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Binz, Carl M.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Loras College, 1969
M.S., Purdue University, 1971
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974
Post-Doc, Purdue University, 1974-75
At Loras since: 1975
Phone No.: (563) 588-7012
Office: Sci 214
E-mail carl.binz@loras.edu

Courses Taught: Taught General and Analytical Chemistry

Doctoral Thesis involved trace element analysis of meteorites using neutron activation analysis, atomic absorption, and wet chemical techniques. Dr. Michael Lipschutz.

Recent Publications:
N.C. Sturchio,  J.L. Banner, C.M. Binz, L.B. Heraty, M. Musgrove,  “Radium geochemistry of ground waters in Paleozoic carbonate aquifers, midcontinent, USA.”  Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 16, pp 109-122, 2001.

N.C. Sturchio, J.K. Bolke, and C.M. Binz, “Radium-thorium disequilibrium and zeolite-water ion exchange in a Yellowstone hydrothermal environment.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,  Vol. 53, pp. 1025-1034, May 1989.

Neil C. Sturchio and Carl M. Binz,  “Uranium-Series Age Determination of  Calcite Veins, VC-1 Drill Core, Valles Caldera, New Mexico”,  Journal of Geographical Research,  Vol. 93, NO. B6, pp. 6097-6102, June 10, 1988.

Neil C. Sturchio, Carl M. Binz, and Carter H. Lewis III,  “Thorium-uranium disequilibrium in a geothermal discharge zone at Yellowstone”,  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,  Vol. 51, pp. 2025-2035, 1987.

P. Rafferty, S.-Y. Shiao, C.M. Binz, and R.E. Meyer,  “Absorption of Sr(II) on ClayMinerals:  Effects of Salt Concentration, Loading and pH”,  Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 43, pp. 797-805, 1981.

Abstracts:
N. C. Sturchio, C. M. Binz, and M. L. Sorey, “Ages of thermal spring deposits and implications for the evolution of the Long Valley hydrothermal system”, EOS,Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 70, p. 1057, 1989.

N. C. Sturchio, J. K. Bohlke and C. M. Binz, “Relation of (226Ra/230Th) disequilibrium to clinoptilolite-water ion exchange in a Yellowstone hydrothermal environment”, EOS, 69, p. 527, 1988.

N. C. Sturchio, C. M. Binz, and M. L. Sorey, “U/Th geochronology of hydrothermal activity in the Long Valley caldera: Little Hot Creek and the Blue Chert”, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hydrologic and Geochemical Monitoring in the Long Valley Caldera, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report, LBL-22852, pp. 15-16, 1986.

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