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College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

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2016

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Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 Quality Chapter Awards, Paula Even Nov 2016

Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 Quality Chapter Awards, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Three Chapters received 2016 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Quality Chapter Awards. This award was established in 2010 to recognize chapters for achieving excellence by providing a quality program to its members. The qualifying criteria for the award are listed and the recipient chapters are noted.

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Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 W.A. Tarr Awards, Paula Even Nov 2016

Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 W.A. Tarr Awards, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The W. A. Tarr Award was established in March of 1949, to distinguish exceptional students in the Earth sciences. Thirty-one individuals received the Tarr Award during the 2015-2016 academic year. A brief history of the W.A. Tarr Award and the qualifying criteria for the award are provided.

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Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, Usa, Paula Even Nov 2016

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, Usa, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The 2016 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Poster Session) took place during the 2016, Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, 27 September 2016: 9:00 AM-6:30 PM. The National Council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon awarded the Austin A. Sartin Best Poster Award to Alexa Harrison and Nicholas Schrecongost from Radford University. Jessica Robinson and Allison D. Jones, students at University of Pacific, were awarded the National Council’s Best Poster Award.

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Monitoring The Alteration And Natural Recovery Of A Monsoon-Dominated Stream System After A Wild Fire Disturbs Its Watershed, Stout Canyon, Utah, Peter D. Christensen, Jennifer E. Hargrave Apr 2016

Monitoring The Alteration And Natural Recovery Of A Monsoon-Dominated Stream System After A Wild Fire Disturbs Its Watershed, Stout Canyon, Utah, Peter D. Christensen, Jennifer E. Hargrave

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The alteration of a stream’s morphology and recovery following a watershed fire is well documented in streams where high flow events occur during spring runoff. However, there are very little data regarding the alteration and natural recovery of streams that have high flow events during the late summer monsoon rains. Stout Canyon, a tributary to the East Fork of the Virgin River, is located approximately 30 miles southeast of Cedar City, Utah, and is a monsoon-dominated stream system whose watershed was burned by the Shingle Fire of 2012. Employees of the Dixie National Forest have monitored Stout Canyon since 2002, …

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Swimming Reptile Tracks In The Lower Triassic Moenkopi Formation, Capitol Reef National Park, Ut, Larry E. Davis, Robert L. Eves Apr 2016

Swimming Reptile Tracks In The Lower Triassic Moenkopi Formation, Capitol Reef National Park, Ut, Larry E. Davis, Robert L. Eves

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Abundant pre-dinosaurian tetrapod tracks, ichnofossil Chirotherium, have been found in the Moenkopi Formation. Swimming reptile tracks are found in the Torrey Member of the Moenkopi Formation in Capitol Reef National Park near Torrey, Utah. The tracks are preserved in a fine-grained sandstone deposited on a flat-lying coastal plain.

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Eta Epsilon Chapter Spring Initiation, 2016, Sarah Zdanowski Apr 2016

Eta Epsilon Chapter Spring Initiation, 2016, Sarah Zdanowski

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Report on the spring 2016, initiation for the Eta Epsilon chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon at Southern Utah University.

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Coal Clinker Site In The Late Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Castle Gate, Utah, Usa, Robert L. Eves, Larry E. Davis Jan 2016

Coal Clinker Site In The Late Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Castle Gate, Utah, Usa, Robert L. Eves, Larry E. Davis

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

When sedimentary host rock is heated as a result of coal seam fires, the host rock is pyro-metamorphosed (high temperature/ low pressure) resulting in the formation of paralava, a low-grade metamorphic rock formed adjacent to coal seams. This paper describes an outcrop locality of clinker (paralava) in the Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation within the Book Cliffs coalfields of central Utah, which formed as the result of a coal seam fire.

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Field And Petrographic Analysis Of The Indian Peak-Caliente Caldera Complex At Condor And English Canyons In Eastern Nevada, Brennan Brunsvik, Chesley Gale, Mackenzie Cope, Jack Petersen, Sarah Zdanowski, Chapman White, Westan Robertson, Kate Kupfer, Spencer Mcconkie, Stevie Mcdermaid, Austin Bruckner, Jeff C.E. Yon, Jason Kaiser, John S. Maclean Jan 2016

Field And Petrographic Analysis Of The Indian Peak-Caliente Caldera Complex At Condor And English Canyons In Eastern Nevada, Brennan Brunsvik, Chesley Gale, Mackenzie Cope, Jack Petersen, Sarah Zdanowski, Chapman White, Westan Robertson, Kate Kupfer, Spencer Mcconkie, Stevie Mcdermaid, Austin Bruckner, Jeff C.E. Yon, Jason Kaiser, John S. Maclean

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The Indian Peak-Caliente Caldera Complex, or IPCCC, is an ideal site to study how large-scale tectonic forces can influence mineralogy on a local scale. This research was completed and compiled by the Tectonics and Mineralogy classes at Southern Utah University during a joint class field study and subsequent laboratory analyses. During the field trip, the main focuses were to observe caldera collapse relationships and ignimbrite features and to collect samples at Condor Canyon and English Canyon, two sites near the border between Nevada and Utah within the IPCCC. After the field trip, the Tectonics class completed a detailed literature review …

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Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa, Paula Even Jan 2016

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The 2015 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Poster Session) took place during the 2015 Geological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday, 3 November 2015. One hundred-one (101) posters were presented at the SGE poster session. The National Council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon awarded the Austin A. Sartin Best Poster Award to Kayleigh M. Harvey and Carrie A. Menold, students at Albion College. Kate C. Grisi and Michael Cl Rygel, students at State University of New York, College at Potsdam, were awarded the National Council’s Best Poster Award.

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