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                                                       Mary Washington College
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                                    Email: cwhipkey@mwc.edu
 
 

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

Whipkey, C.E., Capo, R.C., Hseih, J.C.C., and Chadwick, O.A., 2002, Development of magnesian calcite and dolomite in Quaternary soils on the island of Hawaii.  The Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, no. 1, p. 158-165.

Capo, R.C., Whipkey, C.E., and Chadwick, O.A., 2001, Reply: Pedogenic origin of dolomite in a basaltic weathering profile, Kohala Peninsula, Hawaii.  Geology, v. 29, no. 6, p. 564-565.

Whipkey, C.E., Capo, R.C., Chadwick, O.A., and Stewart, B.W., 2000, The importance of sea spray to the cation budget of a coastal Hawaiian soil: a strontium isotope approach.  Chemical Geology, v. 168, nos. 1-2, p. 37-48.

Capo, R.C., Whipkey, C.E., and Chadwick, O.A., 2000, Pedogenic origin of dolomite in a basaltic weathering profile, Kohala Peninsula, Hawaii.  Geology, v. 28, no. 3, p. 271-274.

Whipkey, C.E., Cavaroc, V.V., and Flores, R.M., 1991, Uplift of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming and Montana - a sandstone provenance study: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1917-D.
 

ABSTRACTS

Capo, R.C., Whipkey, C.E., Chadwick. O.A., Stewart, B.W., and Hsieh, J.C.C., 2002, Development of carbonate minerals in Quaternary semiarid soils on the island of Hawaii, Proc. 6th Internat. Symp. of Geochem. of the Earth's Surface, Honolulu, HI, May, 2002, p. 72-73.

Whipkey, C.E., Capo, R.C., and Chadwick, O.A., 1999, Development of Quaternary pedogenic calcite and dolomite on the Island of Hawaii.  Ninth International V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University.

Whipkey, C.E., Capo, R.C., and Chadwick, O.A., 1998, Seaspray influence on high-Mg calcite in pedogenic carbonate developed in basalt tephra at South Point, Island of Hawaii: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 30, p. A-81.

Whipkey, C.E., Cavaroc, V.V., and Flores, R.M., 1987, Provenance of Tertiary Powder River Basin sandstone units, northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, no. 2, p. 136.