The 2015-2019 Academic Years
32nd Keck Proceedings Volume
ISSN# 1528-7491
31st Keck Proceedings Volume
ISSN# 1528-7491
Zodiacs in the Rain
…when the waves come up and the rain starts, one feels pretty exposed riding on these boats.
Oil and Ice
…we commonly encountered oiled outcrops in our sampling: a sad sight and a reminder of a past ecological disaster..
Blue Skies in Alaska
Nicholas Gross Almonte from Carleton College takes notes on the Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group at an outcrop in Valdez Arm, Prince William Sound Alaska.
Assessing vegetation and fluvial responses to the PETM
Assessing vegetation and fluvial responses to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Hanna Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.) Overview: This project focuses on developing the basin evolution and paleobotanical history of the Hanna Basin spanning the...
Using garnets to explore the beginning of subduction
Using garnets to explore the beginning of subduction on Santa Catalina Island, California Overview: In the late Cretaceous Period, before the San Andreas Fault started shearing off the edge of California, the geology of the Los Angeles region...
Paleoenvironmental analysis of ancient soil horizons
Paleoenvironmental analysis of ancient (petro)calcic soil horizons: disentangling climatic, geomorphic, and biological records in the Mojave Desert Overview: This four-student project will test a suite of related hypotheses regarding the...
Landscape and environmental change in Glacier National Park
Landscape and environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana Overview: This eight-student project uses sediment core samples to reconstruct glacial history, Holocene climate, and human impacts to Glacier National Park, Montana (GNP)....
Structural evolution of a normal fault transfer zone
Structural evolution of a segmented normal fault transfer zone, Sevier fault, southern Utah Overview: This four-student project focuses on the evolution of the Sevier normal fault zone in southern Utah, near Zion National Park. The Sevier...
Geology of the Chugach-Prince William terrane
Geology of the Chugach-Prince William terrane in northern Prince William Sound, Alaska Overview: This six-student project focuses on the geology of the Chugach-Prince William terrane in southern Alaska, and is part on an ongoing study of the...
2017-2018 Keck Geology Consortium Undergraduate Research Projects
The 2017-2018 Keck Geology Consortium projects involve a mix of field and laboratory research experiences that make meaningful scientific contributions in the areas of structural geology, paleontology and paleoecology, and paleoclimatology as well as igneous and metamorphic petrology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, and hydrogeology.
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