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Brooke, Cannon Donovan Todd. "Rocky Mountain blue : a shifting terrain in the Rocky Mountain West /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=352&CISOBOX=1&REC=20.

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Sanders, Jeffrey Melvin. "Planning Gone Hog Wild: Mega-Hog Farm in a Mountain West County." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1026.

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Lacking the natural amenities “New West" counties, some rural communities have attempted to attract land use activities that are normally seen as undesirable. One example of these undesirable industries is the hog concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO. While a number of studies have explored the socio-economic and environmental aspects of hog farms, few studies have focused on the planning process and evaluated its effectiveness in dealing with the threats and challenges that a CAFO poses. This qualitative study used interviews, observations, public meeting minutes, and other written sources of data to evaluate whether or not a rural, western community, Beaver County, Utah, was able to successfully plan for one of the largest hog operations in the United States. The evidence suggested that the majority of planning efforts failed in the short-term, but were more successful in the long-term. Despite any relative success, the proposal generated intense controversy in the small community. Crucial to any planning achievement was the input and guidance provided by the state environmental agency. This research highlights the need for long-range planning as well as the importance of public participation in the planning process.
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Harris, Benjamin C. "Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT." The University of Montana, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05212007-154919/.

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This study considers the impact of community-level inequality of income and education on the ways individuals participate in local government and community development activities. It adapts the standard identity-augmented utility model to demonstrate that, given the choice to participate or not to participate, increases in inequality can decrease overall group participation, and an individual's distance from the characteristics of an ideal community member can also decrease the benefits and likelihood of participation. The theory predicts, however, that increasing the responsiveness of civic bodies to input from citizens can mitigate the negative effects of inequality. Original survey data from a stratified random sample of over 680 Missoula households are then analyzed to test the implications of the theory. In Missoula, people have 3 participation options: not participating at all, participating alone (by writing letters or watching meetings on television), or participating in person. A multinomial logit model to estimate the probability of choosing a certain outcome shows that people living in neighborhoods characterized by high inequality are less likely to drop out, but more likely to participate alone. This effect is most pronounced under high educational inequality.
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Harris, Benjamin C. "Inequality & civic participation in the Rocky Mountain West Missoula, MT /." CONNECT TO THS TITLE ONLINE, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05212007-154919/.

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Di, Stefano Diana L. "Avalanche Country: Nature, work, and culture in the Mountain West, 1834--1910." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3273701.

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Sanders, Jeffrey M. "Planning gone hog wild : mega-hog farm in a mountain west county /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2025.pdf.

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Li, Li. "Toward a Cultural Interpretation of the Chinese Restaurant in the Mountain West." DigitalCommons@USU, 1990. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5607.

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The history of Chinese restaurants in the American West shows that Chinese food became a part of the social and cultural realities for Chinese people, especially in the earliest years, partly because regional food helped maintain regional language and dialect. Beyond that, it also demonstrates how restaurants--even more than other service industries such as laundries--provide a living context in which Chinese met non-Chinese, and where the non-Chinese could become acquainted with Chinese art, eating customs, regional cookery, embroidery, and even family life. In other words, the Chinese restaurant became in time a bridge between the two cultures, and has therefore had an important function in intercultural relations. Moreover, certain developments in Chinese restaurant customs are found only in the United States (soup served first instead of last; everyone receiving a fortune cookie rather than one person getting a sign of good fortune); this fact testifies to a cultural dynamism among the otherwise conservative Chinese workers who established themselves in a strange land far from home. An interpretation and "decoding" of these elements from the viewpoint of a contemporary "mainland" Chinese forms the central discussion of this thesis.
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Shepherd, Mary. "Contributing Factors to the Success of Small-Scale Diversified Farms In the Mountain West." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3576.

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This study uses ordered logistic regression models with data collected from eighty-six online surveys completed by small-scale producers in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, and Wyoming to assess factors which most contribute to the overall success and profitability of small-scale diversified farms. Results indicate success and profitability may be partially explained by the number of acres owned/leased, use of wholesale outlets, farming as a primary occupation, years of experience, and use of outside business related services. Results may be useful as they indicate producer and operation characteristics that are lead to more profitable and successful operations and thus indicate areas in which a producer may most improve his or her business.
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Oberg, Paula Rae. "Responses of mountain caribou to linear features in a west-central Alberta landscape." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60484.pdf.

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Vinciguerra, Cristine M. "Recharge processes within the Cacapon Mountain Aquifer, Ridge and Valley Province, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2008. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5575.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2008.
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Carruthers, John I. "NONMETROPOLITAN LAND USE PLANNING IN THE MOUNTAIN WEST: THE CASE OF COCHISE COUNTY." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555334.

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Madron, Justin. "REFORESTATION OF RED SPRUCE (PICEA RUBENS) ON THE CHEAT MOUNTAIN RANGE, WEST VIRGINIA." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3113.

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The (Plethodon nettingi) Cheat Mountain Salamander is a rare and endangered species that relies heavily on (Picea rubens) Red Spruce for habitat. P. rubens communities on the Cheat Mountain range in West Virginia have been disturbed by fires and logging, and regeneration of P. rubens stands are central to the survival of the P. netting. A supervised and unsupervised landscape classification of three Landsat images over the past 26 years was conducted to analyze change in P. rubens communities on Cheat Mountain Range. Change detection results revealed that from 1986-2012 a 52% growth increase of P. rubens stands, 18% loss, and 29% stayed the same over the last 26 years. P. rubens stands are vital habitat to the rare and endangered P. netting and regrowth of P. rubens is vital in restoring the habitat of the salamander on the Cheat Mountain. The regrowth of P. rubens on the Cheat Mountain range is critical to the survival of the P. nettingi. Identifying critical forest as it relates to salamander habitat is essential for conservation efforts. Since not all P. rubens stands are of equal significance to the P. nettingi, it is important to identify and map those that adhere to their stringent habitat needs as defined by forest fragmentation, aspect, slope, and lithology. I used spatial analysis and remote sensing techniques to define critical forest characteristics by applying a forest fragmentation model utilizing morphological image analysis, northeast and southwest aspects, moderate slopes, and limestone lithology. Patches were ranked based on this quantitative model and key P. rubens stands identified using spatial statistics. The results could aid in prioritizing research areas as well as conservation planning in regards to P. rubens and the P. nettingi. In this study, the MaxEnt modeling framework was used to predict habitat suitability for P. rubens under current conditions and under two future climate change scenarios. P. rubens distribution data was acquired from the U.S Geological Survey. Both the IPCC A1B and A2 emission scenarios of the HadCM3 global circulation model were projected to years 2040-2069 and 2070-2099. Results showed that a substantial decline in the suitability of future P. rubens habitat on the Cheat Mountain is likely under both climate change scenarios, particularly at lower elevations. By the end of the century, P. rubens is likely to be extirpated from the Cheat Mountain Range. By the end of century, the A1B and A2 scenarios predict the average habitat suitability for P. rubens on Cheat Mountain will be 0.0002 and 0.00004 respectively. Conservation as well as species migration efforts for P. rubens should be focused on areas such as Cheat Mountain to preserve this vital habitat.
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Harvard, Ronald Wilson. "Training elders for effective ministry in a pentecostal community of faith." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Smith, Gregory Vance. "The faceless mountain and the Key West route : interdisciplinary study of the pilgrimage archetype." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001573.

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Ware, Daniel Forrest. "The natural history and distribution of the mountain earthsnake (Virginia valeriae pulchra) in West Virginia." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2008. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=857.

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Rutland, Jeffrey R. "Depositional environments comprising the Birch River section (Middle Pennsylvanian), Powell Mountain, Nicholas County, West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3461.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
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Vias, Alexander Carl 1959. "An analysis of population and employment growth in the nonmetropolitan Rocky Mountain West, 1970-1995." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288826.

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Over the past 25 years, long-term trends in population and employment change for the US have been dramatically altered. At the regional level, areas like the Rocky Mountain West (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, and WY) have seen the century-long decline in nonmetropolitan population reversed to some degree. Scholars from across the US have proposed several broad theories to explain these shifts; however, researchers based in the RMW have argued that any general theory of growth and development must be adapted to take into account the region's unique geography and history. For example, population and employment change in RMW has been more volatile and extreme due to the region's reliance on extractive industries. The purpose of this dissertation is to present preliminary findings of an investigation of population and employment change in the RMW in general, and to test the claims of regional researchers on the processes behind these changes. The ideas of these researchers are embodied in the quality-of-life model, which claims that changing residential preferences, demographic changes, and economic restructuring will benefit areas like the nonmetropolitan RMW, an area rich in amenities. Using a wide variety of tools ranging from descriptive statistics, to classification techniques, to multivariate regression models, this research measures how factors theorized to be associated with growth have increased (decreased) in importance over the 25 year span of this study. The results show that regionally-based ideas on growth have a place in helping scholars understand regional growth processes in a more reliable manner. More importantly, there is significant support for the quality-of-life model, especially the role of service industries and environmental amenities in driving regional growth. Answers to these questions will help scholars understand the extent to which national events are being restructured in regional contexts. Additionally, until these ideas are fully tested and shown to explain some of the events and underlying processes driving population and employment growth in the RMW, long-term policies designed to help plan for the continued growth of the region may be misguided and wasteful.
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Harman, Gayle E. "Speleogenesis of Shoveleater Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1354816123.

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Cleverdon, Stephen Michael. "The effects of federal land on rural population, employment, and income in the Rocky Mountain West." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06012009-101138.

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Wilkinson, Patrick Kent. "Is fluid flow in Paleozoic formations of west central Alberta affected by the Rocky Mountain Thrust Belt?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22045.pdf.

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Grimes, Stephen Whiteford. "The Grenville orogeny in West Texas : structure, kinematics, metamorphism and depositional environment of the Carrizo Mountain Group /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
Vita. Three folded plates in pocket. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-371). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
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Mackinnon, Anne. "Laying a net across mountain valleys and plains." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16974.

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Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Herausforderungen im Management natürlicher Ressourcen und dem Bedarf geeigneter Institutionen, um diesen Herausforderungen gerecht zu werden, untersucht die vorliegende Arbeit ein Managementsystem für Wasserressourcen im Bundesstaat Wyoming, USA. Die Autorin untersucht die über 100-jährige Geschichte der Wasserrechte im landwirtschaftlichen Bewässerungssektor. Die Studie zeigt, wie und warum die Verfügungsrechte zwischen privaten Nutzern und der staatlichen Administration hin und her geschoben wurden und welche Konsequenzen dies brachte. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass das System im Laufe des letzten Jahrhunderts gegenüber seinem Hauptzweck – der Bewässerung – als resilient gelten kann. Was jedoch andere neuere Funktionen angeht, im Besonderen die Nutzung ohne Verbrauch ist das System als weniger resilient einzustufen. Die Arbeit trägt zu einer Weiterentwicklung der Theorien des institutionellen Wandels bei. Die Autorin zeigt die Wichtigkeit von extremen physischen Bedingungen, wie geringer Niederschlagsmenge, kurzen Wachstumsperioden oder schwierigen Bodenverhältnissen, für den institutionellen Wandel. Solche Gegebenheiten können zu pfadabhängigen Veränderungen führen. Gleichzeitig diktieren sie den Rahmen, innerhalb dessen ein stärkerer institutioneller Wandel im natürlichen Ressourcenmanagement möglich wäre.
Given the need for institutions managing natural resources that can be foundations for dealing with challenges like climate change, this dissertation examines more than 100 years of a water resource management system in the Western U.S., in the state of Wyoming. The dissertation identifies the key actors in this system as water users and the water administrators in the state government. The study determines that the Wyoming system distributes property rights in water between users and the state. The study finds that over a century the system has proved itself resilient towards its most longstanding users, in irrigated agriculture. However, the system has lacked a resilient response to new demands, particularly non-consumptive uses of water. In a contribution to theories of institutional change, the dissertation demonstrates the important role in natural resource management systems played by harsh physical conditions such as lack of precipitation, short growing seasons, and difficult terrain. These conditions can create path dependency and dictate the circumstances that allow path-breaking in natural resource management institutions.
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Bond, Tristan. "A study of the genus Desmognathus in West Virginia, with emphasis on Desmognathus welteri, the black mountain salamander." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=788.

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Wilmot, Susan Reid. "Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Migration: Resident Reponse to Amenity Growth-Related Change in the Rural Rocky Mountain West." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/428.

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This dissertation explores the demographic, economic, political, and environmental characteristics that have helped define the "New West," reviews studies on individual attitudes and participation in response to these changes, and presents findings and conclusions from an analysis of two study areas: Bear Lake and Star Valley. Results suggest that residency status is generally not a significant predictor of resident attitudes towards aspects of community change. Non-residency status factors, such as high levels of place attachment, knowledge about community affairs, values for property ownership, and community satisfaction, were generally more influential upon residents' attitudes. Significant predictors of resident involvement in community affairs differed based on how involvement was measured; self-reported involvement in political affairs was most strongly predicted by permanent resident status, local social connections, knowledge of community affairs, and place attachment, while resident intention to participate in community affairs was positively correlated with greater personal efficacy, knowledge of community affairs, past leadership recruitment, place attachment, and altruistic motivation. Predictors for intention to participate also differed based on whether participation was measured by action type or by issue. Measuring participation by the type of action focused predictors on the skills, incentives, and resources needed to achieve those actions. Grouping participation by the type of issue, however, focused predictors on the characteristics that differentiated residents with regard to issue relevance. Out-migration, as an alternative to participatory action, was only predicted by non-economic factors. Additionally, the relationship between attitudes and behavioral intentions was only weakly predicted based on attitude ambivalence and specific scenarios. Study results highlighted several methodological considerations for future attitude and participatory studies. Use of general attitudinal statements may have yielded inflated response scores and therefore may not translate to shared acceptability of specific management decisions or trade-offs. This study also explored the notion of behavioral intentions as a means of identifying residents' "ideal" tendency for involvement. Local community leaders may be able to improve resident public participation by utilizing these findings to provide a shared goal for action, identifying appropriate audiences for specific issues, and recognizing how different participatory methods may yield obstacles and opportunities for resident involvement.
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Dillard, Lester O. "Distribution and habitat of the threatened Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi) at multiple spatial scales in West Virginia forests /." Link to full text, 2007. http://epapers.uwsp.edu/thesis/2007/dillard.pdf.

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Liou, Theodore G., Judith L. Jensen, Sarah E. Allen, Sara J. Brayshaw, Mark A. Brown, Barbara Chatfield, Joni Koenig, et al. "Improving performance in the detection and management of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in the Mountain West Cystic Fibrosis Consortium." BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621997.

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Objective: Cystic fibrosis (CF)-related diabetes (CFRD) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Improved detection and management may improve outcomes; however, actual practice falls short of published guidelines. We studied efforts to improve CFRD screening and management in the Mountain West CF Consortium (MWCFC). Research design and methods: This is a prospective observational cohort study evaluating quality improvement by accredited CF centers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah performed between 2002 and 2008. After Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, centers evaluated adherence with CF Foundation guidelines for CFRD. Each center developed and implemented quality improvement plans to improve both screening and management. Centers were reassessed 1 year later. Results: Initially, each CF center had low adherence with screening recommendations (26.5% of eligible patients) that did not improve during the study. However, patients with confirmed CFRD markedly increased (141 (12% of MWCFC patients) to 224 (17%), p<0.001), and with improved adherence to management guidelines, patients with CFRD had increased weight (56.8-58.9 kg, p<0.001), body mass index (21.1-21.4, p=0.003), and weight-for-age z-score (-1.42 to -0.84, p<0.001). Quality improvement methods were specific to the practice settings of each center but shared the common goal of adhering to CFRD care guidelines. 1 year after implementation, no center significantly differed from any other in level of adherence to guidelines. Conclusions: Improving adherence with CFRD care guidelines requires substantial effort and may be incompletely successful, particularly for CFRD screening, but the effort may significantly improve patient monitoring and clinically relevant outcomes such as weight.
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Murner, Cory James. "Main street evolved: envisioning a comprehensive approach to main street redevelopment in small mountain communities." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8563.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Blake M. Belanger
The main streets of the Rocky Mountain West are the social, economic, and cultural centers of their respective communities. Often, these main streets may deteriorate or become abandoned as a result of edge shopping malls and strip style economic development. Thus, a downtown or main street redevelopment effort by the community can help to ensure these economic centers remain. Yet, too often, the redevelopment efforts are oversimplified and fail to integrate the most current street development principles and design initiatives that can benefit not only the community but also the surrounding environment. I n the modern American city, almost half of all daily trips are less than three miles and a third are under one mile. (McCann 2010) “These are distances easily traversed by foot or bicycle, yet 65 percent of trips under one mile are made by automobile.” (McCann 2010) This mobility trend has led to the foundation of programs and organizations that try to promote non-motorized travel. Although these initiatives respond to the human/physical environment, they are far from comprehensive. Today, an integration of smart ecological ideals is essential. How can the revitalization efforts of Rocky Mountain communities be guided to ensure they consider not only the built environment; but also the natural environment? The face of the future main street will be multi-modal and ecologically responsible. Yet, there is presently no clear method of combining the two. A union of the multi-modal principles behind Complete Streets and the ecologically responsible ideals green infrastructure can provide a framework for a new and more inclusive redevelopment approach. The merging of modern ecological and street design principles can lead to a comprehensive Main Street redevelopment program and therefore successfully guide the revitalization efforts of small Rocky Mountain communities in a way that is responsive to future development needs as well as the cultural and ecological aspects of the region. Main Street Evolved will provide a set of tools to guide Colorado Rocky Mountain Main Street redevelopment efforts by providing strategies and implementation guidelines that focus on balancing multi-modal ideals and ecological stormwater management techniques within a small-town mountain context.
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Derenthal, Andrew D. "Sequence Stratigraphy of Basal Oquirrh Group Caronates (Bashkirian) Thorpe Hills, Lake Mountain, Wasatch Front, Utah." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2705.

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The Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian/Morrowan) Bridal Veil Limestone of north-central Utah was deposited in the eastern portion of the rapidly subsiding Oquirrh basin. The 420 meter-thick Bridal Veil Limestone displays distinct cyclicity formed by stacked, meter to decameter scale high-frequency sequences and their constituent parasequences. Though no one ideal cycle may be defined for the Bridal Veil Limestone, each high-frequency sequence and parasequence contains a general shallowing upward trend that ranges from anaerobic to dysaerobic mudstone at the base to skeletal wackestone to mud-dominated packstone, capped by heterozoan grain-rich carbonates or siliciclastic tidalites. Cycles bounded by exposure surfaces, indicated by micro-brecciation, rhizoliths, laminated calcite or silica crusts, rip-up clasts, centimeter-scale teepee structures, and/or pronounced erosional relief are termed high-frequency sequences. Those bounded by marine flooding surfaces are defined as parasequences. Thusly defined, the Bridal Veil Limestone is divided into 25 high-frequency sequences designated BVL-1 through BVL-25. Overall, two distinct sets of high-frequency sequences may be observed in the Bridal Veil Limestone. Sequences comprising the lower half of the formation (BVL-1 through BVL-12) are thicker, muddier, and less sand-prone than sequences in the upper half of the formation (BVL-13 through BVL-25), indicating an overall change in oxygenation, depositional texture, and accommodation upward in the section. Tracing of key beds and surfaces between the Thorpe Hills, Lake Mountain, and the Wasatch Range (spanning a distance greater than 50 miles) reveals that deposition was remarkably uniform across the southeastern part of the Oquirrh basin which we herein designate the Bridal Veil sub-basin and distinct from coeval formations in the southern Oquirrh basin, Ely basin, and Wyoming shelf. Mudstone and wackestone textures comprise a large portion of the formation by volume. Grain-rich carbonates are almost exclusively heterozoan in composition, indicating that the sub-basin was subphotic to aphotic through Early Pennsylvanian time.
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Brehm, Joan M. "Amenity Migration and Social Change: Expanding the Concept of Community Attachment and its Relationship to Dimensions of Well-Being in the Rural West." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4288.

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Most sociological analyses of community attachment have focused on the strength of attachment, with little concern for the qualities or attributes of a place to which people become attached. In cases where dimensions of attachment are the focus of analysis, the literature is rather narrowly focused on social dimensions, re ferring most often to connections with family, friends, and other social networks and largely ignoring the realm of natural environment factors. Two primary premises motivated this study. Fi rst, sociological understandi ngs of community attachment wou ld benefit from an expanded analytic framework that incorporates more complex arrays of both social and natural environment dimensions. Second, it is important to understand what variations in attachment may mean for the broader well-being of rural communities. Initial analyses of the data demonstrated four key results. First, factor analysis of fi fleen indicators of attachment produced two distinct dimensions of community attachment, social and natural environment. Second, the nature of the response patterns indicates that strength of natural environment attachment is widely shared amongst a variety of res idents, regardless of length of residence, historical roots to the area, or life cycle. Third, participation in collective action and perceptions of open communication (measures of well-being) within a respondent's community explained only a small portion of the variance in both social and natural environment attachment. Fourth, Structural Equation Modeling demonstrated that there is a causal relationship between attachment and community well-being, though that relationship appeared to be non-recursive. In contrast to much of the previous empirical work on community attachment, this research provides strong evidence of the natural environment dimension and provides justification for further research. This research provides one model to be considered and expanded upon in future research efforts in this area, and supports the need for further attention to the use of multiple dimensions of attachment and their associations with community well-being.
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Baldwin, Taylor Scott. "The Effect of Man on the Landscape and the Effect of Land on the Manscape: Or Contingent Plans for Knowing a Mountain." VCU Scholars Compass, 1988. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1353.

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In my artistic practice, I emphasize personal and pan-cultural anxieties regarding civilization and the environment as an impetus for work in sculpture, video, and drawing. By locating marginal microcosmic subject matter that tellingly exhibits macrocosmic global dread, I seek to capture and distill our overwhelming eco-socio-political anxiety into a portrait of a society at a point in its history when the specter of nameless impending disaster weighs pressingly on the collective psyche. This thesis is supplementary to my work of sculpture in the Graduate School of the Arts Thesis Exhibition at the Anderson Gallery opening on April 27th, 2007. The work was entitled Busted Butte Or the Evening Deadness in the West, and images of it are contained within the text. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2004.
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Klinka, Karel. "Estimated decrease in productivity for pacific silver fir as elevation increases." Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/667.

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When making decisions on which areas to harvest in a sustained yield, even-flow manner in mountainous areas such those in coastal British Columbia, it is important to know how timber productivity changes with elevation. This information allows foresters to decide at what elevation to start increasing the rotation age and to decide at what elevation sustainable harvesting becomes infeasible due to low productivity. Since Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis Dougl. ex Forbes) has an elevation range that extends from sea level nearly to the tree line (0 m to approximately 1,650 m; from the Coastal Western Hemlock zone, through the Mountain Hemlock zone; to the lower limits of the Alpine Tundra zone), productivity-elevation relationships are especially important. To acquire quantitative measures of productivity decrease with increasing elevation a regression equation relating site index (the height of the dominant trees at a base age of breast height age of 50 years) to elevation in southern coastal BC was developed. In turn, we used this regression as an input into the height driven yield model named the Variable Density Yield Prediction model (VDYP). The use of the VDYP model allows the site index values to be translated into actual productivity measures (e.g., volume per hectare, mean annual increment at culmination age).
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Shoore, David Joseph. "Sequence Stratigraphy of the Bridal Veil Falls Limestone, Carboniferous, Lower Oquirrh Group, on Cascade Mountain, Utah: A standard Morrowan Cyclostratigraphy for the Oquirrh Basin." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/290.

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The Bridal Veil Falls Limestone (lowest 400 meters of the Permo-Carboniferous Oquirrh Group) is well exposed on the flanks of Cascade Mountain (Wasatch Front and adjacent mountain ranges) near Provo, Utah. Because of its excellent exposure and location in the heart of the Oquirrh depocenter, this area was selected to develop a sequence stratigraphic framework for Morrowan rocks that may be applied throughout the Oquirrh basin (NW Utah and southern Idaho) as well as the adjacent Ely and Bird Springs troughs. Eleven partial to complete sections of the Bridal Veil Falls Limestone were measured along the west and north flanks of Cascade Mountain and the south end of Mt. Timpanogos. There the limestone is comprised principally of mud-rich carbonate lithofacies punctuated by thin, and sometimes discontinuous quartzose sandstone beds. The predominance of muddy to grain-rich heterozoan limestone microfacies suggests deposition on a west-dipping low energy carbonate ramp that prograded westward throughout Morrowan time. Sandstones reflect transport of siliciclastics from the incipient Weber shelf (located to the NE) during episodes of sea-level lowstand. The Bridal Veil Falls Limestone is subdivided into 21, third and fourth order depositional sequences ranging in thickness from 3 to 60 meters, and 62 parasequences. Parasequences are commonly asymmetrical, reflecting rapid flooding followed by protracted shoaling and/or sea level drop. Selected cycles are recognized in the Lake Mountains, Thorpe Hills, and the southern Oquirrh Mountains to the west of Cascade Mountain indicating that Parasequences delineated at Cascade Mountain are regionally extensive over an area of at least 300 square kilometers.
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Mongar, Sonja. "The Bear Went Over the Mountain." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2004. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/76.

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"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a memoir that marks the people, events, landscape, and era that shapes a women's identity as she journeys from adolescence to adulthood. The story evolves through accretion with the use of a variety of writing strategies such as third person limited omniscient narrator, auto-fiction, mosaic, and disrupted narrative. Other conventions of Creative Non-fiction are used such as dialogue, characterization and plot. Autotopography (photographs) are used to create a motif of ancestral ghosts. They haunt the lives of these characters as they act and react to plots that began long before they were born. An ancestral photograph is placed with the date of the story at the beginning of each section. The mismatching photograph and date is intended to show how these fierce personalities, long dead, have carved their presence into the lives and fates of these characters.
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Yuan, Chao, and 袁超. "Magmatism and tectonic evolution of the West Kunlun Mountains." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29815162.

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Klinka, Karel. "Pacific silver fir site index in relation to ecological measures of site quality." Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/662.

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Ecosystem-specific forest management requires comprehension of tree species productivity in managed settings, and how this productivity varies with the ecological determinants of site quality, i.e., the environmental factors that directly affect the growth of plants: light, heat, soil moisture, soil nutrients, and soil aeration. A good understanding of this variation is necessary for making species- and site-specific silvicultural decisions to maximize productivity. Productivity of a given species is usually measured by site index (tree height at 50 years at breast height age). Quantitative relationships between site index and these measures of site quality provide predictive models for estimating site index. Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis (Dougl. ex Loud.) Forbes) is an important timber crop species in the coastal forests of British Columbia. In relation to climate, its range in southwestern British Columbia extends from sea level to almost timberline, and from the hypermaritime region on western Vancouver Island to the subcontinental region on the leeward side of the Coast Mountains. In relation to soils, its range extends from slightly dry to wet sites and from very poor to very rich sites. In view of this relatively wide climatic amplitude, a large variability in productivity can be expected. It is particularly important to consider the growth performance of Pacific silver fir when decisions are made regarding whether or not to cut stands on high-elevation sites. In the study summarized here, relationships between Pacific silver fir site index and selected ecological measures of site quality were examined, and site index models using these measures as predictors were developed.
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Klinka, Karel, Pal Varga, and Christine Chourmouzis. "Towards a quantitative classification of soil nutrient regimes in British Columbia : comparison of regional studies." Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/764.

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The three major components in the site classification of the biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification system are: climatic regimes, soil moisture regimes (SMRs) and soil nutrient regimes (SNRs). Both SMRs and SNRs can be identified in the field using soil characteristics and indicator plants. In the case of SMRs a quantitative classification was also developed that allow comparison of SMRs in different subzones. However, similar quantitative classification has not yet been developed for SNRs. This pamphlet summarizes and compares the results of several regional studies conducted in different biogeclimatic zones. Each of theses studies aimes to develop a quantitative SNR classification (Table 1). The comparison will examine: (1) how well the field-based classification matches quantitative classification, and (2) which direct measures distinguish best between field-identified SNRs.
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Halperin, James J. "Reforestation planning in the West Usambara Mountains of Tanzania." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12182002-111412/.

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Hyde, Lucia K. "Magic in the mountains: selected writings on people and places in West Virginia." Thesis, Boston University, 1999. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27679.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Allen, George B. "Economic Geology of the Big Horn Mountains of West-Central Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244099.

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The Big Horn Mountains are a geologically complex range that extends over 500 square km in west-central Arizona. Three major lithologic terranes outcrop: (1) Proterozoic amphibolite, phyllite, schists, gneiss, and granite; (2) Mesozoic monzonite to diorite intrusives; and (3) Cenozoic mafic to silicic volcanic rocks and clastic rocks. The entire area is in the upper plate of a detachment fault and, consequently, contains many low- to high-angle normal faults. Each lithologic terrane has its associated mineral occurrences. The Big Horn district is exclusively hosted in the pre- Tertiary terrane. Most of its mineral occurrences are spatially related to the Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks. One occurrence, the Pump Mine, may be a metamorphic secretion deposit, and therefore, would be middle Proterozoic. The vast majority of the mineral occurrences in the Big Horn Mountains are middle Tertiary in age and occur in three districts: the Tiger Wash barite - fluorite district; the Aguila manganese district; and the Osborne base and precious metal district. Fluid inclusions from Tiger Wash fluorite (T(h) 120 to 210° C, NaCl wt. equivalent 17 to 18 percent not corrected for CO₂) and nearby detachment - fault- hosted Harquahala district fluorite (T(h) 150 to 230° C., NaC1 wt. equivalent 15.5 to 20 percent not corrected for CO₂) suggest cooling and dilution of fluids as they are presumed to evolve from the detachment fault into the upper plate. Mass-balance calculations suggest that the proposed evolution of fluids is sufficient to account for the observed tonnage of barite and fluorite. The Tiger Wash occurrences grade directly into calcite- gangue-dominated manganese oxides of the Aguila district. A wide range of homogenization temperatures (T(h) 200 to 370° C.), an absence of CO₂ and low salinities (NaC1 wt. equivalent 1 to 2 percent) in the Aguila district calcite-hosted fluid inclusions argue for distillation of fluids during boiling or boiling of non saline-meteoric waters. Mass - balance calculations modeling the evolution of Ca and Mn during potassium metasomatism of plagioclase in basalt suggest that little if any influx of these cations is necessary to form the calcite –dominated manganese oxide tonnage observed. The Aguila district grades directly to the east into the base-metal and precious-metal occurrences of the Osborne district. Preliminary data describing geological settings, fluid inclusions, and geochemistry suggest that the Osborne district has a continuum between gold-rich to silver-rich epithermal occurrences. The gold-rich systems have dominantly quartz gangue, with or without fluorite, and are hosted in a variety of rocks, but are proximal to Precambrian phyllite or mid-Tertiary rhyolite. Fluid inclusions from two occurrences representative of the gold -rich systems spread across a minor range (T(h) 190 to 230° C., NaC1 wt. equivalent 17 to 23 percent not corrected for CO₂). Dilution of highly saline fluids is the inferred mechanism for precipitation of gold in the gold-quartz systems. The silver-rich systems have dominantly calcite gangue with or without quartz, and are hosted in mid-Tertiary basalt. Calcite fluid inclusions from a representative high-silver occurrence display a wide range of homogenization temperatures and salinities (T(h) 120 to 370° C., NaC1 wt. equivalent 7 to 23 percent). Boiling and consequent neutralization of acidic solutions is the inferred mechanism for the silver-rich, calcite gangue systems. A model inferring a regional fluid-flow regime and local sources of metals is proposed. Four possible regional and local causes of fluid flow in upper-plate detachment regimes are proposed: (1) regional elevation of geothermal gradients as a result of middle-crustal, lower-plate rocks rising to upper crustal levels; (2) meteoric water recharge along the southeast flank of the Harquahala antiform and consequent displacement of connate waters in the upper-plate of the Big Horn Mountains; (3) local emplacement of feeder stocks to rhyolitic flows; (4) and tilting of major upper-plate structural blocks.
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Hamilton, Doann M. "Sediment Yield Analysis of Reservoir #1, Bull Run Watershed, West Cascade Mountains, Oregon." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4838.

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Bull Run Watershed was set aside in late the 1800s as the water supply source for the City of Portland. Other than two dams being constructed, Reservoir #1 (1929) and Reservoir #2 (1962), development of the land had been minimal as public access was restricted. In the early 1960s, land management changed with increased road building and timber removal raising concerns about increased sediment discharge into the reservoirs. The objective of this study is to evaluate how much and how fast the sediment has accumulated in Reservoir #1, and to determine if the rate of sediment accumulation has changed over time. Three methods are utilized: 1) differencing map comparing pre- and postimpoundment sediment conditions, 2) analysis of tree-stumps on reservoir floor, and 3) gravity coring of reservoir sediment. Combining these methods, sediment volume is estimated between 254,000-422,000 cubic meters (332,000-552,000 cubic yards) and the rate of accumulation between 11.5-19.1 tonnes/km2/yr, reflecting a relatively low sediment yield rate. Two anomalous event-layers were identified in gravity cores collected. These are interpreted to be the 1964 flood and the 1972 North Fork Slide. Using these two events, sediment yield rate was divided into different historical segments: 15.33 (1930-1965); 43.62 (1965-1972); and 17.00 tonnes/km2/yr (1972-1993). The increase from 1965-1972 is attributed to either residual affects from the 1964 flood and/or changes in land management activities during this time. The source of the reservoir sediment is primarily from upper tributaries, with 20 percent being attributed to the anomalous events. Smaller amounts of sediment come from the reservoir side walls as lake levels raise and lower. Suspension and turbidity conditions in the reservoir are affected by the dynamics of the drainage system including seasonal fluctuations. Turbidity remains high at the upper reaches of the reservoir before settling out closer to the dam. Some sediment possibly leaves the reservoir over the spill-way or when water is removed for power production.
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Duty, Tyler. "Renewal in the Mountains: Revitalization of Neglected Surface Mines and Coal Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592171575996227.

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Demerse, Deirdre K. "Sinsistral high strain in the Coast Mountains near Bella Coola, West Central British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2465.

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The Bella Coola area geographically straddles two zones of known Early to mid-Cretaceous sinistral ductile strain; the Grenville, Kitkatla, and Principe-Laredo shear zones to the northwest located near Prince Rupert, B.C., and the Tchaikazan fault system to the southeast. At the latitude of Bella Coola in west-central B.C., the Pootlass High Strain Zone (PHSZ) is a ductile, subvertical, shear zone system at least 2 km wide and at least 30 km long. The purpose of this study is to determine the age, kinematics, and tectonic significance of the PHSZ, and to investigate whether or not it was active as a kinematic link to Early to mid-Cretaceous sinistral ductile strain zones in the western Canadian Cordillera. This thesis reports recent observations from field mapping and new geochronological, microstructural, and petrological data, from which the PHSZ is characterized and placed into a regional tectonic framework. U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar isotopic geochronology indicate that regionally extensive, southwest-vergent folding in the PHSZ area was active prior to 114 Ma and persisted until at least 73 Ma. High-temperature, ductile, sinistral non-coaxial strain in the PHSZ was accommodated between 76 (or earlier) and 62 Ma. Localization of high strain is associated with the emplacement of plutonic rock and abundant intrusive sills, which likely acted as a strain-softening mechanism. L-tectonites within the deformed plutonic rocks attest to the weakness of the rocks during deformation and support syn-kinematic magmatism. Geothermometric and petrological data suggest that deformation occurred at temperatures of 537 to 731°C and at crustal depths of —23 km. The PHSZ is interpreted to be kinematically related to the Talchako Fault to the east, which was active as a sinistral mylonitic shear zone between 70 and 65 Ma. A kinematic relationship between the PHSZ and the Grenville, Kitkatla and Principe-Laredo shear zones near Prince Rupert imply a protracted history of sinistral transpression in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia that persisted in the Bella Coola region through Late Cretaceous time.
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Langmaid, Kimberly Ford. "Seeing Shifts: Ecologists' Lived Experiences of Climate Change in Mountains of the American West." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2009. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1244125357.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Antioch University New England, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 7, 2009). "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England (2009)."--The title page. Advisor: Mitchell Thomashow, Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-196).
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Tanbal, Khalid Mohamed 1958. "A gravity survey over late Quaternary fault scarps west of the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558063.

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Beymer, Betsy Anne. "Women's views on the political ecology of fuelwood use in the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1121958339.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Geography, 2005.
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Strickland, Evan. "Geology of the Footwall of the Northern Plomosa Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, West-Central Arizona." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10640375.

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The northern Plomosa Mountains is a N-S trending range in the lower Colorado River Extensional Corridor, west-central Arizona—a region which hosts several highly extended terrains known as metamorphic core complexes. Metamorphic core complexes are characterized by low-angle normal faults (detachment faults) which have accommodated tens of kilometers of extension, and juxtapose a brittlely-deformed hanging wall against a ductilely-deformed footwall. The primary structural feature of the northern Plomosa Mountains is the Plomosa detachment fault, a gently-dipping low-angle normal fault. Though 1:24,000 scale geologic mapping had previously been conducted in the northern Plomosa Mountains, little work had been done in the metamorphic footwall of the Plomosa detachment fault, which was the focus of this study.

New 1:10,000-scale geologic mapping, structural and microstructural analysis, and U-Pb zircon geochronology reveals that the footwall of the Plomosa detachment fault is dominated by early Miocene mylonitic fabrics associated with detachment faulting, demonstrating that the northern Plomosa Mountains is a metamorphic core complex similar to adjacent core complexes in the region. Three mylonitic units dominate the footwall of the Plomosa Mountains core complex: 1) Orocopia Schist, 2) an early Miocene intrusive complex, and 3) gneiss. The quartzofeldspathic Orocopia Schist encompasses 10.5 km2 of the northern Plomosa Mountains, and locally contains graphitic plagioclase porphyroblasts, and coarse-grained green actinolite pods 0.2–1.5 m wide are scattered throughout the Orocopia Schist. These pods are high in Mg, Cr, and Ni, strongly suggesting derivation from an ultramafic protolith. A laterally continuous unit of amphibolite (~3.5 km long, 10–150 m thick), interpreted as Orocopia metabasalt, is localized along a moderately SE-dipping contact between the Orocopia Schist and the gneiss, and contains metachert layers 3–30 cm thick. L>S mylonitic fabrics are common throughout the Orocopia Schist and gneiss, and a zone of L-tectonites is localized along their contact. The Miocene intrusive complex, which is dominated by biotite granodiorite and hornblende diorite, parallels the detachment fault along its eastern margin, and the gneiss is corrugated about a NE-trending subhorizontal axis.

Mylonitic fabrics have systematic NE-SW-trending lineations (average T/P = [220/09]), and record top-to-the-NE shear. The Plomosa detachment fault defines a broad NE-trending corrugation parallel to its slip direction, and on average dips ~12° to the NE. NW-striking normal faults, joints, and dikes throughout the footwall record NE-SW extension consistent with that of the mylonitic fabrics, indicating there was no change in extension direction between the ductile and brittle regimes. Dynamically recrystallized quartz grain sizes and mechanisms suggest the gneiss and the Orocopia Schist underwent amphibolite-facies mylonitization, locally with evidence of overprinting by upper- to middle-greenschist-facies mylonitization, whereas the Miocene intrusive complex dominantly records upper- to middle-greenschist-facies mylonitization. Based on the geometry and deformation conditions of footwall fabrics, three separate mylonitic shear zones were identified: I) A pre-Miocene, originally moderately NE-dipping (~50°) normal-sense shear zone which deformed the corrugated gneiss. II) An originally shallowly NE-dipping (~25°) normal-displacement Miocene shear zone, active before initiation of the detachment fault, and which primarily deformed the Orocopia Schist and Miocene intrusive complex. III) A detachment-subparallel Miocene shear zone that deformed rocks adjacent to the Plomosa detachment fault. The Miocene intrusive complex was mylonitized prior to exhumation by the Plomosa detachment fault, suggesting that magmatism slightly predated or was coeval with initiation of detachment faulting.

U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Orocopia Schist reveals an abrupt drop-off of Th/U ratios > 0.1 at 68–70 Ma, which demarcates the maximum depositional age of the Schist. A high density of Th/U ratios < 0.1 between 75–50 Ma zircons record metamorphism of the Schist after it was subducted. Xenocrystic zircons in the Miocene intrusive complex have an identical distribution of ages and Th/U ratios as the Orocopia Schist, indicating that the Schist was melted or assimilated during early Miocene plutonism. The early Miocene pre-detachment paleo-depth of the top of the Orocopia Schist is 3–4 km, suggesting a Paleogene exhumation event brought the Schist to upper-crustal depths after it was subducted beneath the crust.

Late-stage dextral and sinistral faults strike N and ENE, respectively, and associated barite and carbonate veins strike NE. These faults locally cut moderately-consolidated colluvium, and veins cut NW-striking joints and faults associated with detachment faulting. Together these structures record a minor phase of WNW-ESE extension, which is attributed to regional post-middle Miocene dextral faulting, with the northern Plomosa Mountains having occupied a transtensional step.

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Gibson, R. G. "Structural studies in a Proterozoic gneiss complex and adjacent cover rocks, west Needle Mountains, Colorado." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76096.

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Proterozoic rocks in the Needle Mountains include ca. 1750 Ma amphibolite-grade, metavolcanic and metaplutonic gneisses and ca. 1690 Ma granitoids that comprise the basement to the siliciclastic Uncompahgre Group. The mafic and felsic gneisses underwent synkinematic metamorphism and two phases of isoclinal folding and foliation development during DB, prior to emplacement of the ca. 1690 Ma plutons. DBC deformation caused folding of DB fabrics in the gneisses, development of a subvertical, east-striking foliation in the granitoids, and generation of a macroscopic sigmoidal foliation pattern throughout the area prior to 1430 Ma. DBC structures in the basement are correlated with macroscopic structures in the Uncompahgre Group, which was deformed into an east-trending cuspate synclinorium during this event. Gently plunging mineral lineations and asymmetric kinematic indicators in the basement record a component of dextral strike-slip shearing in domains of east-striking foliation and sinistral shearing in areas of northeast-striking foliation. A model for DBC involving the development of conjugate strike-slip shear zones in response to north-northwest shortening is most consistent with the kinematic and fabric orientation data. A zone of phyllite, derived largely from basement, occurs everywhere along the basement-cover contact. Kinematic indicators along and near the contact record upward movement of the cover relative to the basement on each side of the synclinorium and imply that the cover rocks are parautochthonous. Stratigraphic facing of the cover rocks away from the basement supports the interpretation of this contact as an unconformity at the base of the Uncompahgre Group. Alteration of the basement rocks along this contact involved hydration and the loss of CaO, MgO, SiO₂, and Na₂O. The phyllite zone is interpreted as a metamorphosed and deformed regolith that localized out-of-synform movement while the basement and its parautochthonous cover were folded together during DBC. Rocks in the Needle Mountains comprise part of the Colorado Province, one of several terranes that were possibly accreted to the Archean Wyoming Craton during the Proterozoic. Age constraints on the timing of deformation indicate that DB and DBC are representative of two regionally extensive deformational episodes. Pre-1700 Ma deformation is attributed to the assembly of volcanogenic terranes and their accretion to the Wyoming Craton along the Cheyenne Belt. Post-1700 Ma deformation resulted from regional north-northwest crustal shortening induced by tectonic interactions along the southern margin of the Colorado Province. These results support the hypothesis that terrane accretion was important in the Proterozoic crustal evolution of southwestern North America.
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Sollish, David S. "Musical Theatre in the Mountains: An Examination of West Virginia Public Theatre's History, Mission, Practices, and Community Impact." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276802020.

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Gottfried, Gerald J., Peter F. Ffolliott, and Malchus B. Jr Baker. "Snowpack Dynamics on a Santa Catalina Mountain watershed During a Wet Winter." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296490.

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Schneider, Loren P. "The Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation in the Drum Mountains of West Central Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2000. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6786.

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The majority of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation in the Drum Mountains was deposited during a single 3rd order sequence. Superimposed onto this sequence are three indistinct 4th order cycles and twenty distinct 5th order cycles. These higher other cycles were likely deposited within short intervals of geologic time (204 to 405 ky). The lower sequence boundary zone occurs within the Swasey Formation. The Transgressive Surface is the contact between the Swaset and Wheeler Formations. The Maximum Flooding Surface is located near the top of the lower Wheeler Formation, which also approximates the base of the Ptychagnostus atavus range zone. The upper sequence boundary is marked by stromatolites, which occur near the top of the upper member of the Wheeler Formation in the Drum Mountains. Deposition of the Wheeler Formation in the Drum Mountains was controlled by eustacy and tectonics. Local normal faulting associated with Middle Cambrian postrifting thermal subsidence may have caused some of the 5th order cycles. The cycles and surfaces defined in this stratigraphic analysis, and the base of the Ptychagnostus atavus and P. gibbus range-zones, can be used to correlate strata occurring in other localities in the eastern Great Basin. In addition, this study enables the evaluation of the effect of tectonics (faulting) versus global eustacy on the sedimentary regime occurring within the Middle Cambrian House Range Embayment. (95 pages)
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