The Cuatro Cienegas basin in Coahuila, Mexico was declared a National Protected Area in 1994 by the Mexican government. Its principle uniqueness is in its aquatic fauna, which are dependent on the abundant springs in this ...

The use of scaled physical modeling of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts allows isolation of key parameters in the development of convex-toward-the-foreland folds and thrusts. Unlike salients formed in natural settings, ...

Uniaxial consolidation experiments on Mass Transport Deposit (MTD) and non-MTD core samples from Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, show MTDs have a lower porosity at a given effective stress compared to adjacent non-MTD sediments; ...

Aeolian bedforms represent some of the most intricate land forms on the planet encompassing a variety of scales from wind ripples on the order of centimeters to desert sand seas comprising thousands of square kilometers. ...

The Bryant District, in the southwest Montana fold-and-thrust belt, contains many structurally and lithologically controlled high-temperature carbonate replacement Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-Au deposits. Laramide crustal shortening ...

Quantitative seismic geomorphology and morphometric analysis of modern and paleo-landforms are powerful tools for extracting data about geologic history, processes, and fill architecture of terrestrial and marine basins. ...

Seismic inversion is a geophysical tool that uses geologically constrained physical models to infer elastic interval properties (e.g., P-velocity, S-velocity, and density) from seismic interface data (e.g., reflection ...

Historic lime mortars are an amalgam of natural and man-made materials. Thus, the study of lime mortars inherently requires interdisciplinary approaches. In an effort to evaluate the applicability of select analytical ...

The Cripple Creek epithermal deposit is a historic gold camp located at the southern end of the Colorado Front Range in central Colorado. Mineralization in the Oligocene-aged alkaline volcanic center is characterized by ...

The San Gregorio-Hosgri fault zone (SGH), located in the Southern Coast Ranges of California is a 420 kilometer long right-lateral strand of the San Andreas fault system. The San Simeon fault zone is a segment of the SGH ...