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 Don Carlisle, Professor Emeritus of Geology & Mineral Resources


Don Carlisle 
Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:Geology 6713B
Telephone:(310) 825-1934
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:carlisle@ess.ucla.edu
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 Current Research Interest

 Mineral deposits, metallic and non-metallic especially uranium; biogeochemical and geological exploration; mineral and mine economics; structural, stratigraphic, areal mapping, especially coastal British Columbia and Great Basin; submarine volcanic rocks; geological factors in radon risk evaluation.

 Education

 

B.A.Sc., 1942, University of British Columbia
M.A.Sc., 1944, University of British Columbia
Ph.D., 1950, University of Wisconsin

 Selected Publications

 Carlisle, D., The economics of a fund resource with particular reference to mining: The American Economic Review, v. XLIV:4, p. 595-616, 1954.
 Carlisle, D., Pillow breccias and their aquagene tuffs, Quadra Island, British Columbia: The Journal of Geology, v. 71:1, p. 48-71, 1963.
 Carlisle, D. and Takeo Susuki, Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri zones on Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 11:2, p. 254-279, 1974.
 Carlisle, D., Concentration of uranium and vanadium in calcretes and gypcretes, in Wilson, R.C.L. (ed.), Residual Deposits: Special Volume, Geological Society of London, p. 185-195, 1983.
 Carlisle, D., W. L. Berry, I. R. Kaplan and J. R. Watterson (eds.), Mineral exploration: Biological systems and organic matter (Rubey Volume V): Prentice-Hall, 465 p., 1986.
 Carlisle, D. and C.A. Nelson, Geology of the Mineral Hill Quadrangle, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Map 97, 1990.
 Carlisle, D. and H. Azzouz, Discovery of radon potential in the Rincon Shale, California - a case history of deliberate exploration: Indoor Air, v. 3: p. 131-142, 1993.

 
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