Extended, High-Temperature Cooling of Lava Tube Interiors: Analog for Venus

Jorge Acosta, “Extended, High-Temperature Cooling of Lava Tube Interiors: Analog for Venus” Mentor: Lindsay McHenry, Geosciences Poster # 75 This project is analyzing lava samples from lava tubes at Craters of the Moon National Monument using X-ray diffraction (XRD) to…… Read More

Provenance and Basin Geometry of Paleolake Olduvai Reconstructed using X-Ray Diffraction

Kathryne Fogle, “Provenance and Basin Geometry of Paleolake Olduvai Reconstructed using X-Ray Diffraction” Mentor: Lindsey McHenry, Geosciences Poster #50 Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania is a well-known Pleistocene archeological site in a paleoanthropological setting of inter-fingering paleolake and volcanic fan deposits. This…… Read More