The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013

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Ballistics Analysis of Volcanic Ejecta: Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, William Cary
Department: Geology

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Dating the First Millennium Ad Glacial History of Adams Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Southeast Alaska, Jennifer Horton
Department: Geology

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Clay Mineral Analysis and Paleoclimate Interpretation of a Middle Miocene Paleosol in the Powder River Volcanic Field, Northeast Oregon, Anna C. Mudd
Department: Geology

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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

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Analysis of Ice Springs Volcanic Field Structures, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Matthew H. Peppers
Department: Geology

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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

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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

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Geochemical and Geospatial Analysis: Mapping of Miter's Lava Flows in Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, Whitney Sims
Department: Geology

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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

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Tree-Ring Evidence of North Pacific Volcanically Forced Cooling and Forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Lauren Vargo
Department: Geology

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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

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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

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Geochemical and Field Relationships of Pillow and Dike Units in a Subglacial Pillow Unit Undirhliđar Quarry, Southwest Iceland, Lindsey J. Bowman
Department: Geology

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Comparison and Analog-Based Analysis of Sinuous Channels on the Rift Aprons of Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons Volcanoes, Mars, Andrew Collins
Department: Geology

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Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Soeginina Beds (Paadla Formation, Lower Ludlow, Upper Silurian) on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Richa N. Ekka
Department: Geology

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Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Wenlock/Ludlow Boundary at Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Nicholas Fedorchuk
Department: Geology

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Zeolite Formation Within a Monocline Sequence Along Vatnsdalsfjall, Skagi Peninsula, Northwest Iceland, Travis Louvain
Department: Geology

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Paleoecology of the Hilliste Formation (Lower Silurian, Llandovery, Rhuddanian) Hiiumaa Island, Estonia: An Example of a Shallow Marine Recovery Fauna, Rachel Matt
Department: Geology

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Geochemical and Petrologic Analysis of the Hrafnfjordur Central Volcano, Westfjords, Iceland, Katharine Schleich
Department: Geology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011

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Construction of a Subglacial Pillow Ridge: Insights From Field Relationships and Compositional Variations, Undirhlíðar Quarry, Southwest Iceland, Rebecca Alcorn
Department: Geology

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Protolith Determination of Mylonitic Rock Adjacent to the Madison Mylonite Zone, Henry's Lake Mountains, Southwest Montana and Idaho, Jesse Davenport
Department: Geology

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Bioerosion on Oysters Across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in Alabama and Mississippi (USA), Megan Innis
Department: Geology

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Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Menuha Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian), Makhtesh Ramon Region, Southern Isreal, Andrew J. Retzler
Department: Geology

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Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Zichor Formation in the Cretaceous of Southern Israel, Micah Risacher
Department: Geology

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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

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Reconstructing Late Holocene Glacial Movement in Muir Inlet Glacier Bay, Alaska, Kelly Aughenbaugh
Department: Geology

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Directly-Controlled Lichen Growth Curves For Western Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Travis Brown
Department: Geology

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Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Silurian Jaani Formation on the Island of Saaremaa, Estonia, Robert H. McConnell
Department: Geology

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Decline in Alaskan Yellow-Cedar: Tree-Ring Investigations Into Climatic Responses and Possible Causes, Glacier Bay, Alaska, Colin R. Mennett
Department: Geology

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Paleoecological Reconstruction of the Late Silurian (Pridoli) Äigu Beds of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Palmer J. Shonk
Department: Geology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009

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Jurassic Paleocommunities and Paleoecology in the Matmor Formation (Callovian) of Hamakhtesh Hagadol, Israel, Elyssa Belding
Department: Geology

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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

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Paleocommunities and Paleoenvironments of the Logan Formation (Mississippian, Osagean) of Northeastern Ohio, Heather Hunt
Department: Geology

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Developing the Late Holocene Glacial History of Lower Glacier Bay, Alaska Using Tree-Ring Dating of Subfossil Wood, Michael Krivicich
Department: Geology

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Protolith Determination of the Hyde School Marginal Gneisses, Adirondack Lowlands, NY, Robert M. Nowak
Department: Geology

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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

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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

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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

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Paleocology of a Late Pleistocene (Eemian) Reef Sequence on Great Inagua Island, the Bahamas, Emiliann Griffin
Department: Geology

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Study of the Formation of Ship Rock By Analysis of Magma Flow Direction, Denise Marie Hardman
Department: Geology

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Origins of Garnet in Peraluminous Granitoids Found in the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Jessica S. Hark
Department: Geology

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Paleomagnetic Remanence and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility of Dikes From Super-Fast Spread Crust Exposed at Pito Deep Rift, Andrew J. Horst
Department: Geology

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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

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Contamination History of Boot Lake Granodiorite, Nova Scotia, Canada, Brian Mumaw
Department: Geology

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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

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Microsolenid Corals as Paleobathymetric Indicators: A Test Using a Newly Discovered Middle Jurassic Community in Makhtesh Gadol, Israel, Jeffrey C. Bowen II
Department: Geology

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Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Thrombolites in the Basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic of Southern England), Erica C. Clites
Department: Geology

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267 Year Long Reconstruction of Spring Lake Erie Levels Based on North Pacific Tree Ring Series, Anne Krawiec
Department: Geology

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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

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Origin of the Strjugsskarð Andesite, Skagi Peninsula, North-Central Iceland, Charlene Adzima
Department: Geology

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Paleoenvironments and Stratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Strata of Central Tennessee, Suzanne E. Boyenton
Department: Geology

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New Dendroclimatic Tree Ring Network From Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, William Driscoll
Department: Geology

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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

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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

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Conflict, Warfare, and Viewshed Analysis: the Pueblo III Period in the Silver Creek Drainage, East-Central Arizona, Leslie Nicole McCluskey
Department: Archaeology; Geology

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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

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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

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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

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Petroleum Legislation in Ohio: Its Geologic and Legal Significance to the Petroleum Industry, Julie M. Ferguson