William W. Shilts, Ph.D.

Chief, Illinois State Geological Survey

Illinois State Geological Survey
123 Natural Resources Building
615 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: 217-333-5111 • Fax: 217-244-7004
E-mail: shilts@isgs.uiuc.edu

Major Research Interests

• Configuration, dynamics, and geological constraints of the North American contental ice sheet
• Environmental geochemistry
• Glacial sedimentology and stratigraphy
• Applying geophysical and geochemical methods to studying Arctic and temperate limnology
• Mineral prospecting in glaciated terrain

Selected Publications

Shilts, W.W., 1993, Geological Survey of Canada's contributions to understanding the composition of glacial sediments: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 30, p. 333-353.

Shilts, W.W., 1995. Geochemical partitioning in till, in P.T. Bobrowski, S.J. Sibbick, J.M. Newell, and P.F. Matysuk, eds., Drift exploration in the Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Paper 1995-2, p. 149-163.

Shilts, W.W., 1996, Chapter 15, Drift exploration, in J. Menzies, ed., Past glacial environments: Sediments, forms and techniques: Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, p. 411-439.

Shilts, W.W., and J.J. Clague, 1992, Documentation of earthquake-induced disturbance of lake sediments using subbottom acoustic profiling: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 1018-1042.

Aylsworth, J.M., and W.W. Shilts, 1989, Bedforms of the Keewatin Ice Sheet: Canada Sedimentary Geology, v. 62, p. 407-428.

Kettles, I.M., and W.W. Shilts, 1994, Composition of glacial sediments in Canadian Shield terrane, southeastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec: Applications to acid rain research and mineral exploration: Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 463, 58 p.

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