Cyclothems record the sedimentary product of cyclicity in relative sea-level on either a regional or global scale, showing both regressive and transgressive phases. This study aims to contribute to our understanding of ...

The Amethyst Vein System is an epithermal Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au deposit in the Creede mining district, southwest Colorado. Silicification and argillization are the two dominant facies of hydrothermal alteration associated with ...

This dissertation addresses aspects of structural geology in two locations. In the first chapter, detailed geologic mapping and preliminary cross-sectional construction define along-strike changes in the structural ...

*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Microsoft Office.

Although modern Metazoan corals construct Earth’s wave-resistant coral reefs, serve as a cornerstone of marine ecology, and may help mitigate the accumulation of greenhouse gases by building a skeleton (composed of a calcium ...

The carbonate rocks of the Kinkaid Formation (Upper Mississippian) of the Illinois Basin were sampled at an average vertical interval of 17 centimeters from twelve stratigraphic sections in Southern Illinois and Western ...

The 1400 samples of vertically-oriented limestone and dolomite and 50 samples of shale and K-bentonites used in this study were collected from six field sections and four cores of the Galena Group.