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KONRAD BATES KRAUSKOPF
Pages 176-187

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... II. A Method for Deriving Reaction Mechanisms from Empirical Rate Laws for Chain Reactions.
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From page 178...
... Kay passed away in 2001 after a brief hospitalization. Their children, Karen Hyde, Frances Conley, Karl Krauskopf, and Marion Foerster vividly and fondly remember their school vacations spent in geologically interesting but remote mountainous areas.
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... He was a teacher's teacher. Konnie published a remarkably diverse spectrum of internationally recognized research investigations, broadly arching across the fields of hard-rock geology, petrology, aqueous geochemistry, engineering geology, and mineral deposits -- bringing a new degree of quantification to all of the topics he studied.
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From page 180...
... of distinguishing genetically separate plutonic bodies. The final upper crustal emplacement of granitic magma exhibits contrasting origins as well, including piecemeal stoping, shouldering aside of preexisting wall rocks, and subsolidus metasomatism.
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... Special emphases have included elucidation of aqueous solutionmetal complex equilibria as well as thermodynamic applications to solid-melt-fluid partitioning These pathfinding texts were published at a time when most earth scientists were mapping quadrangles. Konnie did that too, having published four USGS quadrangle maps with a combined area of approximately 975 square miles.
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... Krauskopf was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1959, and in the American Philosophical Society in 1967. He served as president of the American Geological Institute in 1964, received its Ian Campbell Medal in 1984, and its Legendary Geoscientist Award in 2000.
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... Driving in, they had had a flat tire a few blocks away, and slowly crept along to the parking lot running on the rim. Afterward in the pitch dark Konnie doggedly refused help as he changed the tire and mounted the spare, gripping the jack handle menacingly when we offered to take over, or at least to assist him.
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From page 184...
... 59:711-731. 1951 Physical chemistry of quicksilver transportation in vein fluids.
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From page 185...
... 1977 Geologic map of the Glass Mountain Quadrangle, Mono County, California, and Mineral County, Nevada.
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From page 186...
... 1986 Aqueous geochemistry of radioactive waste disposal.
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