News & Announcements
The Adventure Begins
The big day is here! Over the next 4 weeks, the Keck Utah research crew will keep you updated with our research exploits in the field and in the lab.
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...
Presentations by Keck Consortium at AGU 2017
Students and faculty from Keck Geology Consortium projects to present research at Annual AGU meeting…
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...
Presentations by Keck Geology Consortium Projects at GSA 2017
The Geological Society of America 129th Annual Meeting,
October 22-25, 2017 Seattle, Washington
IODP Focus Project Update
Suzanne O’Connell (Wesleyan) and Joseph Ortiz (Kent State) led four students to the International Ocean Discovery Program core repository at Texas A&M University.
Dominica Frontier Project Update
During a two-week period, based at the Archbold Tropical Research and Education Center on Dominica, students collected samples ranging from pumice clasts and ash from thick ignimbrite sequences, to enclaves and mingled magmas….
Alaska Gateway Project Update
Five Gateway Program students joined Greg Wiles (Wooster) in Juneau for a dendrochronological study of Yellow Cedar in Juneau, Alaska.