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Full-Text Articles in Geology
Orta Anadolu Masi̇fi̇ Doğusunda (Akdağmadeni̇-Yildizeli̇) İlgi̇nç Metamorfi̇k Parajenezler, Siyami Özer, M. Cemal Göncüoğlu
Orta Anadolu Masi̇fi̇ Doğusunda (Akdağmadeni̇-Yildizeli̇) İlgi̇nç Metamorfi̇k Parajenezler, Siyami Özer, M. Cemal Göncüoğlu
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
General Geological Setting And The Structural Features Of The Guleman Peridotite Unit And The Chromite Deposits (Elaziğ, Eastern Turkey), Tandoğan Engi̇n, Mehmet Balci, Yücel Sümer, Yusuf Ziya Özkan
General Geological Setting And The Structural Features Of The Guleman Peridotite Unit And The Chromite Deposits (Elaziğ, Eastern Turkey), Tandoğan Engi̇n, Mehmet Balci, Yücel Sümer, Yusuf Ziya Özkan
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
The Geology Of The Southeastern Part Of The Teke Taurus (Sw Turkey), Mustafa Şenel, Mualla Serdaroğlu, Reşat Kengi̇l, Murat Ün Verdi̇, M. Ziya Gözler
The Geology Of The Southeastern Part Of The Teke Taurus (Sw Turkey), Mustafa Şenel, Mualla Serdaroğlu, Reşat Kengi̇l, Murat Ün Verdi̇, M. Ziya Gözler
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Geology Newsletter- 1981, Department Of Geology
Geology Newsletter- 1981, Department Of Geology
Geological and Environmental Sciences News
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An Analysis Of Nitrate Concentrations In The Ground-Water Of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, John Emil Klanke
An Analysis Of Nitrate Concentrations In The Ground-Water Of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, John Emil Klanke
Masters Theses
Private wells were tested for nitrate during the spring of 1979 throughout sections of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, southwestern Michigan (sections 1-5, 7-22, 24-26, 28-31, 33-36). Water samples were collected from 159 private wells and analyzed for nitrate. Nitrate concentrations ranged from less than 1 mg/1 NO3-N to 14.6 mg/1 NO3-N. Seven wells were found to have nitrate concentrations equaling or exceeding the National Interim Primary Drinking Water Standard of 10 mg/1 NO3-N. Nitrate concentrations were related to age of septic system, well depth below static water level, land use, and soil type. …
Petrology Of Fluvial And Shoreline Sands In A Modern Arc-Trench Gap, Guatemala, James Robert Bartel
Petrology Of Fluvial And Shoreline Sands In A Modern Arc-Trench Gap, Guatemala, James Robert Bartel
Masters Theses
Petrographic studies of modern sands, derived from areas with known source rocks, climate, relief, environments of deposition, and tectonic setting, are essential for compiling compositional models for ancient sandstones. The Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala is terminated 25-60 km inland by the steep slopes of a row of active Quaternary volcanic and granitic rocks.
Sands being deposited on the coastal plain by the Rio Nahulate, which drains the older volcanic and granitic terrane, show significant compositional differences with those supplied by the Rio Samala, which drains an area dominated by active volcanism: Q9F35L56 vs. Q …
Structural Analysis Of Precambrian Metasedimentary Rocks Of The Swede Gulch Formation, Nahant, South Dakota, Richard G. Cookman
Structural Analysis Of Precambrian Metasedimentary Rocks Of The Swede Gulch Formation, Nahant, South Dakota, Richard G. Cookman
Masters Theses
Precambrian X tectonites deformed between thermal domes in the northern Black Hills 1.7 B.Y.B.P. display variably trending isoclinal folds cross-cut by southeast trending slip-folds developed in discrete shear zones. Eugeosynclinal sedimentary rocks consisting of shale, quartzarenite , sublitharenite, and graywacke were metamorphosed to phyllite, quartzite, and metagraywacke during two syntectonic phases and one post-tectonic phase. The earliest syntectonic metamorphism was associated with development of isoclinal folds and may have produced amphibolite or greenschist facies. It was succeeded by retrograde metamorphism of greenschist facies syntectonic with and post-tectonic to development of southeast trending folds.
Mica, chlorite, iron oxides, and graphite are …
Hydrology Of The Sinking Creek System, Logan And Simpson Counties, Kentucky, James C. Cubbage
Hydrology Of The Sinking Creek System, Logan And Simpson Counties, Kentucky, James C. Cubbage
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Southwest of Bowling Green, Kentucky, is the Western Pennyroyal, is a karstified area which has been neglected in the study of its ground water. About 100 square miles near Adairville were chosen for analysis to help rectify this lack of knowledge. The area is dominated by Sinking Creek, a surface-subsurface drainage system.
The main purpose of the study was to map the underground flow in the Sinking Creek area. The drainage system seemed to be typical for the Western Pennyroyal and exhibited many similarities to flow paths known in the Central Kentucky Karst.
The investigation proved to be of basic …
Main Geological Features Of The Area South Of Bi̇ga Peninsula (Savaştepe - Kirkağaç - Bergama - Ayvalik), Behçet Akyürek, Yılmaz Soysal
Main Geological Features Of The Area South Of Bi̇ga Peninsula (Savaştepe - Kirkağaç - Bergama - Ayvalik), Behçet Akyürek, Yılmaz Soysal
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
No abstract provided.
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report, July 1980–June 1981, R. R. Burchett
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report, July 1980–June 1981, R. R. Burchett
Conservation and Survey Division
This annual report presents and interprets the information obtained by the Conservation and Survey Division (Nebraska Geological Survey) during contract year July 1, 1980, to June 30, 1981, under contract NRC-04-76-3l5 with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The information pertains to the geology, structure, tectonics, and seismicity of eastern Nebraska with emphasis on central Otoe County. Some of the information presented here results from a combination of studies begun in earlier years but the greater part results from studies begun during the contract year.
The scope of the studies is summarized as follows:
1. Rock outcrops in Otoe County were …
Gravity And Ground Magnetic Investigations In Eastern Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett
Gravity And Ground Magnetic Investigations In Eastern Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett
Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications
The purpose of this investigation was to extend the area covered by gravity and ground magnetic data related to the Nemaha Uplift and associated structures in eastern Nebraska. Gravity data were collected from Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Nuckolls, Polk, Thayer, and York Counties. Additional ground magnetic data and gravity data were collected for central Otoe County.
Selected Shallow Electrical Resistivity Surveys At Volcano Cliffs, Bernalillo County, And Warm Springs, Sandoval County, New Mexico, Sidney S. Brandwein
Selected Shallow Electrical Resistivity Surveys At Volcano Cliffs, Bernalillo County, And Warm Springs, Sandoval County, New Mexico, Sidney S. Brandwein
Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs
To help assess the applicability of shallow electrical resistivity measurements in New Mexico, two diverse areas in northwestern New Mexico were chosen as electrical resistivity survey sites: Volcano Cliffs and Warm Springs.
Volcano Cliffs, 15 km northwest of Albuquerque, is an area of Pleistocene volcanic activity which manifested itself in cinder cones and basalt flows. At Volcano Cliffs five different electrode configurations were employed to test the horizontality and derive the thicknesses and resistivities of the three geoelectric units present. All electrode configurations yielded reliable results. The ambiguities presented by the principle of equivalence were successfully treated. The first geoelectric …
Gravity And Ground Magnetic Investigations In Eastern Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett
Gravity And Ground Magnetic Investigations In Eastern Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett
Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications
The purpose of this investigation was to extend the area covered by gravity and ground magnetic data related to the Nemaha Uplift and associated structures in eastern Nebraska. Gravity data were collected from Butler, Jefferson, Saline, and Seward counties. Additional ground magnetic data and gravity data were collected for eastern Sarpy and northeastern Cass counties in Nebraska and gravity data were collected from parts of Mills and Fremont counties in Iowa.
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report, July 1979–June 1980, R. R. Burchett
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report, July 1979–June 1980, R. R. Burchett
Conservation and Survey Division
This annual report presents and interprets the information obtained by the Conservation and Survey Division (Nebraska Geological Survey) during contract year July 1, 1979, to June 30, 1980, under contract NRC-04-76-3l5 with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The information pertains to the geology, structure, tectonics, and seismicity of eastern Nebraska with emphasis on the vicinity south of Omaha, Nebraska. Some of the information presented here results from a combination of studies begun in earlier years but the greater part results from studies begun during the contract year.
The scope of the studies is summarized as follows:
1. Rock outcrops in …
Dolomitization Of The Brassfield Formation (Lower Silurian) In Adams County, Ohio, Lisa L. Varga
Dolomitization Of The Brassfield Formation (Lower Silurian) In Adams County, Ohio, Lisa L. Varga
Masters Theses
The Lower Silurian Brassfield Formation which outcrops in the Tri-state area of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky is a transgressive sequence consisting of a series of interbedded shales, limestones and dolostones. Evidence from depositional environments, petrography and spatial relationships of dolomitized and undolomitized rock suggests dolomitization in southwestern Ohio was a two-stage process. Initial dolomitization was restricted to the basal Belfast Member and probably occurred penecontemporaneously on small supratidal islands in a manner analagous to that which occurs in the modern sabkha environment of the Persian Gulf. Regional dolomitization was a later diagenetic event related to the formation of a fresh-seawater …
The Petrology And Geochemistry Of Keweenawan Diabase Dikes In Ontonagon, Gogebic, Iron And Dickinson Counties, Michigan, James J. Hahnenberg
The Petrology And Geochemistry Of Keweenawan Diabase Dikes In Ontonagon, Gogebic, Iron And Dickinson Counties, Michigan, James J. Hahnenberg
Masters Theses
Petrographic and chemical studies of Keeweenawan-age diabase dikes in Michigan's Upper Peninsula show two major groupings, Porcupine Mountain dikes and Lower Keweenawan dikes consist of two major rock types, fine-grained smaller dikes and the coarse-grained central portions of larger dikes. Major minerals are subophitic plagioclase and pyroxene. The rocks, as compared to the "average" basalts, are low in Al203, high in Ti02, K20, P205 and contain moderate amounts of Fe0t. They are classified as quartz tholeiites. Several parental magma sources that would account for these and other …
U-Pb Studies Of Zircon Cores And Overgrowths, And Monazite: Implications For Age And Petrogenesis Of The Northeastern Idaho Batholith, M. E. Bickford, R. B. Chase, B. K. Nelson, Robert Duncan Shuster, E. C. Arruda
U-Pb Studies Of Zircon Cores And Overgrowths, And Monazite: Implications For Age And Petrogenesis Of The Northeastern Idaho Batholith, M. E. Bickford, R. B. Chase, B. K. Nelson, Robert Duncan Shuster, E. C. Arruda
Geography and Geology Faculty Publications
U/Pb isotopic studies of zircons, many containing xenocrystic cores with euhedral overgrowths, and monazite from igneous rocks and metasedimentary inclusions of the northeastern Idaho batholith yield linear arrays on concordia diagrams. We interpret these as mixing lines between an old component (cores) and a young component (overgrowths and zircons without cores). The lower intercept of such arrays with concordia may yield the minimum age of the rocks if the overgrowths and zircons without cores are discordant, or the crystallization age if they are concordant. Monazites yield apparently concordant ages either equal or less than the lower intercept zircon ages. The …
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1980, Martin S. Johnson, Darryll T. Pederson
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1980, Martin S. Johnson, Darryll T. Pederson
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Petrology Of The Arumbera Sandstone, Late Proterozoic(?) - Early Cambrian, Northeastern Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Keith T. Conrad
Petrology Of The Arumbera Sandstone, Late Proterozoic(?) - Early Cambrian, Northeastern Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Keith T. Conrad
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The Arumbera Sandstone forms distinctive strike ridges with dark reddish slopes and orange-white cliffs throughout most of the northeastern Amadeus Basin. It is divisible into four readily mappable informal units. The ridge-forming units, 2 and 4, are divided into three and two subunits, respectively.
Unit 1, Subunit 2b, Unit 3 and Subunit 4b are generally comprised of recessive, pale-red to grayish-red, medium- to thin-bedded, fineto medium-grained arkose with major proportions of siltstone and mudshale. These sedimentary bodies are interpreted as a complex system of coastal to nearshore-marine environments including tidal flats, tidal channels, estuaries and beaches. Evidence includes: (1) predominance …
Faunal Succession And Depositional Environments Within The Lodgepole Limestone (Early Mississippian) Of Samaria Mountain, Idaho, Gary Keith Hines
Faunal Succession And Depositional Environments Within The Lodgepole Limestone (Early Mississippian) Of Samaria Mountain, Idaho, Gary Keith Hines
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Community succession, the orderly changes a community experiences with time, is considered to be the result of either autogenic or allogenic factors working singularly or in combination. It has been further suggested that, as communities undergo succession, certain biological parameters change in a predictable manner. Examination of members 2 through 4 of the Mississippian (Kinderhook-Osage) Lodgepole Formation of Samaria Mountain, Idaho provides a means to evaluate these concepts.
Within the study section comprised of 125 beds (61.5 m thick), four rock types are recognized. These include: (1) fossiliferous wackestone (78% of beds), which ranges in color from dark-gray (N3) to …
Mineralogy And Petrology Of Lava Flows (Tertiary-Quaternary) In Southeastern Idaho And At Black Mountain, Rich County, Utah, Barbara J. Puchy
Mineralogy And Petrology Of Lava Flows (Tertiary-Quaternary) In Southeastern Idaho And At Black Mountain, Rich County, Utah, Barbara J. Puchy
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Lava flows of Tertiary-Quaternary age occur in Enoch Valley, Upper Valley, and Slug Valley in southeastern Idaho. The basalts in Upper Valley and Enoch Valley contain olivine (Fo69 to Fo37), plagioclase (An62 to An39), augite and Fe-Ti oxides. The lava in Slug Valley lacks plagioclase, but contains sanidine (Or70 to Or56) with a trace of biotite and amphibole, and thus, has been termed alkali trachyte.
Black Mountain, on the eastern side of Bear Lake, northeastern Utah, is capped by basalt. Minerals present include olivine (Fo83 to Fo72), plagioclase …
Petrology Of The Middle Cambrian Blacksmith Formation, Southeastern Idaho And Northernmost Utah, David Paul Zelazek
Petrology Of The Middle Cambrian Blacksmith Formation, Southeastern Idaho And Northernmost Utah, David Paul Zelazek
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The Blacksmith Formation of Middle Cambrian (Albertan) age was studied in southeastern Idaho and northernmost Utah. Lithology and sedimentary structures were compared with modern environments and ancient rocks to determine environments of deposition, paleo-geography, diagenetic alterations and patterns of dolomitization.
The Blacksmith Formation can be divided into five basic rock types. Rock type A has cryptalgalaminae, mudcracks, and lacks bioturbation. Rock type A is inferred to have been deposited in the upper intertidal to supratidal environment. Rock type B is extremely dolomitized and brecciated. It is inferred that rock type B was deposited in the upper intertidal to supratidal environment. …
Growth-Form Analysis And Paleoecology Of The Corals Of The Late Ordovician Through Mid-Silurian Fish Haven And Laketown Formations, Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Thomas B. Rich
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Morphology of corals of the Late Ordovician through mid-Silurian Fish Haven and Laketown Formations were analyzed to document adaptations to inferred enviromental conditions, i.e., (bathymetry, illumination, sedimentation, currents, and energy), under which their enclosing sediment was deposited. Specimens and data were collected from six sites. Insoluble-residue tests were performed on the corals' matrices.
Individual corallites of radial-lensoidal corals radiate in all directions. Vertical growth, however, was restricted in turbulent conditions. Umbrellic, radial-lensoidal corals feature downward facing corallites, considered to be an adaptation to a well illuminated environment.
On tabular lensoidal corals, constituent corallites faces exclusively upward, an orientation needed under …
Provenance And Description Of Landslide Masses, Rainbow Gardens Clark County, Nevada., Joseph R. Parolini
Provenance And Description Of Landslide Masses, Rainbow Gardens Clark County, Nevada., Joseph R. Parolini
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A landslide breccia of plutonic and metamorphic rocks located 20 km east of Las Vegas, Nevada is interstratified with the late Tertiary Thumb Formation. Rock types of similar mineral composition to the landslide masses in the Rainbow Gardens are found 60 km to the east in the Gold Butte (Nevada) area. The landslide masses were displaced into their present position by lateral strike-slip motion along either the left-lateral Lake Mead fault system or the right-lateral Las Vegas shear zone. In t.he Rainbow Gardens landslide masses, five plutonic rock types, including rapakivi granite, match rocks from the Gold Butte area, both …
Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1980, D. A. Eversoll, R. R. Burchett
Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1980, D. A. Eversoll, R. R. Burchett
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Provenance And Description Of Landslide Masses, Rainbow Gardens, Clark County, Nevada, Joseph R. Parolini
Provenance And Description Of Landslide Masses, Rainbow Gardens, Clark County, Nevada, Joseph R. Parolini
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A landslide breccia of plutonic and metamorphic rocks located 20 km east of Las Vegas, Nevada is interstratified with the late Tertiary Thumb Formation. Rock types of similar mineral composition to the landslide masses in the Rainbow Gardens are found 60 km to the east in the Gold Butte (Nevada) area. The landslide masses were displaced into their present position by lateral strike-slip motion along either the left-lateral Lake Mead fault system or the right-lateral Las Vegas shear zone. In the Rainbow Gardens landslide masses, five plutonic rock types, including Rapakivi granite, match rocks from the Gold Butte area, both …
Maine's Whitewater Rapids And Their Relevance To The Critical Areas Program, Janet Mcmahon
Maine's Whitewater Rapids And Their Relevance To The Critical Areas Program, Janet Mcmahon
Maine Collection
Maine's Whitewater Rapids and Their Relevance to the Critical Areas Program
by Janet McMahon
Planning Report No. 74, Critical Areas Program, 184 State St., Augusta, Maine,
April, 1981 (additions made in October, 1981). Reprinted July, 1983.
Contents: Introduction / Natural History of Whitewater Rapids / Methods / Criteria / Results / Conclusions / General Evaluation of Whitewater Rapids for Inclusion on the Register of Critical Areas / Bibliography / Action Plan
U-Pb Systematics And Ages Of Rocks From The Zone Of Cataclasis, Bitterroot Dome, Southwestern Montana, Edward Charles Arruda
U-Pb Systematics And Ages Of Rocks From The Zone Of Cataclasis, Bitterroot Dome, Southwestern Montana, Edward Charles Arruda
Masters Theses
The eastern flank of the Bitterroot range, western Montana, consists of a 100 km-long zone of cataclasis which dips to the east. Zircons in sheared granitic plutons from three localities within this zone were dated using U-Pb methods. These zircons, which consist of anhedral cores and euhedral overgrowths, yield concordia lower-intercept ages of 48-52 million years before the present, dates which likely represent crystallization ages of the plutons. Shearing which affected these plutons, therefore, is significantly younger than the 72-76 million year age assigned for eastward movement of the Sapphire tectonic block whose detachment zone has been interpreted as the …
Geology For The Layman, James O. Staggs
Geology For The Layman, James O. Staggs
Annual of the Arkansas Natural Resources Law Institute
The first thing that an individual must thoroughly understand, is that geology is not an exact science. This may be strange for a geologist to say, but it is very similar to the profession of law in that any set of data may be and is usually interpreted differently by individual lawyers. We geologist start with some known facts (sometime geological), make assumptions, and then intrepret into the unknown. It is this interpretation that separates a successful geologist from a geologist. A successful oil finding geologist is a geologist that has developed this interpretation of geological facts into an art. …
Public Response To Earthquake Hazard Information, Risa Palm
Public Response To Earthquake Hazard Information, Risa Palm
Geosciences Faculty Publications
Consumer protection legislation has been based on the assumptions that people prefer to avoid risks and that they make rational decisions given a bounded field of information. Mandated disclosure of information about environmental hazards in limited areas should therefore result in the avoidance of such areas by homebuyers or the adoption of mitigation measures subsequent to the move. The response of California homebuyers to mandated disclosure of the location of special studies zones or surface fault rupture districts was negligible, both because of the failure of the law to specify rigorous disclosure procedures and also because the law was based …