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This collection contains faculty research from the UNLV Department of Geoscience. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV faculty research across all programs, visit the All Faculty Research collection.
Submissions from 2018
When Do Mantle Plumes Destroy Diamonds?, R. E. Ernst, D. R. Davies, Simon M. Jowitt, and I. H. Campbell
Large Igneous Provinces And Their Mafic-ultramafic Intrusions, R E. Ernst, S M. Jowitt, J A. Blanchard, and D A. Liikane
Northwest Africa 8632 – Crystal Size Distribution Variation and Potential Link to Northwest Africa 032, A. L. Fagan, Arya Udry, J. P. Gannon, and M. J. Cato
Shergottite Northwest Africa 6963: A Pyroxene‐Cumulate Martian Gabbro, Justin Filiberto, Juliane Gross, Arya Udry, Jarek Trela, Axel Wittmann, Kevin M. Cannon, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, Richard Ash, Victoria E. Hamilton, Andrea L. Meado, Paul Carpenter, Brad Jolliff, and Eric C. Ferré
Fate Of Transition Metals During Passive Carbonation Of Ultramafic Mine Tailings Via Air Capture With Potential For Metal Resource Recovery, J L. Hamilton, S A. Wilson, B Morgan, C C. Turvey, D J. Paterson, S M. Jowitt, J McCutcheon, and G Southam
Bioavailability of Mineral-Bound Iron to a Snow Algae-Bacteria Co-Culture and Implications for Albedo-Altering Snow Algae Blooms, Zoë R. Harrold, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, A. H. Garcia, Alison E. Murray, Oliver Tschauner, James A. Raymond, and Shichun Huang
Reactive Transport and Mass Balance Modeling of the Stimson Sedimentary Formation and Altered Fracture Zones Constrain Diagenetic Conditions at Gale Crater, Mars, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, D. W. Ming, T. S. Peretyazhko, and E. B. Rampe
Introduction to a Resources Special Issue on Criticality of the Rare Earth Elements: Current and Future Sources and Recycling, Simon M. Jowitt
Recycling Of The Rare Earth Elements, Simon Jowitt, Timothy T. Werner, Zhehan Weng, and Gavin M. Mudd
Direct Observations of Crystal Defects in Polycrystalline Diamond, Shirin Kaboli and Pamela C. Burnley
In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Deformation and EPSC Modeling of AZ31 Mg Alloy, Shirin Kaboli and Pamela C. Burnley
Quantitative Characterization of Crystal Defects in Planetary Materials in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Shirin Kaboli and Pamela C. Burnley
Strain Analysis in Polycrystalline Diamond under Extreme Conditions, Shirin Kaboli and Pamela C. Burnley
Nevada Desert Dust With Heavy Metals Suppresses Igm Antibody Production, Deborah E. Keil, Brenda J. Buck, Dirk Goossens, Brett McLaurin, Lacey Murphy, Mallory Leetham-Spencer, Yuanxin Teng, James E. Pollard, Russell Gerads, and Jamie C. DeWitt
Grand Canyon Springs and Exceedence of Maximum Contaminant Level Drinking Water Standards - Implications for Resource Management, David Kreamer
Is a University Consortium for Water and Sanitation in the Developing World Sustainable?, David Kreamer
Provenance and Paleogeography of the 25-17 Ma Rainbow Gardens Formation: Evidence for Tectonic Activity at Ca. 19 Ma and Internal Drainage rather than Throughgoing Paleorivers on the Southwestern Colorado Plateau, Melissa A. Lamb, L. Sue Beard, Malia Dragos, Andrew D. Hanson, Thomas A. Hickson, Mark Sitton, Paul J. Umhoefer, Karl E. Karlstrom, Nelia Dunbar, and William McIntosh
Sunspot Cycles Recorded in Siliciclastic Biolaminites at the Dawn of the Neoproterozoic Sturtian Glaciation in South China, Pengbo Li, Dongjie Tang, Xiaoying Shi, Ganqing Jiang, Xiangkuan Zhao, Xiqiang Zhou, Xinqiang Wang, and Xi Chen
The Genesis of the Hehuashan Pb–Zn Deposit and Implications for the Pb–Zn Prospectivity of the Tongling District, Middle–Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt, Anhui Province, China, Guangxian Liu, Feng Yuan, Yufeng Deng, Simon M. Jowitt, Weian Sun, Noel C. White, Di Yang, Xiansuo Li, Taofa Zhou, and Jan Marten Huizenga
3D Computational Simulation-based Mineral Prospectivity Modeling for Exploration for Concealed Fe–Cu Skarn-type Mineralization within the Yueshan Orefield, Anqing District, Anhui Province, China, Xiaohui Li, Feng Yuan, Mingming Zhang, Simon W. Jowitt, Alison Ord, Taofa Zhou, and Wenqiang Dai
First-principles Investigation of the Concentration Effect on Equilibrium Fractionation of K Isotopes in Feldspars, Yonghui Li, Wenzhong Wang, Shichun Huang, Kun Wang, and Zhongqing Wu
Liebermannite, Kalsi3o8, A New Shock-metamorphic, High-pressure Mineral From The Zagami Martian Meteorite, C Ma, O Tschauner, J R. Beckett, G R. Rossman, C Prescher, V B. Prakapenka, H A. Bechtel, and A MacDowell
Sulfur Isotope Change across the Early Mississippian K–O (Kinderhookian–Osagean) δ13C Excursion, Dev Maharjan, Ganqing Jiang, Yongbo Peng, and Michael J. Nicholl
Elastic geobarometry: Corrections for the geometry of the host-inclusion system, Mattia L. Mazzucchelli, Pamela C. Burnley, Ross J. Angel, Simone Morganti, M C. Domeneghetti, Fabrizio Nestola, and Matteo Alvaro
Elastic Geothermobarometry: Corrections for the Geometry of the Host-Inclusion System, M. L. Mazzucchelli, Pamela Burnley, R. J. Angel, S. Morganti, M. C. Domeneghetti, F. Nestola, and M. Alvaro
Discreditation of Bobdownsite and the Establishment of Criteria for the Identification of Minerals with Essential Monofluorophosphate (PO3F2–), Francis M. McCubbin, Brian L. Phillips, Christopher T. Adcock, Kimberly T. Tait, Andrew Steele, John S. Vaughn, Marc D. Fries, Viorel Atudorei, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, and Elisabeth M. Hausrath
Growing Global Copper Resources, Reserves and Production: Discovery Is Not the Only Control on Supply, Gavin M. Mudd and Simon M. Jowitt
Global Platinum Group Element Resources, Reserves And Mining – A Critical Assessment, G M. Mudd, S M. Jowitt, and T T. Werner
The Zhayao Tectonic Window of the Jurassic Yuantai Thrust System in Liaodong Peninsula, NE China: Geometry, Kinematics and Tectonic Implications, Liang Qiu, Ruoyan Kong, Dan-Ping Yan, Michael L. Wells, Anping Wang, Weihua Sun, Wen-Xin Yang, Yang-Guang Han, Chengming Li, Yixi Zhang, and Shahnawaz Ariser
The Source of Uranium within Hydrothermal Uranium Deposits of the Motianling Mining District, Guangxi, South China, Liang Qiu, Dan-Ping Yan, Minghua Ren, Wentao Cao, Shuang-Li Tang, Qing-Yin Guo, Li-Ting Fan, Junting Qiu, Yixi Zhang, and Yong-Wen Wang
Geochronology of Early Mesozoic Diabase Units in Southwestern China: Metallogenic and Tectonic Implications, Liang Qiu, Wen-Xin Yang, Dan-Ping Yan, Michael L. Wells, Jun-Ting Qiu, Tian Gao, Jian-Meng Dong Liangliang, Zhang China University of Geosciences, and Fang-Yue Wang
Magmatic Evolution and Porphyry-Epithermal Mineralization in the Taftan Volcanic Complex, Southeastern Iran, Jeremy P. Richards, Amir M. Razavi, Terry L. Spell, Andrew Locock, Ali Sholeh, and Mehraj Aghazadeh
The Tonian Beck Spring Dolomite: Marine Dolomitization in a Shallow, Anoxic Sea, Alice Mary Shuster, Malcolm William Wallace, Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood, and Ganqing Jiang
Exploring Angrite Meteorites with Microanalysis: A Broad Spectrum Approach to Constraining Petrogenesis, Steven Singletary, Anthony B. Love, Shangshang Mu, Shichun Huang, and John Sinclair
Humans Thrived in South Africa through the Toba Eruption about 74,000 Years Ago, Eugene I. Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews, and Curtis W. Marean
Microbially Mediated Dissolution of Detrital Sanidine and its Reprecipitation as Authigenic Albite and Quartz within Ediacaran Stromatolites---Unifying Microbial Dissolution and Precipitation Processes, Michael A. Strange, Minghua Ren, and Stephen M. Rowland
Stratiform Siderites From The Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation In North China: Genesis And Environmental Implications, Dongjie Tang, Xiaoying Shi, Ganqing Jiang, Tong Wu, Jianbai Ma, and Xiqiang Zhou
Origin of the High-Grade Early Jurassic Brucejack Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits, Sulphurets Mining Camp, Northwestern British Columbia, S. P. Tombe, J. P. Richards, C. J. Greig, W. S. Board, R. A. Creaser, K. A. Muehlenbachs, P. B. Larson, S. A. DuFrane, and T. Spell
Ice-VII inclusions in Diamonds: Evidence for Aqueous Fluid in Earth’s Deep Mantle, Oliver Tschauner, Shichun Huang, E. Greenberg, V. B. Prakapenka, C. Ma, G. R. Rossman, A. H. Shen, D. Zhang, M. Newville, A. Lanzirotti, and K. Tait
Structure Analysis And Conditions Of Formation Of Akimotoite In The Tenham Chondrite, O Tschauner, C Ma, C Prescher, and V B. Prakapenka
Introduction To The Special Issue Of Meteoritics & Planetary Science On “shock Metamorphism And High Pressure Phases In Meteorites And Terrestrial Impactites”, O Tschauner, T G. Sharp, and D Stöffler
Formation of Evolved Rocks at Gale Crater by Crystal Fractionation and Implications for Mars Crustal Composition, Arya Udry, Esteban Gazel, and Harry Y. McSween Jr.
1.34 Billion-Year-Old Magmatism on Mars Evaluated from the Co-Genetic Nakhlite and Chassignite Meteorites, Arya Urdy and James M. D. Day
Mining in the Grand Canyon Watershed and the Implications on the Water Quality of Local Springs., Jordan Wachholtz, Gregg Paulson, Crystal Wu, and David K. Kreamer
Investigating The Response Of Biotite To Impact Metamorphism: Examples From The Steen River Impact Structure, Canada, E L. Walton, T G. Sharp, J Hu, and O Tschauner
Constraints of Hydrothermal and Magmatic Zircon on the Origin of the Yaogangxian Tungsten Deposit, Southern China, Xiang Wang and Minghua Ren
Nitrogen Isotope Constraints on the Early Ediacaran Ocean Redox Structure, Xinqiang Wang, Ganqing Jiang, Xiaoying Shi, Yongbo Peng, and Deborah C. Morales
Magmatic Origin for Sediment-Hosted Au Deposits, Guizhou Province, China: In Situ Chemistry and Sulfur Isotope Composition of Pyrites, Shuiyindong and Jinfeng Deposits, Zhuojun Xie, Yong Xia, Jean S. Cline, Michael J. Pribil, Alan Koenig, Qinping Tan, Dongtian Wei, Zepeng Wang, and Jun Yan
Deformation Sequence And Geochronological Constraints On The Metamorphism Of The Bikou Terrane, Northwestern Margin Of The Yangtze Block, C Xu, D Yan, S Gu, X Meng, L Qiu, M L. Wells, J Wang, and F Ma
Structural and Geochronological Constraints on the Early Mesozoic North Longmen Shan Thrust Belt: Foreland Fold‐Thrust Propagation of the SW Qinling Orogenic Belt, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Dan-Ping Yan, Liang Qiu, Michael L. Wells, Mei-Fu Zhou, Xiangkun Meng, Song Lu, Sen Zhang, Yu Wang, and Shu-Bing Li
The Longmenshan Tectonic Complex and Adjacent Tectonic Units in the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A Review, Dan-Ping Yan, Yu Zhou, Liang Qiu, Michael L. Wells, Hongxu Mu, and Chen-Guang Xu
Multiple Mineralization Events in the Zacatecas Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au District, and Their Relationship to the Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the Mesa Central, Mexico, Osbaldo Zamora-Vega, Jeremy P. Richards, Terry Spell, S. Andrew Dufrane, and John Williamson
No Measurable Calcium Isotopic Fractionation During Crystallization of Kilauea Iki Lava Lake, Hongming Zhang, Yang Wang, Yongsheng He, Fang-Zhen Teng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Rosalind T. Helz, Bruce D. Marsh, and Shichun Huang
Submissions from 2017
Synthesis of Na-Bearing Whitlockite and Implications for Interpretation of Extraterrestrial Phosphate Minerals, Christopher T. Adcock and Elisabeth M. Hausrath
Assessing Habitability on Mars Using Orbiter Data and a Habitability Index., Christopher T. Adcock and Elisabeth M. Hausrath
Shock-transformation of whitlockite to merrillite and the implications for meteoritic phosphate, Christopher T. Adcock, Oliver D. Tschauner, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Arya Udry, S. N. Luo, Y. Cai, M. Ren A., A. Lanzirotti, M. Newville, M. Kunz C., and C. Lin
Extrapolar climate reversal during the last deglaciation, Y Asmerom, V J. Polyak, and M S. Lachniet
Extrapolar climate reversal during the last deglaciation, Y Asmerom, V J. Polyak, and M S. Lachniet
Quantifying and correcting the effects of anisotropy in XANES measurements of chromium valence in olivine: Implications for a new olivine oxybarometer, A S. Bell, C Shearer, P Burger, M Ren, M Newville, and A Lanzirotti
Quantifying and correcting the effects of anisotropy in XANES measurements of chromium valence in olivine: Implications for a new olivine oxybarometer, A S. Bell, C Shearer, P Burger, M Ren, M Newville, and A Lanzirotti
High-Grade Gold Deposition and Collapse Breccia Formation, Cortez Hills Carlin-Type Gold Deposit, Nevada, USA, Lindsey R. Clark Maroun, Jean S. Cline, Adam Simon, Page Anderson, and John Muntean
U–Pb Dating of Cave Spar: A New Shallow Crust Landscape Evolution Tool, D. D. Decker, V. J. Ployak, Y. Asmeron, and Matthew Lachniet
Applying the Terrestrial Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) Context to Large-Scale Magmatism on Other Planetary Bodies, Richard E. Ernst, Kenneth L. Buchan, Simon M. Jowitt, and Nasrrddine Youbi
Contaminant Hydrogeology, 3rd edition, William Fetter, David K. Kreamer, and Tom Boving
Timing of Exhumation, Wheeler Pass thrust sheet, southern Nevada and California: Late Jurassic to middle Cretaceous evolution of the southern Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, M. A. Gaiallorenzo, Michael L. Wells, W. A. Yonkee, D. F. Stockli, and B. P. Wernicke
Clay mineral formation under oxidized conditions and implications for paleoenvironments and organic preservation on Mars, S R. Gainey, E M. Hausrath, C T. Adcock, O Tschauner, J A. Hurowitz, B L. Ehlmann, Y Xiao, and C L. Bartlett
Clay mineral formation under oxidized conditions and implications for paleoenvironments and organic preservation on Mars, S R. Gainey, E M. Hausrath, C T. Adcock, O Tschauner, J A. Hurowitz, B L. Ehlmann, Y Xiao, and C L. Bartlett
West Africa: The world's premier Paleoproterozoic gold province, R J. Goldfarb, A S. André Mayer, S M. Jowitt, and G M. Mudd
West Africa: The world's premier Paleoproterozoic gold province, R J. Goldfarb, A S. André Mayer, S M. Jowitt, and G M. Mudd
Modeling background radiation in Southern Nevada, D A. Haber, P C. Burnley, C T. Adcock, R L. Malchow, K E. Marsac, and E M. Hausrath
Modeling background radiation in Southern Nevada, D A. Haber, P C. Burnley, C T. Adcock, R L. Malchow, K E. Marsac, and E M. Hausrath
Monte Carlo simulations of the gamma-ray exposure rates of common rocks, D A. Haber, R L. Malchow, and P C. Burnley
Monte Carlo simulations of the gamma-ray exposure rates of common rocks, D A. Haber, R L. Malchow, and P C. Burnley
Perspectives on Proterozoic surface ocean redox from iodine contents in ancient and recent carbonate, D S. Hardisty, Z Lu, A Bekker, C W. Diamond, B C. Gill, G Jiang, L C. Kah, A H. Knoll, S J. Loyd, M R. Osburn, N J. Planavsky, C Wang, X Zhou, and T W. Lyons
Perspectives on Proterozoic surface ocean redox from iodine contents in ancient and recent carbonate, D S. Hardisty, Z Lu, A Bekker, C W. Diamond, B C. Gill, G Jiang, L C. Kah, A H. Knoll, S J. Loyd, M R. Osburn, N J. Planavsky, C Wang, X Zhou, and T W. Lyons
New biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in intra-shelf and upper slope facies of the Yangtze platform: Implications for biozonation of acanthomorphic acritarchs in South China, A D. Hawkins, S Xiao, G Jiang, X Wang, and X Shi
New biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in intra-shelf and upper slope facies of the Yangtze platform: Implications for biozonation of acanthomorphic acritarchs in South China, A D. Hawkins, S Xiao, G Jiang, X Wang, and X Shi
Correlation between hot spots and 3-D defect structure in single and polycrystalline high-explosive materials, C Hawkins, O Tschauner, Z Fussell, and J Smith
Correlation between hot spots and 3-D defect structure in single and polycrystalline high-explosive materials, C Hawkins, O Tschauner, Z Fussell, and J Smith
Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments, L E. Hays, H V. Graham, D J. Des Marais, E M. Hausrath, B Horgan, T M. McCollom, M N. Parenteau, S L. Potter McIntyre, A J. Williams, and K L. Lynch
Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments, L E. Hays, H V. Graham, D J. Des Marais, E M. Hausrath, B Horgan, T M. McCollom, M N. Parenteau, S L. Potter McIntyre, A J. Williams, and K L. Lynch
Regrowth of arsenate–sulfate efflorescences on processing plant walls at the Ottery arsenic–tin mine, New South Wales, Australia: Implications for arsenic mobility and remediation of mineral processing sites, E R. Hebbard, S A. Wilson, S M. Jowitt, A W. Tait, C C. Turvey, and H L. Wilson
Regrowth of arsenate–sulfate efflorescences on processing plant walls at the Ottery arsenic–tin mine, New South Wales, Australia: Implications for arsenic mobility and remediation of mineral processing sites, E R. Hebbard, S A. Wilson, S M. Jowitt, A W. Tait, C C. Turvey, and H L. Wilson
Mass-Independent and Mass-Dependent Ca Isotopic Compositions of Thirteen Geological Reference Materials Measured by Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry, Y He, Y Wang, C Zhu, S Huang, and S Li
Mass-Independent and Mass-Dependent Ca Isotopic Compositions of Thirteen Geological Reference Materials Measured by Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry, Y He, Y Wang, C Zhu, S Huang, and S Li
Trace elements in olivine and the petrogenesis of the intermediate, olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 10170, G H. Howarth and A Udry
Trace elements in olivine and the petrogenesis of the intermediate, olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 10170, G H. Howarth and A Udry
Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 8657: Implications for fO2 correlations and element redistribution during shock melting in shergottites, G H. Howarth, A Udry, and J M.D. Day
Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 8657: Implications for fO2 correlations and element redistribution during shock melting in shergottites, G H. Howarth, A Udry, and J M.D. Day
Mitsunobu Reaction Using Basic Amines as Pronucleophiles, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Mitsunobu Reaction Using Basic Amines as Pronucleophiles, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Organocatalytic Phosphonylation of in Situ Formed o-Quinone Methides, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Organocatalytic Phosphonylation of in Situ Formed o-Quinone Methides, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Oxidation-Reduction Condensation of Diazaphosphites for Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation Based on Mitsunobu Mechanism, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Oxidation-Reduction Condensation of Diazaphosphites for Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation Based on Mitsunobu Mechanism, H Huang and J Y. Kang
Mantle geochemistry: Insights from ocean island basalts, S C. Huang and Y F. Zheng
Mantle geochemistry: Insights from ocean island basalts, S C. Huang and Y F. Zheng
Calcium isotopic compositions of chondrites, S Huang and S B. Jacobsen
Calcium isotopic compositions of chondrites, S Huang and S B. Jacobsen