ALBIAN TO CENOMANIAN (CRETACEOUS) SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY, AND PALEOECOLOGY OF AN ARCTIC FORELAND BASIN, NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA
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...EXHUMATION AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WOOD HILLS-EAST HUMBOLT RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NEVADA
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...28th Keck Symposium
at Union College
27th Keck Symposium Volume
At Mt. Holyoke College, 2014
Professor Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College) and Student Jesslyn Starnes (Denison University) have published results from their 2010 Keck project on magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Range, CA
Professor Jade Star Lackey (Pomona College) and Student Jesslyn Starnes (Denison University) have published results from their 2010 Keck project on magmatism in the Sierra Nevada Range, CA along with co-author Eric Klemetti (Denison University). Read...FIRE AND CATASTROPHIC FLOODING, FOURMILE CATCHMENT, FRONT RANGE, COLORADO
Students and faculty of the Keck Colorado Project will make field measurements and collect samples to help characterize the: (1) importance of fire in the critical zone; (2) the geomorphic significance of catastrophic floods in channel and floodplain evolution; and...CALIBRATING NATURAL BASALTIC LAVA FLOWS WITH LARGE-SCALE LAVA EXPERIMENTS
Participants will investigate the behavior and morphology of basaltic lava flows from two very different but related perspectives: field observations of historic basaltic lava flows in Iceland and large-scale lava flow experiments conducted at Syracuse University....GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND HUMAN/ECOSYSTEMS RESILIENCE IN THE ISLANDS OF THE FOUR MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
Project Director: Kirsten Nicolaysen (Whitman College) Number of students: 3 Approximate dates: July 24 to August 20th Project summaryAssessing the degree to which geological hazards in the Aleutian archipelago disrupted prehistoric human and ecological systems has...HOLOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGE AND ACTIVE TECTONICS IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES: IMPACTS ON GLACIERS AND LAKES
What: We will generate continuous records of mountain glaciation in Peru that span the Holocene (~12 ka to present) through an approach that combines the acquisition and analysis of lake sediment cores with moraine dating using both lichenometry and cosmogenic...Keep in Touch!
