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2024
Building and Using a Hydrology Experiment for Place-Based Learning With Native American Students, Michaela Shallue
2023
Volatile Cycling and Metasomatism in Flat-Slab Subduction Zones of the Central Andes, Coleman Hiett
Tropical Atlantic Temperature and Hydrologic Shifts During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Chels Howard
Constraining Silicate Weathering During the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) Using Radiolarian Ge/Si, Olivia R. Laub
2022
Holocene Chronostratigraphy of Dune Fields in Southern Utah: Geomorphic Record of Past Aridity in the Central Colorado Plateau, Harriet S. Cornachione
Bedrock Geology Map of the Naomi Peak 7.5' Quadangle, Cache County, Utah and Novel Age Constraints on its Cambrian Strata, Hannah R. Cothren
Shallow Composition and Structure of the San Gabriel Fault, California in Drill Core and Geophysical Logs: Implications for Fault Slip and Energetics, Kaitlyn A. Crouch
Natural and Experimental Slow Slip Observed Along Shallow Hematite Faults, Alexandra A. DiMonte
Fingerprinting Paleo-Groundwater Sources Using Stable Oxygen and Iron Isotopes of Iron Oxide Concretions From the "Boiler Room", Moab Area, Utah, Connor Frederickson
Investigating the Use of Quartz Luminescence and Rock-Color Alteration to Characterize Wildfire Exposure; Applied to the 2020 Mangum Fire, Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, April I. Phinney
Late Pleistocene Piedmont Records in the Grand Staircase Region, Southern Utah, Alexander K. Short
Pleistocene Deposits of Lower Wahweap Creek and Its Tributaries, Southern Utah, Noah Slade
Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Camas Prairie, South-Central Idaho, Connor J. Smith
2021
Multi-Proxy Approach to Robustly Capture Earthquake Temperature Rise at the Punchbowl Fault, California, Emma M. Armstrong
The Biggest Snowball Fight in Earth History: Stratigraphy, Facies Analysis, and Geochronology of the Pocatello Formation, Matthew W. Ellison
Exploring Questions of Tectonic Geomorphology in the Bear River Range, Utah Using Terrain Analysis and Reconstruction, Edward M. Grasinger
Lithological and Geochemical Characterization of Ramp Sediments and a Depositional Model of the Ordovicain Garden City Formation, Northeastern Utah, Kenneth W. Kehoe
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of River Incision and Terrace Deposition in Response to Climate and Tectonics in Southern Taiwan, Dominique M. Shore
Constraining Deformation Mechanisms of Fault Damage Zones: A Case Study of the Shallow San Andreas Fault at Elizabeth Lake, Southern California., Caroline Studnicky
2020
A Thermochronometric, Microtextural, and Numerical Modeling Approach to Deciphering the Rock Record of Deformation Processes in the Wasatch and Denali Fault Zones, Robert G. McDermott
Hazard Analysis of a Segment of Highway SR-12 through Bryce Canyon National Park, Southern Utah, Tomsen Reed
Geomorphic History of the Grand Staircase Region of the Colorado Plateau: Understanding Arroyo Cut-Fill Dynamics, Erosion Rates, and Wildfire, Kerry E. Riley
Pre-Eruptive Evolution of Izu-Bonin Boninite Melts: Mixing, Cooling, and Crystallization, Jesse L. Scholpp
Structural Controls on Crustal Fluid Circulation and Hot Spring Geochemistry Above a Flat‐Slab Subduction Zone, Peru, Brandt E. Scott, Dennis L. Newell, M. J. Jessup, T. A. Grambling, and C. A. Shaw; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2019
Nanoscale Evidence for Temperature-Induced Transient Rheology and Postseismic Fault Healing, Alexis K. Ault, Jordan L. Jensen, Robert G. McDermott, F.-A. Shen, and B. R. Van Devener; Geology
Analysis of Small Faults in a Sandstone Reservoir Analog, San Rafael Desert: Implications for Fluid Flow at the Reservoir-Scale, Leslie Noël Clayton
Micro- to Macro-Scale Structural and Lithological Architecture of Basal Nonconformities: Implications for Fluid Flow and Injection Induced Seismicity, Garth Hesseltine
Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Western Snake River Plain Based on a Deep Corehole on the Mountain Home AFB Near Mountain Home, Idaho, Thomas E. Lachmar, Thomas G. Freeman, James Andrew Kessler, Joseph F. Batir, James P. Evans, Dennis L. Nielson, John W. Shervais, Xiwei Chen, Douglas R. Schmitt, and David D. Blackwell; Geothermal Energy
Evolution of the Book Cliffs Dryland Escarpment in Central Utah - Establishing Rates and Testing Models of Escarpment Retreat, Nicholas R. McCarroll
Thermotectonic History of the Kluane Ranges and Evolution of the Eastern Denali Fault Zone in Southwestern Yukon, Canada, Robert G. McDermott, Alexis K. Ault, Jonathan Saul Caine, and Stuart N. Thomson; Tectonics
Sampling Methods for Luminescence Dating of Subsurface Deposits from Cores, Michelle Nelson, Tammy M. Rittenour, and Harriet Cornachione; Methods and Protocols
Ediacaran Depositional Age and Subsequent Fluid-Rock Interactions in the Mutual and Browns Hole Formations of Northern Utah, Ashley W. Provow
Structural Control of Thermal Fluid Circulation and Geochemistry in a Flat-Slab Subduction Zone, Peru, Brandt E. Scott
Mountain-Block Recharge to the Cache Valley Principal Aquifer and Geochemical Controls on Groundwater Movement in Alpine Karst, Skyler J. Sorsby
2018
New CA-ID-TIMS Detrital Zircon Constraints on Middle Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Successions, Southwestern United States, Abigail R. Bullard
Analysis of the Parkway Drive Landslide, North Salt Lake, UT, Brianna V. Hill
Quaternary Incision, Salt Tectonism, and Landscape Evolution of Moab-Spanish Valley, Utah, James P. Mauch
The Influence of Mechanical Stratigraphy on Thrust-Ramp Nucleation and Propagation of Thrust Faults, Sarah S. Wigginton
2017
(Uranium-Thorium)/Helium Thermochronologic Constraints on Secondary Iron-Oxide Mineralization in Southwestern New Mexico, Michael Channer
Analysis of the Hite Fault Group, Southeast Utah: Insights into Fluid Flow Properties in a Reservoir Analog, Daniel J. Curtis
Sequence Stratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of Lower Ordovician Units in Northeastern and Western Central Utah: Regional Implications, Colter R. Davis
Magmatic Evolution of Early Subduction Zones: Geochemical Modeling and Chemical Stratigraphy of Boninite and Fore Arc Basalt from the Bonin Fore Arc, Emily A. Haugen
Spatio-Temporal History of Fluid-Rock Interaction in the Hurricane Fault Zone, Jace Michael Koger
Effect of an 860-m thick, cold, freshwater aquifer on geothermal potential along the axis of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, Thomas E. Lachmar, Thomas G. Freeman, Christopher J. Sant, Jeffrey R. Walker, Joseph F. Batir, John W. Shervais, James P. Evans, Dennis L. Nielson, and David D. Blackwell; Geothermal Energy
USArray Imaging of North American Continental Crust, Xiaofei Ma
Investigating Patterns of Fluvial Form and Incision Near the Yellowstone Hotspot — Alpine Canyon of the Snake River, Wyoming, Daphnee Tuzlak
Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Campanian Mesaverde Group in Northeastern Utah, Christopher Ward
Hydrocarbon and CO2 Emissions from Oil and Gas Production Well Pad Soils Comparative to Background Soil Emissions in Eastern Utah, Cody S. Watkins
Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Lincoln Peak Formation and Evolution of the House Range Embayment, eastern Nevada, Ibrahim Zallum
2016
Structural and Lithological Influences on the Tony Grove Alpine Karst System, Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Kirsten Bahr
Crustal Architecture of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Through Geochemical Investigation of Crustal Sill and Shallow Subvolcanic Xenoliths, Douglas James Jones
Confirmation of a New Geometric and Kinematic Model of the San Andreas Fault at Its Southern Tip, Durmid Hill, Southern California, Daniel K. Markowski
The Influence of Small Displacement Faults on Seal Integrity and Lateral Movement of Fluids, Eric A. Rasmusson
The MH-2 Core from Project Hotspot: Description, Geologic Interpretation, and Significance to Geothermal Exploration in the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, Jerome A. Varriale
2015
Geochemical Characterization of the Mountain Home Geothermal System, Trevor Alex Atkinson
The Colorado Plateau as a Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Games for Geoscience Education and Relations Between Rock Strength and River Metrics, Natalie Bursztyn
Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments and Geochemistry of the Middle Cambrian Bloomington Formation in Northern Utah, Christopher Ryan Jensen
Groundwater and Surface Water Contributions to Metals Loading in Bayhorse Creek at the Abandoned Ramshorn Mine Site Near Bayhorse, Idaho, Hannah L. McDonough
A Chronostratigraphic Record of Arroyo Entrenchment and Aggradation in Kanab Creek, Southern Utah, Kirk F. Townsend
2014
Mesoscale Deformational Features Near Outcrop Analogs of a Reservoir-Seal Interface: Implications for Seal Failure, Santiago L. Flores
Landscape Evolution of the Needles Fault Zone, Utah, Investigated Through Chronostratigraphic and Terrain Analyses, Faye L. Geiger
In Situ Stress and Geology from the MH-2 Borehole, Mountain Home, Idaho: Implications for Geothermal Exploration from Fractures, Rock Properties, and Geomechanics, James Andrew Kessler
Rock Strength of Caprock Seal Lithologies: Evidence for Past Seal Failure, Migration of Fluids and the Analysis of the Reservoir Seal Interface in Outcrop and the Subsurface, Elizabeth Sandra Petrie
The Kimama Core: A 6.4 Ma Record of Volcanism, Sedimentation, and Magma Petrogenesis on the Axial Volcanic High, Snake River Plain, ID, Katherine Elizabeth Potter
Fault and Fluid Interactions in the Elsinore Fault-West Salton Detachment Fault Damage Zones, Agua Caliente County Park, California, Rebekah Erin Wood
2013
Dendrochronology in Northern Utah: Modeling Sensitivity and Reconstructing Logan River Flows, Eric B. Allen
Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Based on Three Exploration Holes, Thomas G. Freeman
Two Scenes from Utah's Stratigraphic Record: Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, Before and After, Dawn Schmidli Hayes
A Middle to Late Holocene Record of Arroyo Cut-Fill Events in Kitchen Corral Wash, Southern Utah, William M. Huff
Formation, Deformation, and Incision of Colorado River Terraces Upstream of Moab, Utah, Andrew P. Jochems
Earthquake Petrology: Linking Fault-Related Deformation to the Earthquake Cycle, Mitchell R. Prante
Fault Seal Analysis for CO2 Storage: Fault Zone Architecture, Fault Permeability, and Fluid Migration Pathways in Exposed Analogs in Southeastern Utah, David J. Richey
Alluvial Geochronology and Watershed Analysis of the Golo River, Northeastern Corsica, France, Emilee M. Skyles
Southward Continuation of the San Jacinto Fault Zone through and beneath the Extra and Elmore Ranch Left-Lateral Fault Arrays, Southern California, Steven Jesse Thornock
Constraining Ice Advance and Linkages to Paleoclimate of Two Glacial Systems in the Olympic Mountains, Washington and the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Cianna E. Wyshnytzky
2012
Modeling Lithospheric Rheology from Modern Measurements of Bonneville Shoreline Deformation, Eric P. Beard
The Chemical Evolution of Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere: Case Studies in the US Cordillera, Marlon Mauricio Jean
Geothermal Alteration of Basaltic Core from the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Christopher Joseph Sant
2011
Determining CO2 Storage Potential: Characterization of Seal Integrity and Reservoir Failure in Exposed Analogs, Daniel Corey Barton
Stratigraphic, Microfossil, and Geochemical Analysis of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Utah: Evidence for a Eutrophication Event?, Dawn Schmidli Hayes
Sedimentological Controls on Fracture Distribution and the Network Development within Meseverde Group Lithofacies, Uinta Basin, Utah, Ryan Christopher Sonntag
From Hillslopes to Canyons, Studies of Erosion at Differing Time and Spatial Scales Within the Colorado River Drainage, Christopher Tressler
2010
Examination of Deformation in Crystalline Rock From Strike-Slip Faults in Two Locations, Southern California, David H. Forand
Estimates of the Hydraulic Parameters of Aquifers in Cache Valley, Utah and Idaho, Paul C. Inkenbrandt
Feasibility of Extending an Artificial Salmon Spawning Stream, Marx Creek Near Hyder, Alaska, Tom Nelson