Free Online Volumes 36-40

For the past 37 years the BYU Geology Studies has published results of geological research conducted by geology graduate students, faculty and other geologists. All publications up until the year 2000 (Volumes 1 – 43) can be obtained online free of charge.  To obtain a hard copy, please contact the department’s main office. This can be mailed to you for the cost of postage only.

Volume 36 – 1990
Download The Crystal Structure of Hummerite, with Comments on the Crystallochemical Stability of the Decavanadate Isopolyanion – Dana T. Griffen

Download The Permian Reefs of South China and Comparisons with the Permian Reef Complex of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico – Fan Jiason, J. Keith Rigby, and Qu Jingwen

Download A Rhynchotherium Skull and Mandible from Southeastern Arizona – Wade Miller

Download Geology of the Sand Arroyo and Bug Creek Quadrangles, McCone County, Montana – J. Keith Rigby and J. Keith Rigby, Jr.

Download Depositional History and Paleogeograpjy of the Early to Late Triassic Ankareh Formation, Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah – Richard T. Brandley

Download Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation in the Gunlock Area, Washington County, Utah – Dru R. Nielson

Volume 37 – 1991
Download Theropods of Dry Mesa Quarry (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic), Colorado, with Emphasis on the Osteology of Torvosaurus tanneri – Brooks B. Britt

Download Projectile Impact-Structures (A New Type of Sedimentary Structure) – Jess R. Bushman

Download Conodont Faunas of the Lower Siphonodella crenulata Zone (Lower Mississippian) of Central and Northern Utah – David C. Larsen

Download Depositional Environments of a Wolfcampian Section of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Oquirrh Formation, Spanish Fork Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah – Mark S. McCutcheon, Lance Hess, and J. Keith Rigby

Download Carbonate Microfacies and Related Conodont Biofacies, Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Boundary Strata, Granite Mountain, West Central Utah – Jared R. Morrow and Gary D. Webster

Download Conodont-based Revision of Upper Devonian-Lower Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy in the Lake Mead Region of Northwestern Arizona and Southeastern Nevada – Scott M. Ritter

Download Isotopic Ages of Igneous Intrusions in Southeastern Utah: Evidence for a Mid-Cenozoic Reno-San Juan Magmatic Zone – Sullivan, Kowallis, Mehnert

Volume 38 – 1992 (Cumulative Index)
Download Volumes 1-37, 1954 – 1991

Volume 39 – 1993
Download The Lower Ordovician sponges of San Juan, Argentina – Matilde S. Beresi and J. Keith Rigby

Download The first record of Ichthyosaurs from Utah – Daniel J. Chure

Download The Lower Ordovician Fillmore Formation of Western Utah: Storm-dominated Sedimentation on a Passive Margin – Benjamin F. Dattilo

Download Hexactinellid Sponges from the Silurian-Devonian Roberts Mountains Formation in Nevada and Hypotheses of Hexactine-Stauractine Origin – Dorte Mehl, J. Keith Rigby, and Scott R. Holmes

Volume 40 – 1994
Download Preliminary Investigation of the Geology of the Northern San Miguel Allende Area, Northeastern Guanajuato, Mexico – Oscar Carranza-Castaneda, Morris S. Peterson, and Wade E. Miller

Download Koparion douglassi, a New Dinosaur from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National Monument; The Oldest Troodontid (Theropoda: Maniraptora) – Daniel J. Chure

Download Upper Carboniferous Phylloid Algal Mounds in Southern Guizhou, China – Fan Jiasong and J. Keith Rigby

Download North America’s First Pre-Cretaceous Ankylosaur (Dinosauria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Western Colorado – James I. Kirkland and Kenneth Carpenter

Download Sphinctozoan and Inozoan Sponges from the Permian Reefs of South China – J. Keith Rigby, Fan Jiasong, Zhang Wei, Wang Shenghai, and Zhang Xiaolin

Download Middle Devonian Sponges from the Northern Simpson Park Range, Nevada – J. Keith Rigby and Dorte Mehl

Download The Permian Reefs in Ziyun County, Southern Guizhou, China – Wang Shenghai, Fan Jiasong, and J. Keith Rigby

Download Geology and Geochemistry of the Golden Butte Mine- A Small Carlin-Type Gold Deposit in Eastern Nevada – David J. Wilson, Eric H. Christiansen, and David G. Tingey