Detection of buried basement highs by airphoto drainage pattern analysis, Reynolds and Wayne counties, Missouri

Author

Papken Aram Zarzavatjian

Abstract

"Purpose and Scope: The purpose of this study is to determine if it is possible to detect buried Precambrian igneous hills in Wayne County and the larger part of Reynolds County in southeast Missouri by the use of aerial photo drainage pattern analysis.

The St. Francis Mountains are located in southeast Missouri. They form a part of the Precambrian basement complex, and have been exposed at the surface by the erosion of the lower Paleozoic sediments which covered them. Some of the hills which make up the St. Francis Mountains are exposed to a great degree, while others still have their greater bulk concealed by the sediments. It would be expected that there are hills still completely buried under the sediments. To detect those buried hills in the above stated manner, Wayne and Reynolds counties (Plate IA) are chosen because they lie just south and southwest of the St. Francis Mountains and are expected to include buried basement topographic highs.

Detection of basement structural highs is generally of economic value since ore deposits (Ohle and Brown., editors, 1954) and petroleum are often associated with such features"--Introduction, page 1.

Advisor(s)

Englehardt, Maxwell E.

Department(s)

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Geology

Sponsor(s)

Missouri. Geological Survey

Comments

5 plates in back pocket of thesis are included here as supplemental files.

Publisher

Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy

Publication Date

1958

Pagination

vi, 103 pages, 5 plates

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-102).

Geographic Coverage

Wayne County (Mo.)
Reynolds County (Mo.)

Time Period

Precambrian

Rights

© 1958 Papken Aram Zarzavatjian, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Geology, Structural -- MissouriAerial photography in geologyGeology, Stratigraphic -- Precambrian

Thesis Number

T 1177

Print OCLC #

5923983

Electronic OCLC #

934722492

Recommended Citation

Zarzavatjian, Papken Aram, "Detection of buried basement highs by airphoto drainage pattern analysis, Reynolds and Wayne counties, Missouri" (1958). Masters Theses. 5526.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/5526