Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Effects of a growing substrate on secondarily tiered cornulitids of the Waldron Shale: Middle Silurian (Wenlockian) of Indiana, Christian P. Tulungen
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
First Bryozoan Fauna Described from the Jurassic Tropics: Specimens from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Upper Callovian) in Southern Israel, Stephanie Bosch
Department: Geology
Reconstruction of Eruptive Conditions Based on Crater Rim Stratigraphy at Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Kyle R. Burden
Department: Geology
Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of Deformation Bands in the Late Cretaceous Sixmile Canyon Formation, Central Utah, Tricia L. Hall
Department: Geology
Estimated Hydrostatic/Cryostatic Pressures During Emplacement of Pillow Lavas at Undirhliðar Quarry, Reykjanes Peninsula, Southwest Iceland, Alexander R. Hiatt
Department: Geology
Discerning Extreme Weather Events in the Connecticut River System through the Study of Sediments in Upland Dams and Flood Control Reservoirs of Western Massachusetts and Southwestern Vermont, Scott A. Kugel
Department: Geology
Geochemical Analysis of Basalt Flows from Miter Crater in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Cameron A. Matesich
Department: Geology
The Effect Of Local Tectonics And Marine Erosion On The Cretaceous Phosphorite In The Mishash Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) At Wadi Hawarim, Southern Israel: Peak Phosphate And Mining In Israel, Oscar J. Mmari
Department: Geology
Tree-Ring Dating and Climate Analysis of Neoglacial Ice Advance of Wachusett Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast Alaska, USA, Thomas A. Nash Jr.
Department: Geology
Taphonomy and Pathology of a Middle Jurassic Shallow Marine Crinoid Community (Matmor Formation, Southern Israel), Elizabeth A. Reinthal
Department: Geology
Determination of Inflation within the Miter Flow Depression in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Candice Thornton
Department: Geology
A Dendroclimatology Study of Shore Pine as a Case Study to Look at Climate Change and Forest Health in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Abby VanLeuven
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Ballistics Analysis of Volcanic Ejecta: Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, William Cary
Department: Geology
Dating the First Millennium Ad Glacial History of Adams Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast Alaska, Jennifer Horton
Department: Geology
Clay Mineral Analysis and Paleoclimate Interpretation of a Middle Miocene Paleosol in the Powder River Volcanic Field, Northeast Oregon, Anna C. Mudd
Department: Geology
Analysis of a Rhuddanian (Llandovery, Lower Silurian) Sclerobiont Community in the Hilliste Formation on Hiiumaa Island, Estonia: a Hard Substrate-Dwelling Relict Fauna, Jonah Novek
Department: Geology
Analysis of Ice Springs Volcanic Field Structures, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Matthew H. Peppers
Department: Geology
A Description of Cryptoskeletozoan Communities and Growth Analyses of Cryptic Cuffeyella Arachnoidea and Cornulites From the Upper Ordovician (Richmondian) of Ohio and Indiana, Katherine Price
Department: Geology
The Shallow Depth of Origin of Lacustrine Sedimentary Xenoliths in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field, the Black Rock Desert, Millard County, Utah, Kevin W. Silver
Department: Geology
Geochemical and Geospatial Analysis: Mapping of Miter's Lava Flows in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Whitney Sims
Department: Geology
The Paleoecology of a Brachiopod-Bearing Marly Subunit of the Matmor Formation, Israel: a Middle Jurassic Shallow Marine Environment Near the Equator, Melissa Torma
Department: Geology
Tree-Ring Evidence of North Pacific Volcanically Forced Cooling and Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Lauren Vargo
Department: Geology
Insights Into the Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex From 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronologic Results, Northern Snake Range, Nevada, Joseph Thomson Wilch
Department: Geology; Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Dating of the Mid-Holocene History and Glacial Stratigraphy of Wachusett Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast, Alaska, Sarah Nicole Appleton
Department: Geology
Geochemical and Field Relationships of Pillow and Dike Units in a Subglacial Pillow Unit Undirhliđar Quarry, Southwest Iceland, Lindsey J. Bowman
Department: Geology
Comparison and Analog-Based Analysis of Sinuous Channels on the Rift Aprons of Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons Volcanoes, Mars, Andrew Collins
Department: Geology
Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Soeginina Beds (Paadla Formation, Lower Ludlow, Upper Silurian) on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Richa N. Ekka
Department: Geology
Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Wenlock/Ludlow Boundary at Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Nicholas Fedorchuk
Department: Geology
Zeolite Formation Within a Monocline Sequence Along Vatnsdalsfjall, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland, Travis Louvain
Department: Geology
Paleoecology of the Hilliste Formation (Lower Silurian, Llandovery, Rhuddanian) Hiiumaa Island, Estonia: An Example of a Shallow Marine Recovery Fauna, Rachel Matt
Department: Geology
Geochemical and Petrologic Analysis of the Hrafnfjordur Central Volcano, Westfjords, Iceland, Katharine Schleich
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Construction of a Subglacial Pillow Ridge: Insights From Field Relationships and Compositional Variations, Undirhlíðar Quarry, Southwest Iceland, Rebecca Alcorn
Department: Geology
Protolith Determination of Mylonitic Rock Adjacent to the Madison Mylonite Zone, Henry's Lake Mountains, Southwest Montana and Idaho, Jesse Davenport
Department: Geology
Bioerosion on Oysters Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in Alabama and Mississippi (USA), Megan Innis
Department: Geology
Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Menuha Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian), Makhtesh Ramon Region, Southern Isreal, Andrew J. Retzler
Department: Geology
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Zichor Formation in the Cretaceous of Southern Israel, Micah Risacher
Department: Geology
Evidence in Hiatus Concretions of Regressions Recorded Within the Black Hand Sandstone (Osagean) of Ohio, Michael Snader
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Reconstructing Late Holocene Glacial Movement in Muir Inlet Glacier Bay, Alaska, Kelly Aughenbaugh
Department: Geology
Directly-Controlled Lichen Growth Curves For Western Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Travis Brown
Department: Geology
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Silurian Jaani Formation on the Island of Saaremaa, Estonia, Robert H. McConnell
Department: Geology
Decline in Alaskan Yellow-Cedar: Tree-Ring Investigations Into Climatic Responses and Possible Causes, Glacier Bay, Alaska, Colin R. Mennett
Department: Geology
Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Late Silurian (Pridoli) Äigu Beds of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Palmer J. Shonk
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Jurassic Paleocommunities and Paleoecology in the Matmor Formation (Callovian) of Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Israel, Elyssa Belding
Department: Geology
Formation of the Hjallin Lens: Quantitative Study of Igneous Rock Textures Through Crystal Size Distribution (CSD) and Conductive Cooling Models, Vatnsdalur, Iceland, Jayne Alexandra Drushal
Department: Geology
Paleocommunities and Paleoenvironments of the Logan Formation (Mississippian, Osagean) of Northeastern Ohio, Heather Hunt
Department: Geology
Developing the Late Holocene Glacial History of Lower Glacier Bay, Alaska Using Tree-Ring Dating of Subfossil Wood, Michael Krivicich
Department: Geology
Protolith Determination of the Hyde School Marginal Gneisses, Adirondack Lowlands, NY, Robert M. Nowak
Department: Geology
Calculating the Rate of Dextral Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Höh Serh Fault, the Southwestern Boundary of the Höh Serhiyn Nuruu in the Mongolian Altai, Western Mongolia, Jodi Sprajcar
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Dendroclimatology and Divergence: a Case Study From Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Alexander A. Trutko
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Legacy Sediment on Incising Streams: Changes in Stream Form and Process and Implications For Stream Restoration, Case Study of Two Steams in Wayne County, Ohio, Emily Lucille Cunningham
Department: Geology
Paleocology of a Late Pleistocene (Eemian) Reef Sequence on Great Inagua Island, the Bahamas, Emiliann Griffin
Department: Geology
Study of the Formation of Ship Rock By Analysis of Magma Flow Direction, Denise Marie Hardman
Department: Geology
Origins of Garnet in Peraluminous Granitoids Found in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Jessica S. Hark
Department: Geology
Paleomagnetic Remanence and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility of Dikes From Super-Fast Spread Crust Exposed at Pito Deep Rift, Andrew J. Horst
Department: Geology
Developing Subfossil Conifer Tree-Ring-Width Chronologies to Investigate the Glacial and Climate History of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Eva Lyon
Department: Geology
Contamination History of Boot Lake Granodiorite, Nova Scotia, Canada, Brian Mumaw
Department: Geology
Geochronology of Late Pleistocene Corals Associated With a Rapid Sea Level Change (Great Inagua and San Salvador, the Bahamas), Ann Steward
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Microsolenid Corals as Paleobathymetric Indicators: A Test Using a Newly Discovered Middle Jurassic Community in Makhtesh Gadol, Israel, Jeffrey C. Bowen II
Department: Geology
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Thrombolites in the Basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic of Southern England), Erica C. Clites
Department: Geology
267 Year Long Reconstruction of Spring Lake Erie Levels Based on North Pacific Tree Ring Series, Anne Krawiec
Department: Geology
Cryptic Marine Community From the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Langton Herring, Dorset, Southern England, Monica A. Umstead
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Origin of the Strjugsskarð Andesite, Skagi Peninsula, North-Central Iceland, Charlene Adzima
Department: Geology
Paleoenvironments and Stratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Strata of Central Tennessee, Suzanne E. Boyenton
Department: Geology
New Dendroclimatic Tree Ring Network From Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, William Driscoll
Department: Geology
Geophysical Study of Northern Cyclone Canyon Graben in Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Sediment Depth and Implications For a Cross-Sectional Model, Joshua Alan Michaels
Department: Geology
Reinterpretation of the Zohar Formation of Maktech Qatan (Callovian, Middle Jurassic): Parting the Geology of the Holy Land, Kevin R. Wolfe
Department: Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Conflict, Warfare, and Viewshed Analysis: the Pueblo III Period in the Silver Creek Drainage, East-Central Arizona, Leslie Nicole McCluskey
Department: Archaeology; Geology
Scientific Evidence and Theological Arguments For the Failure of Scientific Creationism to Provide Sufficient Common Ground Between Theory of Evolution and Christianity, Richard W. Poole
Department: Religious Studies; Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997
Analysis of a Mastodon Trackway Located Near Saline, Michigan, and Its Implications For the Systematic Hunting of Mastodon By Paleo-Indians, William Hubbard
Department: Archaeology; Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
Reconstruction of the Paleotopographic and Paleogeologic Landscape Including An Archaeological Spatial Component Within a One By Three Kilometer Area Containing the Akrotiri Excavation on Thera in the Southern Aegean Sea, Marcus Pillion
Department: Archaeology; Geology
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Petroleum Legislation in Ohio: Its Geologic and Legal Significance to the Petroleum Industry, Julie M. Ferguson
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979
Non-Volatile Paraffin Distribution Analysis of Sediments in the Central and Western Basins of Lake Erie, David Burris
Department: Chemistry; Geology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1965
The Glacial Geology of Plain and Clinton Townships, Wayne County, Ohio, Stephen R. Moran
Department: Geology