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Sedimentary Geology at Wisconsin

Sedimentology/Paleontology Theses, 1989-2005

Name Degree Year Advisor Thesis Title
Anderson, Laurie Ph.D. 1990-91 Geary Neogene Corbulid Bivalves of the Dominican Republic: Controls on Intraspecific Morphologic variability and Patterns of Naticid Predation
Atkins, Elizabeth Ph.D. 1990-91 Clark A Morphometric Analysis of Neogloboquadrina Pachyderma at High and Low Latitudes
Bemis, Bryan M.S. 1992-93 Geary Stable Isotopic Records of Venerid Bivalve Shells: Environmental Information from the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Southern Caribbean Sea
Beyer, Steve M.S. 2003-2004 Byers Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and K-Bentonite Geochemistry of the Galena Group, Northeastern Iowa, Upper Mississippi Valley
Bymers, Benjamin M.S. 2004-2005 Carroll Evaluation of Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Gualala Basin, Northern Coastal California, using U/Pb and Hf Sedimentary Provenance of Single Detrital Zircons
Chetel, Lauren M.S. 2003-2004 Simo 40 Ar/39 geochronology of detrital and volcanic K-feldspar of the Upper Mississippi Valley: implications for terreginous provenance, and the depositiona and biostratigraphic history of an upper Ordovician epeiric sea
Choi, Yong Seok M.S. 1995-96 Simo Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Sinnipee Group in Eastern Wisconsin
Christians, Jon M.S. 1991-92 Byers Taphonomy and Sedimentology of the Mason Dinosaur Quarry, Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), South Dakota
Drzewiecki, Peter M.S. 1991-92 Simo Sedimentology, Diagenesis, and Geochemistry of the St. Peter Sandstone in the Michigan Basin
Drzewiecki, Peter Ph.D. 1995-96 Simo Mid-Cretaceous Carbonte Platform Evolution, South Central Pyrenees, Spain: Interaction among Eustacy, Tectonics, Environmental Factors, and Biological Factors
Dyer, Kuwanna M.S. 2004-2005 Carroll Facies architecture and paleopedology of ancient river systems, Eocene Wilkins Peak Member of the lacustrine Green River Formation, Wyoming
Emerson, Norlene Ph.D. 2001-2002 Simo Paleoecology and Extinctions of the Middle and Upper Ordovician Brachiopods
Freiberg, Philip M.S. 1993-94 Simo Facies Description and Interpretation of the Senyus Sequence, South Central Pyrenees - The Evolution of an Aptian Carbonate Platform along a Rift Basin Margin
Freiheit, James M.S. 2001-2002 Geary The Genus Strombus in the Neogene of the Cibao Valley, Northern Dominican Republic
Garbowicz, Amy M.S. 2004-2005 Byers The Upper Cambrian Geology of Adams County, Wisconsin
Gianniny, Gary Ph.D. 1994-95 Simo Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Evolution of the Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Strata, Lower Desmoinesian Southwest Paradox Basin, Utah
Hoffman, Erik M.S. 2005-2006 Geary Taxonomy and Evolution of Admetopsis (Cretaceous Brackish-Water Gastropod)
Kantor, David M.S. 1994-95 Byers Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Upper Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation (Jurassic), Eastern Central Utah
Kelly, Mary Ann M.S. 1993-94 Simo Lithologies, Carbonate Buildups, and Cyclicity of the Lower Desmoinesian Barker Creek Interval, Paradox Basin, SE Utah
Kirkby, Kent Ph.D. 1993-94 Simo Growth and Reservoir Development in Waulsortian Mounds: Pekisko Formation, West Centeral Alberta and Lake Valley Formation, New Mexico
Konopka, Edith Ph.D. 1998-1999 Clark Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Butterfield Peaks Formation (Middle Pennsylvania), Oquirrh Group, in Central Utah
Kruger, John Ph.D. 1993-94 Simo Deposition and Diagenesis of the Lower Tippecanoe II Sequence (Upper Ordovician to Lower Silurian) Illinois Basin, USA
Kuchta, Matthew M.S. 2000-2001 Geary Paleoenvironmental Significance of Nonmarine Mollusca in the Luman Tongue of the Green River Formation, Wyoming
Kuglitsch, Jeffrey Ph.D. 2000-2001 Clark Correlation of Silurian Rocks on the Western and Northwestern Margin of the Michigan Basin Using Conodonts, Strontium Isotope Ratios and Conodont and Ostracode Biofacies
Lee, Mary M.S. 1991-92 Byers Eolian-to-Marine Transition in the St. Peter Sandstone of the Ozark Dome, S.E. Missouri
Leslie, Elizabeth M.S. 2001-2002 Simo High-resolution Argon-Argon Age-dating of Ordovician Bentonites
Lien, Jennifer M.S. 1998-1999 Simo The Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Glenwood Formation in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
Magavern, Shelly M.S. 1993-94 Clark Tectonics, Biogeography, and Sr Isotopes of the Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic Arctic Ocean
McColgin, Kathleen M.S. 2002-2002 Simo Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Slope Deposits, Miocene, SE Spain
Mutti, Maria M.S. 1989-90 Simo Sedimentology and Diagenesis of Carbonate-Siliciclastic Cycles, Yates Formation, Guadalupian, New Mexico
Ott, Christopher M.S. 2002-2003 Byers Leptoceratops (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Hell Creek Formation (Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of Eastern Montana
Parsons, Brian M.S. 1996-97 Clark The Magnitude and Timing of the Jordan-Oneota Unconformity in Wisconsin using Conodont Biostratigraphy
Piccoli, Leo Ph.D. 2004-2005 Simo Carbonate Platform Evolution During Icehouse Periods: A Late Paleozoic (Asselian/Sakmarian) Example, Hueco Mountains, West TX
Pietras, Jeffrey M.S. 1998-1999 Simo Sequence Stratigraphic and Facies Analysis of the Eocene to Oligocene in the Santa Ynez Mountains, California
Pietras, Jeffrey Ph.D. 2002-2003 Carroll High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Strontium Isotope Geochemistry of the Lacustrine Wilkins Peak Member, Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Raatz, William Ph.D. 1996-97 Simo Sequence Stratigraphy of the Beeman Formation: Interaction of Eustasy, Tectonics, and Climate on a Mixed Terrigenous Clastic/Carbonate Shelf and Basin, Upper Pennsylvanian, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
Rhodes, Meredith Ph.D. 2002-2003 Carroll Lacustrine Stratigraphy and Strontium Isotope Geochemistry of the Laney Member, Green River Formation, Southwestern Wyoming
Rodrigues de Miranda, Debora Ph.D. 1993-94 Simo Dynamics & Evolution of the Sant Corneli Platform, Late Cretaceous South-central Pyrenees, Spain
Sanders, Hilary M.S. 1996-97 Geary Distribution and Paleoecology of Prasopora in the Galena Group (Ordovician) of the Upper Missisippi Valley.
Sanders, Hilary Ph.D. 2004-2005 Geary Evolutionary Tempo and Mode of the Bivalve Congeria in Late Miocene Deposits of Lake Pannon, Central Europe
Sharaf, Essam Ph.D. 2004-2005 Simo Stratigraphy & Sedimentology of Oligocene-Miocene Mixed Carbonate & Siliciclastic Strata, East Java Basin Indonesia
Shields, Martin Ph.D. 2004-2005 Carroll The Evolution of the East Java Basin, Indonesia
Skoog, Sonya Ph.D. 1998-1999 Clark Development of a Plio-Pleistocene Ostracode Biostratigraphy and Geographic and Bathymetric Distribution of Deep Water Ostracodes in Amerasian Basin, Arctic Ocean
Skulan, Joseph M.S. 1992-93 Geary Secondary Centers of Calcification in Captorhinus and Turtles
Slatter, Nancy M.S. 2000-2001 Simo Sedimentology of a Middle Slope Cool-Water Carbonate Platform, Pleistocene, Great Australian Bight, ODP Leg 182 .
Smith, George Ph.D. 1990-91 Byers/ Dott Relationships between the Sequences Stratigraphy and Diagenesis of the Lower Ordovician Prairie du Chien on the Wisconsin Arch and in the Michigan Basin
Smith, Michael M.S. 2001-2002 Carroll 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Green River Formation, Wyoming and Utah
Soriano, Katherine M.S. 1991-92 Simo Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Cenomanian-Santonian Carbonate Platform Montsec Mountains, South-Central Pyrenees, Spain
Staley, Andrew M.S. 1992-93 Geary Patterns of Morphologic Change and Iterative Evolution in the Gastropod Genus Melanopsis from the Late Miocene Pannonian Basin .
Stoklosa, Michelle M.S. 1996-97 Simo Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of Wolfcampian (Early Permian) Strata: Hueco Mountains, West Texas
Stoklosa, Michelle Ph.D. 2001-2002 Simo Evaluation of Controls on Carbonate Platform Morphology, Facies and Diagenetic Variability: An Oligocene Example from Southeast Spain .
Swanson, Brooke M.S. 2002-2003 Carroll Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Strontium Geochemistry of the Eocene Luman Member, Green River Formation, Wyoming
Tedford, Rebecca M.S. 2002-2003 Kelly Geochemical, Sedimentological, and Microbiotic Responses to the Late Miocene Carbon Isotope Shift (7.7 MA) at ODP Site 1172B in the South Tasman Sea
Teranes, Jane M.S. 1992-93 Geary Stable Isotope Records of Seasonality in Neogene Bivalves from the Central American Isthmus
Vandenbergh, Coco M.S. 1994-95 Dott Facies Architecture and Sedimentology of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, Willow Springs Wash, East-Central Utah
Vandrey, Michael M.S. 1991-92 Dott/ Byers Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, and Geochemistry of the Middle Ordovician Glenwood Formation, Michigan Basin
Walling, Colin M.S. 2000-2001 Carroll Origin of Quartz Silt in the Permian Phosphoria Formation: Isotopic and Grain Size Evidence
Wartes, Marwan M.S. 1999-2000 Carroll Sedimentary Evolution of Permian Lacustrine and Associated Deposits, Southern Junggar and Turpan-Hami Basins
Webber, Caroline M.S. 2004-2005 Tikoff Structural Geology of the Porter's Knob Area, Red Hills, New Zealand: Implications for Upper Mantle Deformation
Williams, Stacy M.S. 1996-97 Clark Central Arctic Ocean Fe-Mn Micronodules as Indicator of Paleoceanographic Conditions
Yocum, Daniel M.S. 1995-96 Simo Iron Oolites from the Cretaceous Interior Seaway: Albian Paddy Member of the Peace River Formation, Alberta, Canada, and Campanian Castlegate Formation of Colorado, USA

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