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Influence of organic matter on the geotechnical properties and consolidation characteristics of northern Oregon continental slope sediments

Creator:: McDonald, William P.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the sediment water content on the northern Oregon lower continental slope appears to be affected by

Sedimentary petrology of some tertiary formations, Upper Nehalem River Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Van Atta, Robert O.
Abstract:: The southern half of the upper Nehalem River basin contains the most complete section of lower to middle Tertiary marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks in northern Oregon. Determination of stratigraphic relationships of six formations, and their depositional environments and provenance is the chief objective of this paper. More than 75...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Sediments of Yaquina Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Kulm, LaVerne D., 1936-
Abstract:: Three realms of deposition, Marine, Fluviatile, and Marine- Fluviatile, are recognized in Yaquina Bay, Oregon, on the basis of sediment texture and mineralogy. The Marine Realm extends 1.5 miles into the entrance of the estuary and is typified by normal marine salinity and vigorous tidal action. Sediments of this realm...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Continental shelf sediments in the vicinity of Newport, Oregon

Creator:: Bushnell, David Clifford
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fraction of the finer-Lrained offshore sediment. Glauconite, Redacted for Privacy calcium carbonate

Depositional origin of Mima mounds

Creator:: Paeth, Robert C.
Abstract:: An investigation was conducted to determine the origin of Mima mounds in Jackson County, Oregon and Thurston County, Washington. Data on soil morphology, mineralogy, and particle size distribution were used to test the periglacial ice wedge hypothesis, the gopher hypothesis, the erosional hypothesis, and the loess hypothesis. The results of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Late Quaternary sedimentation and geologic history of the North Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Glenn, Jerry L.
Abstract:: Late Quaternary sediments in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, include a unit of chiefly silt and fine sand, the Willamette Silt Formation. Previous workers have (1) Assigned the Willamette Silt different ages which range from Sangamon interglacial to late Wisconsin glacial, (2) Proposed that the Willamette Silt was deposited in a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Patterns of sediment accumulation in the Siletz River Estuary, Oregon

Creator:: Pakenham, Anna
Abstract:: Anecdotal evidence suggests many Pacific Northwest estuaries are filling with sediment due to historical logging activities in upstream watersheds. Using the Siletz River estuary as a case study, this research began by analyzing timber harvest and discharge records of the Siletz River watershed, and found that increased timber harvest coincides...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Patterns of Sediment Accumulation in the Siletz River Estuary, Oregon by Anna Pakenham A

Uncertainty in forest road hydrologic modeling and catchment scale assessment offorest road sediment yield

Creator:: Surfleet, Christopher G.
Abstract:: The goal of this study was to advance methods for assessment of forest road hydrologic response and sediment yield at a catchment scale. This research looked at the effect of soil depth estimation on the Distributive Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM), assessed the uncertainty and accuracy of hydrologic modeling of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ................................................................................................................... 137 Road Hydrology, Turbidity, and Suspended Sediment Measurements for Oak Creek, Oregon

The Ore Bin : Vol. 37 No. 10 (October 1975)

Creator:: Oregon. Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Hammond, Paul E., White, James Seeley, and Mason, Ralph S.
Resource Type:: Journal
Full Text:: 1975 Vol. 37, No. 10 October 1975 • • STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES

Investigation of the hydraulic, physical, and chemical buffering capacity of Missoula Flood Deposits for water quality and supply in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: Iverson, Justin
Abstract:: The Willamette Silt is a surficial geologic unit composed of successive Missoula Flood Deposits that underlies 3100 km2 (1200 mil) of arable land in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The Willamette Silt protects the underlying regionally important Willamette Aquifer from agricultural contamination while acting as a semi-confining unit and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Science in Geology presented on April 26. 2002. Title: Investigation of the Hydraulic

Experiments on the settling behavior of irregular grains in a fluid

Creator:: Baba, Jumpei
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon beaches, showing various degrees of roundness, were settled in a tube filled with glycerine

Geology of the continental terrace off the central coast of Oregon

Creator:: Maloney, Neil Joseph
Abstract:: The continental terrace west of Oregon between 43° 50'N and 44° 40' N latitude is 50 to 55 miles wide. It consists of a continental shelf, 16 to 35 miles wide, and a continental slope, 16 to 37 miles wide. The eastern portion of the shelf is a smooth, sediment...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sheltered areas of the outer shelf. GEOLOGY OF THE CONTINENTAL TERRACE OFF THE CENTRAL COAST OF OREGON

The physical properties, consolidation behavior, and stability of the sediments of the Peru-Chile continental margin

Creator:: Busch, William H.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : / George H. Keller Coastal upwelling markedly influences sediment physical properties along the Peru

Shear wave attenuation in unconsolidated laboratory sediments

Creator:: Brunson, Burlie A.
Abstract:: Shear wave attenuation measurements were made using ceramic bimorph transducers to excite transverse vibrations in a cylindrical column of unconsolidated sediment. Three different water-saturated sediments were used in an attempt to determine the effects of grain shape and sorting on the frequency dependence of attenuation. The mean grain size of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: - solidated sediment. Three different water-saturated sediments were used in an attempt to determine the

The geochemical partitioning and bioavailability of trace metals in marine sediments

Creator:: Oakley, Stewart M.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Research Institut e Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon WRRI-68 July 1930 THE GEOCHEMICAL

Flood history and sedimentation at the mouth of Redwood Creek, Humboldt County, California

Creator:: Ricks, Cynthia L.
Abstract:: Since the early 1950's, the distribution of sediment at the mouth of Redwood Creek has been altered by the effects of channel aggradation and channelization along the lower reach. Severe flooding in 1953, 1955, and 1964 caused bank erosion, landsliding, and channel geometry changes along Redwood Creek. The increased sediment...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1653. Ken Scheidegger, School of Oceanography and Alan and Wendy Niem, Department of Geology, Oregon

Sedimentation within the Cocos Gap, Panama Basin

Creator:: Dowding, Lynn Gretton
Abstract:: The Cocos Gap is a deeper portion, or saddle, of the Cocos Ridge and forms part of the western boundary of the Panama Basing It is probably typical of saddles within most submarine ridges, In order to determine the mechanisms controlling sediment dispersal, the nature and sources of the sediments...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sediment dispersal, the nature and sources of the sediments at 23 core locations were defined by

Experimental and numerical analysis of transport in saturated heterogeneous media

Creator:: Harrington, Stephanie J.
Abstract:: The conventional advection-dispersion equation cannot adequately describe all processes driving solute transport in heterogeneous systems. This dissertation focuses on the individual influences of both chemical (Chapter 2) and physical processes (Chapters 3 and 4) which affect solute transport. In Chapter 2 we analyzed uranium transport in natural sediment using the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Chapter 2 we analyzed uranium transport in natural sediment using the chemical multirate mass transfer

Deciphering Quaternary Geomagnetic, Glacial, and Depositional Histories Using Paleomagnetism in Tandem with Other Chronostratigraphic and Sedimentological Approaches

Creator:: Reilly, Brendan T.
Abstract:: Stratigraphy and chronology are essential to sedimentological study of Earth system histories. And, stratigraphy and chronology are often challenging and interesting problems themselves. The Quaternary (2.588 Ma - present) experienced paleoenvironmental and paleo-geomagnetic variability well outside the range of the recent instrumental record, providing the opportunity to place recent observations...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: chronostratigraphic markers. To address this issue, we model sediment accumulation rates at seven drill sites

The John Day formation in the Picture Gorge quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Coleman, Robert Griffin, 1923-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: W.D. Wilkinson n1 the students attending the Oregon Stato Collego geology field oams. To them he

Geology of the Picture Gorge quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: White, Willis Harkness
Abstract:: There are seven stratigraphic units exposed in the Picture Gorge quadrangle, a 204-square mile area in east-central Oregon. isolated exposures of pre-Cretaceous serpentinites, metalimestones, and other metamorphic rocks record marine deposition of sands silts, and limy sediments followed by burial, lithification, peridotite intrusion, and several periods of deformation. Intrusion and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Preliminary report on the geology of the Molalla quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Harper, Herbert Ewing
Abstract:: The Molalla quadrangle is located in northwestern Oregon along the eastern edge of Willamette Valley about 30 miles south of Portland. The area includes part of the Western Cascade foothills as well as a portion of the Willamette Valley lowland. The rocks in the Cascade foothills are marine and terrestrial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Distribution and retention of particulate organic matter in streams in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon

Creator:: Speaker, Robert W.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sediment and organic matter transport in Oregon Coast range streams

Creator:: Beschta, Robert L. and Oregon State University. Water Resources Research Institute
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: SEDIMENT AND ORGANIC MATTER TRANSPORT IN OREGON COAST RANGE STREAM S

Mapping and lithologic interpretation of the Territorial Sea, Oregon

Creator:: Agapito, Melinda T.
Abstract:: Seafloor lithologic maps have been widely used to identify conservation sites. In this study, a lithologic interpretation of Oregon's territorial seafloor was created as an interim product in response to the need for a comprehensive lithologic map that will be used in the identification, evaluation and design of marine reserves...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon. The largest of these synclines are filled with sediment, and mostly outside the territorial sea

Geology of the northeast quarter of Camas Valley quadrangle, Douglas County, Oregon

Creator:: Moore, James Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHEAST Q,U.ARTER OF CAMAS VALLEY

The geology of the Lebonan quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Felts, Wayne M. (Wayne Moore)
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The geology of the Lebonan quadrangle, Oregon AN ABPRACT

An examination of the Clarno Formation in the vicinity of the Mitchell Fault, Lawson Mountain and Stephenson Mountain Area, Jefferson and Wheeler Counties, Oregon

Creator:: Owen, Philip C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the southeast one-quarter of the Camas Valley quadrangle, Douglas County, Oregon

Creator:: Harms, James Edward
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the White Butte area and vicinity Mitchell quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Howard, Conrad Byron
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Statigraphy, petrology, and mineralogy of the Colestin Formation in southwest Oregon and northern California

Creator:: Carlton, Richard W.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Geology of the East Evans Creek area, Trail quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Bartley, Ronald Clark
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Ore bin ; Vol. 24 No.2 (February 1962)

Creator:: Oregon. Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Walker, George Walton, 1921-, Bowen, Richard G., Shotwell, J. Arnold, Allison, Ira Shimmin, 1895-, Harlow, George Richardson, Ramp, Len, Maloney, Neil Joseph, Allen, John Eliot, 1908-, Dodds, Roland Kenneth, 1928-, Dodds, Betty, Lund, Ernest H., Wagner, Norman Spencer, Brooks, Howard C., Newton, Vernon C., Eubanks, Wallace, and Smith, John E.
Resource Type:: Journal
Full Text:: GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES • The Ore Bin • Published Monthly By STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF

Textural analysis of fine-grained sediments : pelagic sediments of the Northwest Pacific

Creator:: Oser, Robert Keith
Abstract:: Many sediments, including the fine-grained pelagic deposits, possess polymodal grain size distributions. Resolution of individual modes show them to be related either to compositional fractions or to depositional processes or both, and sometimes permits the tracing of dispersal patterns. The Cahn sedimentation balance provides a means of obtaining continuous cumulative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effect of salinity on particle release and hydraulic conductivity in sediments

Creator:: Blume, Theresa
Abstract:: Fine particles and colloids, attached to grain surfaces, are abundant in the earth's subsurface. Under certain conditions these particles can be released from the matrix and transported with the mobile phase. One of the mechanisms for sudden particle release is a decrease in groundwater salt concentration below the critical salt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Use of sediment fractionation techniques to establish a geochemical link between natural-occurring PAH and 3-oxytriterpenoids in Columbia River sediments

Creator:: Pinto Alvarez, Luis Antonio
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Stratigraphy of the Paleozoic rocks of central Oregon

Creator:: Ogren, David Ernest, 1930-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Constraints of the origin of the middle Pleistocene transition from the glacial sedimentary record of the north-central United States

Creator:: Roy, Martin
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the role of ice sheets in the transition during the middle Pleistocene (-1.2 Ma) from 41-kyr glacial cycles to 100-kyr glacial cycles. This research evaluates the hypothesis that the middle Pleistocene transition (MPT) was related to the glacial erosion of a regolith mantle and the subsequent...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Incipient motion and particle transport in gravel-bed streams

Creator:: Matin, Habib
Abstract:: The incipient motion of sediment particles in gravel-bed rivers is a very important process. It represents the difference between bed stability and bed mobility. A field study was conducted in Oak Creek, Oregon to investigate incipient motion of individual particles in gravel-bed streams. Investigation was also made of the incipient...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Streams Abstract Approved: Peter C. Klingeman The incipient motion of sediment particles in gravel-bed

Sediment transport in streams in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Onions, C. A. and Douglas County (Or.)
Abstract:: This report presents tables of suspended-sediment data collected from 1956 to 1967 at 10 sites in the Umpqua River basin. Computations based on these data indicate that average annual suspended-sediment yields at these sites range from 137 to 822 tons per square mile. Because available data for the Umpqua River...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Resources Division SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN STREAMS IN THE UMPQUA RIVER BASIN, OREGON By C. A. Onions

Sediment transport and channel morphology in a small mountain stream in Western Oregon

Creator:: Edwards, Richard Earl
Abstract:: Sediment transport measurements on Flynn Creek, a headwater stream in the Oregon Coast Range, have illustrated the magnitude of fluvial transfer processes, primarily of the bedload component, during a moderate storm runoff season (1979 water year). The total dissolved solids concentration of storm runoff averaged 40 mg/L, and was independent...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evolution of the Corvallis fault and implications for the Oregon coast range

Creator:: Goldfinger, Chris
Abstract:: The Corvallis fault is a 50 km long northeast-trending structure, part of which defines the boundary between the central Willamette Valley and the east-central Coast Range of Oregon. Previously the fault had been mapped as either a high-angle reverse or normal fault, with the east block down. New gravity data...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Structure and tectonics of the southern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Graven, Erik P.
Abstract:: Surface geology, seismic data, petroleum exploratory well data, and water well data have been used to analyze the structural and tectonic history of the southern Willamette Valley. Tertiary strata beneath the southern Willamette Valley appear to have had an early Cascade or Clarno volcanic source to the east by the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Sedimentation, stratigraphy and facies variation of the lower to middle Miocene Astoria Formation in Oregon

Creator:: Cooper, David Michael
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A field manual of Oregon geology for Oregon schools

Creator:: Gray, Allan Williamson
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A field manual of Oregon geology for Oregon schools AN

The Triassic rocks of the Dayville quadrangle central Oregon

Creator:: Nesbit, Robert Allen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon Aì ìJsTafCT CF TI-1 2:Is OF FLobert Allen ì:csbit for the 1ff. S. in Geo1or - - - rNm

A stratigraphic study of the marine Cretaceous rocks near Mitchell, Oregon

Creator:: McKnight, Brian Keith
Abstract:: Nearly 9,000 feet of Cretaceous mudstones, shales, sandstone, and conglomerates are exposed along the northeast-trending Mitchell anticline of central Oregon, These rocks are divided into two formations on the basis of criteria developed in this investigation. The lower formation, hereby designated the Meyers Formation, is 4,716 feet thick at its...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mitchell, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian Keith McKnight for the Master of Science in Geology

Geology of part of the northeast quarter of the Mitchell quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Patterson, Robert Lynn
Abstract:: The thesis area covers 165 square miles including the greater part of the northeastern quarter of the Mitchell quadrangle in north-central Oregon. The three stratigraphic units exposed in the area consist of a variety of Tertiary volcanic rocks including the Clarno Formation, the John Day Formation, and the Columbia River...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: quadrangle, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert Lynn Patterson for the M. S. in Geology (Name

Stratigraphy and sedimentary petrology of the Mascall Formation, eastern Oregon

Creator:: Kuiper, John L.
Abstract:: The type section of the Mascall Formation, which is located in the John Day Valley, is interpreted to represent a sequence of paleosols. These fossil soils were formed on a floodplain during the middle Miocene. The measured thickness of this section is 1340 feet, and although the top of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Formation, eastern Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John L. Kuiper for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE

Stratigraphy of the Miocene Agate Beach formation in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Herron, John Emanuel
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the southwest quarter of Dayville quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Forth, Michael
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .............. 58 GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE DAYVILLE QUADRANGLE, OREGON INTRODUCTION Purpose

The structure and stratigraphy of a portion of the Trout Creek Mountains, Harney County, Oregon

Creator:: Carlton, Richard W.
Abstract:: The thesis area is located in the southeastern corner of Harney County, Oregon. This portion of Oregon is situated in the northern part of the Basin and Range province, and is characterized by both mafic and silicic extrusives, and localized nonmarine sediments and tuffs ranging in age from middle (?)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Deschutes Formation-- High Cascade transition in the Whitewater River area, Jefferson County, Oregon

Creator:: Yogodzinski, Gene M.
Abstract:: The Whitewater River area is located directly east of Mt. Jefferson in the Cascades of central Oregon. Approximately 90 mi2 (230 km2) were mapped (scale 1/24,000) and four new K-Ar ages and 151 major element analyses were obtained in a study of the stratigraphic and magmatic transition from the Miocene...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Stratigraphy, petrology and provenance of the Cretaceous Gable Creek Formation, Wheeler County, Oregon

Creator:: Little, Stephen W.
Abstract:: The Mitchell inlier in north-central Oregon contains the largest exposure of Cretaceous marine sedimentary rocks in this region. Nearly 9,000 ft of Albian-Cenamanian rocks are exposed along the flanks of the Mitchell anticline. The Cretaceous section rests unconformably overlain by Tertiary volcanic rocks. The Cretaceous rocks have previously been divided...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Antone district of Wheeler County, Oregon

Creator:: Dobell, Joseph Porter
Abstract:: The area studied in detail, known as the Antone District, is located in the southeast corner of Wheeler County, Oregon, , between longitude 119 37. and 119°54 east, and latitude 44°23 and 44°3O' north. Surface elevations range from 3050 feet above sea level in the northeast corner of the district,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Quartzburg Mining District, Grant County, Oregon

Creator:: Johnson, Floyd Raymond
Abstract:: For master (tiff) digital images of maps contained in this document contact scholarsarchive@oregonstate.edu
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The geology of the Salem quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Mundorff, Maurice John, 1910-2002.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The geology of the Salem quadrangle, Oregon THE GEOLOGY

Geology of the northeast corner of the Dayville quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Taubeneck, William Harris
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: iattlesnake formatIon and fauna of eastern Oregon with notes on the geology Oi the hattlesnake and Mascall

Geology of the Suplee area, Dayville quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Brogan, John Philip
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Geology of the Suplee area, Dayville quadrangle, Oregon

The geology of the Stayton quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: O'Neill, Thomas Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The geology of the Stayton quadrangle, Oregon AN

The geology of the Maury Mountain region, Crook County, Oregon

Creator:: Mote, Richard Hodges
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the Neidigger Ranch. Un published manuscript on file, Geology Dept. Oregon State College. L

Geology of the Marshall Butte area and vicinity, Mitchell quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: McIntyre, Loren Bruce
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Sheep Mountain area and vicinity Mitchell quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Swarbrick, James Castles
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: quadrangle, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF ThE THESIS OF JAMES CASTLES SWARBRICK GEOLOGY. Date thesis is

Geology of part of the southeastern Wallowa Mountains, northeastern Oregon

Creator:: Wetherell, Clyde Elbert
Abstract:: Within 40 square miles of the southeastern Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, eugeosynclinal Permian and Triassic formations comprising a section about 25,000 feet thick have been exposed by uplift and erosion of overlying Miocene Columbia River basalt. Deposition appears to have been continuous from Permian into Upper Triassic, but an apparent angular...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The geology and mineral deposits of Eden Valley-Saddle Peaks and vicinity, southeastern Coos and northeastern Curry Counties, Oregon

Creator:: Utterback, W. C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Saddle and Humbug Mountain area, Clatsop County, northwestern Oregon

Creator:: Penoyer, Peter E.
Abstract:: Six early to middle Tertiary geologic units crop out in the Saddle and Humbug Mountain area. They include the late Eocene to early Miocene Oswald West muds tones, the lower Silver Point and the upper Silver Point tongues of the middle Miocene Astoria Formation, and the middle Miocene Depoe Bay...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Bachelor Mountain area, Linn and Marion Counties, Oregon

Creator:: Rollins, Anthony
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The petrography, structure, and stratigraphy of Powell Buttes, Crook County, central Oregon

Creator:: Weidenheim, Jan Peter
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The geology of the east central desolation butte quadrangle, Grant County, Oregon

Creator:: Elfrink, Neil
Abstract:: Pre-Tertiary metamorphic rocks, Jurassic granitic intrusions, and Eocene basalts are exposed along the North Fork of the John Day River at its confluence with Granite Creek. Geochemical and textural evidence suggest greenschist-metamorphosed, strongly sheared, volcanogenic rocks originated in an island-arc environment. These greenstones were apparently intruded during the Late Permian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the eastern part Beaty Butte four quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Maloney, Neil Joseph
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Tony Butte area and vicinity, Mitchell quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Bowers, Howard Edward
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Greenhorn Mountains, northeastern Oregon

Creator:: Mullen, Ellen Domaratius
Abstract:: The Greenhorn Mountains contain a tectonic ally disrupted ophiolite and both arc-derived and pelagic sediments. Age of major sedimentary units within and bordering the thesis area is Early Permian, based upon dates of conodonts and fusulinids from contemporaneous but allocthanous limestones. Sediments near the south boundary of the thesis area...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Bibliography of theses on Oregon geology

Creator:: Schlicker, Herbert G. and Roberts, Miriam
Abstract:: Supplement to Miscellaneous Paper 7 was published in 1966. For master (tiff) digital images of maps contained in this document contact scholarsarchive@oregonstate.edu
Resource Type:: Other

Environmental and engineering geology of the Astoria Peninsula Area Clatsop County, Oregon

Creator:: Carter, James Warren
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The geology of the southeast one-quarter of the Tyee quadrangle and part of the adjacent Sutherlin quadrangle, Oregon

Creator:: Hampton, Eugene Randolph
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the northeast corner of the Sparta quadrangle and vicinity, Oregon

Creator:: Greene, Frank Felloes
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of a portion of the Painted Hills Quadrangle, Wheeler County, north-central Oregon

Creator:: Huggins, Jonathan Wayne
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the North-Central Pueblo Mountains, Harney County, Oregon

Creator:: Harrold, Jerry Lee
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The statigraphy, structure, and petrography of Keyes Mountain, tertiary upper Clarno formation, Wheeler County, Oregon

Creator:: Cranswick, Mark Scott
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, Lake County, Oregon

Creator:: Allison, Ira Shimmin, 1895-
Abstract:: Pluvial Lake Chewaucan was a late Pleistocene lake, as much as 375 feet deep, covering 480 square miles in the northwestern part of the Great Basin in southern Oregon. The lake basin, now occupied by Summer Lake, Upper and Lower Chewaucan Marshes, and Lake Abert, was formed by down-dropped fault...
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: STUDIES IN GEOLOGY Number Eleven OREGON STATE MONOGRAPHS

Geology of the rattlesnake and older ignimbrites in the Paulina Basin and adjacent area, central Oregon

Creator:: Davenport, Ronald Edmond
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Geology of the northeast one-quarter of the Prineville quadrangle, north-central Oregon

Creator:: Bingert, Neil J.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Structural analysis of the John Day and Mitchell fault zones, North-Central Oregon

Creator:: Ehret, Gayle Ann
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Sand Mountain area, Western Wheeler County, Oregon

Creator:: Barnes, Thomas John
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Fishhawk Falls--Jewell area, Clatsop County, northwest Oregon

Creator:: Nelson, David Ezra
Abstract:: Plate 1 dimensions: 46 x 25 Plate 2 dimensions: 50 x 31 Plate 3 dimensions: 21 x 24.5 Plate 4 dimensions: 18 x 24.5
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Clay mineralogy and sedimentary petrology of the cretaceous Hudspeth formation, Mitchell, Oregon

Creator:: Jarman, Clara Birchak
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Name) (Degree) in Geology presented on 1q73 (Major) (Date) Title: CLAY MINERALOGY

Geology and mineralization of the North Santiam Mining District, Marion County, Oregon

Creator:: Olson, James P.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the northwest one-quarter of the Prineville Quadrangle, central Oregon

Creator:: Thormahlen, David J.
Abstract:: The northwest one-quarter of the Prineville Quadrangle is underlain by Tertiary and Quaternary volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Columbia River Basalt Group, and the Clarno, John Day, Rattlesnake and Deschutes Formations. The Clarno Formation is dominated by pyroxene-bearing andesites, but also contains olivine-bearing basalts, oxyhornblende-bearing dacite and rhyodacite flows...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of a part of the Eagle Butte and Gateway quadrangles east of the Deschutes River, Jefferson County, Oregon

Creator:: Hayman, Glenn A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology and structure of the Bear Creek area, Crook County, Oregon

Creator:: Khan, Amjad I.
Abstract:: The Bear Creek area is situated at the boundry between the Basin and Range Province, Deschutes Basin and Blue Mountains Province. It contains rock units representing most of the Cenozoic geologic column. The major rock units exposed are the Clarno Formation, John Day Formation, Columbia River Basalt Group, Deschutes Formation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology, structure, and tectonic history of the Tualatin Basin, northwestern Oregon

Creator:: Popowski, Thomas Allan
Abstract:: The northwest-trending Neogene Tualatin basin in northwestern Oregon is a pull-apart basin with approximately 750 m of post-middle Miocene structural relief. Gently tilted uplands capped by Columbia River Basalt Group surround the synclinal basin on all sides. Integrated gravity, aeromagnetic, and seismic reflection data indicated that the basin is underlain...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of the Seaside-Young's River Falls area, Clatsop County, Oregon

Creator:: Tolson, Patrick Marion
Abstract:: Eight Tertiary geologic units crop out in the Seaside-Young's River Falls area, including late Oligocene to early Miocene Oswald West mudstones; Angora Peak sandstone and Silver Point members of the middle Miocene Astoria Formation, and middle Miocene Depoe Bay and Cape Foulweather Basalts. Three new lithologically distinct units, the 'J'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the Onion Peak area, Clatsop County, Oregon

Creator:: Smith, Thomas N.
Abstract:: Six Tertiary units are exposed in the Onion Peak area near the town of Cannon Beach., Oregon. The units consist of: late Eocene to early Miocene Oswald West mudstones (informal), middle Miocene Astoria Formation (Angora Peak sandstone and Silver Point mudstone members.-informal), middle Miocene basalts of intrusive and extrusive Depoe...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geology of part of southern Morrow County, northeast Oregon

Creator:: Shorey, Edwin Forrest
Abstract:: The thesis area is located in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. Pre-Tertiary and Cenozoic rocks, divided on the basis of age and tectonic history, are exposed along the eroded crest of the Blue Mountain anticline. Permian (?) metasedimentary rocks probably correlate with the Elkhorn Ridge Argillite, and consist mainly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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