DOCSLIB.ORG

HGR October, 1993 Lee J. Suttner

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
HGR October, 1993 Lee J. Suttner Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences-Graduate School HOOSIER GEOLOGIC CORD Alumni Newsletter of the Department of Geological Sciences October 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chairman's Greeting . 1 Departmental News . 2 Geologic Field Station . 6 Indiana Geologic Survey . 6 Faculty News . 7 Faculty Research Grants . 14 Department of Geological Sciences Faculty & Staff ........................ 16 Degrees Awarded . 19 Staff Profiles . 20 Advisory Board .............................................. 21 Alumni Receptions . 24 Obituaries . 25 Alumni News . 27 Contributors ................................................ 30 Acknowledgements . 31 GREETINGS TO ALUMNI construction. Included in this project are plans for AND FRIENDS installation of a cold-storage core laboratory. A second proposal is pending within the University for a computer cluster laboratory on the second floor. Installation of the Academic year 1992-1993 in the Department has fully-equipped laboratory with about 25 workstations will been one of growth in the size and distinction of our cost approximately $200,000. Also, we just learned that teaching and research efforts, enhancement of our the University Classroom Committee has selected the first­ laboratory and teaching facilities, and revitalization of fl~or _lecture rooms in the Geology Building as the highest activities involving our alumni. I am pleased to be able to priority classrooms on campus to be upgraded with funds share with you some of the details of this good news in my that are expected to become available within the next six greeting to you in this year's Newsletter. months. On the teaching front, our number of undergraduate Last year's reorganization of the old Alumni majors has increased by over 50 percent in the past two Coun~il into the new Advisory Board was accompanied by ye~rs. Our graduate enrollment is now the highest among a variety of new alumni initiatives, including hosting of strictly geology departments in the Big Ten. We have been alumni receptions in Houston and Denver, circulation of honored with the selection of two of our courses for a qu~stionnaire to alumni concerning their learning inclusion in the College's new prestigious Core Curriculum. experiences at Indiana University, and involvement in Although we still rank among the lowest ten percent of Department development efforts and fund-raising. This Departments in the College in terms of numbers of students coming year the Board is charged with assisting the and credit hours taught, we have recently introduced four Department in locating sources of equipment, including new 100-level courses for non-majors and we are projecting computer software and hardware, organizing a a 40 percent growth in number of non-majors taught in the "Geoscience Career Day" for our students, establishing an next 2-3 years. If we experience continued growth in alumni network that our students can more easily tap into number of undergraduate majors, enrollments in 200-400 for their employment search, exploring opportunities for lev~l courses hopefully will increase to the same degree. closer linkage of our research programs with those in This year we had to have near capacity enrollments in G429 industry, and beginning a person-to-person contact with at the Geologic Field Station, just two summers after we other alumni to assist in fund raising for the Department. had our lowest enrollments in about the last 30 years. In no small part because of the efforts of the Our research expenditures in the past fiscal year Advisory Board, the number of individual donors to the totalled nearly $1.5 million, excluding over $400 000 Department increased over 90 percent in the past year and received from the National Science Foundation and Keck the total of their contributions increased by over 50 Fo~ndation for purchase of the new electron microprobe. percent. However, these increases will do little more than This total pl_aces us within the top_ four of geology offset the decrease in corporate gifts we expect to see in depa:1ments m the Big Ten. Our 24-person faculty the coming year related to the continued cutback in published over 48 major articles in refereed journals last support of academic programs by the energy industry. year and presented over 100 talks at national or We need your support if we wish to continue many of our international meetings or seminars. The prestige of our special programs, such as student travel and research faculty is reflected by the fact that many have been selected grants, scholarships, short courses, visiting lecture series, to serve in editorial capacities for major journals or as faculty-travel grants, field trips, and teaching awards. officers, counsellors, or committee persons for professional These are the special things that keep the spirit and morale societies and as panel members for judging proposals for of our academic community high. Please help us to organizations which award research grants. maintain these activities through your personal gifts. The three-quarter million dollar renovation of the We continue to have an optimistic vision for the geochemistry, geophysics, and petrology laboratories begun future of the Department. We have been authorized to last fall should be complete by the start of this academic recruit an environmental geoscientist and are searching for year. A proposal has been submitted to NSF for matching someone whose research focuses on the quantitative funds for an additional $200,000 for renovation of the evaluation of chemical, physical or biological processes biogeochemistry laboratories, which, because of a budget and mechanisms in surface and near surface systems. shortfall, could not be included in the first phase of With the help of the Advisory Board we are looking into 1 how to raise support for major endowments to underwrite received the Owen Award on March 8 and delivered his post-doctoral appointments and faculty chairs and to solicit colloquium address: "Perspectives on Education and contributors to partially offset the cost of expensive high­ Opportunities in Geology." tech classroom-teaching equipment, as well as additional facilities enhancement both within the Geology Building and at the Geologic Field Station. If you have ideas or suggestions that you would like to share with us bearing on our future, I encourage you to write or contact me or a member of the Advisory Board. On behalf of all of our faculty, students, and staff I express thanks for your support and interest in the Department. Do stay in touch with us and other alumni. If you live in the New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Denver, or Indianapolis areas, watch for announcements of upcoming alumni receptions. Remember that the Department always hosts a reception at the annual national meetings of AAPG and GSA (Boston, October 25). I look forward to seeing you at one of these events or in Bloomington should you visit the campus sometime in the future. Lee J. Suttner Chair DEPARTMENTAL NEWS RICHARD OWEN AWARD The 1993 Richard Owen Award presented to a graduate of the Department who has distinguished himself or herself in either industry/government or academia was awarded to Charles E. Wier (A.B.,'43; A.M.,'50; Ph.D.,'55). Charles rose from coal exploration projects manager with AMAX International Coal, Inc. to become vice president before his retirement in 1985. He currently is a consultant in coal geology to AMAX as well as vice president of Hoosier Mining Co. which is investigating Lee J. Suttner (left) and Richard Owen Award winner, mining ventures for gold in Liberia. Prior to joining Dr. Charles Wier (right) AMAX Charles was head of the Coal Section of the Indiana 'Geological Survey and Professor of Geology at I. U. Bloomington. He currently is Adjunct Professor. Included among his numerous positions are: Chairman, Group of As discussed above by Lee Suttner in his Coal Geology, the Geological Society of America, 1961; message, major laboratory and classroom renovation President, Indiana Coal Mining and Technical Society, continues. The new petrology lab is now in Room 338 1964; Chairman, North-Central Section, G.S.A., 1967; and ready for a bumper crop of students for optical President, Illinois-Indiana Section AIPG, 1986; National mineralogy this fall. The mineralogy lab, Room 245, has Treasurer, AIPG, 1987; Chairman, Coal Committee, been painted. Mark Gilstrap's analytical geochemistry lab Energy Minerals Division, AAPG, 1988-90; and recipient has moved to Room 406. New geophysics facilities, of the Gordon H. Wood, Jr. Memorial Award in Coal including an enlarged (and carpeted) geophysics computing Geology, Eastern Section AAPG and EMD, 1990. Charles lab, drafting/work area, library/meeting room, student and 2 visitor office space, electronics shop, and undergraduate in environmental science. Especially appropriate for this teaching lab are now well toward completion. A new minor are courses taught by faculty members in the School geophysics computer system includes a Sun Spare 10 with of Public and Environmental Affairs who have joint about 4 gigabytes of disk space, tape drives, etc. faculty appointments in Geological Sciences (i.e. Professors Hendrik Haitjema and Jeffrey White). Constance Work donated her lifetime collection of mineralogical specimens to the Department in 1989. She In the fall, oil company representatives Mark was the wife of James Work, a professor of English at Northam of Mobil Oil Company (October 13) and Don Indiana University. Many of the pieces in her collection Lipinski and Linda Hubner of Shell Oil Company were purchased from dealers and at gem shows throughout (October 15, October 23, respectively), visited the the U.S. While not field-collected, many of the items are Department. These company representatives interviewed quite distinctive examples, exhibiting outstanding students interested in employment in the energy industry representational coloring. As a means of ensuring that part and gave group presentations on exploration, production, of the collection would be displayed, Anne Perley, a sister and research activities as well as employment of Constance Work, provided funds to purchase a wall opportunities in geology and geophysics.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • BULLETINS of AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGY and PALAEONTOGRAPHICA AMERICANA
    8'oL HARVARD UNIVERSITY |v 1 ^J^y^ MUS. COMP. BULLETINSZOoL ^ LIBRARY OF MAR 4 *97^ HAi UNJVERi^-AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGY VOL. LXIV 1973-74 Paleontological Research Institution Ithaca, New York 14850 U. S. A. In Memoriam Orville L. Bandy 1916-1973 CONTENTS OF VOLUME LXIV Bulletin No. Pages Plates 278. Palynology of the ASmond Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. By J. Fred Stone 1-136 1-20 279. Tabulate Corals and Echinoderms from the Pennsylvanian Winterset Limestone, Hog- shooter Formation, Northeastern Oklahoma. By H. L. Strimple and J. M. Cooke 137-168 21 280. Stratigraphy and Genera of Calcareous Foraminifera cf the Fraileys Fades (Missis- sippian) of Central Kentucky. By R. G. Browne and E. R. Pohl 169-244 22-31 281. Crinoid Studies. Part I. Some Pennsylvanian Crinoids from Nebraska. Part. II. Some Permian Crinoids from Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. By R. K. Pabian and H. L. Strimple 245-338 32-41 INDEX volume. Each number is No separate index is included in the listed in the begin- indexed separately. Contents of the volume are ning of the volume. BULLETINS MUS. COMP. 200U LIBRARY OF OCT 16 19^ AMERICAN t^S«?fALEONTOLOGY (Founded 1895) Vol. 64 No. 278 PALYNOLOGY OF THE ALMOND FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS), ROCK SPRINGS UPLIFT, WYOMING By J. Fred Stone 1973 Paleontological Research Institution Ithaca, New York 14850, U.S.A. PALEONTOLOGIGAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION 1972 - 73 President Daniel B. Sass Vice-President Merrill W. Haas Secretary Philip C. Wakeley Assistant Secretary Rebecca S. Harris Director, Treasurer Katherine V. W. Palmer Counsel Armand L. Adams Representative AAAS Council John Pojeta, Jr.
    [Show full text]
  • ANNUAL REPORT C a V E
    1986 ANNUAL REPORT c A v E R E s E A R c H F 0 u N D A T I 0 N Cave Research Foundation Annual Report for 1986 Cave Research Foundation 1019 Maplewood Dr., No. 211 Cedar Falls, IA 50613 USA The Cave Research Foundation (CRF) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1957 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Its purpose is to support scientific research related to caves and karst, to aid in the conservation of cave karst wilderness features, and to assist in the interpretation of caves through education. EDITOR Karen Bradley Lindsley EDITORIAL STAFF R. Pete Lindsley John C. Tinsley Cover Photo: "Sea anemone" with beaded helictite "tentacles" speleothem, Cave of the Winds, Colorado. Photo by Cyndi Masch Seanor. Cave Research Foundation 1986 Annual Report. ©1987 by the Cave Research Foundation. Permission is granted to reproduce this material for scientific and educational use. For information write to the Cave Research Foundation, 1019 Maplewood Dr., No. 211, Cedar Falls, lA, 50613 USA. ISBN 0-939748-22-3 SAN 216-7220 Published by CAVE BOOKS 756 Harvard A venue St. Louis, MO 63130 USA CAVE CONSERVATION The caves in which we carry out our scientific work and exploration are natural, living laboratories. Without these laboratories, little of what is described in this Annual Report could be studied. The Cave Research Foundation is committed to the preservation of all underground resources. Caves are fragile in many ways. We take considerable care that we do not destroy that which we study because many of the cave features take hundreds of thousands of years to form.
    [Show full text]
  • ROCKS ASSOCIATED with the MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN UNCONFORMITY in SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA Indiana Department of Conservation
    ROCKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN UNCONFORMITY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Field Conference Guidebook No. 9 1957 STATE OF INDIANA Harold W. Handley, Governor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION E. Kenneth Marlin, Director GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Charles F. Deiss, State Geologist Bloomington ______________________________________________________________________________________ Field Conference Guidebook No. 9 ______________________________________________________________________________________ ROCKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN UNCONFORMITY IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation and Department of Geology, Indiana University, October 4, 5, and 6, 1957 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Henry H. Gray, Chairman; T. A. Dawson; Duncan J. McGregor; T. G. Perry; and William J. Wayne Printed by authority of the State of Indiana BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA October 1957 ______________________________________________________________________________________ For sale by Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, Bloomington, Indiana Price $1.00 This page intentionally blank CONTENTS 3 Page Page Introduction ---------------------------------------5 Glossary of rock-type terms ---------------------32 Physiography ----------------------------------5 Literature cited ------------------------------------33 Paleozoic stratigraphy ------------------------5 Postconference road logs ------------------------35 Geomorphic history ---------------------------7
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (1988) Volume 98 P
    Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (1988) Volume 98 p. 281-295. SUBSURFACE BELT SANDSTONES IN THE HARDINSBURG FORMATION (LATE MISSISSIPPIAN) OF INDIANA John B. Droste and Alan Stanley Horowitz Department of Geology Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report is to present the general stratigraphy of the Har- dinsburg Formation, Stephensport Group (Figure 1), in the subsurface of Indiana and to consider factors that have combined to create a belt of massive sandstones in the Hardinsburg in southwestern Indiana. These Mississippian rocks lie near the Lower Carboniferous Visean-Namurian series boundary of international ter- minology. The study area (Figure 2) is south of the northern boundaries of Sullivan and Greene Counties and west of the eastern boundaries of Greene, Martin, and Dubois Counties. The data for this report were taken from well information on file with the Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington (Table 1). Initially, the records of ap- proximately 12,000 wells were inspected. A single well per section was selected for construction of the thickness maps, and no more than three wells per section were chosen to construct the cross sections. Intensive drilling for petroleum throughout much of the study area provides at least one well per section for which both well samples and a geophysical log are available. In areas of less dense drilling, we necessarily used wells for which either samples or wire-line logs existed. PREVIOUS WORK Reviews of Late Mississippian surface and subsurface stratigraphy and dep- ositional systems in the Illinois Basin area can be found in Swann (1963,1964), Potter (1962,1963), Willman, et al.
    [Show full text]
  • Depositional and Structural History of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois
    5 Depositional and structural history Illinois State GeoL6gical Survey. Guidebook Series 15 of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin Part 1: Road log and descriptions of stops Edited by James E. Palmer and Russell R. Dutcher •jjSPr «%» V W&i/W: ' .' • '...: i ... '"**${ '-*£*$& l>~ s £0**«S. -m " 1st FIELD TRIP 9/Ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology < y K * i < WKKKKKTOfiO\ SPONSORS: Illinois StatesGeological Survey, fndiana Geologicalcal SutSurvey,vey, 1 » r *fJWV»>v4i*u Kentucky Geological Survey, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale COVER PHOTOS Front: Camel Rock (far left) and associated sandstone pinnacles. Garden of the Gods Recreation Area, Shawnee National Forest, Saline County, Illinois. Sandstone is of fluvial origin. Cut-and-fill structures, extensive cross-bedding, and steeply dipping joints are conspicuous. (Pounds Sandstone Member, Caseyville Formation) Back: Circular, suboval, and irregular Liesegang banding. These iron-oxide- rich bands are believed to be the result of repeated uniform precipi- tation from colloidal suspension in porous and permeable sandstone. About one-third actual size. (Pounds Sandstone Member, Caseyville Formation) Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois Basin : Part 1 : Road Log and descriptions of stops / edited by James E. Palmer and Russell R. Dutcher. - Urbana : Illinois State Geological Survey, 1979. 116p. : ill. ;28cm. Field trip 9 / Ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology. Sponsored by Illinois State Geological Survey, Indiana Geological Survey, Kentucky Geological Survey, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Includes bibliographies. 1. Geology-Illinois Basin-Congresses. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Pennsylvanian- Congresses. I. Palmer, James E. II. Dutcher, Russell R.
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
    Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (1990) Volume 99 p. 39-45 39 INFLUENCES ON THE POSITION OF CHESTERIAN SAND BELTS IN INDIANA John B. Droste and Alan S. Horowitz Department of Geological Sciences Indiana University 1005 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ABSTRACT: The axial trend of belt sand bodies in the Hardinsburg Formation in Indiana shows striking similarities to the axial trends of belt sand bodies in earlier Chesterian formations of the West Baden Group and in the overlying Tar Springs and Waltersburg Formations. Droste and Horowitz (1990) postulated that the belt sand bodies of the Hardinsburg Formation in Indiana resulted from focussed current action on quartz sands funnelled along sea floor lows. The sea floor lows marked locations where local increased rates of subsidence were produced by subtle adjust- ments in basement structures. We infer that all the belt sands in the Indiana Chesterian resulted from deposition controlled by the same factors and that their trends mark locations of changing loci of minor basement structural adjustments These trends are generally parallel to the tectonic movements that produced the structures associated with the LaSalle Anticlinal Belt and Wabash Valley Fault System. INTRODUCTION In this review, our principal purpose is to illustrate that the axial trend of belt sand bodies in the Hardinsburg Formation in Indiana shows striking similarities to the axial trends of several other belt sand bodies in other Chesterian formations in Indiana. Potter (1962, 1963) has published a classification of elongate sand bodies, and we use herein his characterization of belt sand bodies. CHESTERIAN BELT SANDSTONES Major belt sand bodies in the subsurface of Indiana occur in the West Baden Group, the Stephensport Group, and in the lower part of the Buffalo Wallow Group (Figure 1).
    [Show full text]
  • HOOSIER GEOLOGIC CORD Alumni N~Wsletter of the Department of Geology
    Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences-Graduate School HOOSIER GEOLOGIC CORD Alumni N~wsletter of the Department of Geology December, 1985 A LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN Dear I.U. Geology Alumni, First, let me apologize for the tardiness of the newsletter. I had hoped that we could mail it in November, but including the photos that some of you sent in took longer than I had anticipated, as did the printing, so it is coming to you during the Ho 1 iday season and I wish al 1 of you a safe and happy Holiday. This is an important year for the department as it sees departure through retirement of several professors and vigorous recruiting efforts to replace them. This month, December, 1985, Warren Meinschein retires as Professor of Organic Geochemistry. We wil 1 have a retirement luncheon for him on Dec. 6. He and Mary are moving to Texas just as soon as the semester is over. We all wish them a most sincere and warm thanks for their years here at IU. On June 30, 1986, John Patton, Bob Blakely, and Mary Beth Fox will all retire. Although Mary Beth is officially a Geological Survey employee she has continued to be a great help to the department in alumni contacts, job interviews and employment requests. We are definitely going to miss her expertise and interest in these affairs. We will probably have a joint Survey/Department retirement party for all three of them sometime in early June, before most of the faculty scatter to various outposts for the summer.
    [Show full text]
  • Hydrologic and Geochemical Cycling Within Karst
    Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Masters Theses & Specialist Projects Graduate School 12-1-2004 Hydrologic and Geochemical Cycling within Karst Versus Non-Karst Basins within the Interior Low Plateau Province of South-Central Kentucky David Ek Western Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses Part of the Geology Commons, and the Hydrology Commons Recommended Citation Ek, David, "Hydrologic and Geochemical Cycling within Karst Versus Non-Karst Basins within the Interior Low Plateau Province of South-Central Kentucky" (2004). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 550. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/550 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses & Specialist Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hydrologic and Geochemical Cycling within Karst versus Non-karst Basins within the Interior Low Plateau Province of South-central Kentucky A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Geography and Geology Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science By David A. Ek December 2004 HYDROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CYCLING WITHIN KARST VERSUS NON- KARST BASINS WITHIN THE INTERIOR LOW PLATEAUS PROVINCE OF SOUTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY Date RecommerKjed S / 3 --5T/ Director of Thesis J-//-O5 Dean'Graduate Studies a$d Research Date ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank all the people, such as Daniel Hatcher, Melissa Thornton, Laura DeMott. Pat Kambesis, Lee-Gray Boze, Mike Anderson and Weldon Hawkins, that assisted me with completing this research project. I am especially appreciative of the extra time and assistance provided by Mike Anderson and Weldon Hawkins.
    [Show full text]
  • The Illinois Basin, a Tidally and Tectonically Influenced
    544View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE ^^1provided by Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship Repository The Illinois Basin — a tidally and tectonically influenced ramp during mid-Chesterian time Janis D. Treworgy CIRCULAR 544 1988 UBRARi Department of Energy and Natural Resources ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JG2 2B8I tit STATE GEOLOGICAL^ LIBRARY. Cover Photo: Roadcut at intersection of 1-64 and IN Hwy. 37 in Crawford County, Indiana. Formations pictured, from base up, are Big Cliffy, Haney, and Hardinsburg. Graphic Artist: Sandra K. Stecyk Treworgy, Janis D. The Illinois Basin: a tidally and tectonically influenced ramp during mid-Chesterian time. — Champaign, IL: Illinois State Geological Survey, 1988. 20 p.; 28 cm. — (Illinois—Geological Survey. Circular; 544) 1. Lithofacies—Illinois Basin. 2. Geology—Illinois Basin. 3. Geo- logy, Stratigraphic—Mississippian. 4. Sedimentation and deposi- tion—Illinois Basin. I. Title. II. Series. '•..-. Printed by authority of the State of Illinois / 1988 / 2000 L 0G,c i survey mmtnu^h^?, . ^ 3 3051 00002 8534 The Illinois Basin — a tidally and tectonically influenced ramp during mid-Chesterian time Janis D. Treworgy CIRCULAR 544 1988 „.„,.- ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Morris W. Leighton, Chief ' T 9 9 1988 Natural Resources Building 615 East Peabody Drive SURVf |U $UTt tt0lM|CM. Champaign, IL 61820 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/illinoisbasintid544trew
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
    Base Level, Lithologic and Climatic Controls of Karst Groundwater Zones in South-Central Indiana Richard L. Powell, Indiana Geological Survey- Abstract Nearly all groundwater movement with the carbonate bedrock of south-central Indiana has been within a karst groundwater zone that occupies the lower part of the vadose groundwater zone above the zone of permanent saturation (phreatic zone) or local base level and that is characterized by a highly fluctuating water table. Variations of precipitation within climatic cycles and the local relief above base level control the vertical range of the water table and subsequent solution within the karst groundwater zone during that time period corresponding to each subaerial erosion level. Variations in carbonate solubility, thickness of beds, and intensity of jointing determine the texture and shape of the integrated subterranean conduits. The volume of water transmitted through the karst groundwater zone and its acidity determine the size. Limestone is relatively soluble compared with dolomite and clastic sediments, but it is less permeable than some dolomites or sandstones. Initial permeability in limestone is along joints and bedding planes and varies greatly from bed to bed. Shales and silty carbonate units may form perched water bodies that may be breached by joints or erosion. Sandstone, dolomite, and intensely jointed limestone may form perched water bodies or aquifers within relatively impermeable limestone strata and release the water to less permeable, subjacent limestone. Introduction Solutionally-enlarged openings and caverns in dynamic karst ground- water zones carry the greatest amount of groundwater in the non-glaci- ated portion of south-central Indiana (Fig. 1).
    [Show full text]
  • And KARST KENTUCKY
    KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON Donald C. Haney, State Geologist and Director CAVES and KARST KENTUCKY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 12 Series XI, 1985 ISSN 0075-5613 KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON Donald C. Haney, State Geologist and Director CAVES AND KARST OF KENTUCKY Percy H. Dougherty, Editor Published in cooperation with the National Speleological Society COVER PHOTOGRAPH Creek section of Sloans Valley Cave. Pulaski County, Kentucky. (Photo by K. L. Day$ SPECIAL PUBLICATION 12 Series XI, 1985 John G. Beard, Geolog~stIV, Henderson Offlce Wayne 1. FranKle, Geologlst I1 Art Gal laher, Jr., Chancellor, Lexlngton Campus Patr~cKJ. Bood~ng, Geologlst I1 Wlmberly C. Koyster, Vlce Chancellor tor Kesearch JacK R. Moody, Geolog~st11 and Dean ot the Uraduate School Brandon L. Nuttall. Geolog~stI1 James Y. McDonald, Execut~veD~rector, Unfverslty Jul~eR. Kemper, Geolog~stI of KentucKy Research Foundat I on Frances Benson, L~brarylechn~clan 111 Robert H. Dan~el,Laboratory lechn~c~anB KENTUCKY GEOLUG ICAL SCIWEY Jacquel~neH. tmbry, Data Entry Uperator 111 AVV ISORY BOARD VICKI F. Campbell, Dratt~nglechn~ctan Ph~lM. M~les,Chairman, Lexlngton Jane ball lon, JenKfns Water Hesources beCtlOn: Wallace W. Hagan, Lexlngton James S. D~nger,Head Henry L. HlnKle, Par15 James K~pp,Geolog~st 11 B. W. McDonald, Pafntsv~lle H~chardS. Smalles, Ueologlst I1 W. A. Mossbarger, Lextngton Margaret A. Townsend, tieolog~stII W~lllamJ. Reynolds, fillen Henry H. Spald~ng.Hazard Com~uterServfces Group: Henry D. Stratton, P~Kevllle Steven Cordlv~ola.Geoloq~st I11 Ralph N. Ihomas, Uwensboro Joseph B.
    [Show full text]
  • Geology of the Huron Area, South-Central Indiana
    GEOLOGY OF THE HURON AREA, SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA by HENRY H. GRAY ROBERT D. JENKINS ROBERT M. WEIDMAN Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin No. 20 1960 STATE OF INDIANA HAROLD W. HANDLEY, GOVERNOR DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION E. KENNETH MARLIN, DIRECTOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JOHN B. PATTON, STATE GEOLOGIST BLOOMINGTON __________________________________________________________________________________________ BULLETIN NO. 20 ____________________________________________________________ GEOLOGY OF THE HURON AREA, SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA BY HENRY H.GRAY ROBERT D. JENKINS ROBERT M. WEIDMAN PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA DECEMBER 1960 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ For sale by Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, Bloomington, Ind. Price $2.50 2 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JOHN B. PATTON, State Geologist MAURICE E. BIGGS Assistant State Geologist MARY BETH FOX, Mineral Statistician Coal Section Charles E. Wier, Geologist and Head G. K. Guennel, Paleobotanist S. A. Friedman, Geologist Harold C. Hutchison, Geologist Richard C. Neavel, Coal Petrographer William C. Richardson, Geological Assistant Drafting and Photography Section William H. Moran, Chief Draftsman Robert E. Judah, Geological Artist-Draftsman Micky P. Love, Geological Draftsman John E. Peace, Senior Geological Draftsman George R. Ringer, Photographer Educational Services R. Dee Rarick, Geologist and Head Geochemistry Section R. K. Leininger, Spectrographer and Head Maynard E. Coller, Chemist Louis V. Miller, Coal Chemist, E. M. Craig, Geochemical Assistant Geology Section Robert H. Shaver, Paleontologist and Head Henry H. Gray, Head Stratigrapher William J. Wayne, Head Glacial Geologist Allan F. Schneider, Glacial Geologist Geophysics Section Maurice E. Biggs, Geophysicist and Head Robert F. Blakely, Geophysicist Charles S. Miller, Instrument Maker Albert J. Rudman, Geophysicist Joseph F.
    [Show full text]