Office: 420D Flarsheim Hall
Phone: 816 2352980
Email:
coveneyr@umkc.edu
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Professor
Ray
Coveney was a student of Wm. C. Kelly at the University of Michigan
where his dissertation involved detailed geologic mapping, fluid inclusions,
and the geochemistry of high-grade Mother Lode gold deposits of the
Alleghany district, California. He joined UMKC as an assistant professor in
1971. For the past twenty years his research has focused on metalliferous
black shales of the American Midwest and southern China. Recent efforts have
concentrated on 1) lower Cambrian platinum and gold-bearing
nickel-molybdenum black shale beds of Hunan and Guizhou; (2) Genetic
connections between carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ores and Pennsylvanian
metalliferous shales in the central USA; (3) Assessing the impact of black
shales on metal pollution in the Kansas City area; and (4) k-16
environmental science education. He has recently become involved with
associates from Peking University in the study of pollution of the Lean
River, southern China, caused by mining and processing copper ores and fate
modeling of organic and inorganic pollutants in the Tianjin metropolitan
area. Coveney chairs the Department of Geosciences and directs the
undergraduate environmental studies degree program at UMKC.
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