38 Undergraduate Research III (Posters)

Tuesday, 19 April 2016
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Illinois Ballroom AB

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  NEAR-AXIS SEAMOUNTS AS PROBES OF MANTLE MELTING AT THE EAST PACIFIC RISE
  Ashly M. Hunt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Patricia Gregg, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  275250 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  INVESTIGATION OF A MARGINAL REVERSAL AT THE BASE OF THE MINERAL LAKE INTRUSION, NORTHERN WISCONSIN
  Lukas R. Smith, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL and Kyle R. Mayborn, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL
  275256 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  RECRYSTALLIZATION OF CAVE PEARLS FROM UNDERGROUND LIMESTONE MINE,  QUINCY, ILLINOIS
  Nick Liming, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL and Justin Christensen, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL and Leslie A. Melim, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL
  275322 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PETROGRAPHY OF THE CHESTERIAN (UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN) CYPRESS SANDSTONE IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN
  Jaclyn M. Daum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Kalin J. Howell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Nathan D. Webb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  275338 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  USING PETROPHYSICS TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF RESIDUAL OIL ZONES IN THE THICK IVF CYPRESS SANDSTONE AT NOBLE FIELD, SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS
  Joshua J. Arneson, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Joshua J. Arneson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Nathan P. Grigsby, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL and Scott M. Frailey, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Nathan D. Webb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  275347 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PETROGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC CORE SAMPLES FROM THE OMAHA DOME IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  Kevin F. Howard, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN and Anton H. Maria, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN and Joseph A. DiPietro, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN and Will J. Cashel-Cordo, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
  275408 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ELASTIC BLOCK MODELING OF FAULT SLIP RATES ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USING UPDATED GPS VELOCITY DATA FROM THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY
  Tiffany Vlahopoulos, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL and Liam DiZio, Macalester, St. Paul, MN and Sally McGill, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA and Patricia Gregg, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Qiu Zhong, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  275419 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  HEAT TREATMENT AND IRRADIATION OF YELLOW TOURMALINE FROM EAST AFRICA
  Laura M. Behymer, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
  275432 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  POSTCRANIAL REMAINS OF A SAUROPODOMORPH DINOSAUR FROM THE LOWER JURASSIC OF ANTARCTICA
  Lucas J. Ratzer, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
  275471 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  AN INVESTIGATION OF UNUSUAL SHALE INTERVALS WITHIN A ECHINODERM-STROMATOPOROID CARBONATE BUILDUP FROM THE KIMMSWICK FORMATION, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
  Jaclyn M. Daum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Jacalyn M. Wittmer, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL and Sam Heads, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Shane K. Butler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL and Thomas E. Guensburg, Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL
  275520 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DIAGENETIC HISTORY OF CAMBRIAN SANDSTONE UNITS IN WESTERN WISCONSIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESOURCE EXTRACTION
  Rachel Fliflet, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Justin M. Poirier, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and J. Brian Mahoney, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Kent M. Syverson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
  275548 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CORRELATION AND CLIMATIC ORIGIN OF SMALL-SCALE CYCLICITY IN UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN CYCLOTHEMIC BLACK SHALES
  Hayden L. Owens, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Thomas J. Algeo, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Achim Herrmann, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  275552 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BUTTER SHALES FROM THE WAYNESVILLE FORMATION (UPPER ORDOVICIAN) OF EASTERN INDIANA
  Jordan M. Young, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL and Jacalyn M. Wittmer, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL and Shane K. Butler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL
  275610 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS SEISMICITY
  Alexander Babb, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE and Dr. Harmon Maher, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE and Ryan Korth, Terracon, Omaha, NE
  275623 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CASTLE ROCK CONGLOMERATE WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVENANCE
  Daniel W. Fulton, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
  275625 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO MAP EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LIQUEFACTION FEATURES IN THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE
  Karen Ecton, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and J. Wyatt Walls, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Aaron Galletly, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Michelle Rush, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Anniya Preisberga, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Jake Dunahue, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Tina Niemi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO and Martitia Tuttle, M Tuttle & Associates, Georgetown, ME and Class Geol 472, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
  275632 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE UPPER TYLER FORMATION (MORROWAN; LOWER PENNSYLVANIAN) IN WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
  Nicholas Anderson, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN and Alex Courneya, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN and Matthew Hanna, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN and Domonic Mugavero, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN and Karl W. Leonard, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN
  275640 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THREAT IN VIRUNGA: UNDERSTANDING EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS OF NYAMURAGIRA
  James Beer, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL and Elisabet Head, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
  275643 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  POSSIBLE SURFACE DEFORMATION ALONG A LINEAMENT IN THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, YARBRO, ARKANSAS
  James C. Dunahue, KANSAS CITY, MO and Martitia Tuttle, M Tuttle & Associates, Georgetown, ME and Tina Niemi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
  275675 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  RAMAN SPECTROMETRY OF QUARTZ INCLUSIONS IN GARNET (QUIG) FROM THE RINCON RANGE, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO: PROGRADE PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE ESTIMATES FOR THE PICURIS OROGENY
  Evan Kotlowski, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI and Benjamin Hallett, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
  275683 (Theme Sessions)