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Depositional Environments Of Late Precambrian Sediments From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Senegal, West Africa, Alfred W. Magee Iii Oct 1985

Depositional Environments Of Late Precambrian Sediments From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Senegal, West Africa, Alfred W. Magee Iii

OES Theses and Dissertations

Field and hand sample descriptions were supplemented with petrographic and textural analyses derived from thin sections, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to determine environments of deposition for the late Precambrian Gibi Mountain Formation, Liberia, Tabe

Formation, Sierra Leone, and the basal Mali Group, Senegal, West Africa.

The Gibi Mountain Formation consists of a glaciomarine tillite, marine laminites with dropgrains, and shallow water arkoses. A shale facies remains unresolved in origin.

The Tabe Formation is composed of three members: Tibai, Dodo, and Taban. The Tibai Member contains a glaciomarine tillite deposited in a shallow shelf marine environment, marine laminites, and shallow …


Middle Miocene Biostratigraphy, Atike Nazi̇k, Vedia Toker Aug 1985

Middle Miocene Biostratigraphy, Atike Nazi̇k, Vedia Toker

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.


The Amphibians And Reptiles Of Nebraska, George E. Hudson Aug 1985

The Amphibians And Reptiles Of Nebraska, George E. Hudson

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska 1984, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson Jun 1985

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska 1984, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1984, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson Jun 1985

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1984, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Aspects Of Groundwater Quality Proceedings 1985 Water Resources Seminar Series Jun 1985

Aspects Of Groundwater Quality Proceedings 1985 Water Resources Seminar Series

Conservation and Survey Division

During each spring semester, the Nebraska Water Resources Center sponsors a Water Resources Seminar Series at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The 1985 seminar series was entitled "Aspects of Groundwater Quality".


Explorations, Vol. 1, No. 2, Jim I. Mead, Emilee M. Mead, Carol J. Bombard, Ronald B. Davis, Marcella H. Sorg Apr 1985

Explorations, Vol. 1, No. 2, Jim I. Mead, Emilee M. Mead, Carol J. Bombard, Ronald B. Davis, Marcella H. Sorg

Explorations — A Journal of Research

The cover print is a multi-plate colored etching entitled Skull and Sun Dial, by Susan Groce, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Maine at Orono, where she teaches Printmaking and Drawing.

Articles include:

"The Quaternary"

"Ice Age Plants and Animals: Secrets of the Colorado Plateau," by Jim I. Mead and Emilee M. Mead

"Finding the Facts: Pieces of the Puzzle"

"On Location: In Search of the First Americans"

"A Temporal Vegetational Continuum: From Tundra to Forest," by Carole J. Bombard for Ronald B. Davis

"Anatomy of an Excavation," by Robson Bonnichsen

"What the Bones Tell Us," by …


Foraminiferal Paleoenvironments Of The Eastover Formation (Upper Miocene Virginia), Joann H. Goshorn Apr 1985

Foraminiferal Paleoenvironments Of The Eastover Formation (Upper Miocene Virginia), Joann H. Goshorn

OES Theses and Dissertations

Sixty-two taxa representing 29 genera from 39 foraminiferal sample pairs have been documented and analyzed in a paleoenvironmental study of the Eastover Formation in southeastern Virginia. The Eastover Formation consists of a lower Claremont Manor Member, a silt fine-grained sand and an upper Cobham Bay Member, a shelly fine grained sand. Planktonic specimens were rare and indicated a late Miocene to early Pliocene age for the Eastover Formation. Benthics were used to interpret paleoenvironments by comparison with data from the distribution of Recent foraminifera, species diversity, planktonic to benthic ratios, and sediment analyses. The foraminifera indicate that the Eastover Formation …


Classification, Paleoecology, And Biostratigraphy Of Crinoids From The Stull Shale (Late Pennsylvanian) Of Nebraska, Kansas, And Iowa, Roger K. Pabian, Harrell L. Strimple Mar 1985

Classification, Paleoecology, And Biostratigraphy Of Crinoids From The Stull Shale (Late Pennsylvanian) Of Nebraska, Kansas, And Iowa, Roger K. Pabian, Harrell L. Strimple

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

Thirteen species of crinoids representing the families Diphuicrinidae, catacrinidae, Pirasocrinidae, Erisocrinidae, Cromyocrinidae, Cymbiocrinidae, Scytalocrinidae, and Ampelocrinidae have been collected from the Stull Shale Member of the Kanwaka Formation in the Shawnee Group of the Virgil Series (Upper Pennsylvanian) from near Weeping Water and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and near Pacific Junction, Iowa. Exposures of the Stull Shale near Melvern, Kansas, have yielded 14 species of crinoids representing the families Diphuicrinidae, Catacrinidae, Pirasocrinidae, Lophocrinidae Allagecrinidae, Cymbiocrinidae, Erisocrinidae, Apographiocrinidae, and Stellarocrinidae. All but two of the species present in the Stull Shale have been previously reported from other stratigraphic horizons, including the Vinland Shale …


The Quaternary Bone Caves And Associated Sites At Wallingford, Jamaica, Donald A. Mcfarlane, R. E. Gledhill Jan 1985

The Quaternary Bone Caves And Associated Sites At Wallingford, Jamaica, Donald A. Mcfarlane, R. E. Gledhill

WM Keck Science Faculty Papers

A group of caves associated with the sink of the One Eye River in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, have been the subject of numerous important palaeontological investigations beginning 1919. Unfortunately, considerable confusion has arisen in the literature through inadequate documentation of different sites. The caves of the immediate area are described and located, and their palaeontological significance is summarised in the light of recent taxonomic review and relevant geochronological evidence.


Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1984, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll Jan 1985

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1984, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Annual Outflow Of Water From Nebraska, 1950-1984, Conservation Survey Division Jan 1985

Annual Outflow Of Water From Nebraska, 1950-1984, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Irrigation Water Diagram Jan 1985

Irrigation Water Diagram

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1984)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1985, Conservation Survey Division, U.S. Geological Survey Jan 1985

Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1984)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1985, Conservation Survey Division, U.S. Geological Survey

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Transmissivity Of The Principal Aquifer In Nebraska Jan 1985

Transmissivity Of The Principal Aquifer In Nebraska

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Atlas Illustrating The Characteristics Of Groundwater In Nebraska, Vince Dreeszen Jan 1985

Atlas Illustrating The Characteristics Of Groundwater In Nebraska, Vince Dreeszen

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Airborne Thermal Mapping Of A "Flow-Through" Lake In The Nebraska Sandhills, Donald Rundquist, Gene Murray, Lloyd Queen Jan 1985

Airborne Thermal Mapping Of A "Flow-Through" Lake In The Nebraska Sandhills, Donald Rundquist, Gene Murray, Lloyd Queen

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Annual Outflow Of Water From Nebraska, 1950 - 1985 And Annual Inflow Of Water To Nebraska, 1950 - 1985, Conservation And Survey Division Jan 1985

Annual Outflow Of Water From Nebraska, 1950 - 1985 And Annual Inflow Of Water To Nebraska, 1950 - 1985, Conservation And Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Concentration Of Nitrate-Nitrogen In Groundwater Central Platte Region, Nebrask 1984, M. E. Exner Jan 1985

Concentration Of Nitrate-Nitrogen In Groundwater Central Platte Region, Nebrask 1984, M. E. Exner

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.