Project Info Rock Joint Roughness Quantification Gabriel Walton | gwalton@mines.edu Rock joints are the primary drivers of rockmass behavior, and one of the key controls on rock joint behavior is the rock joint roughness. Existing techniques for the measurement and...
Project Info Monitoring and Characterizing Rock Slopes and Excavations through Analysis of Remote Sensing Data Gabriel Walton | gwalton@mines.edu Rockfall hazards result in injuries, fatalities, and economic losses (due to road closures) all over the US, and...
Project Info From roots to rocks – connecting tree water use with groundwater Kamini Singha | ksingha@mines.edu “This work focuses on the when, wheres, and hows of tree water use. You would think that given how important trees are to our economy and...
Project Info Pre-Laramide salt tectonics in the eagle evaporite basin: A new paradigm for the tectonic evolution of central Colorado Mary Carr | mcarr@mines.edu “The Paradox Basin of eastern Utah shows excellent examples of the impact of salt movement on the...
Project Info Using detrital zircon geochronology to constrain Paleozoic sediment source areas and dispersal patterns along the Colorado Front Range Zane Jobe | zanejobe@mines.edu From modern landscapes, we know that rivers and winds move sediment down from mountainous...
