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Scott D. Elrick
Scott D. Elrick
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Coal, Bedrock Geology & Industrial Minerals
429 Natural Resources Building
615 E. Peabody Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-3222
elrick@illinois.edu
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Vita
Education:
B.S. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.S. University of California, Riverside
Major Responsibilities:
Oversee research and operations of the Coal, Bedrock Geology, and Industrial Minerals Section
Provide oversight to ISGS Wikis and geologic data webservices:
ILSTRAT
,
ILMINES
,
ILMINES_Wiki
,and
ILSTRUC
Coal and aggregate mine visits, coal mine geology, stratigraphic assistance to coal and aggregate companies and petroleum industry
Provide oversight to the ISGS samples library, and
Tom L. Phillips Coal Ball Collection
Research Interests:
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoclimate, paleobotany, coal balls, and depositional history of the Pennsylvanian period and Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Geologic History of the Illinois Basin
Rare Earth Minerals in the Illinois Basin
Coal geology, coal resources, coal mine mining, coal mine disturbances, and mining history of Illinois
Digital archiving, online geologic data Wikis, data transferral, and development of public access portals to geologic information
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