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Geology Newsletter- 1995, Department Of Geology
Geology Newsletter- 1995, Department Of Geology
Geological and Environmental Sciences News
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Determination Of Hydraulic Conductivity And Dispersivity In The Biscayne Aquifer, Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Jose Dioscoro Altomia Guardiario Jr.
Determination Of Hydraulic Conductivity And Dispersivity In The Biscayne Aquifer, Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Jose Dioscoro Altomia Guardiario Jr.
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Knowledge of the properties of the Biscayne Aquifer is critical to the understanding of groundwater solute transport problems that affect the Everglades region. To add to our knowledge of the aquifer, geologic logging of cores and hydraulic conductivity measurements were performed in 18 fullypenetrating wells using an electromagnetic borehole flowmeter. Corelogs, ambient flow profiles, and hydraulic conductivity (K) values measured in the study site indicate that the Biscayne Aquifer has a hydraulic conductivity with a geometric mean of 0.18 meter/second and a variance of 2.5 , and can be divided into two distinct layers: the Upper Biscayne Aquifer and the …
Palynological Characteristics Of Near-Shore Shell-Bearing Pliocene Through Holocene Sediments Of Florida, Georgia, And South Carolina, Fredrick J. Rich
Palynological Characteristics Of Near-Shore Shell-Bearing Pliocene Through Holocene Sediments Of Florida, Georgia, And South Carolina, Fredrick J. Rich
School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Faculty Publications
Seventeen pollen-bearing samples· from sites in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida were analyzed for their pollen content. The samples range in age from Late Pliocene to Holocene. The initial objective of the study was to use the samples to help define the age of the physiographic feature known as Trail Ridge. All samples were marine sediments, and many were from marine mollusk-dominated strata. Pollen of Pinus and Quercus were abundant in all samples; Taxodium was abundant in about half of them. Carya, Liquidambar, Compositae, Gramineae, and ChenopodiaceaeAmaranthaceae were present as accessory taxa. Dinoflagellate cysts, microforams, and pyrite were present, or …
Groundwater Study: Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Usa Georgetown, Kentucky, Gary Felton, Lyle V. A. Sendlein, Teri Dowdy, Daryl Hines
Groundwater Study: Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Usa Georgetown, Kentucky, Gary Felton, Lyle V. A. Sendlein, Teri Dowdy, Daryl Hines
KWRRI Research Reports
An eighteen month study of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing (TMM) plant site and the surrounding area was undertaken. The basic charge for this project was to characterize the groundwater that is potentially impacted by the TMM plant site. This included occurrence, flow direction, and, if possible, velocity. Because the area is karstified (has sinkholes, springs, caves, etc.) surface water and groundwater are intimately connected and, hence, surface water was frequently an important component of this work.
Data from TMM construction plans and monitoring work done subsequent to construction were elicited from the various repositories within the TMM infrastructure. Aerial color …
An Improved Method For Determining And Characterizing Alignments Of Point-Like Features And Its Implications For The Pinacate Volcanic Field, Sonora, Mexico, Tim Lutz, J T. Gutmann
An Improved Method For Determining And Characterizing Alignments Of Point-Like Features And Its Implications For The Pinacate Volcanic Field, Sonora, Mexico, Tim Lutz, J T. Gutmann
Earth & Space Sciences Faculty Publications
We present an improved method for determining statistically significant alignments of pointlike features. One of the principal such methods now in use, the two-point azimuth method, depends on a homogeneous distribution of points over the region of interest. Modification of this approach by use of the relatively new statistical technique of kernel density estimation permits treatment of heterogeneous point distributions without introducing substantial dependence on choice of the grid employed in the test for significance of apparent preferred orientations. The improved method can selectively reveal alignments on different spatial scales and can suggest the locations of alignments as well as …
Comments On “Measurements Of 7Be And 210Pb In Rain, Snow, And Hall”, M. Baskaran
Comments On “Measurements Of 7Be And 210Pb In Rain, Snow, And Hall”, M. Baskaran
Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications
No abstract available
Constraints On Present-Day Basin And Range Deformation From Space Geodesy, Jeffrey Lee, Timothy H. Dixon, Stefano Robaudo, Marith C. Reheis
Constraints On Present-Day Basin And Range Deformation From Space Geodesy, Jeffrey Lee, Timothy H. Dixon, Stefano Robaudo, Marith C. Reheis
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences
We use new space geodetic data from very long baseline interferometry and satellite laser ranging combined with other geodetic and geologic data to study contemporary deformation in the Basin and Range province of the western United States. Northwest motion of the central Sierra Nevada block relative to stable North America, a measure of integrated Basin and Range deformation, is 12.1±1.2 mm/yr oriented N38°W±5° (one standard error), in agreement with previous geological estimates within uncertainties. This velocity reflects both east-west extension concentrated in the eastern Basin and Range and north-northwest directed right lateral shear concentrated in the western Basin and Range. …
Deep-Well Data Base For Nebraska, Duane R. Mohlam, Raymond R. Burchett
Deep-Well Data Base For Nebraska, Duane R. Mohlam, Raymond R. Burchett
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
An Introduction To Using Modflow The Usgs Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water Computer Modeling System, Jessica N. Pfundt
An Introduction To Using Modflow The Usgs Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water Computer Modeling System, Jessica N. Pfundt
Geology Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship
MODFLOW is the U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water computer modeling system. This program incorporates basic concepts derived from previous computer groundwater modeling programs. MODFLOW improves upon these programs because it is easy to modify, simple to use and maintain, can be executed on a variety of computers with minimal changes, and is relatively efficient with respect to computer memory and execution time (McDonald and Harbaugh, 1988).
Data From The Deep-Rock Samples On File From Wells Drilled In Nebraska, Duane R. Mohlman
Data From The Deep-Rock Samples On File From Wells Drilled In Nebraska, Duane R. Mohlman
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Areal And Vertical Distribution Of Total Soil Mercury And Total Phosphorusin The Southern Half Of Water Conservation Area 3-A, Everglades, Southern Florida, Cleone Botelho Arfstrom
Areal And Vertical Distribution Of Total Soil Mercury And Total Phosphorusin The Southern Half Of Water Conservation Area 3-A, Everglades, Southern Florida, Cleone Botelho Arfstrom
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Total soil-mercury and phosphorus concentrations were determined in 64 sites in the southern half of Water Conservation Area 3A, an area of approximately 500 km2 . Surface soil-Hg concentrations ranged from 117 to 300 ng-g-1;
total phosphorus concentrations range from 350 to 850 pg~g-1. No consistent north-south or east-west trends are found in the mercury or phosphorus surface concentrations when they are normalized to soil bulk density. Nine sites were used for the determination of the vertical distribution of soilmercury. Vertical profiles of soil-Hg revealed decreasing concentrations with depth and correlated well with phosphorus in …
Spatial Variation Of Naticid Gastropod Predation In The Eocene Of North-America, Thor A. Hansen, Patricia H. Kelley
Spatial Variation Of Naticid Gastropod Predation In The Eocene Of North-America, Thor A. Hansen, Patricia H. Kelley
Geology Faculty Publications
Although, the fossil record of naticid gastropod drilling has played an important role in the controversy over predator-prey evolution, little is known about variation of drilling frequencies within single horizons or how predation patterns are influenced by environmental variables. Without an understanding of spatial variation in drilling, temporal patterns in drilling are difficult to interpret. We surveyed 27,554 specimens of molluscs from the Cook Mountain interval (upper middle Eocene) and Jackson Group (late Eocene) of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain to document spatial variation in naticid drilling frequencies. The Jackson Group assemblages from the Moodys Branch and Yazoo …
Geology Of The Ogallala/High Plains Regional Aquifer System In Nebraska: Field Trip No. 6, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Geology Of The Ogallala/High Plains Regional Aquifer System In Nebraska: Field Trip No. 6, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications
This guide is mostly figures with a reference section containing some of the pertinent literature on the Cenozoic geology we will see over the next four days. We will make all 17 stops if the weather is reasonably good and the roads are passable. On the first day, April 29, we will try to get to stops 1–5, the more distal parts of the Ogallala and younger deposits in Nebraska. On April 30, we will try to visit stops 6–9. Stops 10–15, in areas closer to the sediment sources of the Ogallala and some of the younger units, will be …
Vertical Resolution Of A Seismic Survey In Stratigraphic Sequences Less Than 100 M Deep In Southeastern Kansas, Richard Daniel J. Miller, Neil Lennart Anderson, Howard Randall Feldman, Evan K. Franseen
Vertical Resolution Of A Seismic Survey In Stratigraphic Sequences Less Than 100 M Deep In Southeastern Kansas, Richard Daniel J. Miller, Neil Lennart Anderson, Howard Randall Feldman, Evan K. Franseen
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
A 400-m long, 12-fold high-resolution common depth point (CDP) reflection seismic profile was acquired across shallow converging Pennsylvanian strata in the Independence area of southeastern Kansas. One of the principal objectives was to determine practical vertical resolution limits in an excellent shallow seismic-data area with borehole control. The dominant frequency of the CDP stacked data is in excess of 150 Hz based on peak-to-peak measurements. Interference phenomena observed on stacked seismic data incorporated with models derived from log and drill-hole information suggest a practical vertical resolution limit of about 7 m, or one-third of the dominant wavelength. The data suggest …
Sks Splitting Beneath Southern California, Kelly H. Liu, Paul M. Davis, Stephen S. Gao
Sks Splitting Beneath Southern California, Kelly H. Liu, Paul M. Davis, Stephen S. Gao
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
Measurements of SKS phase splitting were obtained from nineteen seismic stations in southern California. The fast polarization directions are 53° at the southern end of the Great Valley, 82 ± 8° in the western Transverse Ranges and northern Peninsular Ranges, 95 ± 4° in Mojave Desert, and 70° on San Clemente Island. The splitting time ranges from 0.8 to 1.8 seconds, which is consistent with an anisotropic layer of 100 to 200 km thick for 4% anisotropy.
Task Ii Completion Report: Independent Groundwater Characterization And Monitoring Program In Boyd County
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
A Search For The Seasonal Variability On The Depositional Fluxes Of 7Be And 210Pb, M. Baskaran
A Search For The Seasonal Variability On The Depositional Fluxes Of 7Be And 210Pb, M. Baskaran
Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications
Investigations of the atmospheric fallout of 7Be and 210Pb in many places around the globe indicate that there are seasonal variations on the depositional fluxes of these nuclides: high in winter in a few places, while in most places the high occurs in spring. However, these earlier studies did not address quantitatively the corresponding seasonal variations of the amount of precipitation during these periods. Data on the depositional fluxes of 7Be and 210Pb in Galveston, Texas, during the years 1989–1991 indicate that the seasonal variation is not uniform from year to year, and the amount of …
The Roepke Lecture In Economic Geography Catastrophic Earthquake Insurance: Patterns Of Adoption, Risa Palm
The Roepke Lecture In Economic Geography Catastrophic Earthquake Insurance: Patterns Of Adoption, Risa Palm
Geosciences Faculty Publications
In California, earthquake insurance is not mandatory and is relatively expensive. Investment in earthquake insurance is one indicator of individual/household response to hazards in the urban environment. This paper reports on a series of three surveys of California homeowners undertaken in 1989, 1990, and 1993 in Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties. The surveys addressed six hypotheses: rates of insurance subscription have increased; socioeconomc and demographic characteristics distinguish the insured from the uninsured; insurance purchase is systematically related to geophysical risk at the home site; perceived risk is a predictor of insurance purchase; experience with an …
Rapid Uplift And Rotation Of Mylonitic Rocks From Beneath A Detachment Fault: Insights From Potassium Feldspar 40ar/39ar Thermochronology, Northern Snake Range, Nevada, Jeffrey Lee
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences
The thermal histories of mylonitic rocks from the footwall of the northern Snake Range decollement (NSRD), Nevada, were calculated using multiple diffusion domain analyses of potassium feldspar Arrhenius data and 40Ar/39Ar age spectra in order to characterize the cooling (exhumation) history of these mylonitic rocks and thereby constrain the origin and movement history of the NSRD. The calculated thermal histories, along with reported apatite fission track ages, indicate the three following episodes of rapid cooling (10–55°C/m.y.) related to extensional denudation: (1) middle Eocene (48–41 Ma), (2) late Oligocene (30–26 Ma), and (3) early Miocene (20–16 Ma). The …
Conglomerates Of The Upper Middle Eocene To Lower Miocene Sespe Formation Along The Santa Ynez Fault: Implications For The Geologic History Of The Eastern Santa Maria Basin Area, Jeffrey L. Howard
Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications
The depositional history of the Sespe Formation was studied using sedimentary facies analysis, clast counts, paleocurrent and clast morphological measurements, and petrographic methods. Sedimentation is interpreted to have occurred mainly as part of two depositional sequences in a coastal-braid-plain forearc-basin setting. Both sequences are present in the Santa Ynez Mountains, whereas only the upper sequence is recognized in the eastern Santa Maria basin. The lower sequence is part of a late middle to late Eocene sedimentary offlap attributed to a high input of terrigenous sediment derived mostly from the Mojave Desert region. This sequence is capped by an intraformational erosional …
High-Carbonate, Low-Silica, High-Calcium Stone In The High Bridge Group (Upper Ordovician), Mason County, North-Central Kentucky, Warren H. Anderson, Lance S. Barron
High-Carbonate, Low-Silica, High-Calcium Stone In The High Bridge Group (Upper Ordovician), Mason County, North-Central Kentucky, Warren H. Anderson, Lance S. Barron
Information Circular--KGS
The High Bridge Group (Middle Ordovician) of northeastern Kentucky is a major source of limestone and dolomite for construction, agricultural, and industrial stone. These industries require carbonate rocks of high chemical purity. Chemical analyses of foot-by-foot samples from a Mason County core show that three zones of high-calcium and several thick zones of high-carbonate and low-silica stone are present in the High Bridge at a mineable depth. Mason County is located in northeastern Kentucky, on the Ohio River, and offers river access to transportation to the metropolitan Covington-Cincinnati market and the northern portion of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field for …
Distribution Of Oil And Gas Wells In Kentucky, Brandon C. Nuttall, Daniel I. Carey
Distribution Of Oil And Gas Wells In Kentucky, Brandon C. Nuttall, Daniel I. Carey
Map and Chart--KGS
This map shows the distribution of more than 109,000 wells for which location information is available in the Kentucky Geological Survey's oil and gas well record database.
Bouguer Gravity Map Of Kentucky, G. Randy Keller, Donald C. Adams
Bouguer Gravity Map Of Kentucky, G. Randy Keller, Donald C. Adams
Map and Chart--KGS
No abstract provided.
Organic Facies And Maturation Of Jurassic/Cretaceous Rocks, And Possible Oil-Source Rock Correlation Based On Pyrolysis Of Asphaltenes, Scotian Basin, Canada, Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay, John A. Wade, Michael A. Kruge
Organic Facies And Maturation Of Jurassic/Cretaceous Rocks, And Possible Oil-Source Rock Correlation Based On Pyrolysis Of Asphaltenes, Scotian Basin, Canada, Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay, John A. Wade, Michael A. Kruge
Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This paper establishes source rock characterization and oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations of selected organic-rich shale source rocks and selected light oils and condensates from Jurassic and Cretaceous formations of the Scotian Basin. Multiple source rocks of Kerogen Types IIA (oil-prone), IIA-IIB (oil- and condensate-prone), IIB (condensate and gas prone), III (gas-prone), and IV (nonsource) are identified in various stratigraphic horizons. Vitrinite reflectance and Tmax data indicate variable maturation histories, in different parts of the basin, which are related to differences in lithology-related heat conductivity and the presence of older sediments closer to areas of rifting. Multiple linear regression …
Bones Of Puffinus Lherminieri Lesson (Aves: Procellaridae) And Two Other Vertebrates From Cueva Del Agua, Mona Isalnd, Puerto Rico (West Indies), Angel M. Nieves-Rivera, John M. Mylroie, Donald A. Mcfarlane
Bones Of Puffinus Lherminieri Lesson (Aves: Procellaridae) And Two Other Vertebrates From Cueva Del Agua, Mona Isalnd, Puerto Rico (West Indies), Angel M. Nieves-Rivera, John M. Mylroie, Donald A. Mcfarlane
WM Keck Science Faculty Papers
From a dive in Cueva del Agua, Mona Island, Puerto Rico, twelve un-mineralized bones of Puffinus Lherminieri Lesson, one of Cyclura stejnegeri Stejneger, and one of Moormops blainvilii Leach were collected. The subfossil evidence confirms that P. Lherminieri was a common species on Mona Island. Cyclura stejnegeri and M. blainvilii probably became trapped and died in the pool chamber.
Effects Of Longwall Mining On Hydrogeology, Leslie County, Kentucky Part 1: Pre-Mining Conditions, Shelley A. Minns, James A. Kipp, Daniel I. Carey, James S. Dinger, Lyle V. A. Sendlein
Effects Of Longwall Mining On Hydrogeology, Leslie County, Kentucky Part 1: Pre-Mining Conditions, Shelley A. Minns, James A. Kipp, Daniel I. Carey, James S. Dinger, Lyle V. A. Sendlein
Report of Investigations--KGS
An investigation of the hydrologic effects of longwall coal mining is in progress in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. The study area is located in a first-order watershed in southern Leslie County over Shamrock Coal Company's Beech Fork Mine (Edd Fork Basin on the Helton 7.5-minute quadrangle). Longwall panels approximately 700 feet wide are separated by three-entry gateways 200 feet wide. The mine is operating in the Fire Clay coal (Hazard No. 4); overburden thickness ranges from 300 to 1,000 feet. Mining in the watershed began in late summer 1993. Undermining of the instrumented panel (panel 7) is anticipated for …
Preliminary Map Of The Structure Of The Precambrian Surface In Eastern Kentucky, James A. Drahovzal, Martin C. Noger
Preliminary Map Of The Structure Of The Precambrian Surface In Eastern Kentucky, James A. Drahovzal, Martin C. Noger
Map and Chart--KGS
This preliminary interpretation of the Precambrian unconformity surface in eastern Kentucky is based on data available to the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) as of November 1994. In early 1995, additional data became available to the KGS. Subsequent work using the new data should result in a more complete interpretation of the area within the next several years.
The map illustrates the Rome Trough and associated structures of the Precambrian surface, and as such contributes to an understanding of the regional geology, geologic evolution, distribution of energy and mineral resources, and potential geologic hazards. While it cannot be considered a prospecting …
Carbonate Deposition, Pyramid Lake Subbasin, Nevada: 2. Lake Levels And Polar Jet Stream Positions Reconstructed From Radiocarbon Ages And Elevations Of Carbonates (Tufas) Deposited In The Lahontan Basin, Larry Benson, Michaele Kashgarian, Meyer Rubin
Carbonate Deposition, Pyramid Lake Subbasin, Nevada: 2. Lake Levels And Polar Jet Stream Positions Reconstructed From Radiocarbon Ages And Elevations Of Carbonates (Tufas) Deposited In The Lahontan Basin, Larry Benson, Michaele Kashgarian, Meyer Rubin
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Most of the tufas in the Pyramid Lake subbasin were deposited within the last 35,000 yr, including most of the mound tufas that border the existing lake. Many of the older tufas (> 21,000 yr B.P.) contained in the mounds were formed in association with ground-water discharge. The radiocarbon (14C) ages of the older tufas represent maximum estimates of the time of their formation. Lake Lahontan experienced large and abrupt rises in level at ~ 22,000, 15,000, and 11,000 yr B.P. and three abrupt recessions in level at ~ 16,000, 13,600, and 10,000 yr B.P. The lake-level rises …
Evidence Of Active Dune Sand On The Great Plains In The 19th Century From Accounts Of Early Explorers, Daniel R. Muhs, Vance T. Holliday
Evidence Of Active Dune Sand On The Great Plains In The 19th Century From Accounts Of Early Explorers, Daniel R. Muhs, Vance T. Holliday
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Eolian sand is extensive over the Great Plains of North America, but is at present mostly stabilized by vegetation. Accounts published by early explorers, however, indicate that at least parts of dune fields in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas were active in the 19th century. Based on an index of dune mobility and a regional tree-ring record, the probable causes for these periods of greater eolian activity are droughts, accompanied by higher temperatures, which greatly lowered the precipitationto- evapotranspiration ratio and diminished the cover of stabilizing vegetation. In addition, observations by several explorers, and previous historical studies, indicate …