Theses and Dissertations

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2025

Kwaku Asiedu. Imaging subsurface fracture characteristics using electrical resistivity tomography technique: a case study in Dougherty County, southwest Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Charlotte Garing.

Grace Burns. The stable isotope paleoecology and morphometric investigation of the scallop Chesapecten coccymelus in Bed 10 of the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Yonesha Donaldson. Characterizing inland freshwater lens formation and geometry in drylands using near-surface geophysics and computational approaches. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

Emily Jackson. Paleosols and sequence-stratigraphic architecture: a test in the Cloverly Formation of Wyoming. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Amy Laubenstein. Three-dimensional hydrostratigraphic characterization of the Claiborne Aquifer in southwest Georgia, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Stephan Loveless. Investigations of lithospheric shortening on Mercury: insights into structure and orientation of thrust faults and application to global contraction. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Christian Klimczak.

Michael Stefanou. Carolina bays and their connection to natural hydrogen gas seepage in the southeastern United States. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

2024

Abubakar Aliyu. Recording tectonostratigraphic complexity and fault damage zones in the Cañon City Embayment, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Carylynn Daniel. How are paroxysms generated at mafic volcanoes? Insights into the 2020–2022 Mt. Etna eruption activity. M.S. thesis advised by Mattia Pistone.

Jackson Oakey. Flow or blow? Understanding magma flow in conduits during vesiculation. M.S. thesis advised by Mattia Pistone.

Lea Davidson. Evolving ephemeral channels: characterizing shifting flow dynamics and their hydrologic impact in semi-arid environments. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

Kaitlyn Hulsey. Building up magma reservoirs in the Earth’s crust: case of Stone Mountain. M.S. thesis advised by Mattia Pistone.

Cade Orchard. Nonmarine stratigraphic architecture in response to transgression: a test in the Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Wyoming. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

David Richards IV. Remote sensing-based monitoring of landscape changes in coastal systems. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

Fabian Zowam. A satellite-based approach for quantifying terrestrial water cycle intensity and its relationship with groundwater availability in data-scarce arid regions. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

2023

Oluwaseun Adeyemi. Mineralogy of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminated soils from agricultural fields in Society Hill, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Holden Aronson. Determining if and how land use disturbance effects long-term soil erosion rates in the Broad Basin of the southern Appalachian Piedmont, using in situ-produced ¹⁰Be cosmogenic nuclide isotopes in fluvial quartz grains. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Sydney Briggs. Investigating the topographic undulations along lava channels on Venus. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Alexandra Bonham. Sub-annual variation of 𝜹¹⁸O_carb and 𝜹¹³C_carb in Odocoileus virginianus tooth enamel: paleoclimate and diet reconstruction in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley at the onset of the Little Ice Age. M.S. thesis advised by Suzanne Pilaar Birch (Geography and Anthropology).

Jupiter Cheng. Origin and growth of fractures on low-gravity bodies: insights from 4 Vesta, 1 Ceres, and Earth. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Christian Klimczak.

Marjean Cone. Testing for climate and elevation controls on Pennsylvanian plant communities in valley fills of the Breathitt Group in eastern Kentucky. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Laura Hanawalt. P-wave reflectivity of the crust and upper mantle beneath the central and eastern U.S.: implications for support of mountain topography and a new criterion for mapping the base of the continental lithosphere. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Andrew Maendel. Magmatic differentiation and growth of a large mafic intrusion in the lower crust: insights from varying scales. M.S. thesis advised by Mattia Pistone.

2022

Elliot Blake. Controls on the occurrence of vertebrate tracks in the Jurassic Gypsum Spring and Sundance Formations, Bighorn Basin, U.S.A. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Michael Cuilik. High-resolution mapping of lithospheric discontinuities between the eastern continental margin and continental interior of the North American continent using PKIKP as a virtual seismic source. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Max Deckman. A reinterpretation of the Triassic Crow Mountain and Popo Agie formations as a distributive fluvial system, Wind River Basin, Wyoming. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Alexandra Edwards. Elemental and lead isotopic analysis of bronze colonial mission bell fragments from Spanish colonization era. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Samantha Khatri. Tidal influence in a prograding Cretaceous coastal plain: Hell Creek Formation near Marmarth, North Dakota. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Sam Oxhorn. Western Aleutian volcanism: defining magmatic series transitions and petrogenetic origins. M.S. thesis advised by Mattia Pistone.

Parker Whitley. Barrier island’s shallow coastal aquifer response to storms and tidal fluctuations: case of Sapelo Island. M.S. thesis advised by Charlotte Garing.

2021

Abdullah Al Nahian. Dynamics of entrapped air in the vadose zone in relation to flooding events: pore-scale experiments and modeling. M.S. thesis advised by Charlotte Garing.

Sarah Asher. Comparison of threats and needs to National Wildlife Refuges in the southeast using water resource inventory and assessments. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Steffan Becker. Inland freshwater lens formation and implications upon dune development at White Sands National Park. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

William Crumpacker. Removal of bromide from flue gas desulfurization wastewater using silver modified biochar. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Huseyin Demir. A new look at sile clay deposits, eastern Istanbul: detail characterization and provenance. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Laura Dupont. A multi-proxy stalagmite record of paleoenvironmental change in equatorial Africa during the African Humid Period. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Laura Fackrell. Applications of critical science in the exploration of Mars. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Paul Schroeder.

Lindsey Parsons. The use of taphonomic and stable isotopic analysis in archaeological scallop deposits as a key to how native coastal communities harvesting practices were affected by climatic change (A.D. ~850–1500), southwestern Florida. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Anik Regan. Sequence-stratigraphic control on the nonmarine fossil record: a test in the Judith River Formation of north-central Montana. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Peter Steiner. Nutrient cycling of potassium in the critical zone over periods of changing land use. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Cleveland Tarp. Hydrograph analysis techniques for ephemeral and intermittent transmission loss modeling. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Isik Yazici. Using plan-form impact crater shapes to investigate tectonic patterns of Mercury. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

2020

Garett Brown. Beyond water depth: the environmental controls on marine benthic invertebrate assemblages in the modern and fossil record. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Steven Holland.

Melanie Callihan. Growth of complex fracture systems in extensional tectonic settings on Earth and the Moon with applications to tectonic geomorphology, fault rock evolution, and dike emplacement. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Christian Klimczak.

Kelly Cronin. The effects of sea-ice duration on the growth and shell chemistry of the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sally Walker.

Yonesha Donaldson. Identification of inland freshwater lenses in central Florida using remote sensing, GIS geospatial-based prediction analysis, and random forest machine learning algorithm. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Lucas Novello Favero. Removal of oxyanionic species from coal combustion residuals: the case of boron and bromide. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Barrett Jordan. Geology of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Gustavo Larramendi. Investigation of the late Paleozoic collision between Gondwana and Laurentia and the resulting deformational response of the upper mantle beneath the southern Appalachians using global phase seismic events. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Sydney Lee. Testing two paleogeographic interpretations of the Jurassic of western North America. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Melissa Medley. Investigation of hydrology and climate of National Wildlife Refuges in Florida using water resource inventories and assessments. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Sierra Ramsey. The petrogenesis of shergottites constrained by major and minor elemental variations in olivine. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Rachel Rotz. Geomorphic-geologic indicators of zones of hydrologic flux in drylands on Earth and Mars. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

2019

Andrew Clements. Investigation of rift basins and underlying crust beneath the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain using teleseismic phases. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Kelsey Crane. Thrust faulting on the terrestrial planets: structural and tectonic studies of Mercury and the Columbia River Basalt Province. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Christian Klimczak.

Matt Hess. Sequence-stratigraphic architecture and facies of the Middle to Upper Jurassic Preuss and Stump formations. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Holly Hutcheson. Trends in water resources within the USFWS National Wildlife Refuges in the southeast. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

William Jenkins. Investigating patterns and kinematics of faults and associated fumarolic activity above a blind strike-slip system, Bishop Tuff, CA. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Pedro Monarrez. Testing the role of escalation on Jurassic macroevolutionary patterns. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Steven Holland.

Sierra Swenson. Integrated sequence stratigraphy and paleobiology of the Ellis Group of Montana: implications for the history and communities of the Sundance Seaway. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Chris Smith. Experimentally grown foraminifera and their response to heavy metal (arsenic, cadmium, nickel, and zinc) contamination. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Susan Goldstein.

Matt Thomas. Spatial downscaling of GRACE TWSA data to identify spatiotemporal groundwater level trends in the Dougherty Plain, south Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

2018

Cullen LaPointe. An evaluation of the effects of a rapidly changing Miocene climate on the growth and stable isotopic ecology of the scallop Chesapecten nefrens. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Abigail Knapp. Spatiotemporal dynamics of the hydrologic drivers of harmful algal blooms in two Piedmont reservoirs, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

2017

Erik Alberts. Global phase seismic interferometry (GloPSI) and broadband seismic reflection techniques: an investigation of the Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Quentin Anlian. Deformation bands record oblique-slip faulting in the Canñon City Embayment, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Hudson Farren. Determination of element vectors in the deeply saprolitized southern Appalachians: locating Haile- and Ridgeway-type epithermal gold systems using geochemical data and multivariate statistics. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Stefanie Gugolz. Evaluation of a biochar enhanced constructed treatment wetland for the removal of contaminants from agricultural wastewater. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Bolton Howes. Sequence stratigraphic expression of flexural subsidence: Middle Jurassic Twin Creek Limestone, Wyoming, U.S.A. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Jacob Lee. Investigating the mantle source of the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Devon Verellen. An investigation of P-wave reflectivity beneath the southern Appalachians using global seismic phases. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Ny Riavo Gilbertinie Voarintsoa. Investigating stalagmites from NE Namibia and NW Madagascar as a key to better understand local paleoenvironmental changes and implications for Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) dynamics. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bruce Railsback.

Sarah Wright. The falling-stage progradation of an open-coast tidal flat: UAV-assisted sequence stratigraphy of the Jurassic Windy Hill Sandstone, Wyoming USA. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

2016

Douglas John. Exploring low-oxygen conditions in the Cambrian through trilobites of the Wheeler Shale. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sally Walker.

Corbin Kling. Topographic expressions of large thrust faults on Mars. M.S. thesis advised by Christian Klimczak.

Khalil Lezzaik. An integrated assessment of groundwater scarcity and risk conditions in the Arab Middle East and North Africa region. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

Michael Lukas. Geophysical prospection at Caisteal Mac Tuathal, Perthshire, Scotland. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Rachel Rotz. Investigating the effect of recharge on inland freshwater lens formation and degradation in northern Kuwait. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Wondwosen Seyoum. Satellite remote sensing and modeling of the hydrosphere for understanding terrestrial water cycle dynamics at different scales. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Adam Milewski.

Frank Waters. Complex compositional zoning in clinopyroxene in Late Cretaceous potassic–alkaline volcanic rocks from northern Turkey: implications for Magma Mixing. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

2015

Matthew Cahalan. Sinkhole formation dynamics geostatistical-based prediction analysis in a mantled karst terrain. M.S. thesis advised by Adam Milewski.

Adam Forsberg. Evaluation of a quantitative phosphorus loss model for potential improvement of the southern phosphorus indices. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Ryan Jubran. Electrical resistivity tomography combined with previously collected surface-wave data in a karst terrain: a case for combining techniques to detect subsidence features. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Annaka Clement. The sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Gypsum Spring and Piper formations in the eastern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, U.S.A. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Laura Fackrell. Understanding thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing Archaea environments across extreme redox gradients. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Thear Kirk Fraley. A variable-density model to determine possible sources of elevated salinity and dissolved constituents in the Suwannee River Basin Springs, north-central Florida. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Kristopher Kusnerik. Community paleoecology and biogeography of the Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) Sundance Seaway in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Don Lundy. An investigation of the relationship between lateral spreading and mass depletion of an LNAPL body in contact with groundwater at the Bemidji, MN crude-oil release site. Ph.D. dissertation advised by John Dowd.

John Mosely. Group II xenoliths from Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada: implications for subducted plate metasomatism. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Elias Horry Parker. Crustal structure across the southern Appalachians and Atlantic Coastal Plain: constraints from teleseismic receiver functions and new perspectives from magnetic modeling. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Rob Hawman.

William Phalen. Homotrema rubrum (Lamarck): distribution and biology of a potential reef bioindicator and underwater angler. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Joanna Wilford. Characterizing the weathering of masonry sandstone. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

2014

Stephanie Fochtman. A stable isotope study on fluid source and temperature of the Murgul deposit. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Chris Ginn. Sequence stratigraphy of the Silurian Clinch Formation, northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Chelsea Jenkins. Are biogeographic provinces discrete or gradational: a test in the Late Ordovician of Laurentia. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

William Wylie. Electrical resistivity tomography as a method for imaging the shallow subsurface in an investigation of weathered rock and large mass movements. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

2013

Deniz Ballero. The application of the total evidence approach for phylogenetic reconstruction of selected monothalamous foraminifera of Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Susan Goldstein.

Joseph Boreman. A stable sulfur isotope study of Georgia kaolin and implications for bacterial sulfate reduction. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Alex Brown. Chronology of the igneous, metamorphic, and deformational events in the Central Merida Andes, Venezuela. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Wright.

Daniel Bulger. The geochemical mineralogic expression of sequence boundaries Mississippian carbonates of the Appalachian Basin, Georgia and Tennessee. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Paul Schroeder.

Kimberley Coke. The applicability of DNA tracers in hydrogeology. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Lori Demosthenes. Experimental analysis of ash and mineral sources for ancient glass using oxygen isotopes. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Nicole Duhamel. Tectonics and geoarchaeology of some metaultramafic rocks in the southern Appalachians. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Daisy Gallagher. Multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) of a transition zone in the near surface of the Inner Piedmont: implications for contaminent flow transport. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Brooke Hamil. Mantle metasomatism and generation of alkaline lamprophyres in the Spanish Peaks intrusive complex, south-central Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Darin Lang. Dispersal and propagule banks of benthic foraminifera: shelf to bathyal settings, western North Atlantic. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Joao Luna-Gonzalez. Thermodynamic analysis of minerals from Cerro Galan and Cerro Blanco, NW Argentina. M.S. thesis advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

William Mason-Deese. Modeling stormflow in ungauged basins: using digital filters, LIDAR, and the geomorphological instantaneous unit hydrograph. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Allison Platsky. Testing the stability of marine communities over multiple timescales of eustatic cyclicity. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Judith Sclafani. The species area relationship in the Late Ordovician: a test using neutral theory. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Erin Smith. Assessment of archaeological deposits and depositional history of sediment stratigraphic units using grain size analyses, GPR, XRD, and absolute dating: northern Skidaway Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Dana Susina. A stable isotope study of vein-hosted gold mineralization in the Livengood deposit, Central Alaska. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Amy Jo Tweedell Robertson. The effect of drought on benzene-contaminated underground storage tank sites in Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Heather Veasey. Oxygen and sulfur isotope constraints on the origin of gold deposits at the Haile gold mine, Lancaster County, SC. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

2012

Jason Austin. Assessing the viability of pedogenic gibbsite as a proxy for paleo-pCO₂. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Paul Schroeder.

Lori Babcock. Accessory minerals, stable isotopes, and petrographic structures of Pentelic and Proconnesian quarry marbles: analysis with nonmetric multidimensional scaling for artifact provenance. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Liz Cary. Filtration of perchlorate from water using hexadecyltrimethylammonium (HDTMA)-modified montmorillonite. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Humberto Dugarte-Newman. Provenance and tectonic evolution of the pre-Mesozoic Caparo Block and Merida Terrane in the Venezuelan Andes. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Wright.

Joelle Freeman. Use of indoor radon data to analyze the effectiveness of radon risk prediction based on geochemical and geologic proxy data for the state of Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Sharon McMullen. The occurrence of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils in a sequence stratigraphic context: the Jurassic Sundance Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Katrina Ostrowicki. A petrographic, mineralogical, and petrophysical analysis of carbonate core in the Floridan aquifer system: Cockspur Island, Georgia, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Adam Sarafian. Apatite as a tool to determine the volatile content of eucrite meteorites. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

2011

Ernest Beasley. Investigating the driving mechanism of subsurface runoff response on a vegetated hillslope in the Georgia piedmont. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Michael Bonomo. Trace element geochemical characterization of southeastern pegmatitic muscovite and resultant implications for the provenancing of archaeological mica. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Richard Cary. Dynamic Emma: investigating watershed flow pathways using geochemistry and timing at Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Max Christie. Does ecological change scale with percent extinction? Quantifying the difference between taxonomic loss and functional ecology. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Stephan Fitzpatrick. Ground-penetrating radar investigation of preferential flowpaths on a hillslope. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Eleanor Gardner. Taphonomic alteration of avian bones: implications for bias in the avian fossil record. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Peter Lanzarone. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) and geoarchaeological examination at the Fanta Stream fossil and archaeological site, central Ethiopia. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Justin Miller. Testing the roles of extratropical origination and predation on irregular echinoid evolution. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Nick Radko. Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of southeastern piedmont soapstones: implications for sourcing prehistoric soapstone artifacts. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Katherine Schroer. Controls on nitrate degradation in two adjacent wetland streams with different geochemistry and flow-source terms, Watkinsville, GA. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Hillary Sletten. A 4,600-year stalagmite high-resolution geochemical and petrologic paleoclimate record for northeast Namibia. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

2010

Cynthia Hotujec. Mineralogical and compositional analysis of turquoise artifacts linked to prehistoric mines in New Mexico, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Chris Garrett Humphrey. In-situ U-Pb secondary ion mass spectrometry (IN-SIMS) geochronology from the Leeward Antilles Islands of Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, and Gran Rocque: implications for the temporal evolution of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) and early arc magmatism. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Wright.

Chester Jackson. Spatio-temporal analysis of barrier island shoreline change: the Georgia Coast, USA. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Clark Alexander (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography).

Margaret Kinsella. The Fox Range, northwest Nevada: displaced fragment along an Early Cretaceous dextral strike-slip fault. M.S. thesis advised by Sandra Wyld.

Kristen M. Longfellow. Skeletal tourmaline, undercooling, and crystallization history of the Stone Mountain Granite. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Heath McGregor. Petrogenetic relationships between relatively potassic and relatively sodic alkaline rocks from the Spanish Peaks area near Walsenberg, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

James Frank Muckler. Measuring nitrogen transformations in the vadose zone of a small, primary Piedmont watershed in Watkinsville, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

James Nutaitis. New mapping in the East Range, Nevada: implications for the Winnemucca and Fencemaker deformation belts. M.S. thesis advised by Sandra Wyld.

Elias Horry Parker. Multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) in karst terrain: implications for detecting subsidence features and lineaments. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Brian Price. Recharge and baseflow of a first-order stream in the Piedmont. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Andrew Zaffos. Abundance and extinction at the Ordovician/Silurian boundary of the Cincinnati Arch, USA. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

2009

Ellen Brouillette. An experimental approach to understand the responses of benthic foraminifera to Cd, Pb, Hg, and Zn. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Jeff Chaumba. The Russell Lake Allochthon, southern Appalachians: structure, petrography, bulk-rock and mineral chemistry, O, H, and Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mike Roden.

Steve Clarke. Evidence for high pressure fractionation of olivine-normative dikes from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Gabriel Izsak. A translational model for the Great Valley Group, California: a detrital zircon analysis. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Wright.

Matt Jarrett. Late Eocene sea surface temperatures: insights from Crassostrea gigantissima. M.S. thesis advised by Chris Romanek.

Mariela Noguera. Analysis of provenance of Late Cretaceous–Eocene turbidite sequences in northern Venezuela: tectonic implications on the evolution of the Caribbean. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Wright.

Christian Schrader. Geochronology and geology of the Pebble Cu-Au-Mo porphyry and the sill Au-Ag epithermal deposits, southwest Alaska. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Jason Thomas. Pressure wave generation of runoff in a convergent zone. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Jennifer Wehby. A feasibility study of portable spectroscopy for the analysis of mortar from the House of the Vestals. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

2008

Jessica Cook-Hale. Characterization of bronze casting in Insula 56, in Roman Aventicum. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Julie Fiser. Organic biomarkers in active and fossil travertine deposits: linking the present with the past. M.S. thesis advised by Chris Romanek.

Noel Heim. The spatial structure of biodiversity in the fossil record: contrasting global, continental and regional responses to climate change. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Steven Holland.

Adam Kiehn. Geochemical fingerprinting of specular hematite from prehistoric mines and archaeological sites in southern Africa. M.S. thesis advised by George Brook (Geography).

Jason Nail. Dithionite mediated degradation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene in soils from a former Department of Defense ammunition plant. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Eric Wysong. Hurricane effects on molluscan death assemblages and their facies. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

2007

Karen Layou. Paleocommunity response to extinction: an example from the late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the Appalachian basin of the eastern United States. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Steven Holland.

Michelle Trogdon. A geochemical study of four prehistoric quarries in Oaxaca, Mexico. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

2006

Scott Baker. Investigation of the crust and uppermost mantle in the Carolina Terrane and Blue Ridge, southern Appalachians, using receiver function analysis of broadband earthquake data. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Monica Carroll. Memoirs of river life: a clam’s shell view. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Chris Romanek.

Rhonda Cranfill. Colonial ceramic wares: comparison based on mineralogical, petrological and compositional data. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

Elizabeth Hollingsworth. Elemental and isotopic chemistry of the Uzon Caldera: the evolution of thermal waters, gas and mineral precipitation. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Chris Kelson. Geochemical and geochronological constraints on mineralization within the Hilltop, Lewis, and Bullion mining districts, Battle Mountain–Eureka trend, Nevada. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Doug Crowe.

Joey McKinnon. A mechanism for storm runoff generation during large rainfall events. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Lina Wayo. Biodegradation and phytoremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using mushroom compost. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Dawit Yifru. Phytoremediation and enhanced natural attenuation of perchlorate and N-nitrosodimethylamine as a single and co-contaminants. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

2005

Jennifer Kyle. Mineral-microbe interactions and biomineralization of siliceous sinters and underlying rock from Jenn’s Pools in the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Drew Mirante. Partial melting and migmatization of a metamorphic terrane in northeast Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Bethany Purdin. Heterogeneity in geochemical expression of subaerial exposure in the Nashville Dome, Tennessee. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Nathaniel Toll. Barometric fluctuation removal in water level records and solutions to flow in aquifers during sinusoidal aquifer pumping tests. M.S. thesis advised by Todd Rasmussen (Forestry).

2004

Vanese Flood. Coral community structure and patterns of sedimentation in Castle Harbour, Bermuda. M.S. thesis advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

W. Brian Veal. Mineralogy of the peraluminous Spruce Pine plutonic suite, Mitchell, Avery, and Yancey Counties, North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Sam Swanson.

2003

Jessica Allen. Sequence stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Harding Sandstone, Central Colorado: implications for the habitat of early fish. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Adam L. Bedell. Polymetamorphism and deformation within the Brevard Fault Zone, outside of Atlanta, GA. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Mirta A. Carpenter. An evaluation of ground-water flow and mass transport modeling in fractured karst systems from theory to applications for revising the Georgia Wellhead-Protection Plan and rules for safe drinking water. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Veronica C. Ciavarella. Mesozoic deformation and pluton emplacement in the northern Luning–Fencemaker fold-and-thrust belt: new evidence from the Bloody Run Hills, Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Sandra Wyld.

Doug Dvoracek. Geochemical and geochronological study of the Danburg and Sandy Hill granitoids and associated mafic enclaves, northeast Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mike Roden.

Kelly Gragg. Archaeogeophysical investigation of a samnite site, Monte Pallano, Italy. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Robert S. Harris. Evidence for impact-generated deposition on the Late Eocene shores of Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Joshua Lawson. The importance of geologic setting in developing groundwater fractured, metamorphic rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Gwinnett County Airport and Collins Hill Road, Gwinnett County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Todd Rasmussen (Forestry).

Gayle M. Levy. Using morphometric analysis to determine patterns of evolution in the Upper Ordovician brachiopod Sowerbyella rugosa from the Kope Formation of northern Kentucky. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Karen Lichtenstein. Historic sedimentation and allostratigraphy of the South Fork Broad River, northeast Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by David Leigh (Geography).

Colleen P. Stapleton. Geochemical analysis of glass from Hasanlu, northwestern Iran: constraints on manufacturing technology. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sam Swanson.

Donald M. Thieme. Stratigraphic and chronometric investigation of alluvial deposits of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Ervan Garrison.

2002

Rebecca J. Cerajewski. Paleoclimate reconstruction using isotopic analysis of tropical bivalves from the Pigeon Creek archaeological site, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. M.S. thesis advised by Chris Romanek.

Charles H. Fortner. Metamorphism at Woodall Shoals in the eastern Blue Ridge, Georgia–South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Deborah A. Keene. Archaeological and geophysical investigations at the Groves Creek site (09CH71), Skidaway Island Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Ervan Garrison.

Johnathan P. McKenna. Strong ground motions from two historical earthquakes: are the soils to blame? M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Robert Thomas. Passive treatment of low pH, ferric iron-dominated acid rock drainage. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Chris Romanek.

Md Momin Kamal Uddin. Laboratory studies of in-situ redox manipulation for remediation of PCE, TCE, and CR (V1) contaminated groundwater in Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Wendy C. Weaver. Paleoecology and prehistory: fossil pollen at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

2001

Lisa Miller Baldini. Isotopic ecology of the terrestrial gastropod, Cerion, San Salvador, Bahamas. M.S. thesis advised by Sally Walker.

Mark R. Colberg. Metamorphism and tectonic of the Carolina Terrain exposed in East Georgia, U.S.A. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Anna C. Dondero. Phytoremediation of perchlorate under greenhouse and natural conditions. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Elizabeth S. Gardiner. Mollusk assemblages of Caribbean reef communities: reef landscapes yield temporally assemblages with limited membership. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Sally Walker.

John J. LeGolvan. The fate of magnetite and ilmenite in weathering profile. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

David Payne. Chemically induced remediation of sediments contaminated with chlorinated aliphatics. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Seth B. Ramaley. Treatability investigation for natural attenuation of a shallow chlorinated solvent plume at the former Naval Training College, Orlando, Florida. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Christian M. Schrader. Geochronology and geology of the Pebble Cu-Au-Mo Porphyry and the Sill Au-Ag epithermal deposits, Southwest Alaska. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Berkley J. Tracy. Geology and ore fluid geochemistry of the Pebble Cu-Au Porphyry deposit, Southwest Alaska. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Chad E. Wolak. Mesozoic structure, stratigraphy, and magmatism in the eastern Pueblo Mountains, Southeast Oregon and Northwest Nevada: a record of an allochthonous arc terrane. M.S. thesis advised by Sandra Wyld.

2000

Adebola O. Adesida. The stratigraphic framework of Sapelo Island Georgia: a seismic reflection study. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Charles F.T. Andrus. Oxygen isotope analysis of ancient otoliths: a mid-Holocene record of El Niño variation and human adaptation from Peruvian archaeological sites. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Doug Crowe.

Michael A. Douglas. An electron microscopy study of 19^th century Staffordshire glazes and pigments including those of the Spode Pottery Works. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

James B. Feild. Piedmont hydrology flow and contaminant transport. Ph.D. dissertation advised by John Dowd.

Elizabeth A. Garrison. A ground penetrating radar and soil chemistry survey of the Little River archaeological site (9MG46) in Morgan County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Bryan A. Heath. Enhanced anaerobic degradation of tetrachloroethene using dithionite treated iron-bearing clays, iron oxides and aquifer materials. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Daniel M. Hunter. Testing for subaerial exposure at five Upper Ordovician sequence boundaries, Nashville Dome, Tennessee. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Evan B. Perry. Dissolved krypton and sulfur hexafluoride as partitioning traders in porous media. M.S. thesis advised by Chris Romanek.

Scott H. Pike. Archaeological geology and geochemistry of pentelic marble, Mount Pentelikon, Attica, Greece. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Ervan Garrison.

1999

James U.L. Baldini. Morphologic geochemical relationships between speleothems and drip water characteristics: evidence from Brown’s Folly Mine, Wiltshire, England. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Kevin G. Haborak. Analytical solution to flow in aquifers during sinusoidal aquifer pumping test. M.S. thesis advised by Todd Rasmussen (Forestry).

Ernest F. Jordan. Recognizing subaerial exposure in Ordovician limestones from Tennessee through isotopic and petrographic analyses. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Sherri L. Littman. Pleistocene/Holocene sea level change and the lithostratigraphy of the Georgia Bight: a geoarchaeological study. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Victor E. Millings. Stable isotopes as groundwater tracers at the D-area coal pile runoff basin of the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC. M.S. thesis advised by Chris Romanek.

Walter L. O’Niell. Biosorption and transformation of tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene using mixed-species microbial mats. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Johannah W. Rogers. Jurassic–Cretaceous deformation in the Santa Rosa Range, Nevada: implications for the development of the northern Luning–Fencemaker fold-and-thrust belt. M.S. thesis advised by Sandra Wyld.

Julia A. Rosdeutscher. Geology and stable isotope geochemistry of the Grassy Valley Gold Deposit, Cripple Creek District, Colorado: evidence for magmatic fluids. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Nina Serman. Methodological considerations of ground penetrating radar data from Mound a at the Little River (9MG46) archaeological site in Morgan County in Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Jason E. Shiflet. Characterization of titanium bearing phases in an east Georgia kaolin. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Thomas B. Wiley. Water and tracer movement in upper coastal plain. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

1998

Andrew C. Benson. Testing the cause and geographic extent of a Middle Ordovician photosynthetic productivity pulse. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Sang-Hwan Gwak. Stable oxygen and carbon isotope, major, minor and trace element, and strontium isotope compositions of Early Cretaceous Limestones, Blake Nose: DSDP LEG: 44, Site 392. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

Edward C. Hood. A diagenetic study of Jurassic limestones from the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Theodore C. McCarthy. The experimental examination of silicate/silicate-melt systems: derivation of two pressure sensitive expressions, and modeling of basaltic intrusion of the deep crust. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Nathan D. Melear. Crystal properties of goethite and hematite from three weathering profiles of the Georgia piedmont. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Paul Schroeder.

1997

Edward F. Albin. Georgiaites: tektite geochemistry and stratigraphic occurrence in east-central Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mike Roden.

Vivian M. Anderson. The metamorphic conditions of the crystalline basement rocks beneath the Savannah River site, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Roger H. Baldwin. Water and tracer behavior in undisturbed saprolite soil cores. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Carol Callaghan. Design and testing of a PVC plug for installation of TDR rods at depth. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Reyna M. Castillo. Enhanced anaerobic degradation of tetrachloroethylene by redox-manipulated iron-bearing clays. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Julie E. Cox. The paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic significance of carbon and oxygen isotopes of calcrete and related rocks of the Catskill Delta. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

William G. Eager. Geology and stable isotope geochemistry of the Ridgeway North Pit Au-Ag deposit, Ridgeway, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Ethan A. Goddard. Three studies of the stable isotope paleoclimatic record of cave speleothems. M.S. thesis advised by George Brook (Geography).

Angela A. McLain. Fixed nitrogen in clay minerals of an offshore Texas, Brazos block well. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Mary T. Oates. Sorption of halogenated aromatic chemicals by single-and dual-cation organo-modified montmorillonites. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Daphne L. Owens. A feasibility study for phytolith research in the southeast from Scull Shoals in the Oconee National Forest and Skidaway Island Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Ervan Garrison.

Cynthia L. Prosser. Shallow seismic profiling in the Brevard Fault Zone. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Margaret A. Rafter. Petrographic and geochemical analyses of two Republic of Madagascar speleothems as potential records of climate. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Darrell E. Rennels. Aquatic plant-mediated transformation of halogenated aliphatic organic compounds. M.S. thesis advised by Valentine Nzengung.

Joshua B. Sternberg. Testing a Middle Ordovician sequence boundary for chronostratigraphic significance. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Daniel C. Weinand. Increment studies of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from coastal Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Betsy Reitz (Anthropology).

1996

Sandra R. Bezenek. Determination of temporal fluid evolution in the Dalnegorsk hydrothermal system: an integrated study of δ¹⁸O and major element fluctuation within zoned garnets. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Polly Bouker. Using multivariate statistics to quantify tempestite proximality: Silurian Red Mountain Formation, Ringgold Gap, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

R. Criss Capps. Geologic setting of Miocene volcanogenic gold mineralization near the western margin of the Colorado River extensional corridor — Eastern Mojave Desert, California. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Raad M. Delaimi. Modeling groundwater flow in the vicinity of the Savannah River site, South Carolina and Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by John Dowd.

Jennifer R. Diaz. Meteoric diagenesis of Ordovician limestones from Cannon County, TN. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

David M. Gibbs. Comparison of chloride and deuterium as hydrologic tracers in an isolated soil block. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

April Shawn Hall. The stable carbon isotopic geochemistry of dissolved organic carbon in southeastern United States rivers and the Georgia Bight. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Zachary S. Hall. The geology of the Barnett Shoals Quadrangle, Inner Piedmont, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Stephen B. Harper. Characteristics, controlling factors, and erosional impact of debris flows triggered by the November 1988 rainstorm in Phipun District, Nakhon Si Thyammarat Province, Southern Thailand. Ph.D. dissertation advised by George Brook (Geography).

Bobby W. Jones. Dissolved krypton gas as a tracer for groundwater flow: its use in fractured crystalline bedrock and unconfined sands of Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

John F. Jordan. Sequence stratigraphy of a carbonate to siliciclastic transition in the Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian of the southern Appalachians. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Mustapha Kane. Petrology and geochemistry of the Sn-W-B Mesozoic Cenozoic granites in Primorye (Far-East Russia): geodynamic implications. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Doug Crowe.

Frank G. Lieth. Oxygen isotope study of the Dalnegorsk Borosilicate Skarn Far East Russia, Primorye Region. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

Thomas L. Mitchell. The stable isotope geochemistry and geology of synvolcanic gold mineralization in the Jumbo South Deposit, Castle Mountains, Eastern Mojave Desert, California: indications of magmatic input. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

John A. Norris. Geochemistry of mafic xenoliths from the Easy Chair Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Matthew J. Overbaugh. Assessment of the hydraulic properties of a soil-saprolite sequence near Watkinsville, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Alan T. Peoples. Application of the parasequence model to the Cretaceous Dakota Group in Cañon City, CO. M.S. thesis advised by Steven Holland.

Matthew L. Schirmer. Recharge investigation of a municipal well in the Georgia piedmont using naturally occurring geochemical tracers. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

1995

Hishameldin O. Ahmed. Shallow seismic reflection profiling over the Ruby Mountains, Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Lynn M. Andrews. Bedding-plane and tectonic stylolites in Appalachian carbonates: a field and laboratory study. M.S. thesis advised by Bruce Railsback.

Jeffrey E. Clippard. High resolution shallow seismic survey over an ultramafic complex in the Carolina Terrane. M.S. thesis advised by Rob Hawman.

Robert L. Deal. A network model of porous media. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Debra F. P. Dooley. Phase equilibrium studies of Al-Ti-Mg mixing properties in biotite and the effects of Ti and F on phlogopite stability. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Alberto Patiño-Douce.

Christopher J. Hook. Magmatic sulfides in intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks contemporaneous with ore-forming plutons at Bingham, Utah. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Dennis O’Connell. Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of microfossils in portions of the Monteagle and Tuscumbia Limestones in northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mark Rich.

Buford B. Pollett. Application of the Rietveld method for the determination of mineral abundances in east central Georgia kaolin deposits. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Charles B. Rickard. The relationship of the Snowshow Ash-Flow Tuff and the Fisher Quartz Latite, San Juan Mountains Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Richard G. Vaughan. Laser microprobe study of sulfur isotope micro-variations in a sea floor hydrothermal vent, East Pacific Rise, 21° N latitude. M.S. thesis advised by Doug Crowe.

1994

Leslie Crawford. Water level and gradient responses to barometric loading at the Savannah River Site. M.S. thesis advised by Todd Rasmussen (Forestry).

Daniel Drommerhausen. The use of ground electromagnetic conductivity to determine the source of nitrate in dairy wells. M.S. thesis advised by Dennis Radcliffe.

Jae Gon Kim. FTIR, XRD, SEM and chemical study of biotite weathering from the Sparta, Granite, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Schroeder.

Robert M. Kuhn. Distribution, Taphonomy and paleoenvironmental reliability of salt marsh St. Catherines Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Edward Meyers. The acquisition and analysis of an oxygen and hydrogen isotopic database acquired from the waters of the surficial and Floridan aquifers of coastal plain of Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Eric B. Thoman. An experiment in stratigraphic application using the oxygen isotopic compositions within quartzitic units of the Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

1993

Henry Kevin Dooley. Provenance determination of early American marble. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Claude Wesley Hulsey. The secondary permeability of compacted clays treated with selected non-aqueous phase liquids using computerized X-ray tomography and image analysis. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Jane E. Marshall. Comparison of tracer movement through disturbed VS intact cores taken from a structured piedmont soil. M.S. thesis advised by John Dowd.

Janet Albert Steeper. The geology of the Cadley 7.5' quadrangle in Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Grayce Todd Watkins. Southeastern U.S. backbarrier salt marsh foraminifera (St. Catherines Island, Georgia): factors controlling assemblage distribution. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

1992

Daniel R. Askren. Origin of andesites interlayered with large-volume ash-flow tuffs in the western United States. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mike Roden.

Paul J. Atelsek. Orbitally-controlled fluctuations in western South Atlantic bottom water velocity during the Middle Pleistocene. M.S. thesis advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

Maureen Bottrell. The geology, petrology and oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Danburg Granite, Wilkes and Lincoln Counties, Georgia: an oxygen isotope study. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Teresa Cannan. Mineralogy and evolution of magmatic sulfides in ore-related magmas of the East Tintic Mountains, Utah. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Donald Chen. Geothermobarometry in pelitic rocks in the vicinity of the Hayesville Fault near the Shooting Creek Area (NC) of the Blue Ridge. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Mike Roden.

Asher D. Havenhill. The magma evolution of the Marcath Flow, Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada as determined from electron microprobe analyses of megacrysts and phenocrysts. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

David S. Heller. Methods of weathering of dolomitic marble: Lee, Massachusetts and Thasos, Greece. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Choon-Sik Kim. Magmatic evolution of ore-related intrusions and consanguineous volcanic rocks in the Tintic and Last-Tintic mining districts, Utah. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Tracy L. McFarland. Geochemical and petrographic study of the Russell Lake Allochthon in northeast Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Demetrios Papacharalampos. Geological mapping from digital data on a personal workstation. Ph.D. dissertation advised by George Koch.

1991

Gaber Al-Sanabani. Palynostratigraphic age and origin of the kaolin deposits in inner coastal plains in east-central Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Hurst.

Samuel J. Bentley. Physical and biogenic characteristics of Cabbage Island tidal flat, Wassaw Sound, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

John Dodge. Estuarine transformation of fluvial khandite, coastal Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

William B. Egeland. Abundance and diversity of benthic foraminifera in the nearshore zone of Georgia and South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Valderez P. Ferreira. Petrology and geochemistry of the Late Proterozoic ultrapotassic peralkaline Triunfo Pluton and related dikes, Northeast Brazil. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Mark E. Hall. The Geology of the Celeste 7.5 minute quadrangle, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

David K. Kirby. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Tuscumbia Limestone in northeast Mississippi. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Robert A. Lowe. Search for Ostwald ripening in Georgia’s kaolins. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Otis Chip Malcom. The illite in the commercial kaolins of the middle Georgia kaolin district. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Anthony J. Martin. A paleoenvironmental analysis of the Shellmound and Mannie Shale Members, Sequatchie Formation (Upper Ordovician, Georgia and Tennessee). Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

Lawrence Motebe. Oxygen isotopic and petrographic studies of selected uranium-rich granitoids from Namibia. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Dean C. Musfeldt. Taphonomy of mollusk shells on the nearshore shelf off Tybee Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

David J. Varricchio. An ecological analysis of the South American mammalian immigrants to North America based on their Plio–Pleistocene distributions and faunal associates. M.S. thesis advised by Josh Laerm.

Thomas Williams. Petrology and geochemical of the volcanics of Table Mountain, San Juan Volcanic Field. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

1990

Mohamed A. Al-Aawah. Taphonomy and distribution of benthic foraminifera on the nearshore shelf of Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

Marilyn Alfaro. Origin of granophyres within the Dore Lake Complex, Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Sherri Clark-Havert. A study of factors controlling the isotopic composition of water within a forested watershed. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Marianna Paulsen DePratter. Variability within upper offshore facies seaward of barrier islands in the Georgia Bight. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

James B. Feild. Plot tracer study in a Georgia piedmont Pinus taeda (L) plantation. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Wesley S. Hardegree. Separating stream flow from Savannah River backwater and groundwater by oxygen 18. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Kenneth J. Hemmen. Comparison of tracer concentrations from suction lysimeters and soil water extractions for a structured piedmont soil. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Robert M. Horwath. Late Eocene and Early Oligocene calcareous nannofossils and search for microtektites from central Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Nathan D. Melear. Clay minerals and ferruginous minerals formed during weathering of granitic rocks of the Georgia piedmont. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Jai-Woon Moon. Petrographic and geochemical aspects of dolomitization: middle Cretaceous carbonates from Little Bahama Bank, Navidad Bank, and Florida Escarpment. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

David D. Nelson. Sedimentology of a deep sea fan deposit, Jackfork Formation Arkansas. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Bert H. Taylor. A photogeologic interpretation of highland terrain in the vicinity of Sirenum Fossae, Eridania northeast and Phaethonitis northwest quadrangles, Mars. M.S. thesis advised by James Hattin Howard III.

Arthur L. Veenendaal. Water infiltration processes in a structured piedmont soil evaluation of the effects of stemflow loading. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Wolfgang Von der Heyde. Geology of the Washington east 7.5' quadrangle, Wilkes County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

1989

Laura L. Burnett. Derivation of sediment from weathering of a humid sub-tropical to temperate climate—Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Andrew H. Clark. Tectonothermal evolution of the Western Gneiss Terrane and allochthonous Caledonian sequences, Senja, North Norway. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Timothy O. Goist. Petrology and geochemistry of the EMAS Pluton, Northeastern Brazil. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Alan C. Hughes. Provenance study of the “Hartselle” Interval of the upper Floyd Shale (Mississippian) near Rome, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Victor Y. Johnson. Petrology, geochemistry, and paleomagnetism of the Scheelite skarn deposit at Mill City, Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Jeffrey Keith.

Diane Kamola. Permian–Triassic system boundary in south-central Utah: stratal relations, paleorelief, unconformities. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

Peter D. Ketcham. Studies of groundwater movement in north Georgia piedmont regolith by natural oxygen-18 tracing. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Joseph B. McKinney. Precambrian and Caledonian evolution of portions of the Western Gneiss Terrane and Senja Nappe, Troms, Northern Norway. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Lyle V. Phillips. The petrology and evolution of the Central Nevada Caldera Complex: Nye County, Nevada. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

James F. Renner. Clay mineralogy of the Rockmart Slate. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Gregory C. Simones. Geologic analysis of ground water radon variation in the vicinity of the Elberton Batholith, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

1988

William W. Barker. An electron microscopic study of extralamellar organoclay complexes. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Hurst.

Randolph A. Culp. Ground truth evaluation of the continuous surficial sediment sampling system for marine pollution assessment. M.S. thesis advised by John Noakes.

James Frazer Durrett III. Gold in placer and saprolite deposits. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Mary E. Elrod. Paleomagnetic analysis of Recent abyssal sediments from the northeast Argentine basin. M.S. thesis advised by Dan Spariosu.

Willis E. Hames. Timing and extent of Caledonian Orogeny within a portion of the Western Gneiss Terrane, Senja, Northern Norway. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Tracy Jones. Smectitic impurities in some commercial Georgia kaolins. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Choon-Sik Kim. Geochemical aspects of Eocene–Oligocene volcanism and alteration in central Utah. M.S. thesis advised by Jeffrey Keith.

Christopher M. Lapallo. Petrographic and geochemical relations between the rocks on the north and south limbs of the Chibougamau Anticline: assimilation of roof rocks, crystallization and residual liquid compositions in the Dore Lake complex, Quebec, Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Roden.

Gorki Mariano. Magma mixing origin of a K-rich calc-alkaline granitoid: Itaporanga Batholith, Paraiba State, northeastern Brazil. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Norm Herz.

William W. Millar. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of a portion of the Chesterian Series (Upper Mississippian) in cores from Blount and Chandler Mountains, Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Michael G. Moskow. Flint kaolins in the Georgia coastal plain. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Michael Sheehan. Ichnology, depositional environment, and paleoecology of the upper Pennington Formation (Upper Mississippian), Dougherty Gap, Walker County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Martin Steflik. Electrical resistivity characteristics of water-bearing fractures in the north Georgia piedmont. M.S. thesis advised by Dan Spariosu.

Ernani A. Trein. Ilmenite alteration and heavy-mineral suites of the Lynches River, South Carolina piedmont and coastal plain. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Frederick C. Tuck. Electromagnetic investigation of groundwater in the Georgia piedmont: applications to water well siting and waste site leakage. M.S. thesis advised by Dan Spariosu.

Wilhelmus T. Van Middelaar. Alteration and mica chemistry of the granitoid associated with the Cantung Scheelite Skarn, Tungsten, Northwest Territories, Canada. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jeffrey Keith.

Roger L. White. An analysis of the manganese content of the Fort Payne Formation of northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Edward J. Zungailia. Surface geophysics and contaminant transport at a hazardous waste landfill, Clarke County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Dan Spariosu.

1987

Gaber Ali Al-Sanabani. Investigation of hydraulic equivalence in beach and dune sands. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

M. Michael Brock. A two-dimensional computer model of the Clayton aquifer in southwestern Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Randolph Josh Cumbest. Tectonothermal overprinting of the Western Gneiss Terrane, Senja, Troms. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Angela S. Curry. Orientation of the salt marsh mussel, Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn) to tidal currents, Skidaway Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Michael J. Dorais. The mafic enclaves of the Dinkey Creek granodiorite and the Carpenter Ridge Tuff: a mineralogical, textural, and geochemical study of their origins with implications for the generation of silicic batholiths. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Joseph E. Garcia. A geostatistical study of fracture traces and their hydrological significance, southern Piedmont, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Lisa Steward Hardy. Mineralogy and petrology of the Haile gold mine, Lancaster County, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Diane L. Kamola. Marginal marine and nonmarine facies, Spring Canyon Member, Blackhawk Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Carbon County, Utah. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

William R. McClain. Petrography and stable oxygen and isotope compositions of Campanian grainstones and rudstones, northeast Providence Channel, Bahamas: ODP Leg 101, Hole 634A. M.S. thesis advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

Barbara Ann Murphy. Quantitative analysis of the distribution of Quaternary benthic foraminifera on the continental shelf off South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Ramesh Kumar Reddy. A generalized model for evaluating area potential in mineral exploration program. a case study of silver exploration in parts of Idaho and Montana. Ph.D. dissertation advised by George Koch.

Edward Kenton Sprague. Aminostratigraphy of relict salt marsh deposits (Late Holocene), St. Catherines Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

William L. Turner. The geology of the Vesta 7 1/2' quadrangle Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

1986

Daniel R. Askren. Petrology and geochemistry of the Huerto Formation, Southfork area, San Juan Volcanic field, south central Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Scott D. Chase. Geology of the Atkins prospect, Andersonville sulfide district, Buckingham County, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Kevin M. Conway. The geology of the northern two-thirds of the Philomath quadrangle, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Linda L. Davis. Petrology and geochemistry of the intrusive rocks and associated iron-rich poly metallic skarn at Reilly Peak, New Mexico. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

William B. Dunnagan. The geology of the Washington west 7.5' quadrangle Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Jane Ann Enter. Investigations of DSDP cave sites 502 and 503. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Christopher Fleisher. The stratigraphy, petrology, and geochemistry of the Fish Canyon ash-flow tuff, Mt. Hope Caldera, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Jonathan Forstrom. Predicting low streamflows from modeled recharge in small piedmont basins. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Thomas Del Hutto. The geology of the Rayle quadrangle within Wilkes County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Jeffrey Legato. Geology of the Heardmont quadrangle, Georgia–South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Mark D. Mitchell. The effects of hydrothermal alteration on the Fish Canyon Tuff, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

John R. Noel. Paleomagnetism of late Precambrian metavolcanic rocks from the Carolina Slate Belt. M.S. thesis advised by Dan Spariosu.

Kenneth Plemons. Physical occurrence of gold in east-central Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

David M. Poe. The separation of montmorillonite from Florida phosphate slimes. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Mary Wendell Rhea. Morphology, drainage, and inferred process of formation. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Robert P. Rogero. Geology of the Tignall 7 1/2' quadrangle, Wilkes County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Robert D. Schmitter. Sediment transport characteristics of the nearshore zone between Hilton Head and Ossabaw Islands, Georgia, as determined by the heavy mineral analysis. M.S. thesis advised by Ray Freeman-Lynde.

Kenneth C. Tyson. Petrology, geochemistry, and stratigraphy of the northern lobes of the Fish Canyon Tuff, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

John K. Wilson. Geology of the northern half of the Crozet quadrangle, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

1985

Mohamed A. Al-Aawah. Diversity and distribution of mollusk shells on the nearshore shelf of Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Thomas J. Algeo. Petrography and paleodepositional environment of the Bangor Limestone (Upper Mississippian) in northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

John M. Elder. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Pennsylvania Raccoon Mountain Formation in its type area, tri-state region, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

John Kenneth Eubanks. Quaternary paleoclimatology of the Carlsbad Cavern area, New Mexico, as determined from stable isotope and chronologic studies of the Georgia giant speleothem. M.S. thesis advised by John Noakes.

John W. Miller Jr. Statistical modeling of the Austinville Mine: a guide to exploration. Ph.D. dissertation advised by George Koch.

Elizabeth Milliron Porter. A study of the significance of particle size in the distribution of heavy minerals in stream-sediment samples of the Avalon and Toccoa quadrangles, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by George Koch.

Mark A. Potts. Manganese deposits of the valley and ridge province, northwest Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Raymond H. Young. The geology of the Jackson Crossroads 7.5' quadrangle, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

1984

Thomas N. Brazell. The geology and economic potential of the western half of the Lake Wylie 7.5' quadrangle, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Robert M. Chernow. Biogenic controls on the development of magnetic fabric in coastal sediments. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Nancy E. Dean. Archaeological geology and geochemistry of the Carrara Marble, Carrarra, Italy. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Marcell E. Durocher. The geology of Opemiska Township, Quebec. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Gilles Allard.

Francis D. Foley. Neogene seismic stratigraphy and depositional history of the lower Georgia coast and continental shelf. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Gary P. Grinstead. Pliocene paleoclimatic history of the southwest Atlantic: a quantitative micropaleontological approach. M.S. thesis advised by Susan Goldstein.

Stephen W. Henderson. Taphonomy and distribution of shelled molluscs within the Duplin River and Doboy Sound, Sapelo Island, Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

Marc Vernon Hurst. Phytoliths as a source of silica in coals. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Stephen W. Kline. Metamorphic mineral chemistry, petrology, and primary sulfide mineralogy of the Dore Lake Complex, Chibougamau, Quebec. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Kathryn Langmyer. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of portions of the Tuscumbia and Monteagle Limestones in northwest Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Gorki Mariano. Geological and statistical analyses of ground-water data for the State of Georgia collected in national uranium resource evaluation. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

David M. Mercer. Variations in point bar deposits from Georgia fluvial and estuarine environments. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Sean C. Murphy. Geology of the northern half of the Metasville 7 1/2 minute quadrangle, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

D. Papacharalampos. Determining the applicability of ridge regression to the definition of mineral-deposit anomalies. M.S. thesis advised by George Koch.

A. Luis Pingarron. The ordered application of geophysical chemical and sedimentological techniques for the study of archaeological sites: the case of San Jose Ixtapa, Mexico. M.S. thesis advised by John Noakes.

William J. Tripp. Density and distribution of macroborers of the modern Glossifungites ichnofacies: St. Catherines Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Robert A. Wheatcroft. Ichnology and major facies of the Ripley Formation and Providence Sand (Upper Cretaceous), Chattahoochee River valley. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

1983

William M. Bailey. Geology of the northern half of the Horseshoe Mountain quadrangle Nelson County, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Jack H. Cowart. Ichnology and depositional environments of the Athabasca oil sands, Steepbank River area (McMurray Formation). M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Barbara J. Daniel. Pliocene–Pleistocene paleoceanography of the southeast Indian Ocean based on magnetostratigraphic–micropaleontologic studies of piston cores. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Ciesielski.

Glen A. Duncan. Sediment characteristics and sedimentary processes of North Beach, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Mark A. Earley. A remanent magnetic test of the color alterations of icthyoliths due to secondary heating of the Kaibab Limestone, Flagstaff, Arizona. M.S. thesis advised by Brooks Ellwood.

William W. Gilliam. Determination of environments of deposition through hydraulic equivalence studies. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Pamela E. Godfrey. Geology and economic potential of southern half of the Kings Creek quadrangle, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Faisal Idris. Cenozoic seismic stratigraphy and structure of the South Carolina lower coastal plain and continental shelf. Ph.D. dissertation advised by John Noakes.

Thomas Kremer. SEM and XRD investigation of mineralogical transformations during weathering. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Daniel Lovingood. The geology of the southern one-third of the Philomath and northern one-third of the Crawfordville, Georgia quadrangles. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Jean Morrison. Paleomagnetism of the Silurian and Ordovician lower Red Mountain, Catheys and Sequatchie Formations from the Valley and Ridge Province. M.S. thesis advised by Brooks Ellwood.

Jerry A. Owen. A lithogeochemical survey of the Pinos Altos Pluton, Silver City, New Mexico. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Karen Elaine Rabek. Late Pleistocene tephrochronology of the western Gulf of Mexico. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

John K. Reed. An evaluation of Tertiary fluvial sediments in east-central Georgia using the meandering river facies model. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Andrew K. Rindsberg. Ichnology and paleoecology of the Sequatchie and Red Mountain Formations (Ordovician–Silurian), Georgia–Tennessee. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Melissa A. Roberts. A petrographic and geochemical analysis of the Sparta granitic complex, Hancock County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Charles T. Scarborough. Electrophoretic mobility and colloidal transport of native gold. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Jennifer M. Smith. Biodeposition by and paleoecological significance of the ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa in a salt marsh, Sapelo Island, Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

Mark C. Standridge. Size frequency distribution and composition of chemically altered non-transported saprolitized source rocks. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Kuo-Yu Tan. The silicate mineralogy and petrology of the Elberton Granite. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Douglas E. Wells. Geology and petrochemistry of the Rock Branch quadrangle Elbert County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Peter H. Wilkinson. Test wall ultrastructure and minor element composition of Fusulina from the Ely Limestone, east-central Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

1982

Charlotte E. Abrams. Geology of the Austell–Froloona antiform, northwestern Georgia piedmont. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Gregg S. Barker. A rock magnetic study of subglacial volcanoes in Iceland. M.S. thesis advised by Brooks Ellwood.

Thomas H. Biggs. The geology of the McCormick area, McCormick County, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Oliver T. Blay. Delineation of uraniferous granitoids using computing and statistical analysis of stream sediment geochemical data. M.S. thesis advised by George Koch.

Fred J. Bynum Jr. The geology of the south one-half of the Ware Shoals west quadrangle, S.C. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Kok Keong Cheang. Oxygen isotope, fluid inclusion, microprobe and petrographic studies of the Precambrian granites from the southern Wind River Range and the Granite Mountains, Central Wyoming, U.S.A., Constraints on origin, hydrothermal alteration and uranium genesis. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jim Whitney.

Fred C. Davidson Jr. Classification of thermo-magnetic characteristics of southeastern granites and correlation with previously reported magnetic results. M.S. thesis advised by Brooks Ellwood.

Kenneth R. Davis. Petrology of carbonate rocks in the lower portion of the Floyd Shale, Rome area, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Ronald G. Delia. The geology of the southern half of the Willington 7 1/2' quadrangle, South Carolina–Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

John C. Donahue. The geology and petrochemistry of the Patiño Deposit and its host rocks, Lemoine Township, Quebec. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Ultrastructure and minor element composition of the test wall of Profusulinella from the Ely Limestone east-central Nevada. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Kenneth A. Gillon. Stratigraphic, structural, and metamorphic geology of portions of the Cowrock and Helen, Georgia 7.5' quadrangle. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

John A. Groce. Selected physical properties of the relict salt marsh deposits of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Thomas Allen Hudson. Geology of the Irish Creek tin district, Virginia Blue Ridge. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Elliott B. Jacobs. Shape parameters and distribution of macroborings, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Thomas L. Lott Jr. Petrography, major element chemistry, and geology of uraniferous igneous rocks in the Turtle Lake quadrangle, Washington. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Philip L. Manning. Surface mining potential of the coal seams of Lookout Mountain, northeast Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Marilyn L. Massad. Anomalous remanent magnetization of deep-sea sediments in the Venezuelan Basin caused by self-reversal of precipitated magnetite. M.S. thesis advised by Brooks Ellwood.

Michael M. Morris. Physical and biogenic sedimentary structures as depositional indicators in the Cardium Formation (Upper Cretaceous), southwestern Alberta. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Susan Hope Murphy. The geochemistry of molybdenum in the environment at Roytown, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by James Hattin Howard III.

James C. Redwine. Soxhlet extraction of fly ash to determine the behavior of constituents during aqueous leaching. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Michael J. Sibley. Geology of the Magruder Mine–Chambers prospect area, Lincoln and Wilkes Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

David M. Smith. A diatom abundance stratigraphy and dispersed ash tephrochronology for the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

Pierre A. Zippi. Calcium carbonate dissolution history for deep-sea cores adjacent Portugal. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

1981

Stephen R. Alcorn. Mineralogy, petrology, and evolution of a calc-alkaline igneous sequence, Cerros De Tilaran, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Jay Stormer.

Richard M. Ames. Geochemistry of the Grenville basement rocks from the Roseland District, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Arthur Baldasari. Iron-titanium oxides in the Elberton Granite. M.S. thesis advised by Jay Stormer.

Giselle M. Beaulieu. Oxygen isotopic geochemistry, major chemistry, and petrography of the Devonian New Hampshire Magma Series of northeastern Vermont. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

Christopher Blaeser. Recognition of bottom water activity in the Vema Channel on the basis of sediment size distributions. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

John C. Brock. Petrology of the Mobley Mountain Granite, Amherst County, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Douglas L. Bulfinch. Western boundary undercurrent delineated by sediment texture at base of North American continental rise. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

John W. Davidson. The geology, petrology, geochemistry and economic mineral resources of east-central Oglethorpe County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Hardy Jost. Geology and metallogeny of the Santana Da Boa Vista region, southern Brazil. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Gilles Allard.

Robert A. Kaufmann. Selected physical properties of the low salt marsh, Skidaway Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Jeffrey A. Kellam. Neogene seismic stratigraphy and depositional history of the Tybee Trough area, Georgia–South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Larry F. Lens. Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentary framework of the Sapelo Island area, coastal Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Thomas T.H. Lin, Distribution of volcanic ash reflectors in the eastern equatorial Pacific. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

Stephen S. McFadden. Flow energy in rivers: Middle Oconee and Mulberry Rivers, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Steven P. Nagel. Geochemistry and petrology of xenoliths in the Elberton Batholith. M.S. thesis advised by Jay Stormer.

William J. O’Leary. Magmatic paragenesis of the Fish Canyon Ash-Flow Tuff, Central San Jose Mountains, Colorado. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Karen R. Obenshain. Amphibolite anatexis within a contact aureole. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Noel Irene Osborn. Disconformities and paleo-oceanography in the southeast Indian Ocean during the last 5.4 million years. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

Phillip M. Potter. The geology of the Carlton quadrangle, inner piedmont, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Jeffrey C. Reid. Metallogeny of the tungsten deposits of the northeastern Brazil scheelite district, and applied exploration bedrock geochemistry (lithogeochemistry) vol. I & II. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Gilles Allard.

Margaret L. Savage. Glacial history of Antarctica as determined from Ross Sea DSDP Sites 272 and 273 using the diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphic records. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Ciesielski.

Cynthia A. Shaw. Eocene and Oligocene silicoflagellate biostratigraphy for DSDP Leg 71, Sites 511 and 512 South Atlantic Ocean. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Ciesielski.

Amy K. Van Nostrand. The geology of Solheimasandur, South Iceland and comparison with other areas modified by catastrophic flooding. M.S. thesis advised by David Wenner.

1980

Eric T. Allison. Timing of bottom-water scour recorded by sedimentological parameters in the South Australian basin. M.S. thesis advised by Michael Ledbetter.

Malcolm P. Annis. The geology and metallogeny of the upper Numedal Region, Norway. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Gilles Allard.

Donald J. Baker. The metamorphic and structural history of the Grenville front near Chibougamau, Quebec. Ph.D. dissertation advised by David Dallmeyer.

Gary J. Davis. The southwestern extension of the Middletown–Lowndesville cataclastic zone in the Greensboro, Georgia area and its regional implications. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

William Martin Fay. Geologic and geochemical studies of portions of the Lincolnton and Plum Branch quadrangles, Georgia and South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by George Koch.

Harry S. Forsthoff. Petrogenesis and porosity development in the Crystal River Formation of the Ocala Group (Eocene) of southwest Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Stuart B. Goldstein. Geology of the Civil War mine area Lincoln County Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Paul Gruber. A hydrologic study of the unsaturated zone adjacent to a radioactive-waste disposal site at the Savannah River plant, Aiken, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Verner Noel Guthrie. Geology of the Dorn Mine, McCormick, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Jaime Orlando Martinez. Neogene stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of Cumberland Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Gary David Paulson. Major and trace element geochemistry of the Carolina Slate Belt volcanics, southern Appalachians, and its tectonic implications. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Armondo Salazar-Jimenez. Orientation of bivalve shells in estuarine sediments of the Georgia coast, U.S.A. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Jeffrey Shellebarger. Stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphism in portions of the Jacks Gap and Coosa Bald 7.5' quadrangles, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Joseph R. Wadsworth. Geomorphic characteristics of tidal drainage networks in the Duplin River system, Sapelo Island, Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

James R. Woolsey Jr. Neogene stratigraphy of the Georgia coast and inner continental shelf. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Henry.

Richard Mark Wooten. Stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphism in portions of the Hayesville and Hiawassee 7.5' quadrangle, North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

1979

Leanne Sue French. Wall structure of selected species of hyaline foraminifera. M.S. thesis advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

James R. Hess. Geochemistry of the Elberton Granite and the geology of the Elberton West quadrangle, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Jay Stormer.

Carol G. Horowitz. Benthic foraminifera of the Oligocene Suwannee Limestone, Georgia and Northern florida. M.S. thesis advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

Michael A. Luckett. Cretaceous and lower Tertiary stratigraphy along the Flint River. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Stephen P. Reusing. Geology of the Graves Mountain area, Lincoln and Wilkes Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Lewis F. Rogers. The petrography-mineralogy of six Georgia kaolins. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Hurst.

Janet Roth. Late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Edisto Island, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Josh Laerm.

Charles H. Schroder. Trace fossils of the Upper Cretaceous–lower Tertiary (formerly Tuscaloosa Formation) and Basal Jackson Group, east-central Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

Frederick J. Schultz. An evaluation of techniques of cluster analysis applied to the stratigraphy of a Caribbean deep-sea core. M.S. thesis advised by George Koch.

Richard M. Scott. Examination of selected Holocene–Pleistocene beach environments, southeast Atlantic coast. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Roger Dale Sharpe. Petrology, geochemistry, and metamorphic history of the Henson Creek Dunite, Mitchell County, North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Carol J. Thurmond. The geology of the Chennault 7.5' quadrangle, Georgia–South Carolina and its significance to the problem of the Charlotte Belt–Carolina Slate Belt boundary. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

Gary A. Zarillo. Interrelation of hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a salt marsh estuary. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Carver.

1978

Richard M. Eppiheimer. A geophysical study of the Roseland anorthosite-titanium district, Nelson and Amherst Counties, Virginia. M.S. thesis advised by Norm Herz.

Richard Lee Henry. The Lac Sauvage volcanogenic iron formation near Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada: its petrology, geochemistry, structure and economic significance. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Donald R. Hunter. Petrographic and geochemical study of carbonate rocks in the Bangor–lowermost Pennington interval, Monteagle Mountain, Tennessee. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Milford R. Johnson. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of portions of the Tuscumbia Limestone and Monteagle Limestone in northern Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

W. Stephen Letzsch. Erosion and deposition within salt marsh, Sapelo Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Sally P. Moore. The petrology and geochemistry of the Bisher Limestone and its associated zinc occurrences, Lewis County, Kentucky. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Gene D. Robinson Jr. Partitioning of certain trace metals in soils in the southeastern United States. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Carpenter.

Robert W. Rozen. The geology of the Elberton east quadrangle. M.S. thesis advised by Jim Whitney.

James A. Saunders. Petrochemistry, volcanic stratigraphy, and economic geology of the Waconichi Formation in Scott Township, Chibougamau, Quebec. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Tommy J. Temples. Stable isotope variations in foraminifera from eastern Caribbean cores: stratigraphic implications. M.S. thesis advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

1977

Anthony J. Arnold. Distribution of benthic foraminifera in the surface sediments of the Georgi–South Carolina continental slope. M.S. thesis advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

Mary Dorinda Dallmeyer. Quaternary biostratigraphy of deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the eastern Caribbean Sea. M.S. thesis advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

Daniel Doughtery. The stratigraphy, structure and metamorphic history of the northern half of the Blairsville quadrangle, Georgia–North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Douglas E. Glass. Prediction of the thermal conductivity of marine sediments from some of their physical properties. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Warren P. Morgan Jr. Clay mineral descriptions and distributions, Altamaha, Doboy, and Sapelo Sounds, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Pinet.

Robert E. Nash. Historical changes in the mean high water shoreline and nearshore bathymetry of south Georgia and north Florida. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Edwin Henry Price. Stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphic history of the southern half of the Nottely Dam quadrangle: Georgia–North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

1976

John Richard Deery. Washover fans of the Georgia coast. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Arthur H. Maybin Jr. The geology of the Opawica River complex, Quebec, Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Robert V. O’Kelley. Late Quaternary vertebrate and pollen of Edisto Island, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Voorhies.

Travis A. Paris. The geology of the Lincolnton 7 1/2' quadrangle Georgia–South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

Robert Pierce. Animal-sediment relationships on small tidal creek point bars, Sapelo Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Frey.

Barbara L. Ruff. A Hemphillian vertebrate fauna from Antelope County, Nebraska. M.S. thesis advised by Mike Voorhies.

1975

Jose Oswaldo de Araujo Filho. Geology of the Aiken NW quadrangle, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Paul B. Basan. Actual paleontology of a modern salt marsh near Sapelo Island, Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Frey.

George D. Baskin. The petrology and chemistry of a portion of the north limb of the Dore Lake Complex, Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Roy H. Dupuis. Stratigraphy, structure and metamorphic history of the northern half of the Nottely Dam quadrangle, Georgia–North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by David Dallmeyer.

Sharon A. Greer. Geology of sand body geometry and sedimentary facies at the estuarine–marine transition zone: Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, U.S.A. Ph.D. dissertation advised by James D. Howard.

William L. Gunter. The petrology and petrochemistry of the Lac Bueil area, Quebec, Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Harold W. Moritz. Muscovite-paragonite relationships in altered and mineralized meta-anorthosite at Chibougamau, Quebec Canada. M.S. thesis advised by Charles Blount.

Nelson M. Robinson. Shallow crustal structure offshore of the neovolcanic zone in northern Iceland. M.S. thesis advised by Paul Pinet.

1974

Jesse L. Hunt Jr. The geology and origin of Gray’s Reef, Georgia continental shelf. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Richard T. Kilbourne. Biostratigraphy and shell geochemistry of Quaternary planktonic foraminifera from the Cayman Trough. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Barun Sen-Gupta.

Benjamin F. Martin Jr. The petrology of the Corbin Gneiss. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

1973

James M. Edwards. Environmental analysis of a Holocene salt marsh, Sapelo Island, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Jose A. Oliveira. The petrology of the Chibougamau Greenstone Belt volcanics. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

James R. Woolsey Jr. The geology of Clarke County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

1972

William B. Aranz. Petrographic analysis of Monteagle Limestone in south-central Tennessee and northern Alabama. M.S. thesis advised by Mark Rich.

Roger S. Austin. The origin of the kaolin and bauxite deposits of Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Washington Counties, Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Hurst.

Robert E. Needham. The geology of the Murray County, Georgia talc district. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

1971

M. Eugene Hartley. Ultramafic and related rocks in the vicinity of Lake Chatauge, Clay County, North Carolina and Towns County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carpenter.

David Mark Kaplan. Sources of Holocene and Late Pleistocene sediments on the continental shelf off Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

Stephen C. Libby. The petrology of the igneous rocks of Putnam County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Dennis Radcliffe.

William H. McLemore. The geology and geochemistry of the Mississippian System in northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Bob Carpenter.

Ramamohan R. Potluri. Petrology of Atlantic coastal plain phosphate deposits. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

J. Preston Prather. The geology of eastern Monroe County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Dennis Radcliffe.

Rushdi F. Rihani. Geochemistry of Holocene salt marsh deposits in the vicinity of Sapelo Island, Georgia, U.S.A. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Henry.

James L. Wilson. Calcareous nannoplankton from stratigraphic sections of the Ocala Group. M.S. thesis advised by Edward Stanley.

1970

Robert B. Cook Jr. The geologic history of massive sulfide bodies in west-central Georgia. Ph.D. dissertation advised by Vernon Hurst.

Ronald C. Humphrey. The geology of the crystalline rocks of Greene and Hancock Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Dennis Radcliffe.

Richard T. Kilbourne. Holocene foraminiferal zonation on the continental shelf off Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Jeffrey W. Pferd. Engineering and related physical properties of the coastal salt-marsh in McIntosh County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Bob Carver.

1969

Arthur C. Bailey Jr. Geology of Smith’s Crossroads area, Troup County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Dennis Radcliffe.

William Young Klett. The geology of the Talmo area, Jackson and Hall Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

David E. Lawton. Geology of the Hard Labor Creek area in west-central Morgan County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

Harry Y. McSween Jr. Petrological and geochemical studies in the Coronaca area, Greenwood County, South Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Charles Salotti.

1968

Robert B. Cook. The geology of a part of west central Wilkes County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

John Sanford Levy. Suspended sediment distribution of Doboy Sound, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Thomas F. Logan. Pleistocene stratigraphy in Glynn and McIntosh Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Henry.

Carl W. Myers II, Geology Of The Presley’s Mill area, northwest Putnam County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Gilles Allard.

William B. Simmons. Mineralogy of south Georgia and North Carolina phosphorite. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

1967

Vincent Matthews Jr. Geology and petrology of the pegmatite district in southwestern Jasper County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Charles Salotti.

1966

James Allen Fouts. The geology of the Metasville area, Wilkes and Lincoln Counties, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Charles Salotti.

Robert T. Giles. Petrography and petrology of the Rabun Bald area, Georgia–North Carolina. M.S. thesis advised by Charles Salotti.

1965

Roger S. Austin. The geology of southeast Elbert County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

William H. McLemore. The geology of the Pollard’s Corner area, Columbia County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.

1964

Jack Harold Medlin. Geology and petrography of the Bethesda Church area, Greene County, Georgia. M.S. thesis advised by Vernon Hurst.