Geology and Geological
Engineering Department Research
The SDSM&T Department
of Geology and Geological Engineering - For a field-based, practical
education in geology, geological engineering, and
paleontology.
General
Students have a wide variety of research opportunities
available at the graduate and undergraduate level at SDSM&T.
Aquifer vulnerability, geologic hazards, and geologic
resources of the Black Hills I-90 Development Corridor
Missouri River Valley
development and paleontological assessment.
Application of
computing (GIS, remote sensing, and 3-D visualization) in geosciences
Earthscope
Proposed national
underground science and engineering lab at Homestake Mine.
Ground
water/environmental studies in the Black Hills region, including abandoned
mine sites.
Remote sensing for
geological mapping and resource evaluation in arid regions.
Controls on the
Homestake gold deposit, with application to exploration.
Late Cretaceous
vertebrates and their dispersal before final breakup of Gondwana.
Marine vertebrates of
the Western Interior Seaway, particularly mosasaurs and plesiosaurs; and
Late Tertiary and Quaternary mammals from the Pacific Northwest.
Subsurface mapping in
western South Dakota.
Tectonic, igneous, and mineral deposit development of the
Laramide Black Hills uplift
Geologic evaluation of the Proterozoic basement of the
Black Hills
Interaction
between deformation, reactions and rheological properties in metamorphic
rocks and their tectonic evolution; Current field areas are in the
Western Gneiss Region of Norway and the Precambrian core of the Black Hills
Uplift in South Dakota.
Ore
deposits and active tectonics in Anatolia, Turkey
For more information contact...
Geology and Geological Engineering - South Dakota School of Mines and
Technology 501 E. St. Joseph St. Rapid City 57701 Work Phone (605)
394-2461 FAX (605) 394-6703
