During the Late Mississippian-Early Pennsylvanian (latest
Chesterian-early Morrowan), a thick sequence of shallow -water
carbonate-clastic sediments, equivalent to the "Amsden" and lower
Quadrant Formations, was deposited in the Snowcrest trough on the
western margin of the northern Rocky Mountain Cordilleran platform
in southwestern Montana. Today this late Chesterian sequence is...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
The Juniper Ridge volcanic complex is located in the High Lava Plains Province of
southeastern Oregon, a wide zone of bimodal volcanism and faulting that marks the northern
limit of widespread Basin and Range-style faulting in the northern Great Basin Province. Rhyolite
dome complexes are progressively younger to the northwest...
Landslides are ubiquitous within the state of Oregon, imposing an annual estimated cost of more than $10 million. Weak, saturated soils at steep slopes combined with persistent rainfall throughout most of the year provide a dangerous environment for this natural disaster, particularly in western Oregon. This grim situation is intensified...