Edward Donald McKay, III, Ph.D.

Phone: 217-333-0044
Fax: 217-244-7004
E-mail: mckay@isgs.uiuc.edu

Major Research Interests

• Wisconsin Episode and older loesses and paleosols
• Illinois Episode landforms and deposits
• Geologic history of the Ancient Mississippi Valley in north central Illinois
• Geologic quadrangle mapping and 3-D modeling

Current Projects

• Geologic mapping and modeling of the Chillicothe, Lacon, Putnam, and Henry 7.5-minute quadrangles in the middle Illinois Valley area
• Landform-sediment mapping of the Illinois Episode Till Plain of southern Illinois

Selected Publications

McKay, E. Donald, 1979, Wisconsinan loess stratigraphy of Illinois: in Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene 26th Field Conference: Illinois State Geological Survey Guidebook 13, p. 95-108.

Grimley, David A., Leon R. Follmer, and E. Donald McKay, 1998, Magnetic Susceptibility and Mineral Zonations Controlled by Provenance in Loess along the Illinois and Central Mississippi River Valleys: Quaternary Research, v. 49, p. 24-36.

McKay, E. Donald, 1999, The Detailed Geologic Map: A Critical, Missing GIS Layer: Illinois GIS and Mapnotes, v. 17, p. 36-40

Berg, R.C., E.D. McKay, D.A. Keefer, R.A. Bauer, R.D. Johnstone, B.J. Stiff, A. Pugin, C.P. Weibel, A.J. Stumpf, T.H. Larson, W.-J. Su and G.T. Homrighous, 2002, Three-dimensional geologic mapping for transportation planning in central-northern Illinois: data selection, map construction, and model developments: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1449, p. 13-17.

Grimley, David A., and E. Donald McKay, III, 2003, Surficial Geology of the French Village Quadrangle: Illinois State Geological Survey, IGQ-French Village-SG, 1:24,000.

Keefer, D.A., E.D. McKay, and R.C. Berg, 2002, Evaluating uncertainty in geologic models from the IL29 Geologic Mapping Project. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1449, p. 27-31.

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