Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Schmitz, W. Darrel

Committee Member

Dockery III, David T.

Committee Member

Rodgers III, John C.

Date of Degree

8-12-2016

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Geology

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Geosciences

Abstract

This research has been conducted in Vicksburg Mississippi within the Vicksburg National Military Park and surrounding areas, to produce four 7.5 minute geologic maps of the area. The park service prioritized the delineation of geologic resources within the Military Park, which was achieved throughout geologic mapping. This project provides new geologic mapping to the Park by updating and integrating existing floodplain maps with new bedrock and surficial mapping within the four 7.5 min quadrangles. The objectives were to meet the mandates of the National Park Service and provide new geologic mapping to Vicksburg National Military Park as well as verify existing maps of the floodplain, within the time line of August 2014-May 2016. The resulting maps contribute to improve the understating of the geology within the Military Park, as well as provide insight to historical understanding, and engineering purposes such mining and mitigation of slope failure.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/18343

Comments

cross section||National Park Service||Vicksburg West||Vicksburg East||Park Service||Long Lake||Redwood||Mississippi||Vicksburg National Military Park||Vicksburg||Mapping||Geology||Geologic Mapping||VNMP

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