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Geosciences

Department of Geosciences. This department was previously known as Geology. The name was changed July 1, 2019.

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Geology of Southern Part of the James Peak Quadrangle, Utah, Jan G. Blau

Geology of the Cuesta Ridge Ophiolite Remnant near San Luis Obispo, California: Evidence for the Tectonic Setting and Origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, Cameron A. Snow

Geology of the Deseret Peak East 7.5' Quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah, and Impacts for Hydrology of the Region, Torrey J. Copfer

Geology of the East-Central Part of the Malad Range, Idaho, Prapath Prammani

Geology of the Mink Creek Region, Idaho, Allen S. Keller

Geology of the Monte Cristo Area, Bear River Range, Utah, Robert B. Smith

Geology of the Northern Part of the Malad Range, Idaho, Drew C. Axtell

Geology of the Northern Part of Wellsville Mountain, Northern Wasatch Range, Utah, Stanley S. Beus

Geology of the Rendezvous Peak Area, Cache and Box Elder Counties, Utah, Robert L. Ezell

Geology of the Sharp Mountain Area, Southern Part of the Bear River Range, Utah, Preston L. Hafen

Geology of the Southern Part of Wellsville Mountain, Wasatch Range, Utah, Ronald H. Gelnett

Geology of the Southwestern Part of the Randolph Quadrangle, Utah-Wyoming, Steven C. Hansen

Geology of the Summer Ranch and North Promontory Mountains, Utah, O. Clair Adams

Geology of the West-Central Part of the Malad Range, Idaho, Phillip H. Wach

Geology of the Weston Canyon Area, Bannock Range, Idaho, Clair N. Murdock

Geology of the Wildcat Hills, Utah, Ronald C. Howes

Geometry and Physical Properties of the Chelungpu Fault, Taiwan, and Their Effect on Fault Rupture, Richard V. Heermance

Geomorphic Features and History of the Lower Part of Logan Canyon, Utah, Edmund J. Williams

Geomorphology of the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument, Paul E. Grams

Geothermal Alteration of Basaltic Core from the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Christopher Joseph Sant

Glaciation in the Logan Quadrangle, Utah, J. Llewellyn Young

Groundwater and Surface Water Contributions to Metals Loading in Bayhorse Creek at the Abandoned Ramshorn Mine Site Near Bayhorse, Idaho, Hannah L. McDonough

Groundwater and Surface-Water Interactions along Lower Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado, Gregg L. Hadlock

Groundwater Flow Systems and Thermal Regimes Near Cooling Igneous Plutons: Influence of Surface Topography, Mark U. Birch

Growth-Form Analysis and Paleoecology of the Corals of the Late Ordovician Through Mid-Silurian Fish Haven and Laketown Formations, Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Thomas B. Rich

Growth-Form-Analysis and Paleoecology of the Corals of the Lower Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Judith M. Miller

Growth, Morphology, Habit and Habitat of Selected Brachiopod and Mollusc Species from the Meade Peak Member of the Phosphoria Formation, Permian, Northeastern Utah - Southeastern Idaho - Southwestern Wyoming, Scott Lewis Russell

High-Resolution Holocene Alluvial Chronostratigraphy at Archaeological Sites in Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona, Erin Margaret Tainer

Holocene Tephrostratigraphy, Southern Kenai Peninsula, Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, Kathleen J. Lemke

Hydraulic Testing of the Big Hole Fault, Northern San Rafael Swell, Utah, William M. Schieb

Hydrocarbon and CO₂ Emissions from Oil and Gas Production Well Pad Soils Comparative to Background Soil Emissions in Eastern Utah, Cody S. Watkins

Hydrochemical Definition of Ground Water and Surface Water, with an Emphasis on the Origin of the Ground-Water Salinity in Southern Juab Valley, Juab County, Utah, Heidi K. Hadley

Hydrogen Stable Isotope Constraints on Hydration of Colorado Plateau Lower Crust From Oligocene-Miocene Navajo Volcanic Field Xenoliths, Shelby Dianne Litton

Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of Springs in Mantua Valley and Vicinity, North-Central Utah, Karen C. Rice

Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Delta Wadi El-Arish Area Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, Medhat A. El-Bihery

Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the East-Central Portion of The Salt Lake Valley, Utah, as Applied to Wellhead Protection in a Confined To Semiconfined Aquifer, Jeff W. Gadt

Internal Deformation, Evolution, and Fluid Flow in Basement-Involved Thrust Faults, Northwestern Wyoming, James V. Goddard

Investigating Patterns of Fluvial Form and Incision Near the Yellowstone Hotspot — Alpine Canyon of the Snake River, Wyoming, Daphnee Tuzlak

Investigating the Use of Quartz Luminescence and Rock-Color Alteration to Characterize Wildfire Exposure; Applied to the 2020 Mangum Fire, Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, April I. Phinney

Lake Bonneville History in Cutler Dam Quadrangle, Cache and Box Elder Counties, Utah, G. Glayde Maw

Landscape Evolution of the Needles Fault Zone, Utah, Investigated Through Chronostratigraphic and Terrain Analyses, Faye L. Geiger

Laramide Deformation in Precambrian Granitic Rocks, Northeastern Wind River Range, Wyoming, Mark A. DuBois

Late Pleistocene Glacial Chronology of the Western Ahklun Mountains, Southwestern Alaska, Jason P. Briner

Late Pleistocene Piedmont Records in the Grand Staircase Region, Southern Utah, Alexander K. Short

Late Quaternary Glacial Geology, Shoreline Morphology, and Tephrochronology of the lliamna/Naknek/Brooks Lake Area, Southwestern Alaska, Karen B. Stilwell

Late Quaternary Glacier Fluctuations and Vegetation Change in the Northwestern Ahklun Mountains, Southwestern Alaska, Yarrow L. Axford

Lithological and Geochemical Characterization of Ramp Sediments and a Depositional Model of the Ordovicain Garden City Formation, Northeastern Utah, Kenneth W. Kehoe

Lower Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy, Deposystems and Paleogeography of Northwestern Ordos Basin, North China, Benjamin J. Kessel

Magmatic Evolution of Early Subduction Zones: Geochemical Modeling and Chemical Stratigraphy of Boninite and Fore Arc Basalt from the Bonin Fore Arc, Emily A. Haugen

Magnitude of Displacement and Styles of Deformation on the Paris and Laketown Thrust Faults, Northern Utah, Richard D. Kendrick

Mesoscale Deformational Features Near Outcrop Analogs of a Reservoir-Seal Interface: Implications for Seal Failure, Santiago L. Flores

Micro- to Macro-Scale Structural and Lithological Architecture of Basal Nonconformities: Implications for Fluid Flow and Injection Induced Seismicity, Garth Hesseltine

Mineral and Chemical Content of the Deep-Water Sediment Sequences of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, James C. Biesinger

Mineralization in the Bear River Range, Utah-Idaho, John C. Chappelle

Mineralogy and Petrology of Lava Flows (Tertiary-Quaternary) In Southeastern Idaho and at Black Mountain, Rich County, Utah, Barbara J. Puchy

Mitigation, Monitoring, and Geomorphology Related to Gully Erosion of Archaeological Sites in Grand Canyon, Paul A. Petersen

Modeling Lithospheric Rheology from Modern Measurements of Bonneville Shoreline Deformation, Eric P. Beard

Mountain-Block Recharge to the Cache Valley Principal Aquifer and Geochemical Controls on Groundwater Movement in Alpine Karst, Skyler J. Sorsby

Multi-Proxy Approach to Robustly Capture Earthquake Temperature Rise at the Punchbowl Fault, California, Emma M. Armstrong

Nanotextural and Nanochemical Constraints on the Role of Heat in the Development of Crystalline-Hosted, Silica-Rich Fault Mirrors in the Wasatch Fault Damage Zone, Utah, USA, Leah M. Houser

Natural and Experimental Slow Slip Observed Along Shallow Hematite Faults, Alexandra A. DiMonte

New CA-ID-TIMS Detrital Zircon Constraints on Middle Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Successions, Southwestern United States, Abigail R. Bullard

One-Dimensional Modeling of Bromide Tracer and Trichloroethylene Transport Based on Laboratory Experiments in Vertical Soil Columns, Keri L. Murch

Origin and Evolution of Dolostone in the Middle Cambrian Langston Formation, Northern Utah, Mark C. Hall

Origins of Low-Angle Normal Faults Along the West Side of the Bear River Range in Northern Utah, Jon E. Brummer

Paleoecology of the Lowermost Part of the Jurassic Carmel Formation, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah, R. Joseph Dover

Paleoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Middle Cambrian Ute Formation, Northern Utah, Keith E. Eagan

Paleozic Stratigraphy of the James Peak Quadrangle, Utah, Harley D. King

Parameters Controlling Sediment Composition of Modern and Pleistocene Jamaican Reefs, Stephen K. Boss

Petrography and Geochemistry of the Fish Haven Formation and Lower Part of the Laketown Formation, Bear River Range, Utah, Brent H. Mecham

Petrology and Geochemistry of the Morrison Formation, Dinosaur Quarry Quadrangle, Utah, Sue Ann Bilbey

Petrology and Mineralogy of Quaternary Basalts, Gem Valley and Adjacent Bear River Range, Southeastern Idaho, William D. Perkins

Petrology and Mineralogy of Tertiary Volcanic Rocks in the Vicinity of the Rozel Hills and Black Mountain, Box Elder County, Utah, Elizabeth R. Greenman

Petrology and Mineralogy of Tertiary(?) Volcanic Rocks of Snowville Area, Utah, and Tertiary-Quaternary(?) Volcanic Rocks of Table Mountain and Holbrook Areas, Idaho, Yunshuen Wang

Petrology and Mineralogy of Tertiary(?) Volcanic Rocks West and Southwest of Kelton (Box Elder Co.), Utah, R. L. Voit

Petrology and Regional Relationships of the Ordovician Kinnikinic Formation and Equivalents, Central and Southern Idaho, William Calvin James

Petrology of Passive Margin-Epeiric Sea Sediments: The Garden City Formation, North-Central Utah, Susan K. Morgan

Petrology of Pliocene (?) Basalts of Curlew Valley (Box Elder Co.), Utah, Steven Brent Kerr

Petrology of the Arumbera Sandstone, Late Proterozoic(?) - Early Cambrian, Northeastern Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Keith T. Conrad

Petrology of the Late Proterozoic(?) - Early Cambrian Arumbera Sandstone and the Late Proterozoic Quandong Conglomerate, East-Central Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Johnnie O. Phillips

Petrology of the Late Proterozoic(?)-Early Cambrian Arumbera Sandstone, Western MacDonnell Ranges, North-Central Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Lonn P. Hamp

Petrology of the Lower Middle Cambrian Langston Formation, North-Central Utah and Southeastern Idaho, Gary Jay Buterbaugh

Petrology of the Middle Cambrian Blacksmith Formation, North-Central Utah, Howard William Hay Jr.

Petrology of the Middle Cambrian Blacksmith Formation, Southeastern Idaho and Northernmost Utah, David Paul Zelazek

Petrology of the Middle Cambrian Langston and Ute Formations in Southeastern Idaho, Daniel T. Rogers

Petrology of the Middle Cambrian Ute Formation, North-Central Utah and Southeastern Idaho, Edward James Deputy

Petrology of the Middle Jurassic Twin Creek Limestone, Lincoln and Sublette Counties, Southwestern Wyoming, David R. Raubvogel

Petrology of the Ordovician Swan Peak Formation, Southeastern Idaho and North-Central Utah, Warren J. Schulingkamp II

Petrology of the Upper Nounan - Worm Creek Sequence, Upper Cambrian Nounan and St. Charles Formations, Southeast Idaho, Lillian Donley Wakeley

Phosphate Deposits in Western Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Morgan, and Weber Counties, Utah, Alvin M. Hanson

Phosphate Exploration and Property Evaluation in Southeastern Idaho, Illustrated by the Dry Valley Area, James Simon Spalding

Pleistocene Deposits of Lower Wahweap Creek and Its Tributaries, Southern Utah, Noah Slade

Pre-Eruptive Evolution of Izu-Bonin Boninite Melts: Mixing, Cooling, and Crystallization, Jesse L. Scholpp

Pre-Late-Wisconsin Glacial History of the Naknek River Valley, Southwestern Alaska, Caleb H. Thompson

Quaternary Amino Acid Geochronology of the Lahontan Basin, Nevada, and the Chewaucan Basin, Oregon, Jeffrey Bigelow

Quaternary Bear River Paleohydrogeography Reconstructed from the 87Sr/86Sr Composition of Lacustrine Fossils, David P. Bouchard

Quaternary Evolution of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona, William Scott Cragun

Quaternary Geology and Landscape Evolution of Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona, Matt D. Anders

Quaternary Geology and Neotectonics of Southern Star Valley and the Southwest Flank of the Salt River Range, Western Wyoming, Gregory A. Warren

Quaternary Geology and Tectonic Geomorphology of the Pocatello Valley Area, Idaho-Utah, John D. Garr