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Geosciences

Department of Geosciences. This department was previously known as Geology. The name was changed July 1, 2019.

Dissertations Dissertations

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

Dynamics of Climate and Tectonics on Surface Processes and Their Sedimentary Archives in the Colorado Plateau and Basin and Range, USA and the Calabrian Forearc, Sicily, Natalie M. Tanski

Earthquake Petrology: Linking Fault-Related Deformation to the Earthquake Cycle, Mitchell R. Prante

Geomorphic History of the Grand Staircase Region of the Colorado Plateau: Understanding Arroyo Cut-Fill Dynamics, Erosion Rates, and Wildfire, Kerry E. Riley

Holocene Chronostratigraphy of Dune Fields in Southern Utah: Geomorphic Record of Past Aridity in the Central Colorado Plateau, Harriet S. Cornachione

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 Properties and Structure Within the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Borehold, Northwest of Parkfield, California: In Situ Observations of Rock Deformation Processes and Fluid-Rock Interactions of the San Andreas Fault Zone at ~ 3 km Depth, Kelly Keighley Bradbury

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 Chemical Evolution of Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere: Case Studies in the US Cordillera, Marlon Mauricio Jean

The Colorado Plateau as a Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Games for Geoscience Education and Relations Between Rock Strength and River Metrics, Natalie Bursztyn

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

Two Scenes from Utah's Stratigraphic Record: Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, Before and After, Dawn Schmidli Hayes

USArray Imaging of North American Continental Crust, Xiaofei Ma

Volatile Cycling and Metasomatism in Flat-Slab Subduction Zones of the Central Andes, Coleman Hiett

Reports Reports

Analysis of the Parkway Drive Landslide, North Salt Lake, UT, Brianna V. Hill

A Study of the Bioherms of the Early Ordovician Garden City Formation and a Literature Review of Early Ordovician Organic Buildups, Heidi Pearce

Characterization of Carbonaceous Fault Rocks, Pioneer Fault Zone, South-Central Idaho, Genna Baldassarre

Creating Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Field Trip Curricula for Indigenous Students, Kitri Spencer

Exploring Questions of Tectonic Geomorphology in the Bear River Range, Utah Using Terrain Analysis and Reconstruction, Edward M. Grasinger

Frictional Heating of Fault Surfaces Due to Seismic Slip: Experimental Studies on the Hematite to Magnetite Transition and Federal and Private Landownership's Effect on Oil and Gas Drilling and Production in the Southwestern Wyoming Checkerboard, David W. Jenkins

Hazard Analysis of a Segment of Highway SR-12 through Bryce Canyon National Park, Southern Utah, Tomsen Reed

Investigations into Mapping Lava Flows in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Vinita Ruth Hobson-Broko

Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Lincoln Peak Formation and Evolution of the House Range Embayment, eastern Nevada, Ibrahim Zallum

Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Campanian Mesaverde Group in Northeastern Utah, Christopher Ward

Tales in the Teeth: Using Isotopic Analysis to Understand the Paleoecology and Social Behavior of Brontotheres of the Intermountain Basins During the Middle Eocene, John Michael Michalski

Taphonomy of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) Morrison Formation Apatosaurus sp. Vertebrae Found Associated with Teeth from Allosaurus sp. and Ceratosaurus sp., and Body Size Extrapolation from the Associated Theropod Teeth., Greg C. Agyan

The Dynamic Relationship Between the Bear River, Quaternary Basaltic Center, Normal Faults, and the Resulting Rearrangement of Rivers in the Northeast Edge of the Great Basin, Southeast Idaho, Brady Utley

The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Eastern Utah: A Comparison with the Coeval Burro Canyon Formation, Including New Measured Sections on the Uncompahgre Uplift, Roger D. Miller

The Pliocene/Pleistocene Evolution of the Western Snake River Plain Near Grand View Idaho, Meagan R. DeRaps

Using Real-World Data as a Basis for Problem-Based Learning: Investigating Preservation Biases of Fish in Fossil Butte National Monument, Blair Larsen

Theses Theses

A Chronostratigraphic Record of Arroyo Entrenchment and Aggradation in Kanab Creek, Southern Utah, Kirk F. Townsend

A Geologic and Hydrochemical Investigation of the Suitability of Central Utah's Navajo Sandstone for the Disposal of Saline Process Water and CO2, Kevin L. Randall

A Hydrogeochemical Study of the Evolution of the Headwaters of the Bear River in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, Michael F. Leschin

Alluvial Geochronology and Watershed Analysis of the Golo River, Northeastern Corsica, France, Emilee M. Skyles

A Middle to Late Holocene Record of Arroyo Cut-Fill Events in Kitchen Corral Wash, Southern Utah, William M. Huff

Aminostratigraphy of Thatcher Basin, SE Idaho: Reassessment of Pleistocene Lakes, Amy Hochberg

Analysis of Perched Groundwater Bodies beneath the Radioactive Waste Management Complex at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Alan V. Jones

Analysis of Small Faults in a Sandstone Reservoir Analog, San Rafael Desert: Implications for Fluid Flow at the Reservoir-Scale, Leslie Noël Clayton

Analysis of the Hite Fault Group, Southeast Utah: Insights into Fluid Flow Properties in a Reservoir Analog, Daniel J. Curtis

A Petrographic Analysis of the Relationship between Porosity and Organic Matter in the Permian Phosphoria Formation of Northeastern Utah, Larry Tackett

Autecology of Selected Genera of Mississippian, Permian and Triassic Ammonoids: Analysis of Coiling Geometries, Edward Ellis Chatelain

Bedrock Geology Map of the Naomi Peak 7.5' Quadangle, Cache County, Utah and Novel Age Constraints on its Cambrian Strata, Hannah R. Cothren

Building and Using a Hydrology Experiment for Place-Based Learning With Native American Students, Michaela Shallue

Cambrian Stratigraphy in the Northern Wasatch Region, George Burke Maxey

Cenozoic Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Southeastern Salmon Basin, East-Central Idaho, James J. Blankenau

Cenozoic Tectonic and Paleogeographic Evolution of the Horse Prairie Half-Graben, Southwest Montana, Colby J. VanDenburg

Characteristics, Evolution, and Lateral Variation of Lower Cretaceous Supradetachment Basins in the Daqing Shan, Inner Mongolia, China, Adrian K. Berry

Characterizing Deformation, Damage Parameters, and Clay Composition in Fault Zones: Insights from the Chelungpu Thrust, Taiwan, and Mozumi Right Lateral Fault, Japan, Angela J. Isaacs

Chemical and Hydrostratigraphic Characterization of Ground Water and Surface Water Interactions in Cache Valley, Utah, J. Mike Robinson

Chemical Changes in Groundwater of Northern Utah Valley, Utah, Paul E. Fairbanks

Confirmation of a New Geometric and Kinematic Model of the San Andreas Fault at Its Southern Tip, Durmid Hill, Southern California, Daniel K. Markowski

Connections Between Hydrothermal System Geochemistry and Microbiology: Traversing Tectonic Boundaries in the South-Central Peruvian Andes, Heather Upin

Constraining Deformation Mechanisms of Fault Damage Zones: A Case Study of the Shallow San Andreas Fault at Elizabeth Lake, Southern California., Caroline Studnicky

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

Constraining Silicate Weathering During the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) Using Radiolarian Ge/Si, Olivia R. Laub

Controls on Channel Organization and Morphology in a Glaciated Basin in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, Betty E. Paepke

Correlation, Paleogeography, and Provenance of the Neoproterozoic Eastern Uinta Mountain Group, Goslin Mountain Area, Northeastern Utah, Daniel J. Rybczynski

Crustal Architecture of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Through Geochemical Investigation of Crustal Sill and Shallow Subvolcanic Xenoliths, Douglas James Jones

Debris-Flow Activity in Canyon of Lodore, Colorado: Implications for Debris-Fan Formation and Evolution, Jennifer A. Martin

Decadal-Scale Changes on Coral Reefs in Quintana Roo, Mexico, Thaddeus Allen Nicholls

Dendrochronology in Northern Utah: Modeling Sensitivity and Reconstructing Logan River Flows, Eric B. Allen

Determining CO2 Storage Potential: Characterization of Seal Integrity and Reservoir Failure in Exposed Analogs, Daniel Corey Barton

Diagenesis and Water Chemistry of the Woodbine Group in the East Texas Basin, Helmuth Victor Wuerch

Dikes of the Clear Creek Area, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, William Dennis Thomas

Discharge Monitoring, Chemical Characterization, and Source Identification of Springs Along the East Side of Southern Cache Valley, Utah, Aric Alan Olsen

Does the Southern Farmington Canyon Complex Record a Late Archean/Early Proterozoic Accretionary Complex?, Kyle C. Andreasen

Ediacaran Depositional Age and Subsequent Fluid-Rock Interactions in the Mutual and Browns Hole Formations of Northern Utah, Ashley W. Provow

Effects of Quaternary Climate Change on Tributary Sedimentation and Geomorphology in Eastern Grand Canyon, Benjamin D. DeJong

Environmental Analysis of the Swan Peak Formation in the Bear River Range, North-Central Utah and Southeastern Idaho, Philip L. VanDorston

Environmental Analysis of the Upper Cambrian Nounan Formation, Bear River Range and Wellsville Mountain, North-Central Utah, Larry L. Gardiner

Estimates of the Hydraulic Parameters of Aquifers in Cache Valley, Utah and Idaho, Paul C. Inkenbrandt

Evaluation of Chela Formation in Kambala-Livuite Area, Southern Block 0, Cabinda, Angola, Alba B. Bias dos Santos

Evaluation of Low-Temperature Geothermal Potential in Cache Valley, Utah, Janet L. de Vries

Evaluation of Low-Temperature Geothermal Potential in North-Central Box Elder County, Utah, Matthew C. Davis

Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Camas Prairie, South-Central Idaho, Connor J. Smith

Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Based on Three Exploration Holes, Thomas G. Freeman

Evolution of a Miocene-Pliocene Low-Angle Normal-Fault System in the Southern Bannock Range, Southeast Idaho, Stephanie M. Carney

Evolution of the Book Cliffs Dryland Escarpment in Central Utah - Establishing Rates and Testing Models of Escarpment Retreat, Nicholas R. McCarroll

Evolution of the Lower Cretaceous Chifeng Half-Graben Basins, Inner Mongolia, China, Scott Joshua Friedman

Examination of Deformation in Crystalline Rock From Strike-Slip Faults in Two Locations, Southern California, David H. Forand

Examination of Exhumed Faults in the Western San Bernardino Mountains, California: Implications for Fault Growth and Earthquake Rupture, Joseph R. Jacobs

Fault and Fluid Interactions in the Elsinore Fault-West Salton Detachment Fault Damage Zones, Agua Caliente County Park, California, Rebekah Erin Wood

Fault Seal Analysis for CO2 Storage: Fault Zone Architecture, Fault Permeability, and Fluid Migration Pathways in Exposed Analogs in Southeastern Utah, David J. Richey

Faunal Succession and Depositional Environments within the Lodgepole Limestone (Early Mississippian) of Samaria Mountain, Idaho, Gary Keith Hines

Feasibility of Extending an Artificial Salmon Spawning Stream, Marx Creek Near Hyder, Alaska, Tom Nelson

Fingerprinting Paleo-Groundwater Sources Using Stable Oxygen and Iron Isotopes of Iron Oxide Concretions From the "Boiler Room", Moab Area, Utah, Connor Frederickson

Fluvial Systems Tied Together Through a Common Base Level: The Geomorphic Response of the Dirty Devil River, North Wash Creek, and the Colorado River to the Rapid Base Level Drop of Lake Powell, Adam L. Majeski

Footwall Deformation and Structural Analysis of the Footwall of the Willard Thrust Fault, Northern Wasatch Range, Utah, Douglas Scott Neves

Formation, Deformation, and Incision of Colorado River Terraces Upstream of Moab, Utah, Andrew P. Jochems

From Hillslopes to Canyons, Studies of Erosion at Differing Time and Spatial Scales Within the Colorado River Drainage, Christopher Tressler

From the Rim to the River: The Geomorphology of Debris flows in the Green River Canyons of Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah, Isaac J. Larsen

Geochemical Characterization of the Mountain Home Geothermal System, Trevor Alex Atkinson

Geochemical, Petrologic, and Structural Characterization at Multiple Scales of Deformation Associated with the Punchbowl Fault, Southern California, Steven E. Schulz

Geochemical Provenance of Clastic Sedimentary Rocks in the Western Cordillera: Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon, John Aaron Peterson

Geochemistry of Ground Water - Surface Water Interactions and Metals Loading Rates in the North Fork of the American Fork River, Utah, from an Abandoned Silver/Lead Mine, Neil I. Burk

Geological Characterization of Precambrian Nonconformities: Implications for Injection-Induced Seismicity in the Midcontinent United States, Laura Cuccio

Geologic Characterization of the Nonconformity Interface Using Outcrop and Drillcore Analogs: Implications for Injection-Induced Seismicity, Kayla Smith

Geologic Feasibility of Dam and Reservoir Sites, Blacksmith Fork Canyon, Utah, Alfredo Capistrano Buenaventura

Geologic Mapping, Alluvial Stratigraphy, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of the Kanab Creek Area, Southern Utah, Michelle Carlene Summa

Geology and Mineralization of the Southeastern Part of the Black Pine Mountains, Cassia County, Idaho, Don E. French