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