Nov 12, 2014 | 2015-2016 Projects
What: The two Newberry Crater lakes are located at ~ 2 km elevation inside the Newberry Volcanic Monument area, which is located behind the Cascadian arc in the OR high desert, ~30 km south of Bend, OR. The lake waters are carbonate-rich, with neutral to slightly...
Nov 12, 2014 | 2015-2016 Projects
What: The 2015 southern New England Keck project will investigate Holocene and Anthropocene sediments and landforms to understand the regional history of floods, climate change and human impact. We will focus on targeted long-timescale (Holocene) sediment archives...
Nov 12, 2014 | 2015-2016 Projects
Participants will investigate the behavior and morphology of basaltic lava flows from two very different but related perspectives: field observations of basaltic lava flows in Iceland and large-scale lava flow experiments conducted at Syracuse University. Experiments...
Nov 12, 2014 | 2015-2016 Projects
What: Arctic Alaska experienced great tectonic and climatic change during the mid to Late Cretaceous. We will document the sedimentary, pedogenic, and biologic responses to these changes by measuring stratigraphic sections of thick marine, deltaic, and alluvial...
Oct 28, 2014 | 2015-2016 Projects
What: This project will document the kinematics and thermal evolution of middle and lower crustal rocks exposed during exhumation of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex (RM-EHR) in northeastern Nevada. Although the RM-EHR is widely...