An expanding area of my research involves supervision of our Optically Stimulated Luminescence Laboratory and collaboration with faculty in the Quaternary Studies Program in determining the burial age of sand grains in a wide-range of eolian, beach, fluvial and glacio-fluvial deposits. Areas of study include France, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada, as well as the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers, Nebraska Sand Hills, Mescalero Dunes, and the Texas, Alabama and Carolina coasts,

I have an ongoing interest in the mineralogy and economic geology of stratiform sulfide deposits in the Proterozoic sedimentary rocks of the southern Canadian Rockies. This has involved field and laboratory studies of stratiform copper and lead/zinc deposits and detailed laboratory studies of copper sulfide structures.

Professor Treves and I have conducted several collaborative studies of the Proterozoic and Cretaceous igneous rocks in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. Professor Carlson of the Conservation and Survey Division, Professor Treves, and I are looking at the mineralogy, chemistry and petrology of the basement rocks of southeastern Nebraska, in particular the Elk Creek Carbonatite.

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• Mason, J.A., Swinehart, J.B., Goble, R.J. and Loope, D.B. 2004-in press. Dune activity directly linked to hydrologic drought, Nebraska Sand Hills, USA. The Holocene.
• Goble, R.J., Mason, J.A., Loope, D.B., and Swinehart, J.B. 2004-in press. Optical and radiocarbon ages of stacked paleosols and dune sands in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews.
• Rittenour, T.M., Goble, R.J., and Blum, M.D. 2003. An optical age chronology of late Pleistocene fluvial deposits in the northen lower Mississippi valley. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, 1105-1110.
• Mason, J.A., Jacobs, P.M., Hanson, P.R., Miao, X., and Goble, R.J. 2003. Sources and paleoclimatic significance of Holocen Bignell Loess, central Great Plains, USA. Quaternary Research, 60, 330-339.
• Blum, M.D., Carter, A.E., Zayac, T., and Goble, R. 2002. Middle Holocene sea-level and evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Coast (USA). Journal of Coastal Research, SI36, 65-80.
• Goble, R.J., Treves, S.B. and Murray, V.M. 1999. Cretaceous intrusions in the Commerce Mountain and adjacent areas of southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1939-1956.
• Goble, R.J., Ghazi, A.M. and Treves, S.B. 1999. Mineralogy and geochemistry of Proterozoic basaltic intrusions, southwestern Alberta, Canada. Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 163-175.
• Carlson, M.P., Treves, S.B., Goble, R.J. and Xu, A. 1999. New data and interpretations for the Precambrian, midcontinent USA. Basement Tectonics, 13, 49-63.
• Goble, R.J., Treves, S.B. and Ghazi, A.M. 1994. Stratiform copper sulfide deposits in the Proterozoic rocks of southwesternAlberta and southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Proceedings of the Fourth Mining Symposium of Iran, Vol. 1, 98-118.
• Goble, R.J., Treves, S.B. and Ghazi, A.M. 1993. Comparison of the Rainy Ridge analcime phonolite sill and the Crowsnest volcanics, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 1644-1649.
• Ghazi, A.M., Goble, R.J., and Treves, S.B. 1991. Geochemical and K/Ar data for the Commerce Mountain copper/gold prospect, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Proceedings of the Third Mining Symposium of Iran. Vol. 2, 397-413.
• Goble, R.J., and Smith, D.G.W. 1988. MinIdent: An application to the identification and classification of amphiboles. Mineralogy and Petrology, 38, 213-227.
• Goble, R.J., Whiteside, L.S. and Ghazi, A.M. 1988. Geerite- type structures and the flotation of sphalerite. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Bulletin, 81, 110-114.
• Whiteside, L.S. and Goble, R.J. 1986. Structural and compositional changes in copper sulfides during leaching and dissolution. Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 247-258.
• Goble, R.J. 1985. The relationship between crystal structure, bonding and cell dimensions in the copper sulfides. Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 51-76.

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