Graduate Theses

2020

Behar, Hannah, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 98 p. "MODELING STREAM THERMAL DYNAMICS: THE INFLUENCE OF BEAVER DAMS IN A MINNESOTA WATERSHED"

Budde, Nicholas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) "LONG-TERM HYDROLOGIC SUSTATINABILITY OF CALCAREOUS FENS ALONG GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ BEACH RIDGES, NORTHWESTERN MN"

Drazan, Jacqueline, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 83 p. "A GENETIC MODEL OF PILLOWED DIKE AND PEPERITE FORMATION INTERPRETED FROM PLEISTOCENE AND ARCHEAN VOLCANOGENIC SEQUENCES"

Duncanson, Samuel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brengman) 111 p. "IDENTIFICATION OF PRIMARY AND DIAGENETIC MINERALOGY PRESERVED IN SILICA-CEMENTED HORIZONS OF THE BIWABIK IRON FORMATION, MINNESOTA, USING PETROGRAPHY AND ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS"

Hammerschmidt, Shelby, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Dymond) 124 p. "UNDERSTORY TRANSPIRATION RATES FOLLOWING STAND DENSITY REDUCTION IN A COAST REDWOOD FOREST"

Mahoney, Serenity, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 89 p. "GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF INARI: A LARGE VENUSIAN CORONA DOMINATED BY SUBSURFACE PROCESSES"

Matko, Matthew, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Schardt & Mooers) 264 p. "ORE LIBERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ELECTRIC PULSE DISAGGREGATION AND OTHER NOVEL TECHNIQUES"

Regula, Andrew, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Davis) 105 p. "EXPERIMENTALLY GENERATED PARTITION COEFFICIENTS FOR THE FIRST-ROW TRANSITION ELEMENTS DURING PYROXENITE PARTIAL MELTING AT 3.0 GPa"

Richard, Emilie, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 73 p. "LANDSLIDES IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: INVENTORY MAPPING AND SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT"

Sockness, Brian, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 80 p. "AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DRAINAGE NETWORK DEVELOPMENT BY SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE FLOW IN LOW-GRADIENT LANDSCAPES"

Tovar Rodriguez, David, M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Mooers) 60 p. "A POSSIBLE LATE PLEISTOCENE IMPACT CRATER IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA AND ITS RELATION TO THE YOUNGER DRYAS STADIAL"

2019

Kremmin, Todd, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Wattrus) 497 p. "RECONSTRUCTING THE BAY-SIDE GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF A FRESHWATER BAYMOUTH BAR IN RESPONSE TO LAKE LEVEL CHANGE USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3d) GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) DATA"

Rabine, Claire, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 60 p. "TIMING OF TECTONIC UPLIFT RATE CHANGE AT ARAKI, VANUATU, DERIVED FROM ²³⁰TH DATING OF FOSSIL CORALS"

Shull, Carolyn, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 102 p. "TWO POTENTIAL CLIMATE PROXIES: INVESTIGATING 100 YEAR, HIGH-RESOLUTION ISOTOPE RECORDS FROM SPECLEOTHEMS ALONG WITH PHENOLOGICAL RECORDS, MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM"

Stoll, Kinzey, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 108 p. "ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF PRECIPITATION AND STREAMS ALONG THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR"

Wagner, Zachary, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Steinman) 65 p. "A 10,000-YEAR LAKE-SEDIMENT BASED RECONSTRUCTION OF HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATE IN THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS USING OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF LACUSTRINE CARBONATE SEDIMENT"

Cappio, Laura, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Brown & Steinman) 73 p. "PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE OLORGESAILIE PALEOLAKE"

Jasperson, Jenny, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 76 p. "SEASONAL AND FLOOD-INDUCED VARIATIONS IN GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER EXCHANGE DYNAMICS IN A SHALLOW AQUIFER SYSTEM; AMITY CREEK, MINNESOTA"

Leu, Adam, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 95 p. "GEOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE WILDER LAKE INTRUSION, DULUTH COMPLEX, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Sauer, Sarah, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 164 p. "PETROLOGIC STUDY OF THE "CHILL" ZONE OF THE LAYERED SERIES AT DULUTH; TESTING A POSSIBLE PLUTONIC-VOLCANIC CORRELATION WITHIN THE MCR"

2015

Berthold, Angela, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 55 p. "SURFACE BOULDER CONCENTRATIONS OF THE LATE WISCONSINAN RAINY LOBE, MINNESOTA, USA" 

Bevis, Martin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 96 p. "SEDIMENT BUDGETS INDICATE PLEISTOCENE BASE LEVEL FALL DRIVES EROSION IN MINNESOTA'S GREATER BLUE EARTH RIVER BASIN" 

Broderius, Lisa, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 217 p. "MID-HOLOCENE RECORD OF LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND EPISODIC EOLIAN ACTIVITY, LAKE WINNIBIGOSHISH, NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA"

Chaffee, Matthew, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 148 p. "PETROGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE HYBRID ROCK UNIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRENT LAKE INTRUSIVE COMPLEX"    

Fix, Paul, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 185 p. "CHARACTERIZATION OF WEATHERING PRODUCTS ON DULUTH COMPLEX ROCKS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR METAL MOBILITY, MESABA DEPOSIT, MINNESOTA, USA"

Gazzetti, Edward, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Swenson & Gran) 74 p. "AUTOGENIC SIGNALS IN AN EXPERIMENT SOURCE-TO-SINK SYSTEM"

Manopkawee, Pichawut, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 122 p. "IDENTIFYING EROSIONAL HOT SPOTS IN DULUTH-AREA STREAMS AFTER THE 2012 FLOOD USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REPEAT AERIAL LIDAR DATA"

Mitchell, Nathaniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 129 p. "ACHIEVING PEAK FLOW AND SEDIMENT LOADING REDUCTIONS THROUGH INCREASED WATER STORAGE IN THE LE SUEUR WATERSHED, MINNESOTA; A MODELING APPROACH"

Thompson, Adam, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers)  84 p. "A HYDROTHERMAL MODEL FOR METASOMATISM OF NEOARCHEAN ALGOMA-TYPE BANDED IRON FORMATION TO MASSIVE HEMATITE ORE AT THE SOUDAN MINE, NE MINNESOTA"

2014

Dyess, Jonathan, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 130 p. "MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF A NEOARCHEAN SHEAR ZONE IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE SOUTHERN SUPERIOR PROVINCE"

Fuller, Theodore, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Gran & Paola) 143 p. "FIELD, EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MECHANISMS AND DRIVERS OF LATERAL EROSION IN BEDROCK CHANNELS"

Goscinak, Christopher, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 53 p. "QUARTZ FABRIC ANALYSIS OF THE KAWISHIWI SHEAR ZONE, NE MINNESOTA"

Hougardy, Devin, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Colman & Wattrus) 147 p. "THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF LAKE OF THE WOODS, MINNESOTA, RECONSTRUCTED USING SEISMIC-REFLECTION IMAGING AND SEDIMENT CORE ANALYSIS"

Neitzel, Grant, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 128 p. "MONITORING EVENT-SCALE STREAM BLUFF EROSION WITH REPEAT TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING: AMITY CREEK, DULUTH, MN" 

Nissen, Chelsea, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 70 p. "NEW EVIDENCE OF PROTEROZOIC HIGH-P/T METAMORPHISM IN EAST ANTARCTICA FROM THERMOBAROMETRY AND IN-SITU U- Pb AGE DATING OF MONAZITE IN METAMORPHIC GLACIAL CLASTS, CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA" 

Steiner, Ronald "Alex", M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 211 p. "GENESIS OF SULFIDE MINERALIZATION WITHIN THE GRANITE FOOTWALL OF THE MATURI DEPOSIT OF THE SOUTH KAWISHIWI INTRUSION, DULUTH COMPLEX, NE MINNESOTA" 

Votova, Jillian, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 113 p. "THE HOLOCENE HISTORY OF LAKE KIVU (EAST AFRICA): NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM NEW CORES" 

2013

Cantarero, Sebastian, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 105 p. "MULTIPROXY PALEOCLIMATE RECORD FROM GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF LAKE CHALCO SEDIMENTS, A CLOSED BASIN LAKE IN CENTRAL MEXICO" 

Goldner, Jennifer, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Goodge & Hansen) 100 p. "STRUCTURE AND METAMORPHISM ALONG THE BURNTSIDE LAKE SHEAR ZONE NEAR ELY, MINNESOTA" 

Halbur, Julia, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Swenson) 55 p. "FREQUENCY AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF AVULSION NODES ON RIVER DELTAS AS A FUNCTION OF WAVE ENERGY" 

O'Beirne, Molly, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Brown & Werne) 142 p. "ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE HAS DRIVEN LAKE SUPERIOR PRODUCTIVITY BEYOND THE RANGE OF HOLOCENE VARIABILITY: AN ORGANIC AND STABLE ISOTOPIC STUDY OF HUMAN IMPACTS ON A PRISTINE BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYSTEM" 

Radakovich, Amy, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 209 p. "METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY OF GLACIAL CLASTS FROM THE BYRD GLACIER DRAINAGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CRUSTAL HISTORY OF EAST ANTARCTICA" 

Slonecker, Aaron, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 77 p. "STRUCTURAL AND GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF NORTHERN TELLUS REGIO, VENUS; IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL PLATEAU EVOLUTION" 

Wick, Molly, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 99 p. "IDENTIFYING EROSIONAL HOTSPOTS IN STREAMS ALONG THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR, MINNESOTA, USING HIGH-RESOLUTION ELEVATION AND SOILS DATA" 

2012

Cota-Guertin, Avery, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 132 p. "STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACID DEPOSITION IN THE WEST MIDLANDS ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM" 

Chorn, Benjamin, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson) 119 p. "TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE LAKE MALAWI DRILL CORES: A FEASIBILITY STUDY"

Day, Stephanie, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Gran & Paola) 255 p. "ANTHROPOGENICALLY-INTENSIFIED EROSION IN INCISING RIVER SYSTEMS"

Du, Miao, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Colman) 83 p. "A MULTIPROXY RECORD OF ASIAN MONSOON VARIATIONS DURING THE LAST 15,000 YEARS FROM PEIKU CO, TIBETAN PLATEAU"

Gustafson, Daniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Swenson & Wattrus) 122 p. "A GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF DEWATERING STRUCTURE IN WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR" 

Johnson, Andrea, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 63 p. "TIMING AND PATTERN OF VALLEY EXCAVATION, LE SUEUR RIVER, SOUTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA, USA" 

2011

Abbott, April, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson) 130 p. "PLEISTOCENE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY IN EAST AFRICA: A 1.2 MILLION YEAR TEX86 RECORD FROM LAKE MALAWI" 

Berke, Melissa, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson & Werne) 211 p. "MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC RECORDS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND VEGETATION RESPONSE IN TROPICAL EAST AFRICA DURING THE LATE PLEISTOCENE HOLOCENE"

Cervin, Dan, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: P. Morton & Miller) 166 p. "CHARACTERIZATION OF PRECIOUS METAL MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN THE NORTHMET DEPOSIT OF THE PATRIDGE RIVER INTRUSION, DULUTH COMPLEX, MINNESOTA, USA"

Dayton, Ryan, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 99 p. "THE GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE SONJU LAKE INTRUSION: ASSIMILATION AND FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION IN A LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSION NEAR FINLAND, MN" 

Dunn, Emily, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 78 p." INCIPIENT VEGETATION RECOVERY AND IT'S EFFECT ON BRAIDED CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY AT MOUNT PINATUBO, PHILIPPINES"

Foley, Daniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 119 p. "PETROLOGY AND Cu-Ni-PGE MINERALIZATION OF THE BOVINE IGNEOUS COMPLEX, BARAGA COUNTY, NORTHERN MICHIGAN"

Goldner, Brian, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 166 p. "PETROLOGY OF THE NI-CU-PGE MINERALIZED TAMARACK INTRUSION, AITKIN AND CARLTON COUNTIES, MINNESOTA" 

Liu, Xiuju, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Coleman & Brown) 128 p. "LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE HISTORY ON THE NORTHEAST TIBETAN PLATEAU: MULTIPROXY INVESTIGATION OF LAKE QINGHAI SEDIMENTS, CHINA"

Theriault, Stephanie, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 174 p. "MINERALOGY SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF SULFIDE MINERALS IN THE BIWABIK IRON FORMATION" 

Wartman, Jakob, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 165 p. "PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE RAINY RIVER GOLD PROJECT, NORTHWEST ONTARIO" 

2010

Costello, Daniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 132 p. "GEOLOGY AND PETROGENESIS OF THE TUSCARORA INTRUSION OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX, GILLIS LAKE 7.5' QUADRANGLE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Frost, Shelby, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 156 p. "THE EFFECTS OF CONTACT METAMORPHISM BY THE DULUTH COMPLEX ON PROTEROZOIC FOOTWALL ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Hoaglund, Steven, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 112 p. "U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX AND RELATED HYPABYSSAL INTRUSIONS: INVESTIGATING THE EMPLACEMENT HISTORY OF A LARGE MULTIPHASE INTRUSIVE COMPLEX RELATED TO THE 1.1 GA MIDCONTINENT RIFT" 

Rush, Robert, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 150 p. "HIGH RESOLUTION GEOCHEMICAL XRF DATA FROM ELK LAKE, MINNESOTA: A HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATE RECORD FROM VARVED LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS"

Voytek, Emily, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Coleman & Wattrus) 99 p. "SEISMIC STRATGRAPHY OF THUNDER BAY AND THE ISLE ROYALE REGION OF LAKE SUPERIOR" 

Wendt, Kelly, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 54 p. "A POSTGLACIAL RECORD OF CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EAST CROOKED LAKE AND TOFTE LAKE, MINNESOTA" 

White, Christopher, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Goodge & Miller) 253 p. "THE PETROLOGY, PETROGENESIS, AND METALLOGENY OF THE SOUTH KAWISHIWI INTRUSION IN THE NOKOMIS DEPOSIT AREA, DULUTH COMPLEX, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

2009

Bjonnes, Emily, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Hansen & Swenson) 80 p. "THE PLAUSIBILITY OF VENUSIAN EQUILIBRIUM RESURFACING USING MONTE CARLO MODELS"

Gary, Jessica, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Wattrus & Coleman) 89 p. "CHARACTERIZING THE DISCHARGE FEATURES OF GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ DURING THE POST-MARQUETTE PERIOD USING MARINE SEISMIC-REFLECTION METHODS" 

Johnson, Thomas, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Hansen & Hudak) 142 p. "STRUCTURAL, KINEMATIC, AND HYDROTHERMAL FLUID INVESTIGATION OF THE GOLD-BEARING MURRAY SHEAR ZONE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Karberg, Susan, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 70 p. "STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MUD CREEK SHEAR ZONE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Kramer, Marian, WRS M.S. (Advisor: Brown) 148 p. "HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE FROM WHITE OWL LAKE SEDIMENTS, WHITE RIVER PLATEAU, COLORADO"

Meyer, Margretta, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 64 p. "PALEOGLACIOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF ROGEN MORAINE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Petrick, Benjamin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 126 p. "A 2000 YEAR SUB-ANNUAL RECORD OF CLIMATE CHANGE FROM LAKE MALAWI"

Quinn, John, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 191 p. "GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACHES TO CHARARCTERIZING THE HYDROGEOLOGY OF GLACIAL DRIFT"

Chavula, Geoffrey, WRS Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson & Brezonik) "DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE SENSING TOOL TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGEMENT OF LAKE MALAWI"

Erickson, Emerald, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 62 p. "STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHAGAWA LAKE SHEAR ZONE, SUPERIOR PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Gamble, Valerie, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 98 p. "AN APPLICATION OF U-TH DATING TO LACUSTRINE SYSTEM; LAKE PETEN-ITZA, GUATEMALA AND LAKE MALAWI, MALAWI" 

Goodman, Sally, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 82 p. "STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE KAWISHIWI SHEAR ZONE, SUPERIOR PROVINCE" 

Gruhn, Leah, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 137 p. "SEASONAL DELTA 18 O AND Sr/Ca RECORDS FROM SUBMERGED PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL CORALS IN THE WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC" 

Larson, Phillip, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 76 p. "QUANTIFICATION OF GLACIAL SEDIMENT EROSION, ENTRAINMENT, AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DYNAMIC HISTORY OF THE LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET" 

Riker-Colman, Kristin, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 154 p. "SUBMERGED FOSSIL CORALS: ARCHIVES OF DIAGENESIS SUBSIDENCE AND SEA LEVEL"

Sharpe, Andrew, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Wattrus) 91 p. "EVIDENCE OF SOFT-SEDIMENT POST-DEPOSITIONAL DEFORMATION IN LAKE SUPERIOR" 

Shankar, Bhairavi, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 86 p. "A GLOBAL SURVEY OF CIRCULAR LOWS: A SUBSET OF CORONAE, VENUS" 

Woltering, Martijn, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) "THAUMARCHAEOTA DISTRIBUTION IN THE WATER COLUMN OF LAKE SUPERIOR AND MALAWI; IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEX86 LACUSTRINE TEMPERATURE PROXY"

2007

Ali-Adeeb, Riyad, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Demko & Swenson) 159 p. "FLUVIAL EVOLUTION BETWEEN THE SALT WASH AND BRUSHY BASIN MEMBERS OF THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH" 

Brecke, Devon, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 126 p. "PROVENANCE OF GLACIALLY TRANSPORTED MATERIAL NEAR NIMROD GLACIER, EAST ANTARCTICA: EVIDENCE OF THE ICE-COVERED EAST ANTARCTIC SHIELD"

Castaneda, Isla, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson & Werne) 212 p. "PALEOENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY IN THE SOUTHEAST AFRICAN TROPICS SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM: MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC RECORDS FROM LAKE MALAWI"

Endsley, Erin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 51 p. "LATE HOLOCENE DRY PERIODS RECORDED IN SPELEOTHEMS FROM THE MAYA LOWLANDS OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO"

Erickson, Ryan, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Demko & Swenson) 123 p. "THE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHINLE FORMATION IN THE DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT REGION, UTAH AND COLORADO, USA"

Hoffman, Adam, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Peterson & Hudak) 314 p. "LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION, AND LITHOGEOCHEMISTRY OF NEOARCHEAN ROCKS IN THE LOWER AND SOUDAN MEMBER OF THE ELY GREENSTONE FORMATION, VERMILLION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: IMPLICATIONS FOR VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDES"

2006

Albers, Paul, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 206 p. "THE GEOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE LEVEAUX PORPHYRITIC DIORITE INTRUSTION: INVESTIGATING POSSIBLE MAGMATIC RELATIONSHIPS TO THE ANORTHOSITIC SERIES OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Bannister, Roger, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 83 p. "GEOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATION IN THE INTERIOR OF ARTEMIS (VENUS, 34°S, 132°E)" 

Beer, Joseph, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Demko) "SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF FLUVIAL AND LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS IN THE LOWER PART OF THE CHINLE FORMATION, SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH, UNITED STATES: PALEOCLIMATE AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS"

Breckenridge, Andrew, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 266 p. "LAKE SUPERIOR VARVES: RECORDS OF LAKE AGASSIZ OVERFLOW AND ICE SHEET DYNAMICS"

Hinterleitner, Deborah, WRS Ph.D Thesis (Advisor: Mooers & Richards)  "CRANBERRY MARSH NUTRIENT AND PESTICIDE EFFECTS ON RECEIVING LAKE AND GROUNDWATER"

Lang, Nicholas, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) "GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN VENUS' LOWLANDS"

Mohr, Jere, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Swenson) 60 p. "FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATION CONTROLLED BY DISTAL SUBAQUEOUS SEDIMENT DYNAMICS" 

Van Alstine, Jon, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 153 p. "A HIGH RESOLUTION STUDY OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC COMPOUNDS IN OFFSHORE LAKE SUPERIOR SEDIMENTS"

2005

Albrecht, Darin, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) "GEOCHEMICAL FINGERPRINTING AND THE ROLE OF THE NEMADJI RIVER IN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT WITHIN WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR"

Beer, Joseph, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Demko) 180 p. "SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF FLUVIAL AND LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS IN THE LOWER PART OF THE CHINLE FORMATION, SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH, UNITED STATES: PALEOCLIMATIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS"

Klejeski, Julie, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) "AN EVALUATION OF NUTRIENT BUDGETS FOR TWO URBAN LAKES IN VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA"

McDaniel, Kelly, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 79 p. "CIRCULAR LOWS, A GENETICALLY DISTINCT SUBSET OF CORONAE ON VENUS?"

Powers, Lindsay, Ph.D. Thesis (Adivsors: Johnson & Werne) 87 p. "CALIBRATION AND APPLICATION OF A NEW PALEOTEMPERATURE TOOL IN LACUSTRINE SSYSTEMS: TEX86 FOR CONTINENTAL PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION"

Rantala, Heidi, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 55 p. "LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND A RELICT FISH COMMUNITY, NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA"

Rieser, Michael, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 103 p. "DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM OF TECTONITES EXPOSED IN THE NEW YORK AND CLARK MOUNTAINS, EASTERN CALIFORNIA: A CASE FOR PROTEROZOIC MID-CRUSTAL SHORTENING IN THE MOJAVE PROVINCE" 

Joslin, Gregory, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 186 p. "STRATIFORM PALLADIUM-PLATINUM-GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE SONJU LAKE INTRUSION, LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

Marlow, Lisa, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 92 p. "LATE GLACIAL AND EARLY HOLOCENE HISTORY OF THE GLACIAL LAKES AITKIN AND UPHAM BASIN , NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TIMING OF POST GLACIAL EOLIAN ACTIVITY" 

Musielewicz, James, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) "ESTIMATES OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE KEWEENAW CURRENT USING COPPER MINE TAILINGS AS A SEDIMENT TRACER"

Wittkop, Chad, Ph.D. Thesis, (Advisor: Johnson) 210 p. "PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION USING LAMINATED SEDIMENTS CONTAINING AUTHIGENIC CARBONATE MINERALS: CASE STUDIES FROM THE GREAT LAKES REGION OF NORTH AMERICA" 

2003

Neilson, Kimberly, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 100 p. "STRATIGRAPHIC STUDY AND JOINT-PATTERN ANALYSIS IN THE BIWABIK IRON FORMATION, VIRGINIA HORN AREA, NORTHEAST MINNESOTA" 

2002

Bertsch, Benjamin, WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 134 p. "GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELING AND THE DELINEATION OF WELLHEAD PROTECTION AREAS, CASS COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Whitehill, Matthew, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 122 p. "MORAINES OF THE BONANZA VALLEY, WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA" 

2001

Bray, Lois, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 76 p. "PETROGRAPHIC, X-RAY DIFFRACTION, AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF POTTERY FROM ANYANG, CHINA" 

Hovis, Steven, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 148 p. "PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE ARCHEAN VOLCANIC ROCKS AT THE EAGLES NEST VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULPHIDE PROSPECT, NORTHERN MINNESOTA"

Huber, James, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Rapp & Farrell) 342 p. "PALYNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL STIES AND THE EXPANSION OF WILD RICE (ZIZANIA AQUATICA L.) IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA"

Musielewicz, Sylvia (Barry), WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 109 p. "STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF VARVED SEDIMENTS FROM LAKE MALAWI, EAST AFRICA"

Peterson, Dean, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 262 p. "DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHEAN LODE-GOLD AND MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT EXPLORATION MODELS USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATIONS: TARGETING MINERAL EXPLORATION IN NORTHEASTER MINNESOTA FROM ANALYSIS OF ANALOG CANADIAN MINING CAMPS"

2000

Heinzel, Chad, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 101 p. "STRATIGRAPHIC, PETROGRAPHIC, AND SEDIMENTOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF UPPER CRETACEOUS DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION OF THE ADAVILLE FORMATION, KEMMERER COAL MINE AREA, SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING"

Klawiter, Brian, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 84 p. "AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE POTENTIAL FOR GEOCHEMICAL / GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN CHERTS"

Knoke, Kevin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 92 p. "EFFECTS OF FREE FLOWING SALINE WELLS ON WATER QUALITY IN A SURFICIAL AQUIFER"

Lehr, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 167 p. "PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF THE EMBARRASS AREA, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Norton, Kevin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 101 p. "QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE LOWER ST. LOUIS RIVER AND ESTUARY, LAKE SUPERIOR, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Stark, David, WRS M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Mooers) "APPLICATION OF THE REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION WITHIN A GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM"

1999

Arbit, Natalya, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 105 p. "STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF STREAMFLOW HYDROGRAPHS AND THE RELATION OF HYDROGRAPH CHARACTERISTICS TO GEOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE UNITS" 

Holmes, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 218 p. "IMPACTS OF MUNICIPAL AND COMMERCIAL USAGE OF A SHALLOW UNCONFINED AQUIFER, NAGS HEAD AREA MARITIME FOREST AND WETLANDS, ATLANTIC COAST BARRIER ISLANDS, NORTH CAROLINA"

Liu, Xiaochun (Shirley), WRS M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 90 p. "OSTRACODE ABUNDANCE ANALYSIS OF LAKE ISSYK-KUL, KYRGYZSTAN, CENTRAL ASIA"

Madigan, Thomas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 139 p. "GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA TO GUTTENBERG, IOWA" 

1998

Bekker, Andrey, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 115 p. "CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CLIMATOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC SNOWY PASS SUPERGROUP, WYOMING AND ITS APPLICATION FOR CORRELATION WITH OTHER SEQUENCES IN NORTH AMERICA" 

Niendorf, Christopher, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 131 p. "AN EVALUATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC TRACE METALS IN THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE SUPERIOR"

1997

Adamson, Kent, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 203 p. "PETROLOGY STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC BAYFIELD GROUP, NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN" 

Besonen, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 172 p. "THE MIDDLE AND LATE HOLOCENE GEOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE LOWER ACHERON RIVER VALLEY, EPIRUS, GREECE" 

Carney, Scott, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 129 p. "PALEOHYDROLOGY OF THE WESTERN OUTLETS OF GLACIAL LAKE DULUTH" 

de Beer, Jan, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 230 p. "PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION, AND METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY OF THE BEAVER LAKE AREA, NEAR MINE CENTRE, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO, CANADA"

Galarowicz, Amy, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 110 p. "PETROGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THE RECYCLING OF LATE PROTEROZOIC - EARLY PALEOZOIC QUARTZOSE ARENITES, SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA - SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN"

1996

Hudak III, George, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 463 p. "THE PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION ASSOCIATED WITH LATE CALDERA VOLCANIC AND VOLCANICLASTIC ROCKS AND VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE STURGEON LAKE REGION OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO"

Kanuit, Shari, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 149 p. "DETERMINATION OF GROUNDWATER RECHARGE AND RESIDENCE TIME IN THE ITASCA MORAINE AREA, NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA: A HYDROGEOCHEMICAL APPROACH" 

Lindenberg, Sheila, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 129 p. "SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR REGION LITHICS USING NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS: GEOARCHEOLOGICAL STUDY" 

Patelke, Richard, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: P. Morton & Green) 239 p. "THE COLVIN CREEK BODY, A METAVOLCANIC AND METASEDIMENTARY MAFIC INCLUSION IN THE KEWEENAWAN DULUTH COMPLEX, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Xirouchakis, Dimitrios, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 101 p. "CONTACT METAMORPHISM ADJACENT TO THE LARAMIE ANORTHOSITE COMPLEX, ALBANY COUNTY, WYOMING" 

1995

Geerts, Stephen, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: P. Morton) 155 p. "PETROGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF A PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT-BEARING MINERALIZED HORIZON IN THE DUNKA ROAD PROSPECT, (KEWEENAWAN) DULUTH COMPLEX, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Leveinen, Jussi, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 193 p. "PETROLOGY OF THE KEETLEY VOLCANICS IN SUMMIT AND WASATCH COUNTIES, NORTH-CENTRAL UTAH"

St. George, Lynette, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 118 p. "A LANDFORM-BASED APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN COMPLEX GLACIAL TOPOGRAPHY" 

Uribe, Ruben, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 103 p. "PETROGRAPHY AND DIAGENESIS OF THE UPPER CAMBRIAN MT. SIMON SANDSTONE, SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Yin, Xinping, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 131 p. "METAMORPHISM AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF EARLY PROTEROZOIC DIABASES IN THE REPUBLIC MINE, NORTHERN MICHIGAN" 

1993

Beaverson, Sheena, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 104 p. "RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LATE GLACIAL AND HOLOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SETTING AT 20SA596, AND THE SAGINAW BASIN, MICHIGAN" 

Gowan, Angela, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 128 p. "SEDIMENTOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF SELECTED GLACIAL SEDIMENTS FROM CENTRAL MINNESOTA AS A METHOD FOR CORRELATION AND PROVENANCE STUDIES OF GLACIAL STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS"

Lineburg, Joane, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 183 p. "SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF PRE-WISCONSIN DRIFTS, COTEAU DES PRAIRIES, EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA" 

Muhich, Thomas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: P. Morton) 166 p. "MOVEMENT OF TITANIUM ACROSS THE DULUTH COMPLEX - BIWABIK IRON FORMATION CONTACT AT DUNKA PIT, MESABI IRON RANGE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Osterberg, Steven, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 273 p. "STRATIGRAPHY, PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE FOOTWALL ROCKS TO THE WINSTON LAKE MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" 

Walker, Jamieson, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 195 p. "PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE FOOTWALL ROCKS TO THE ARCHEAN MATTABI MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO"

1992

Evavold, Glenn, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 123 p. "GROUNDWATER FLOW AND SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODELING AT A STATE SUPERFUND SITE, NORTHEASTERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Rausch, Deborah, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Darby) 68 p. "PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE BAY OF CARTHAGE BASED ON OSTRACODE FAUNA" 

Thomas, David, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 214 p. "LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, PETROLOGY, DIAGENESIS AND ENVIRONMENTS OF DEPOSITION OF THE UPPER CAMBRIAN JORDAN SANDSTONE, SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

1991

Ballantyne, John, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 191 p. "LATE-WISCONSIN STRATIGRAPHY AND GLACIAL HISTORY OF SOUTHWESTERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

Dokken, Kayo, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Darby) 169 p. "ICHNOFOSSILS OF THE CARBONATE PLATTEVILLE FORMATION (MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN) IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Felger, Tracey, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 162 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE SKINNER PEAKS QUADRANGLE, JUAB AND SANPETE COUNTIES, UTAH"

Levy, Eric, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 149 p. "THE GEOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE ARCHEAN METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE VIRGINIA HORN AREA, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Linscheid, Eric, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: P. Morton) 148 p. "THE PETROGRAPHY OF THE LONGNOSE PERIDOTITE DEPOSIT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE DULUTH COMPLEX" 

Nelson, Nancy, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 158 p. "A PETROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF GRANOPHYRIC GRANITE IN THE ROOF OF THE KEWEENAWAN DULUTH COMPLEX, EAGLE MOUNTAIN, COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

1990

Dunlap, William, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 172 p. "GENESIS OF MYLONITE AND STRUCTURE OF FRANCIS PEAK, WASATCH MOUNTAINS, UTAH"

Gilbertson, Jay, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 156 p. "QUATERNARY GEOLOGY ALONG THE EASTERN FLANK OF THE COTEAU DES PRAIRIES, GRANT COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA"

Jablinski, Joseph, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 90 p. "STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARCHEAN METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS, JARDINE, MONTANA"

Smith, Eric, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 116 p. "MERCURY GEOCHEMISTRY OF FOUR WATERSHEDS IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA" 

Spicuzza, Michael, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 128 p. "HIGH GRADE METAMORPHISM AND PARTIAL MELTING IN THE BLUEGRASS CREEK SUITE, CENTRAL LARAMIE MOUNTAINS, WYOMING" 

Turner, Scott, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Matsch & Evavold) 129 p. "GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT ANALYSIS OF THE KITZVILLE DUMP, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

1989

Hudak III, George, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 199 p. "THE PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE F-GROUP ARCHEAN VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, STURGEON LAKE , NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO"

Jongewaard, Peter, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 161 p. "PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE FOOTWALL ROCKS TO THE ARCHEAN STURGEON LAKE MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, NORTHWEST ONTARIO"

MacArthur, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 78 p. "DEFORMATION IN THE ARCHEAN KNIFE LAKE GROUP, VERMILION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Schaefer, Stephen, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: P. Morton) 138 p. "A COMPARISON OF TWO ARCHEAN ULTRAMAFIC PYROCLASTIC ROCK UNITS FROM THE SUPERIOR PROVINCE, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" 

1988

Ervin, Sarah, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: P. Morton) 165 p. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CLOUD ZONE AND THE BASAL ZONE CU-NI SULFIDES, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAFIC PEGMATITES, MINNAMAX PROPERTY, DULUTH COMPLEX, MINNESOTA"

Fitz III, Thomas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 190 p. "LARGE FELSIC FLOWS IN THE KEWEENAWAN NORTH SHORE VOLCANIC GROUP, COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Pezzutto, Frank, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 172 p. "PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE ARCHEAN QUETICO METASEDIMENTS IN THE ATIKOKAN-MINE CENTRE AREA, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" 

Wangensteen, Martin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 221 p. "THE HYDROGEOLOGICAL IMPACT OF HEAVY METAL-LADEN ASH LANDFILLING AT THE WLSSD LANDFILL, RICE LAKE, MINNESOTA" 

1987

Besonen, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 172 p. "THE MIDDLE AND LATE HOLOCENE GEOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE LOWER ACHERON RIVER VALLEY, EPIRUS, GREECE"

Boerboom, Terrance, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 222 p. "TOURMALINITES, NELSONITES, AND RELATED ROCKS (EARLY PROTEROZOIC) NEAR PHILBROOK, TODD COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Davis, Douglas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 134 p. "STRATIGRAPHY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE GAGNE LAKE PROSPECT: AN OCCURRENCE OF VOLCANOGENIC-TYPE MASSIVE SULFIDES NEAR MINE CENTRE, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO, CANADA"

Frantes, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 178 p. "PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE ARCHEAN SEINE GROUP CONGLOMERATE AND SANDSTONE, WESTERN WABIGOON BELT, NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND WESTERN ONTARIO"

Huber, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Rapp) 218 p. "A LATE HOLOCENE VEGETATIONAL SEQUENCE FROM THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI OZARKS"

Johnson-Rozacky, Wendy, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 103 p. "THE PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE LOWER PROTEROZOIC BARRON QUARTZITE, NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN"

Nebel, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) "STRATIGRAPHY, DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT, AND ALTERATION OF ARCHEAN FELSIC VOLCANICS, WAWA, ONTARIO"

Reichhoff, Jayne, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 217 p. "TWO KEWEENAWAN BASALTIC DIKE SWARMS IN THE DULUTH AREA, MINNESOTA"

Vervoort, Jeffrey, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 220 p. "PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE ARCHEAN ROCKS OF THE JAP LAKE AREA, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

1986

England, Daniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 105 p. "GEOLOGY IN THE MODOC PB-AG-ZN DISTRICT, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA"

Holm, Daniel, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 124 p. "A STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION AND TECTONIC INTERPRETATION OF THE PENOKEAN OROGENY: EAST-CENTRAL MINNESOTA"

Lannon, Patrick, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 128 p. "THE QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY AND GLACIAL HISTORY OF THE DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA"

Reichhoff, Colin, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 146 p. "GEOLOGY OF LOWER PROTEROZOIC VOLCANICLASTIC SEQUENCE NEAR WAUSAU, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN" 

1985

Clark, Richard, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 124 p. "THE STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF THE THOMSON FORMATION: CLOQUET AND ESKO QUADRANGLES, EAST-CENTRAL MINNESOTA"

Neumann, Scott, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 194 p. "LOWER AND MIDDLE PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE DENHAM AREA, NORTHERN PINE COUNTY, EAST-CENTRAL MINNESOTA" 

Osterberg, Steven, M.S. Thesis (Advisor:R. Morton) 166 p. "STRATIGRAPHY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF ARCHEAN VOLCANIC ROCKS AT THE HEADWAY-COULEE MASSIVE SULFIDE PROSPECT, NORTHERN ONAMAN AREA, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO" 

Rosen, Lawrence, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 188 p. "THE SEDIMENTOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE EARLY PROTEROZOIC GOWGANDA FORMATION AROUND GOWGANDA - ELK LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA" 

Scholz, Christopher, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Darby) 149 p. "SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION AND SEDIMENTATION RATES IN THE WESTERN ARM OF LAKE SUPERIOR USING 3.5 KHZ SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES AND 210PB GEOCHRONOLOGY" 

Sykes, Julia, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 150 p. "HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM OF IRON-RICH BODIES IN ARCHEAN GNEISS, WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS, WYOMING" 

Verhagen, Ingrid, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 93 p. "HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AND METAMORPHISM OF A METADIABASE SILL, LAKE MICHIGAMME, NORTHERN MICHIGAN" 

1984

Groves , David, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 150 p. "STRATIGRAPHY AND ALTERATION OF THE FOOTWALL VOLCANIC ROCKS BENEATH THE ARCHEAN MATTABI MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, STURGEON LAKE, ONTARIO"

Halfman, Barbara, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Darby) 104 p. "SUSPENDED SOLIDS IN THE WESTERN ARM OF LAKE SUPERIOR"

Motamedi, Shoaullah, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 154 p. "THE KEWEENAWAN LAVAS IN THE CITY OF DULUTH" 

Yeomans, Bruce, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Marsden) 143 p. "THE GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC PETROLOGY OF THE ARCHEAN NEWTON LAKE FORMATION, BOULDER BAY AREA, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

1983

Barlaz, Dora, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 130 p. "SEDIMENTATION IN THE DULUTH-SUPERIOR HARBOR, LAKE SUPERIOR" 

Norton, Arthur, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 153 p. "QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE ITASCA-ST. CROIX MORAINE INTERLOBATE AREA, NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA" 

Steinmaus, Karen, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 135 p. "GEOLOGY AND EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GLACIAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

1982

Campbell, Frederick, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 190 p. "GEOLOGY OF THE UPPER PRECAMBRIAN FLAMBEAU QUARTZITE, CHIPPEWA COUNTY, NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN"

Gross, Laura, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 163 p. "THE STRATIGRAPHY AND LITHOLOGY OF THE GLACIOGENIC SEDIMENTS OF THE TWO HARBORS AREA, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Hyrkas, Gerald, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 178 p. "THE SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE PRECAMBRIAN THOMSON FORMATION, CENTRAL CARLTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Nebel, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 136 p. "STRATIGRAPHY, DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT, AND ALTERATION OF ARCHEAN FELSIC VOLCANICS, WAWA , ONTARIO"

Olson, Jean, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 116 p. "THE SEDIMENTATION AND PETROLOGY OF THE LOWER PROTEROZOIC MCCASLIN FORMATION, NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN" 

Osterberg, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: R. Morton) 86 p. "SUBAQUEOUS PYROCLASTIC VOLCANISM IN THE VICINITY OF THE HELEN MINE, WAWA, ONTARIO" 

1981

Carlson, Diane, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 144 p. "THE PETROLOGY OF THE MIGMATITE COMPLEX ALONG THE SOUTH FORK OF THE CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO"

Connolly, Marc, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Holst) 147 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE PRECAMBRIAN THOMSON FORMATION IN SOUTHERN CARLTON COUNTY, EAST-CENTRAL MINNESOTA"

Flood, Timothy, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 152 p. "GEOLOGY OF THE CYPRESS, HANSON AND SOUTH ARM OF KNIFE LAKE AREA, BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA: EASTERN VERMILION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Giangrande, Peter, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 125 p. "GEOLOGY AND SULFIDE MINERALIZATION OF THE SKELETON LAKE PROSPECT, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Rismeyer, Neil W., 1981, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) , 108 p. "GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN FARMINGTON COMPLEX, BOUNTIFUL PEAK, MORGAN AND DAVIS COUNTIES, UTAH" 

Weber, Richard, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 161 p. "PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE UPPER PRECAMBRIAN SIOUX QUARTZITE, MINNESOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND IOWA"

1980

Evans, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Johnson) 224 p. "210Pb GEOCHRONOLOGY IN LAKE SUPERIOR SEDIMENTS: SEDIMENTATION RATES, ORGANIC CARBON DEPOSITION, SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS AND POST-DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES"

Jirsa, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 154 p. "THE PETROLOGY AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERFLOW SEDIMENTS IN THE KEWEENAWAN NORTH SHORE VOLCANIC GROUP OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Kohlmann, Nicholas, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 129 p. "THE POLYMETAMORPHISM OF THE LITTLE WILLOW FORMATION, WASATCH MOUNTAINS, UTAH"

Lehman, George, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Davidson) 142 p. "THE BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF THE CRAMER 15' QUADRANGLE, LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Matlack, William, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Marsden & Grant) 100 p. "GEOLOGY AND SULFIDE MINERALIZATION OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX-VIRGINIA FORMATION CONTACT, MINNAMAX DEPOSIT, ST. LOUIS COUNTRY, MINNESOTA" 

Palmer, Elizabeth, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Davidson & Grant) 147 p. "THE STRUCTURE AND PETROLOGY OF PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCK UNITS, NORTHWESTERN MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN" 

Stone, David, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Darby & Ojakangas) 149 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE UPPER DENLEITH FORMATION (PROSSER MEMBER GALENA FORMATION) OF MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN AGE IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Wurdinger, Stephanie, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Davidson) 104 p. "PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES AT HOLCOMBE, CHIPPEWA COUNTY, WISCONSIN" 

1979

Juneau , Peter, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Marsden) 209 p. "ORIGIN AND PETROLOGY OF IRON SILICATE-RICH BODIES IN THE BIWABIK IRON FORMATION, MINNESOTA"

Kirstein, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 69 p. "CONTACT METAMORPHISM OF THE VIRGINIA FORMATION IN THE MINNAMAX DEPOSIT, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Laybourn, Dennis, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Marsden) 252 p. "THE GEOLOGY AND METAMORPHISM OF THE IRONWOOD IRON-FORMATION, GOGEBIC RANGE, WISCONSIN"

Squillace, Paul, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 95 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE NEW RICHMOND MEMBER OF THE SHAKOPEE FORMATION (LOWER ORDOVICIAN) UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY"

Zamzow, Craig, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Davidson & Ojakangas) 125 p. "EARLY PRECAMBRIAN BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHWEST ANGLE, LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

1978

Gladen, Leon, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Marsden & Ojakangas) 133 p. "GEOLOGY OF LOWER PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS AND ASSOCIATED SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN AN AREA SOUTH OF INDUS, KOOCHICHING COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Severson, Mark, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 161 p. "PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF EARLY PRECAMBRIAN GRAYWACKES IN THE EASTERN VERMILION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

1977

Berner, Heinz, M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Ojakangas) 101 p. "GEOLOGIC PROCESSES AND HAZARDS IN HIGH-RELIEF TERRAIN"; 68 p. "A LAND SUITABILITY STUDY FOR LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA", 87 p. "MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL: A PROBLEM IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY"

Everson, Curtis, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 77 p. "DRIFT LITHOLOGY IN RELATION TO BEDROCK GEOLOGY, LONG ISLAND LAKE QUADRANGLE, COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Feirn, William, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Davidson) 159 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF THE EARLY PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS OF THE JASPER LAKE AREA, COOK COUNTY, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

Moss, Carol, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Green & Matsch) 77 p. "THE SURFICIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY OF THE FRENCH RIVER QUADRANGLE, COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

Orlando, Mario, M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Matsch) 89 p. "LATE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN EXTINCTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA: EXTENT, THEORIZED CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS" 

Seeling, Randall, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 87 p. "RB-SR WHOLE ROCK ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROLOGY OF THE TONALITIC-TRONDHJEMITIC PHASE OF THE ARCHEAN QUARTZO-FELDSPATHIC GNEISS, SACRED HEART - NORTH REDWOOD AREA, MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY" 

Wilson, Wendell, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Murthy) 152 p. "TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF EARLY PRECAMBRIAN GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHIC ROCKS NEAR GRANITE FALLS IN THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY"

Zarth, Randee, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 93 p. "THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE WRENSHALL AND FROGNER QUADRANGLES, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

1976

Alwin, Bevan, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 214 p. "SEDIMENTATION OF THE MIDDLE PRECAMBRIAN TYLER FORMATION OF NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN AND NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN" 

Burnell Jr., James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Davidson) "PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURAL RELATIONS OF THE BRULE LAKE INTRUSIONS , COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

Pope, Neil, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 168 p. "PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN MAFIC SILLS EAST OF SILVER CREEK, LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

Welsh, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 109 p. "PETROLOGY OF THE NORTHWEST MARGIN OF THE SACRED HEART PLUTON AND ADJACENT ARCHAEAN GNEISSES FROM THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY , REDWOOD AND YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTIES, MINNESOTA"

1975

Cummings, Michael, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Grant) 181 p. "PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES AT BIG FALLS, EAU CLAIRE COUNTY, WISCONSIN"

Goodner, Dave, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Darby) 52 p. "PALEOECOLOGY OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS UPPER FRONTIER HENEFER FORMATIONS (WANSHIP) NEAR COALVILLE, UTAH"

1974

Listerud, William, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Marsden & Ojakangas) 112 p. "GEOLOGY OF A SULFIDE DEPOSIT IN THE LOWER PRECAMBRIAN METAVOLCANIC-METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS NEAR BIRCHDALE, KOOCHICHING COUNTY, MINNESOTA" 

Reid, David, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Matsch) 100 p. "THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE LAKE JOHANNA REGION, WEST-CENTRAL MINNESOTA"

Saremba, Scott, M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Green) 39 p. "A TESTING OF THE PREDICTION OF FLOATING OR SETTLING PHENOCRYSTS IN A MAGMA BY MATHEMATICAL MODELS"

Schulz, Klaus, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 221 p. "DIFFERENTIATED MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC SILLS IN THE ARCHEAN VERMILION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA" 

Stevenson, Robert, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 160 p. "A MAFIC LAYERED INTRUSION OF KEWEENAWAN AGE NEAR FINLAND, LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA"

1973

Saremba, Scott, M.S. Plan B Probject (Advisor: Green) 67 p. "DEVELOPMENT OF A COPPER-NICKEL INDUSTRY IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

1972

Kilburg, James, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 103 p. "PETROLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND CORRELATION OF THE UPPER PRECAMBRIAN ELY'S PEAK BASALT"

Mattis, Allen, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 125 p. "THE PETROLOGY AND SEDIMENTATION OF THE BASAL KEWEENAWAN SANDSTONES OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR" 

McLimans, Roger, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ojakangas) 130 p. "GRANITE-BEARING CONGLOMERATES OF THE LOWER PRECAMBRIAN IN THE VERMILION DISTRICT, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA"

1971

Saremba, Scott, M.S. Plan B Project (Advisor: Green) 35 p. "MACROFABRIC ANALYSIS OF GLACIAL TILL"

1969

Nathan, Harold, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisor: Green) 198 p. "THE GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX, COOK COUNTY"