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Glacial Till Prospecting In Southwest Ohio: Implications For Improved Sampling, Dylan J. Mckevitt
Glacial Till Prospecting In Southwest Ohio: Implications For Improved Sampling, Dylan J. Mckevitt
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
Glacial till (drift) prospecting has served a major role in corporate mineral exploration, especially for gold and diamond during the past 30 years. It involves analyzing heavy indicator minerals from bulk sampling of various glacial deposits in order to track up ice flow direction to the potential orebody (such as a kimberlite pipe or Cu-Ni deposit), a technique commonly used in Canada but not in the U.S. Heavy minerals including diamond, gold, and native copper have been found in Ohio glacial till; the provenance of these heavy minerals is the Precambrian bedrock north of Ohio. This study utilized standard procedures …
Determining Provenance Of Glacial Material In Southwestern Ohio, Jorian Krob
Determining Provenance Of Glacial Material In Southwestern Ohio, Jorian Krob
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
During the last glacial maximum, ice moved south from Canada to cover much of the northern United States. This included the northern and western portions of Ohio. As the ice migrated it picked up Canadian bedrock which it transported and then left in Ohio when the ice retreated. The goal of this project was to determine the provenance (the source of origin) of the glacial material that is located in Greene, Clark, Montgomery, Logan, and Champaign Counties in Ohio. To determine where in southern Canada the material in these counties came from, this project included literature review into the glacial …