Synfolding magnetization may have been facilitated by a thermo-chemical event associated with synkinematic intrusions along the axis of folding. The mean direction (D=12.0°, I=61.1°, Alpha-95=4.8°) is highly discordant with respect to the expected direction for north-central Washington. This discordance points to about 1,400 km …
Geology And Petroleum Potential Of The Hay Creek Anticline, North-Central Oregon, Stephen I. Wareham
Geology And Petroleum Potential Of The Hay Creek Anticline, North-Central Oregon, Stephen I. Wareham
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
For many years it has been reported that the core of the Hay Creek Anticline exposes metamorphic rocks of Paleozoic or Mesozoic age. On closer study it was found that these rocks consist of only slightly metamorphosed black to dark grey siltstones and sandstones with less abundant chert pebble conglomerate and recrystallized limestone. The sequence is here informally named "Hay Creek Formation." Calcareous nannofossils recovered and identified from the limestone yielded an age of early to middle Eocene.
The depositional environment of the "Hay Creek Formation" is interpreted to be a submarine turbidite fan. Siltstones were deposited as pelagic rain …
Stratigraphic And Sedimentologic Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Filer Sandstone, John Charles Rodwan
Stratigraphic And Sedimentologic Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Filer Sandstone, John Charles Rodwan
Masters Theses
The Filer Sandstone, a multistory assemblage o£ lenticular sand bodies, is a member of the Middle Devonian Amherstburg Formation of the Detroit River Group in the subsurface of the western and central portion of the Michigan Basin. It is distinguished from the reworked eolian and nearshore marine sand facies of the underlying Sylvania Sandstone by recognition of its barrier island facies relationships and stratigraphic position within enclosing carbonates unique to the Amherstburg Formation. Lithologically, the Filer ranges from a fine-grained, carbonate-cemented, supermature quartzarenite at its upper shoreface facies, to a texturally-inverted sandy carbonate at its lagoonal facies. Facies distribution was …
Tephrostratigraphy Of The Middle Eocene Chumstick Formation, Cascade Range, Douglas County, Washington, Matthew John Mcclincy
Tephrostratigraphy Of The Middle Eocene Chumstick Formation, Cascade Range, Douglas County, Washington, Matthew John Mcclincy
Dissertations and Theses
This study outlines the ash (tuff) bed stratigraphy (tephrostratigraphy) in the middle Eocene Chumstick Formation of central Washington. The tuff beds provide local marker beds enabling interpretation of the stratigraphy and structure of the formation. The chemical signature of these units provides the basis on which the units can be traced over broad areas in the basin of deposition. Correlations of tuff beds were obtained over distances of 41 km.
The tephrostratigraphy of the Chumstick Formation consists of nineteen tuff marker beds. Seventeen of these units are chemically characterized in this study. Ten elements were used to fingerprint these tuff …
Paleomagnetism Of Middle Tertiary Volcanic-Rocks From The Western Cascade Series, Northern California, Myrl E. Beck Jr., Russ R. Burmester, Douglas E. Craig, C. Sherman Gromme, Ray E. Wells
Paleomagnetism Of Middle Tertiary Volcanic-Rocks From The Western Cascade Series, Northern California, Myrl E. Beck Jr., Russ R. Burmester, Douglas E. Craig, C. Sherman Gromme, Ray E. Wells
Geology Faculty Publications
The Western Cascade Series (WCS) is a 3.5-km-thick, crudely homoclinal (east dipping) calcalkaline volcanic sequence of mid-Oligocene to early Miocene age that crops out near the southern tip of the Cascade Range in northern California. The mean direction of remanent magnetization in the WCS is D, 4.9°; I, 57.6° (N, 53; k, 14.4; α95 , 5.3°). When compared to a reference direction for the North American cration, the WCS direction indicates that the southern Cascade Range has rotated 14.0° +/- 9.0° since the WCS accumulated. A difference in mean direction between the lower and upper halves of the WCS …
Long-Term Tributary Adjustments To Base-Level Lowering, Northern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Keith Irvin Kelson
Long-Term Tributary Adjustments To Base-Level Lowering, Northern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Keith Irvin Kelson
Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs
ABSTRACT
Late Cenozoic (post-3.6 Ma) entrenchment of the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico formed a gorge over 200 m deep and induced different types of fluvial adjustments on two adjacent tributaries. Rio Hondo (drainage area 181 km2 ) has a concave-up long-profile and flows in a narrow valley containing six Quaternary strath terraces with parallel long-profiles grading to the Rio Grande. In contrast, Rio Pueblo de Taos (drainage area 1080 km2 ) has a convex-up long-profile and flows in a wide valley containing four strath terraces which do not grade to the Rio Grande. Although smaller in drainage area, …
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1985, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1985, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
A Model For Assessing The Visual Resources Of River Basins As An Aid To Making Landuse Planning Decisions, Thomas J. Nieman, Diane S. Meshako, David Walters, Molly M. Davis, Cindy C. Elliot
A Model For Assessing The Visual Resources Of River Basins As An Aid To Making Landuse Planning Decisions, Thomas J. Nieman, Diane S. Meshako, David Walters, Molly M. Davis, Cindy C. Elliot
KWRRI Research Reports
The visual quality of a river basin and its associated properties can be identified, evaluated and integrated into the landscape planning process. The model developed provides a quantitative methodology for determining visual quality on the basis of available Geographic Information System factors. These factors are utilized to develop the preference attributes, COLOR, FORM, TEXTURE and LINE, which are associated with the assessment of visual quality. The preference attributes are then combined through a decision making process into a continuum of DISTINCTIVE, GOOD, AVERAGE and MINIMAL visual quality and is expressed digitally in map format. By providing visual quality information in …
Benthic Foraminifera And Paleoenvironments Of The Arcola Limestone Member Mooreville Formation (Campanian) In Eastern Mississippi And Western Alabama, Julia K. Palmer
Benthic Foraminifera And Paleoenvironments Of The Arcola Limestone Member Mooreville Formation (Campanian) In Eastern Mississippi And Western Alabama, Julia K. Palmer
OES Theses and Dissertations
Eighty-one species of benthic foraminifera have been recovered from chalky marls of the upper Mooreville Formation including the Arcola Limestone Member, and the basal Demopolis Formation located in five sections in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama. These species have been described and seventy-nine illustrated. Analysis of the environmental or depth preferences of abundant species together with planktonic percentages and benthic species diversity, indicates that the chalky marls were deposited in a broad shallow shelf sea (subtidal conditions less than 100m) greatly influenced by open ocean conditions. The benthic assemblage is composed of a mixture of typically neritic and bathyal species …
Characteristics Of Thrust Fault Imbrication Along The Western Margin Of The Blue Ridge Structural Province Buffalo Mountain, Tennessee, Mark Morgan Duddy
Characteristics Of Thrust Fault Imbrication Along The Western Margin Of The Blue Ridge Structural Province Buffalo Mountain, Tennessee, Mark Morgan Duddy
Masters Theses
The Buffalo Mountain thrust sheet, located along the western margin of the Blue Ridge structural province in northeastern Tennessee, provides an excellent opportunity to examine transitional structural styles and deformational mechanisms between the Valley and Ridge and Blue Ridge.
The Buffalo Mountain sheet is composed of a sequence of Lower Cambrian Chilhowee Group elastics that have been thrust over Upper Cambrian Conasauga Group shales and Cambre- Ordovician Knox Group carbonates. The entire stack has been imbricated into four interleaved thrust slices and is folded into a northeast trending doubly plunging syncline.
Field mapping and indirect examination of thrust plane orientations …
Factors Affecting Epithecal Growth Lines In Four Coral Species, With Paleontological Implications, Jean-Luc Liénard
Factors Affecting Epithecal Growth Lines In Four Coral Species, With Paleontological Implications, Jean-Luc Liénard
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The number of epithecal (external) growth lines was surveyed over 124 days for Montastrea annularis growing at different depths (3.5 m to 61 m). There was a significant (P< .01) decrease in the number of lines with depth. Although the linear regression is significant, there is evidence for a logarithmic or quadratic relationship, and more data from greater depths are needed to determine which of these gives a better fit.
The number of growth lines formed during light-dark cycles of 16, 24 and 32 hours were compared for M. annularis, M. cavernosa, Porites astreoides and Tubastrea aurea. The variability among colonies from the same species was in many cases more significant than that among light treatments. This is a serious problem for anyone counting lines in corals, especially from a few specimens; therefore conclusions based on such counts seem hazardous on …
Late-Quaternary Vegetational And Geomorphic History Of The Allegheny Plateau At Big Run Bog, Tucker County, West Virginia, Peter A. Larabee
Late-Quaternary Vegetational And Geomorphic History Of The Allegheny Plateau At Big Run Bog, Tucker County, West Virginia, Peter A. Larabee
Masters Theses
Paleoecological analysis of a 2.3 m sediment core from Big Run Bog, Tucker County, West Virginia (39° 07'N, 79° 35'W), provides an integrated and continuous record of vegetation change for the Allegheny Plateau of the central Appalachians for the past 17,000 yr from the full-glacial conditions of the Wisconsin through Holocene. Big Run Bog (980 m elevation) is high-elevation wetland within the Allegheny Mountain section of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province.
From 17,040 yr B.P. to 13,860 yr B.P. the plant communities surrounding the site were a mosaic of alpine tundra dominated by sedges (Cyperaceae) and grasses (Gramineae) with total …