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Research Group
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Current Students:
John Brotherton
Thesis Title: Late Paleozoic spatial and temporal subsidence patterns in intracratonic southwest Laurentia: Assessment of uplift, denudation, and demise of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains in modern south-central New Mexico
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Former Students:
Thesis Title: Testing depositional and provenacne models of the Quaternary Blackwater Draw Formation of the southern High Plains
Thesis Title: Subsidence analysis of the Midland Basin and Eastern Shelf of West Texas: Implications for Ancestral Rocky Mountain timing and deformation
Thesis Title: Developing a 3-D basin subsidence model for the late Paleozoic Taos Trough, northern New Mexico
Thesis Title: Characterizing facies and clay mineralogy of Guadalupian tidal deposits in SE New Mexico: Implications of Dolomitization
Thesis Title: Characterization of weathering profiles across the Great Unconformity-St. Francis Mountains, SE MIssouri
Thesis Title: Fusulinid occurrence density maps to assess paleogeographic models of the Northwest Shelf of the Delaware Basin region
Thesis Title: Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Peratrovich Formation and Ladrones Limestone (Mississippian to Pennsylvanian) southeastern Alaska
Eric Friedman
Daniel Pike
Audrey Pattat
Thesis Title: Assessing post-Miocene tilting of the Southern HIgh Plains through paleoslope reconstructions of the Ogallala Formation [download here]
Jill Garcia
Thesis Title: Pennsylvanian-Permian chronostratigraphy of the eastern Midland Basin: Implications for basin-filling evolution and paleogeography [download here]
Matthew Pippin
Thesis Title: Progressive downstream overprinting of glacially induced quartz microtextures during fluvial saltation, Salmon River, British Columbia and Alaska [download here]
David Brannan
Thesis Title: Fluvial overprinting of glacially induced microtextures on quartz grains derived from the Chitina Glacier, Alaska
[currently employed by CrownQuest; published in Journal of Sedimentary Research]
Hollee Baird
Thesis Title: Assessing Pleistocene climate on the Southern High Plains
through geochemical and physical characteristics of paleosols archived in the Blackwater Draw Formation [download here]
[currently employed by Statoil]
Aaron Watters
Gabrielle Dunne
Thesis Title: A Geochemical and Sedimentologic Approach to infer Paleoclimatic from Buried Soils within Playa Fill, Southern High Plains, Texas [download here]
John Closuit
Thesis Title: Grain-size control of mudcracks in a kaolinite matrix
Abner Godoy
Thesis Title: Pennsylvanian and Permian isopach camparisons in northern Texas and northeastern New Mexico [2nd Place Poster Geosciences Department Graduation Research Day]
Matt Terry
Thesis Title: Grain-size control of mudcracks in a kaolinite matrix
Corbin Carsrud
Thesis Title: A Pennsylvanian Age for the Fountain Formation constrained by litholologic comparison of overlying eolian units
Logan Worley
Thesis Title: Pennsylvanian and Permian isopach comparisons within the Paradox Basin, Utah
Hollee Baird
Thesis Title: Stable Inorganic Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of buried soils in Playa
Wetland cores in the Southern High Plains
Bryce Mathis
Thesis Title: Deciphering Paleogeography of the Ancestral Rockies in the Taos Trough Region
through Soft-Sedimentary Folds and Provenance Analysis: Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico [progressed to M.S. student at Louisiana State University]
Aaron Watters
Thesis Title: Early Permian Wind Parameters Recorded in the Lyons Formation, Manitou Springs,
Colorado
[1st Place Poster Geosciences Department Graduation Research Day; published in The Mountain Geologist]
Clyde Findlay
Thesis Title: Modeling Competency through Volume Expansion of Fine-grained Debris Flows
Housed within the Fountain Formation, Colorado [progressed to M.S. student at West Virgina University]