Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Wind-carved Wonders: An Aerial Study of Yardangs in the Puna, Argentina Using Drone and Satellite Imagery, Derek Gordon Ashliman
The Olmsted Fault, Southernmost Illinois: A Key to Understanding Seismic Hazard in the Northern New Madrid Seismic Zone, Christopher E. Bexfield
The Osteological Neutral Pose of the Neck of an Apatosaurine Sauropod Based on Virtual and Physical Models, Colin Don Boisvert
Dynamics of Dissolved and Particulate Trace Metals in a Snowmelt-Dominated Stream, Provo River, Utah, USA, Kendra Louise Caskey
Geology of Sinai Tholus, Thaumasia Plateau, Mars, Haley Mosher
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
A Structural Analysis of the Simpson Mountains, Hyrum A. Briscoe
Improving XRD Analysis with Machine Learning, Rachel E. Drapeau
Geochemistry of Zircon and Apatite in Rhyolites from the Central Snake River Plain: Genetic Implications, Chesley Philip Gale
Phosphorus Sorption and Kinetics Across the Sediment-Water Interface of Utah Lake, a Shallow Eutrophic Lake, Forrest Fielding Stretch Jarvis Jarvis
Groundwater Flow Across the Coyote Wash Fault and Cedar Mesa Anticline near St. Johns, Arizona, Stephanie Lynn Latour
Conodont Sequence Biostratigraphy of the Upper Honaker Trail Formation, Cheyenne Autumn Pratt
Comparative GPR Analysis of Carbonate Strandline Deposits, Sydney Adelaide Richards
In-Depth Geochemical Analysis of Turbidite-Associated Shales of the Pindos Basin, Greece, Jonathon Michael Sevy
Improved Endmember Mixing Analysis (EMMA): Application to a Nested Catchment, Provo River, Northern Utah, Alyssa Nicole Thompson
Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Correlation with Geochemical Characteristics of Soil and Basalt in Hawaii, Leeza Marie Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Distribution and Transportation of Sand and Potential Sand Source Materials on Titan: Implications for the Geologic History, Benjamin Dean Lake
An Analog for Large-Scale Lacustrine Deposits: 3D Characterization of a Pleistocene Lake Bonneville Spit, Eli D. Lopez
Yardang Morphometry and Substrate Properties in Ignimbrites of the Campo Piedra Pomez, Argentina Compared with the Medusae Fossae Formation, Mars, Dylan Stephen McDougall
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Field Investigations and Numerical Modeling of Earthquake and Tsunami Risk at Four Vulnerable Sites in Indonesia, Claire E. Ashcraft
Chemical and Physical Weathering Rates of Basaltic Volcanic Regions: Utilizing Space in Place of Time in the Hawaiian Archipelago, Benjamin Clyde Barton
Localized Anthropogenic and Geogenic Groundwater Contamination in the Structurally Complex Carbonate-Hosted East Tintic Mining District, Eureka, UT, USA, Cameron Patrick Cordner
An εHf and δ18O Isotopic Study of Zircon of the Mount Osceola and Conway Granites, White Mountain Batholith, New Hampshire: Deciphering the Petrogenesis of A-Type Granites, Javier Fabian Matos Strauss
Determining the Anthropogenic Effects on Eutrophication of Utah Lake Since European Settlement Using Multiple Geochemical Approaches, Richard Ronald Rawle Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Links Between Eruptive Styles, Magmatic Evolution, and Morphology of Low-Shield Volcanoes: Snake River Plain, Idaho, Katelyn J. Barton
A Study of the Anthropogenic Impact in Farmington Bay through Isotopic and Elemental Analysis, Nathan Vaun Gunnell
Dynamics of Interal Phosporus Cycling in a Highly Eutrophic, Shallow, Fresh Water Lake in Utah Lake State Park, Utah, USA, Sheena Marie Smithson
Structure of Collisional Metamorphism, Soft-Sediment Deformation, and Low-Angle Normal Faulting in the Beaver Dam Mountains, Jacob Isaac Voorhees
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Impacts of Glacial Meltwater on Geochemistry and Discharge of Alpine Proglacial Streams in the Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA, Natalie Shepherd Barkdull
Hydrological and Paleoclimate Analysis of a Pinyon-Juniper and Fen-Dominated Watershed on the Windy Ridge Mega-Landslide, Joel Frederick Barker
Hot Springs Inflow Controlled by the Damage Zone of a Major Normal Fault, Steven Benjamin Godwin
Wasatch Front Atmospheric Deposition Reflects Regional Desert Dust and Local Anthropogenic Sources, Michael Max Goodman
Multi-Stage Construction of the Little Cottonwood Stock, Utah: Origin, Intrusion, Venting,Mineralization, and Mass Movement, Collin G. Jensen
Basinward Trends in Fluvial Architecture, Connectivity, and Reservoir Characterization of the Trail Member, Ericson Sandstone, Mesaverde Group in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, USA, Chelsea Anne Jolley
Depositional Analysis of a Holocene Carbonate Strand Plain Using High Resolution GPR, Sediment Analysis, and C-14 Dating, Kaleb Robert Markert
Sequence Biostratigraphy of Carboniferous-Permian Boundary Strata in Western Utah: Deciphering Eustatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation in the Antler-Sonoma Distal Foreland Basin, Joshua Kerst Meibos
Geological and Geochemical Controls on Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Transmission: Examples from Hawaii, Schuyler Thomas Robinson
Cannibalization Processes in Hotspot Rhyolites as Deduced from the Kimberly Rhyolite, Central Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA, Danielle Jeannette Spencer
Nature and Origin of Fissure Ore at the Porphyry-Epithermal Transition Zone of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Utah, David Harris Tomlinson
Fluvial Architecture and Reservoir Modeling Along the Strike Direction of the Trail Member of the Ericson Sandstone, Mesaverde Group in Southwest Wyoming, April Anahi Trevino
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Assessing Tsunami Risk in Southwest Java, Indonesia: Paleo-Tsunami Deposits and Inundation Modeling, Han Deng
Assessing Tsunami Risk in Southwest Java, Indonesia: Paleo-Tsunami Deposits and Inundation Modeling, Han Deng
Strontium Isotopes-A Tracer for Dust and Flow Processes in an Alpine Catchment, Colin Andrus Hale
Linear Dune Morphometrics in Titan’s Belet Sand Sea and a Comparison with the Namib Sand Sea, Corbin Robert Lewis
A Geomorphological Study of Yardangs in China, the Altiplano/Puna of Argentina, and Iran as Analogs for Yardangs on Titan, Dustin Shawn Northrup
Mercury and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics During Snowmelt in a Montane Watershed, Provo River, Utah., Brian Noel Packer
Lithofaces and Sequence Architecture of the Upper Paradox Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian)in the Subsurface Northern Blanding Subbasin, Paradox Basin, Utah, Geoffrey William Ritter
A Geophysical and Geological Analysis of a Regressive-Phase Lake Bonneville Deposit, Pilot Valley, NV, Katelynn Marie Smith
Writing and Designing a Chapter on Mercury and Pluto for the Textbook Exploring the Planets (explanet.info), Braxton Clark Spilker
Discovery of Possible Paleotsunami Deposits in Pangandaran and Adipala, Java, Indonesia Using Grain Size, XRD, and 14C Analyses, Kevin L. Stuart
Discovery of Paleotsunami Deposits along Eastern Sunda Arc: Potential for Megathrust Earthquakes in Bali, Hanif Ibadurrahman Sulaeman
Discovery of Paleotsunami Deposits along Eastern Sunda Arc: Potential for Megathrust Earthquakes in Bali, Hanif Ibadurrahman Sulaeman
Paleo-Environmental Interpretations and Weathering Effects of the Mowry Shale from Geochemical Analysis of Outcrop Samples in the Western Margin of the Wind River Basin near Lander, Wyoming, Trevor Robinson Tuttle
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Development and Testing of the Valence Multipole Model OH Potential For Use in Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Charles Stephen Andros
Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Metal Pulses During Snowmelt Runoff in the Upper Provo River Watershed, Utah, USA, Hannah Nicole Checketts
Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Metal Pulses During Snowmelt Runoff in the Upper Provo River Watershed, Utah, USA, Hannah Nicole Checketts
Near-Salt Stratal Geometries and Implications for the Evolution of the Onion Creek Diapir Moab, UT, Ethan L. Cook
Digitizing Dinosaur National Monument's Carnegie Quarry, Rebecca Esplin
A Quaternary climate record from a Uinta Mountains, USA, fen core with emphasis on sediment pyrolysis, Samuel Abraham Hillam
Sedimentology and Taphonomy of the Abydosaurus mcintoshi Quarry, (Naturita Formation, Early Cretaceous, Latest Albian), Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Aaron Daniel Holmes
40Ar/39Ar Ages, Compositions, and Likely Source of the Eocene Fallout Tuffs in the Duchesne River Formation, Northeastern Utah, Michael Seth Jensen
40Ar/39Ar Ages, Compositions, and Likely Source of the Eocene Fallout Tuffs in the Duchesne River Formation, Northeastern Utah, Michael Seth Jensen
Characterizing the Low Net-to-Gross, Fluviodeltaic Dry Hollow Member of the Frontier Formation, Western Green River Basin, Wyoming, Scott Romney Meek
Evaluating the East Java Tsunami Hazard: What Can Newly-Discovered Imbricate Coastal Boulder Accumulations Near Pacitan and at Pantai Papuma, Indonesia Tell Us?, William Nile Meservy
Formation of Rapakivi Feldspars in the Deer Isle Granite Complex, Coastal Maine: In Situ Lead Isotope and Trace Element Analysis, William Desmond OBrien
Facies Analysis, Sedimentary Petrology, and Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Triassic Sinbad Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation, Central Utah: A Synthesis of Surface and Subsurface Data, Kristopher Michael Powell
Characterizing the Fate and Mobility of Phosphorus in Utah Lake Sediments, Matthew Chambers Randall
Lithofacies and Sequence Architecture of the Lower Desert Creek Sequence, Middle Pennsylvanian, Aneth, Utah, Chanse James Rinderknecht
Copper Mineralogy in the Oxide Zone of the Lone Star Porphyry Copper Deposit, Eastern Arizona, Jeff G. Selck
Quantitative Morphological Classification of Planetary Craterforms Using Multivariate Methods of Outline-Based Shape Analysis, Thomas Joseph Slezak
Weathering Sequence of Young Basalts: A Case Study from Kohala, Hawaii, Kimberly Francis Sowards
Geologic Mapping of the Vernal NW Quadrangle, Uintah County, UT, and Stratigraphic Relationships of the Duchesne River Formation and Bishop Conglomerate, Casey Andrew Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Lineations and Structural Mapping of Io's Paterae and Mountains: Implications for Internal Stresses, Alexandra Anne Ahern
Spatial Trends and Facies Distribution of the High-Energy Alluvial Cutler Formation, Southeastern Utah, Isaac John Allred
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Preuss Sandstonein Northern Utah and Eastern Idaho, Preston Scott Cook
Geochemistry of the Fluorine- and Beryllium-Rich Spor Mountain Rhyolite, Western Utah, Shane Robert Dailey
Variations in Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Aeolian Dust Deposition to Mountains in Utah and Nevada, USA, Dylan Binder Dastrup
Trace Element Inputs from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources in an Agricultural Watershed, Middle Provo River, Utah, Timothy Holman Goodsell
Geochemical Comparison of Ancient and Modern Eolian Dune Foresets Using Principal Components Analysis, David A. Little
Natural and Anthropogenic Sources of Arsenic and Nitrate in a Semi-Arid Alluvial Basin; Goshen Valley, Utah, Brian John Selck
Facies Analysis and Depositional Environments of the Saints & Sinners Quarry in the Nugget Sandstone of Northeastern Utah, Jesse Dean Shumway
Designing an Instructional Publication on the Geology of Capitol Reef National Park, Kinsey Gayle Spiel
Redbeds of the Upper Entrada Sandstone, Central Utah: Facies Analysis and Regional Implications of Interfingered Sabkha and Fluvial Terminal Splay Sediments, Jeffery Michael Valenza
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Mechanisms and Timing of Pluton Emplacement in Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Using Three-Dimensional Seismic Analysis, Phillip C. Cammans
Superimposed and Auxiliary Dunes of the Northern Namib Sand Sea: a Ground-Penetrating Radar Study, Clayton K. Chandler
Low-Shield Volcanism: A Comparison of Volcanoes on Syria Planum, Mars and Snake River Plain, Idaho, Amanda Olivia Henderson
Development and Validation of a Physically Based ELA Model and its Application to the Younger Dryas Event in the Graubünden Alps, Switzerland, Durban Gregg Keeler
Using Declassified Satellite Imagery to Quantify Geomorphic Change: A New Approach and Application to Himalayan Glaciers, Joshua Michael Maurer
Geologic Mapping of Ice Cave Peak Quadrangle, Uintah and Duchesne Counties, Utah with Implications from Mapping Laramide Faults, Gabriel J. Poduska
Cooling Before Super-Eruption: No Role for Rejuvenation in the Cottonwood Wash Tuff Magma Body, Southern Great Basin Ignimbrite Province, Utah and Nevada, Keryn Tobler Ross
Cooling Before Super-Eruption: No Role for Rejuvenation in the Cottonwood Wash Tuff Magma Body, Southern Great Basin Ignimbrite Province, Utah and Nevada, Keryn Tobler Ross
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Sand Sea Extents and Sediment Volumes on Titan from Dune Parameters, Karl D. Arnold