Deep-sea AUV magnetic and
seismic study of the Hawaiian Jurassic crust beneath the Pacific
Ocean floor - Autumn 2011
Deep-sea AUV magnetic and
seismic study of the Hawaiian Jurassic crust beneath the Pacific
Ocean floor - Autumn 2011
Namibia
- August 2011
New York Adirondacks - the
biggest landslide in New York history - May 2011
Salton Sea, California - May 2011
Pennsylvania Acid Mine Drainage -
June 2011
Alaska
- May 2011
Pennsylvania -
search for a historic mass grave - 2010-2011
South Africa - May-June
2010
Henan
and Beijing, China
Southern Utah
Ruth, Daniel;
Schlosser,
Kenneth; Tkach, Melania; Friehauf, Kurt;
and McLeod, Rob, 2012, Collaborative
exploration of the Mount Fairplay porphyry target - training
undergraduate students while searching for ore [abs]:
Mineral Exploration Roundup 2012 (23-26 January, 2012 - Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada).
Schlosser,
Kenneth W.; Sherrod, Laura A.
; Kozlowski, Andrew; Bird,
Brian; and Swiontek, Jarred, 2011, Exploratory Study of an Active
Landslide in the Adirondacks Using Applied Geophysics
[abs]: American Geophysical Union - Fall Meeting in San Francisco,
California (5-9 December 2011).
Wilk, Jewels, Kraal, Erin, Simpson,
Edward, and Heness, Elizabeth, 2011, Characterizing
shoreline processes in barnacle beaches: The Salton Sea,
California [abs]: Geological Society of America - Annual
Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (9–12 October 2011), Vol.
43, No. 5, p. 372.Heness, Elizabeth A., Wilk,
Jewels, Kraal, Erin, Malenda, H.
Fitzgerald, and Simpson,
Edward, 2011, Taphonomy
of barnacle and fish shoreline accumulations of the Salton Sea,
California, USA [abs]: Geological Society of America - Annual
Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (9–12 October 2011), Vol. 43, No.
5, p. 425. Kadegis, Jeffrey, Sewall, Jacob, and
Riihimaki, Catherine A., 2011, Orbital
eccentricity, clinker formation, and the climate-landscape
evolution link in the North American Rockies and High Plains
[abs]: Geological Society of America - Annual Meeting in
Minneapolis, Minnesota (9–12 October 2011), Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 272.
Messler, Charles, Sherrod, Laura, and Higgins, James, 2011, Geophysical
Investigations
at a Potential Mass Grave Site in Bethlehem, PA [abs]:
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and
Environmental Problems - Charleston, South Carolina (10-14 April
2011).
Malenda, H. Fitzgerald, Simpson,
Edward L., Wizevich, Michael C., Tindall, Sarah E.,
and Boling, Kenneth S., 2010, Morphological variation and
experimental compaction in the Colorado Plateau biological soil
crusts: Implications for their possible recognition in the rock
record [abs]: Geological Society of America - Denver
Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010).
Folk, Shane N., Needle, Mattathias D.,
and Tindall, Sarah
E., 2010, Modeled effects of deep-seated fault
offset and strike on supracrustal geometries in basement-cored
uplifts [abs]: Geological Society of America - Denver
Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010).
Needle, Mattathias D., Tindall, Sarah E.,
and Sussman, Aviva, 2010, A deeper look into orogenic
curvature: Analog models in cross section [abs]:
Geological Society of America - Denver Annual Meeting (31 October –3
November 2010).
Xiao, Ping, Friehauf, Kurt,
Wang, Yanbin, and Wang, Cuizhi, 2010, The implication of similarities and
systematic variations among the monometallic high-fluorine
porphyry deposits in the East Qinling Molybdenum Belt, China
[abs]: : Geological Society of America - Denver Annual Meeting (31
October –3 November 2010).
Storm, Lauren, Needle, Mattathias D., Smith,
Casey J., Fillmore, David L., Szajna, Michael, Simpson,
Edward L., and Lucas, Spencer G., 2010, A
Mississippian Vertebrate Burrow? [abs]: Geological Society of
America Northeastern Section (45th Annual) and Southeastern Section
(59th Annual) Joint Meeting (13-16 March 2010).
Smith, Casey J., Fillmore, David L., Simpson,
Edward, and Lucas, Spencer G., 2010, Depth
and Intensity of Bioturbation in Channel Deposits of the
Mississippian-Age Mauch Chunk Formation [abs]: Geological
Society of America Northeastern Section (45th Annual) and
Southeastern Section (59th Annual) Joint Meeting (13-16 March 2010).
Casey Smith wins the 2009 gold
medal Chambliss
Academic Achievement Award for excellence in research!
Ross, Sunshyne T., and Mangan,
Jennifer M., 2009,
Effects
of Climate Change on Regional Crop Production in Eastern
Pennsylvania [abs]: American Geophysical Union Fall meeting
(14-18 December 2009, San Francisco, CA) (abstract no. B23A-0350)
Storm, Lauren, Friehauf, Kurt,
Yuan, Zhenlei, Xiao, Ping, and Moorehead, Anthony, 2009, Mineralization
within the Dong Gou porphyry molybdenum deposit, Eastern Qinling
Mountains, Henan, China [abs]: 2009 Portland GSA Annual
Meeting (18-21 October 2009), Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 84.
Smith,
Casey J., Moran, Kelli L., Fillmore, David L., Simpson,
Edward L., and Lucas, Spencer G., 2009, Taphonomic
controls on the preservation of vertebrate tracks in
ephemeral-braided river deposits of the Middle and Upper Members
of the Mississippian Mauch Formation, Eastern Pennsylvania
[abs.]: 2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41,
No. 7, p. 119.
Moran, Kelli L., Simpson,
Edward L., Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah L., Wizevich, Michael C.,
Golder, Keenan B., and Tindall, Sarah E.,
2009, The
recognition and implications of the wood-boring trace fossil
Asthenopodichnium xylobiotum in Upper Cretaceous strata of Grand
Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah [abs]: 2009
Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009), Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p.
262.
Wizevich, Michael C., Simpson,
Edward L., Hilbert-Wolf, Hannah L., and Tindall, Sarah E.,
2009, Syndeformational
origin for internal laminations of spectacular seismogenic load
structures in the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah [abs]: 2009
Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009), Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p.
121.
Smith, Casey J., Simpson,
Edward L., and Fillmore, David, 2009, The
First Reported Arthropod Trackways from the Pennsylvanian
Llewellyn Formation: Bear Valley Strip Mine, Shamokin, PA
[abs]: Geological Society of America Northeastern Section - 44th
Annual Meeting (Portland, Maine 22–24 March 2009).
Tester, Edward, Simpson,
Edward L., Bernard, Jonathan, Wolf, Hannah L., Tindall, Sarah S.,
Simpson, Wendy S., and Jenesky, Timothy, 2007, Isolated vertebrate tracks from the
Upper Cretaceous Capping Sandstone Member of the Wahweap
Formation: Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah
[abs]: Rocky Mountain Section - 59th Annual Meeting (7–9 May 2007),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No.
5, p. 42.
Orsulak, Megan, Simpson,
Edward L., Wolf, Hannah L., Simpson, Wendy S., Tindall, Sarah S.,
Bernard,
Jonathan, and Jenesky, Timothy, 2007, A
lungfish burrow in Late Cretaceous Upper Capping Sandstone Member
of the Wahweap Formation Cockscomb Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument, Utah [abs]: Rocky Mountain Section - 59th
Annual Meeting (7–9 May 2007), Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 5, p. 43.
Bernard, Jonathan J., Simpson,
Edward L., Wolf, Hannah L., Simpson, Wendy S., Tindall, Sarah E.,
and Jenesky,
Timothy J., 2007, Possible
debris flows in the Upper Cretaceous Capping Sandstone, Wahweap
Formation, Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument, Utah
[abs]: Rocky Mountain Section - 59th Annual Meeting (7–9 May 2007),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No.
5, p. 42.
Smoyer, Justin, Kuhn, Michelle, Friehauf, Kurt,
and Quinn, Paul V.
Sr., 2006, Design for a manually controlled
multiple electrode electrical resistivity array for student
geophysical surveys [abs]: Geological Society of
America Northeastern Section – 41st Annual Meeting (20–22 March
2006), Harrisburg, PA, Program with Abstracts, v. 38, no. 2, p. 89.
Bernard, Jonathan, Jenesky, Timothy, Tester,
Edward, Orsulak, Megan, Tindall, Sarah E.,
and Simpson,
Edward L., 2006, Timing
of Late Cretaceous fault-fold interactions, East Kaibab Monocline,
Utah: implications for the onset of Laramide deformation
[abs]: Rocky Mountain Section–58th Annual Meeting (17–19 May 2006),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38,
No.6, p. 38.
Artz, Zachary J., Friehauf, Kurt C.,
and Xiao, Rongge, 2005, Comparison of Banded Ores in the
Main/East, West, and South Orebodies of the Giant Bayan Obo
REE District, Inner Mongolia, China [abs.]:
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (October 16-19, 2005)
Salt Lake City, UT, Program with Abstracts, vol. 37, no. 7, p.
500.
Jenesky, Timothy A., Tindall, Sarah E., Scalise, Renee L., Simpson,
Edward L., and Simpson, Wendy S., 2005, Seismogenic
normal faulting during deposition of the late Cretaceous Wahweap
Formation, Kaiparowits Basin, Utah [abs]: Rocky
Mountain Section - 57th Annual Meeting (May 23–25, 2005),
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37,
No. 6, p. 10.
Fillmore, D.L., Scalise, R.L., Zellner,
G.C., and Simpson,
E.L., 2004 [abs]: Mississippian-Age
Swimming Tetrapod Trackways from the a Mauch Chunk Formation
Near Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, Northeastern Section (39th
Annual) and Southeastern Section (53rd Annual) Joint Meeting
(March 25–27, 2004), Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p.
109.
Nase, A.M., Rhoads, C.L., Rosenberger, J.E., Szajna, M.J., Hartline, B.W., and Simpson, E.L., 2004 [abs]: Depositional Setting and Taphonomy of Phytosaur-Bearing Beds, Triassic Lockatong Formation near Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Northeastern Section (39th Annual) and Southeastern Section (53rd Annual) Joint Meeting (March 25–27, 2004), Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 96.
Hoefert, Catherine M. and Tindall, Sarah E., 2004, Orientation and spacing of joints in deformation band shear zones east of Mount Hillers, Utah. [abs]: Northeastern Section (39th Annual) and Southeastern Section (53rd Annual) Joint Meeting (March 25–27, 2004), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 102.
Zellner,
G. C. and Tindall,
S.E., 2004, Structural
evidence for syntectonic sedimentation within the Cretaceous
Wahweap Formation, Kaibab Uplift, Utah [abs]:
Northeastern Section (39th Annual) and Southeastern Section (53rd
Annual) Joint Meeting (March 25–27, 2004), Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 102.
Wolfinger, Seth, Ward, Kristen, Holland,
Jeremy, Nase, Andrew, Ferguson, Lisa, Zellner, Greg, Friehauf, Kurt, Tindall, Sarah,
and Schultz, Lane, 2004, A
Multidisciplinary Study of Controls on Ground-Water Flow in a
Karst Aquifer in the Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Berks County,
PA [abs.]: Geological Society of America
Northeastern Section (39th Annual) and Southeastern Section (53rd
Annual) Joint Meeting (March 25-27, 2004) Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 36, no. 2, p. 128.
Cook, E., Friehauf, K.,
Gibbins, S., and Titley, S., 2003, Gold Occurrences in the Stockwork
Mineralization in the Ertsberg Diorite, West Papua, Indonesia
[abs.]: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (November
2-5, 2003) Seattle, WA, Program with Abstracts, vol. 35, no. 6, p.
232.
Hoefert Catherine M., Burris, Lea,
Yenchik, John, Black, Laurel E., and Friehauf, Kurt C.,
2003, Mappin' Without Diggin': An
Application of Magnetometry Techniques in the Rittenhouse Gap
Mining District in Berks County, Pennsylvania
[abs.]: Geological Society of America Northeastern Section - 38th
Annual Meeting (March 27–29, 2003) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Program
with Abstracts, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 94.
Simpson, E. L., Kuklis, C.A., Eriksson, K.A., Eriksson, P.G., and Bumby, A. J., 1999 Interbedded eolian dune, interdune and playa deposits, ~1.8 GA Makgabeng Formation, Waterberg Group, South Africa: Climatic Implications: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31.
Higgins, D. J., Simpson, E. L., Dilliard, K. A., Rowell, B. F., 1998 Fluvial to Marine Transition within the Lower Cambrian Hardyston Formation, Eastern Pennsylvania: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, A335.
Simpson. E. L, Dilliard, K. A., and Noto, R. C., 1997, Contrasting fluvial styles of the Catoctin and Weverton formations, central Virginia: Should hyperconcentrated flows be more common before the advent of land plants?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, A273.
Dilliard, K. A., and Simpson, E. L., 1997, Computer simulation of superimposed trace fossils: analogs for Cambrian-age Skolithos distributions: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29.
Dilliard, K. A., and Simpson, E. L., 1997, Characterization of fluvial systems within the Neoproterozoic Catcotin Formation of Central Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29. p. 13.
Dilliard, K. A., Simpson. E. L., and Noto, R. C., 1997, Characterization of the preserved Neoproterozoic landsurface and associated Catoctin Formation fluvial deposits, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, A273.
Gledhill, H. M., Noto, R. C.,
Harrison, M. J., Dilliard, K. A., and Simpson,
E. L., 1996, Characterization of parasequences within
the Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian upper Unicoi Formation,
James River, Virginia: Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 28., no. 2, p. 13.
Simpson,
E. L., Summers, S. A., and Jarosynski, W. M., 1996, The
effect of pure and simple shear deformation on clustered,
random, and uniform trace fossil distributions: uncertainty in
the nearest neighbor technique results: Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. 297.
Simpson, E. L., Bennington, J. B., Harrison, M. J., Gledhill, H. M., Noto, R. C., and Dilliard, K. A., 1995, Quadrat variance analysis of Lower Cambrian ichnofossil distribution across a sequence boundary, central Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27. p. A365.
Harrison, M. J., Venn, C.,
Skoog, S. Y., Gledhill, H., Noto, R. C., and Simpson,
E. L., 1994, Nearest neighbor analysis of Lower
Cambrian Skolithos and Monocraterion ichnofossils:
Implications for preservation and sequence boundary
identification: Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, v. 26, no. 4, p. 18.
Barlet, K. E., Venn, C., Zimmerman, R., and Simpson,
E. L., 1994, Migration and morphologic evolution of an
ebb-tidal delta shoal, Chinoteaque inlet, Virginia:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26,
no. 4, p. 3.
Simpson,
E. L., Walker, D., Noto, R. C., Gledhill, H. M., and
Harrison, M. J., 1994, Process interpretation of tidal
deposits within the Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian Unicoi
Formation Central Blue Ridge Virginia: Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. A-493
Simpson,
E. L., Linski, D., Mull, M. F., Keiser, J. P., Horsnall,
S. L. and Hendricks, J. S., 1991, Depositional processes in
outer-shelf sediments of the Lower Cambrian Harpers Formation
of the Chilhowee Group, south-central Pennsylvania. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs,, v. 22, p. 127.
Simpson,
E. L., Venn, C., and Skoog, S. Y., 1991, Statistical
studies on the distribution of Diopatra cuprea across modern
tidal flats: Implications for the autecology of the Cambrian
Skolithos organism:Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, v. 23, p. A164.
Simpson, E.L., Malenda, H.F., Needle, M., Hilbert-Hilbert, H., Steullet, A., Boling, K., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S.E., March 2011, Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks from the Upper and Capping Sandstone Members of the Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA: in, Sullivan, R., ed., Studies in Paleontology: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.
Malenda,
H.F., Simpson,
E.L., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S.E.,
2010, Towards
the recognition of biological soil crusts in the rock record:
Key features from the study of modern and Cretaceous examples:
in, Noffke, N., and
Chafetz, H., eds.,
Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits (Archean to Today): Society of
Sedimentary Geology Special Publication.
Simpson,
E. L., Hilbert-Wolf, H. L., Wizevich, M.C., Tindall, S.E., Fasinski, B.
R., Storm, L. P., and Needle, M.D., 2010, Predatory Digging
Behavior by Dinosaurs:
Geology, v. 38, p. 699-702. (picked up by major internet
news organizations, written up in he international magazine the Economist, and
BBC
3 and Discovery
News interviews).
Simpson, W.S., Simpson,
E.L., Wizevich, M.C., Malenda, H.F., Hilbert-Wolf,
H.L., and Tindall,
S.E., 2010. A preserved Late Cretaceous biological soil
crust in the capping sandstone member, Wahweap Formation,
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah,
Palaeoclimatic implications: Sedimentary Geology,
v. 230, p. 139-145.
Moran, K.,
Hilbert-Wolf, H.L., Golder, K., Malenda, H.F., Smith, C.J., Storm, L.P.,
Simpson,
E.L., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S. E.,
2010, Implications
of the wood-boring trace fossil Asthenopodichnium in the Late
Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Utah, USA:
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 297,
p. 662-669.
Storm, L.,
Needle, M.D., Smith, C.J., Fillmore, D. L., Szajna, M., Simpson,
E.L., and Lucas, S. G., 2010, An upper
Mississippian vertebrate burrow from the Mauch Chunk Formation,
Eastern Pennsylvania: Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 298, p. 341-347.
Malenda,
H.F., Simpson,
E.L., Wizevich, M.C., and Tindall, S.E.,
Accepted February 2011, Towards the recognition of biological
soil crusts in the rock record: Key features from the study of
modern and Cretaceous examples: in, Noffke, N., and Chafetz,
H., eds., Microbial Mats
in Sandy Deposits (Archean to Today): Society of Sedimentary
Geology Special Publication.
Dilliard, K. A., Simpson, E. L., and Noto, R. C., 1999, Characterization of a Neoproterozoic Paleosurface and Associated Colluvial and Fluvial Deposits, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: Southeastern Geology. v. 38, p. 239-257.
Dilliard, K. A., Simpson, E. L., Noto, R. C., Wizevich, M., Simpson, E. L., 1999, Tectonic Implications of Fluvial Deposits Interbedded with Flood Basalts, Neoproterozoic Catoctin Formation, central Appalachians, U.S.A.: Precambrian Research, v. 97, p. 115-134.Skoog, S. Y., Venn, C., and Simpson, E. L., 1994, Distribution of Diopatra cuprea across modern tidal flats: implications for Skolithos: Palaios, v. , p. 188-201.
Simpson, E. L., Walker, D., and Horsnall, S., 1993, Outer shelf to lower shoreface sediments in the lower Cambrian Harpers Formation; Chilhowee Group, south-central Pennsylvania: Northeastern Geology, v. 15, p. 126-136.
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