Randy Marrett doing field work in the Central Andes of Chile below the volcano known as Volcán Chiliques. Marrett is walking along a ridge bounded by the Nacimiento fault. The goal of the field work was to study interactions between deformation and magmatism along the volcanic arc of the Central Andes. Photo by Austin Baldwin.
Randy Marrett conducts an outdoor class in Big Belt, Wyoming for Summer Field Camp.
Ned Frost (Ph.D. candidate) acquiring LiDAR data from the Upper Devonian carbonate platform margin exposures of Western Australia’s Windjana Gorge. Frost is one of two doctoral students with the Bureau of Economic Geology's Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory working on projects in the Canning Basin under the supervision of Charles Kerans.
Ian Dalziel completes the installation of a GPS station in East Antarctica as part of the WAGN network of stations. Data from the stations will be used to measure crustal motions of the bedrock underlying and surrounding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Recumbent sheath folds in the southern salt glacier of Kuh-e-Namak (Dashti) in the Zagros foreland of southwestern Iran. Photo by Martin Jackson of the Bureau of Economic Geology taken during research conducted at the invitation of the Geological Survey of Iran.
North side of Ross Island, Antarctica, photographed during December 2004 for the AGASEA project. The volcano in the distance is Mt. Terror and the structure in the foreground is an ice-penetrating radar antenna mounted under the wing of the Institute for Geophysics' aerogeophysical survey aircraft. The plane is crossing the edge of iceberg B-15A, a 160 km x 40 km piece that separated from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2001 blocking shipping lanes to McMurdo Station, the primary U.S. research base in Antarctica. Photo by Jack Holt.
Students during Summer Field Camp examining an overturned fold in the Silver Hills Formation, Hecla, Montana. Photo by Mark Helper.
Students in the Jackson School outreach program GeoFORCE Texas standing on top of Mt. Bonnell in Austin. GeoFORCE's Summer Academies are starting to fill the industry need for geoscientists by offering outstanding students from Southwest Texas the chance to take summer prep courses and go on geoology field trips around the nation with the goal of inspiring them to pursue geoscience careers.
View of seismic streamer and bubbles from GI-airguns (foreground) and glacier-carved landscape (background), taken during one of the Institute for Geophysics' high-resolution seismic surveys in Lisianski Inlet, Alaska, in 2004. Photo by Sean Gulick.
View of the Muir Glacier taken during the Institute for Geophysics' Alaska EW0408 cruise in 2004. The glacier has receded 100 km in 300 years, contributing along with other glaciers within the park to 8 mm of global sea level rise. Photo by Sean Gulick.
View of the the Hubbard Glacier taken during UTIG's Alaska EW0408 cruise in 2004. The glacier is 100 m high at its terminus (shown) and every few decades it reaches Gilbert Point (shown in photo) causing ice damming and eventual floods down the bay threatening the town of Yakutat, Alaska. Photo by Sean Gulick.
Undergraduate student Cristen Guest examines the polish on facets of a partially completed quartz gemstone.
Jackson School students find many of their study materials in the Walter Geology Library that presently includes more than 120,000 book and journal volumes and 47,000 geologic maps, among them the publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, most state geological surveys, and many foreign surveys.
Basaltic float from an igneous megaclast brought to the surface by an Eocene salt diapir, surrounded by Miocene, distal red beds in the foredeep of the Alborz mountain range, Great Kavir, northern Iran. Photo by Martin Jackson.
LiDAR image taken by Bureau of Economic Geology staff showing the Choluteca River in southern Honduras where river channel morphology changed dramatically during flooding from Hurricane Mitch (1998), causing a newly constructed bridge to be washed out. Bureau surveys were vital to recovery after Mitch and preparation for future Hurricanes in Honduras.
Deep slope canyon in offshore eastern Trinidad. Mapped using 3D seismic data and Landmark software tools. These canyons are Quaternary in age and their presence is controlled by transpressive faulting patterns along the Caribbean-South American plate margin. Canyons are the point-source for sediments deposited as mass transport complexes and submarine channel levee system in the deep water regions. Image is property of the Quantitative Clastic Laboratory, an Industrial Associates program at The Bureau Of Economic Geology.
Bureau of Economic Geology staff and members of a delegation from Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico's national petroleum company, in front of the famous El Capitan in the Guadalupe Mountains.
Architect’s rendering of new building to house the Institute for Geophysics and the Texas Advanced Computing Center, connected to the current Bureau of Economic Geology building (left) at the University's Pickle Research Campus.
3-D VRML model of the Edwards aquifer created by Sue Hovorka of the Bureau of Economic Geology.
Deep-marine debris flows imaged in 3-D seismic data using Landmark’s GeoProbe® software. Images were built by Lorena Moscardelli (Ph.D. candidate) as part of her research with the Bureau of Economic Geology's Quantitative Clastic Laboratory on the processes and deposits of catastrophic continental margins. Landmark Graphics Corporation supported the work through the Landmark University Grant Program.
Research staff recovering an Institute for Geophysics ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) during the EW0305 Hess Deep cruise in 2003. Photo by Gail Christeson.
Representatives of 14 countries attended the Jackson School's inaugural Latin American Forum on Revitalizing Partnerships in Energy and the Environment, including eight Latin American ministers and agency directors of the environment, nine ministers and agency directors of energy, policy experts, research scientists, and executives from major energy firms throughout the region.
John Briceño, Belize's deputy prime minister and minster of natural resources, with Larry Faulkner, president of The University of Texas at Austin, during Jackson School's inaugural Latin American Forum on Revitalizing Partnerships in Energy and the Environment.
Converging valley glaciers streaming off an ice cap of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic, photographed by Martin Jackson of the Bureau of Economic Geology during a research trip to Arctic Canada for the auspices of the Geological Survey of Canada.
Extent of the Deep Shelf exploration play in the Gulf of Mexico (thin orange line). The Bureau of Economic Geology has a team sponsored by 12 oil companies doing research in the Texas State Lands portion of this play. Companies are identifying prospects at 20,000 feet and deeper. PI's are Bob Loucks and Shirley Dutton. The pink areas along the Texas Coast show the extent of the proposed project. Adapted from a graphic by the Minerals Management Service.
Researchers and members of the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory, an Industrial Associates program at the Bureau of Economic Geology, conducted field studies of shelf-edge deltaic deposits in onshore Trinidad, West Indies, in March 2005. Photo by Lesli Wood.
Shaded relief image of digital elevation model of a study area along the Gulf Coast, created by researchers in the Bureau of Economic Geology's Coastal Studies Group.
Public citizens surveying the Edwards Limestone Barton Creek outcrop as part of the Bureau of Economic Geology's Decisionmaker Conference in 2004.
For its aerogeophysical work in Antarctica, UTIG researchers use a ski-equipped, DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft. Basic data from the instrumentation suite yields profiles of ice thickness, ice-surface elevation, free-air gravity, and magnetic field intensity. Researchers are able to create two-dimensional images of geophysical and geomorphologic characteristics of the area surveyed from profiles collected over dense grids. These images allow them to define both critical ice-dynamic regimes and their underlying geologic provinces.
Chris Talbot (Uppsala University) strides towards Kuh-e-Namak, an emergent and actively extruding salt diapir (far horizon), probably the highest and most beautiful salt mountain in the world. In the middle distance are Miocene carbonates forming the collar of the evaporate diapir. Dashti Province, Zagros Mountains, southwestern Iran. Photo by Martin Jackson.
Photograph and LiDAR point cloud data of an exposure of the Ross Sandstone at Loop Head Peninsula, County Clare, Ireland. The cliff is about 40 meters tall. The Ross Sandstone is one of the many submarine-fan outcrops that the Bureau of Economic Geology program Laser Assisted Analogs to Siliciclastic Reservoirs Industrial Associate (LASR) is studying. David Pyles is principal investigator of LASR.
The late John A. "Jack" Jackson with a photo of his late wife, Katie, at his side—she was never far from his heart. Photo by Dick Clintsman. Courtesy of Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation.
Summer Field Camp 2004: Group photo at Signal Mountain, Grant Teton National Park, summer 2004. Photo by Neil Jones.
International group at Damavand, Asia's highest volcano (18,602 feet, 5670 m), in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. From left to right: Mr. Momeni, P. Aftabi, J. Cosgrove, C. Talbot, A. Bahroudi, H. Koyi, A. Ghassemi, M. Jackson.
William Maurice Ewing (1906–1974), a native Texan and one of the world’s greatest geophysical innovators, was founding director of both the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and the division that became the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin. Source: Library of Congress.
The Bureau of Economic Geology's core room at the Houston Research Center.
Students in Jack Sharp's hydrogeology field methods class at Padre Island National Seashore. The course looks at ground water resources and covers geophysical surveys, coring, and hydrochemical testing.
Converging valley glaciers streaming off the ice cap of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic, photographed by Martin Jackson of the Bureau of Economic Geology during a research trip to Arctic Canada for the Geological Survey of Canada.
