Project Info Geochronology of granitoid phases of the northern half of the Mount Evans 7.5’ quadrangle, Colorado Front Range Yvette Kuiper | pankavic@mines.edu The granitoid phases to be dated are probably part of the ~1.4 Ga Mount Evans batholith that makes up most...
Project Info Paleogene climate zones Piret Plink-Bjorklund | pplink@mines.edu Paleogene was a time of extreme global warming, and the paleo-climate data suggest that the global climate zones were very different from those of today. With this project we aim to map...
Project Info Fluvial fans – a new type of paleo-climate proxy? Piret Plink-Bjorklund | pplink@mines.edu Fluvial fans are a type of river deposits that form large fan-shaped bodies. There is an ongoing debate on whether fluvial fans are linked to specific climate...
Project Info Characterizing geochemical signatures of the deep-mantle Dupal anomaly Richard Palin | rmpalin@mines.edu During a review of worldwide igneous rock chemistry, Hart (1984) noticed that oceanic basalts with high 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb ratios for a given...
Project Info Calcite and pyrite weathering profiles in variably metamorphosed shales, East River CO Alexis Sitchler | asitchle@mines.edu The project objectives are to quantify depth of weathering of calcite and pyrite in the Mancos Shale formation that underlies the...
