THESES AND PUBLICATIONS

Department of Geology Theses By Author I - P

1990. Issacson, Kathleen. Late Tertiary Synorogenic Sedimentation, Livermore Basin, California. 104 p.

1982. Johannesen, Dann. The geology and petrography of the Alum Creek Area, Mineral County, Nevada. 92 p.

1968. Johnson, Edward. Structural Geology of the South Mazourka Canyon Area, Inyo County, California. 61 p.

1990. Johnson, Philip. Laramide Basin Subsidence and Fluvial Architecture of the Fort Union and Wasatch Formation, Southern Greene River Basin, Wyoming. 146 p.

2002. Jurasius, Michael. Rock Slope Kinematics of the Mission Peak Landslide, Fremont, California.

2001. Kakouros, Evangelos. Determination of Selenium Leaching Using Batch Tests and Column Experiments.

1983. Kaplan, Terry. The Lassic Outlier: an Outlier of Coast Range Ophiolite. 96 p.

1975. Keith, William. Geology of the Red Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 75 p.

1973. Kelley, J. S. Structural Geology of a Portion of the Southwest Quarter of the New York Butte Quadrangle, Inyo County, California. 93 p.

1986. Kempema, Edward. Flume studies and field observations of the interaction of frazil ice and anchor ice with sand-sized sediment. 86 p.

1993. Kirschner, James. Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System for the Blackwood Creek Drainage Basin, Placer County, California. 219 p.

1986. Klaus, Adam. Deep-sea sedimentary processes in the Argentine Basin revealed by 3.5 kHz Echograms. 51 p.

1987. Klingman, Darrell. Depositional Environments and Paleogeographic setting of the Middle Mississippian Section in Eastern California. 231 p.
*OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY THESIS AWARD 1987/1988 - First Place*

1984. Klise, David. Modern sedimentation on the California continental margin adjacent to the Russian River. 120 p.

1977. Kyte, Frank. On the Origin of Extraterrestrial Stratospheric Particles: Interplanetary Dust of Meteor Ablation Debris? 71 p.

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1994. LaChappelle, Robert. Taxonomy and Paleobiogeography of Permian Massive Thysanophyllinae. 98 p.

1989. Landgraf, Richard. Modeling the Movement of a Wetting Front in the Vadose Zone Beneath the Drainage Retention Basin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site. 199 p.

1997. Langtry, Peter M. Evaluation of Petroleum Fuel Attenuation Rates in the Western Santa Clara Valley Ground Water Basin. 61 p.

1986. Lawson, William. Geology and structure of the Covington Mill 7.5-min quadrangle, Trinity County, California. 96 p.

1978. Le Compte, James. Geology of the Northeastern Part of the Leach Range, Elko County, Nevada. 71 p.

1988. Leitner, Kam. Development of a Computerized Geologic Structural Modeling System. 196 p.

2000. Lewis, Angus. Recharge Estimates Obtained from Centrifuge Measurements, Abo Arroyo, New Mexico. 71 p.

1972. Leopold, Lawrence. A Study of Seaward Dipping Internal Structures within Large Scale Ripple Marks in the Marine Environment. 61 p.

1972. Levine, Saul. Detection of Faults in the Hollister Valley, California by Thermal Mapping Techniques. 68 p.

1967. Lewis, Robert. Resistivity Study of Landslide near Alum Rock Park, Santa Clara County, California. 81 p.

1983. Lico, Michael. Lower Permian submarine sediment gravity flows in the Owens Valley Formation, southeastern California. 80 p.

2002. Liebhardt, Martin. The Thornton Beach State Park Deep Rotational Landslide, Daly City, California.

1986. Liniecki, Margaret. Late Miocene Paleoenvironments of the Lowere Mulholland Formation, West-Central California. 88 p.

1979. Littlefield, Robert. Structural Analysis of the Long John Canyon Area in the New York Butte Quadrangle, Inyo County, California. 118 p.

1971. Locke, James. Sedimentation and Foraminiferal Aspects of the Recent Sediments of San Pablo Bay. 100 p.

1985. Luken, Michael. Petrography and origin of limestones in the WPZ and TR belt, Klamath mountains, California. 130 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1985/86 - Second Place*

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1976. Macy, Jonathan. Sediment yield of the Upper San Lorenzo Watershed Using quantitative geomorphic and sediment sampling approaches. 127 p.

1983. Magginetti, Robert. Fusulinid biostratigraphy of the Darwin Canyon and Conglomerate Mesa Areas, Inyo County, California. 416 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1983/84 - First Place*

1971. Mankinen, Edward. Paleomagnetism and Potassium-Argos Ages of the Sonoma Volcanics, California. 67 p.

1993. Mariant, Judy. Origin of Sediment Ripple Bands and Zones on the Inner Shelf of Southern Monterey Bay, California. 63 p.

1981. Martindale, Steven. Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of the Southern Part of the Leach Range, Elko County, Nevada. 117 p.

1988. Maslonkowski, Dennis. Hydrogeology of the Bay Plain Groundwater Basin, Alameda County. 143 p.

1983. McCoy, Gail. Analysis of fractures and speleogenesis at Lilburn Cave, Tulare County, California. 83 p.

1982. McCusker, Robert. Geology of the Soledad Mountain volcanic complex, Mojave Desert, California. 113 p.

1973. McLaughlin, Robert. Geology of the Sargent Fault Zone in the Vicinity of Mount Madonna, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, California. 131 p.

1988. McLaughlin, Philip. Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments, Imperial County, CA. 103 p.

1978. Metz, Jenny. Petrology of the Santa Rita Flat Pluton, Inyo Mountains, California. 95 p.

1970. Mitchell, Martha. Vapor Pressure of Mercury Sulfide and Mercury Selenide. 92 p.

1978. Moffitt, John. Depositional History of Late Paleozoic Rocks in the Southeastern Darwin Hills, California. 66 p.

1980. Moore, David. An Evaluation of the Use of Primary Sedimentary Fabrics for the Determination of Strain in Metaconglomerates. 115 p.

1991. Moore, Donald. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, & Provenance of the Lower Campanian Forbes and Marsh Creek Formations, So. Sacramento & No. San Joaquin Basins, CA. 194 p.
*OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY THESIS AWARD 1991/1992 - Second Place*

1981. Moore, Steven. Geology of a Part of the Southern Monte Cristo Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 157 p.

2002. Morrison, Halle R. Geophysical Studies of the Lavic Lake Fault, Lavic Lake Playa, California.

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1983. Nagel, David. Evolution of the Ascension Submarine Canyon: Central California continental margin. 88 p.

1977. Nakata, John. Distribution and Petrology of the Anderson-Coyote Reservoir Volcanic Rocks. 105 p.

1986. Nedell, Susan. Sedimentary Geology of the Valles Marineris, Mars and Antarctic Dry Valley Lakes. 150 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1984/85 - First Place*

1985. Nelson, James. Geotechnical and geologic properties of the Santa Clara formation claystone, Saratoga foothills, Santa Clara County, California. 120 p.

1998. Nguyen, Tuan A. Offshore Taiwan Accretionary Prism: New Insights from Reprocessed Multichannel Seismic Data. 53 p.

1983. Oberlindacher, Hans. Geology of the southern part of the Wooley Range Caribou County, Idaho. 110 p.

1970. O'Kane, John Jr. Silicoflagellates of Monterey Bay, California. 92 p.

1970. Olson, Robert. Geology of the Northweastern Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, California. 73 p.

1983. Orlando, Robert. Sedimentology and bedform Morphology in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. 75 p.

1983. Orris, Greta. A quantitative investigation of landslides in a portion of the Santa Clara formation, Santa Clara County, California (1979). 80 p.

1975. Osbun, Erik. Geology of the Sveadal Area, Southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California. 156 p.

1981. Ostendorf, Paul. Geology of the Highland Lakes Area Alpine County, California. 89 p.

1991. Ostergren, Carol. Tephrochronology of Core E67-126A, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. 95 p.

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1999. Parent, Laura A. Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Cardinal Peak Pluton, North Cascades, Washington. 130 p.

1986. Parson, David. Geology and Geologic Hazards of Sugarloaf Ridge Park, Sonoma County, California. 89 p.

1977. Pearl, James. Petrology of Tertiary Sedimentary Rocks in the Northwesternmost Part of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. 91 p.

1991. Pease, Victoria. The Miocene Dike Swarm of the Mohave Mountains, Arizona: Petrography, Geochemistry, Geochronology, and Paleomagnetism. 166 p.

1987. Perkins, James. Provenance of the Upper Miocene and Pliocene Etchegoin Formation: Implications for Paleogeography of the Late Miocene of Central California. 121 p.

1979. Peterson, David. Hillslope Erosion Processes Related to Bedrock Soils, and Topography of the Three Peaks Area, Marin County, California. 94 p.

1988. Phillips, Steven. Calibration of a Texture-Based Simulation of the Ground-Water Flow System in the Western San Joaquin Valley, California. 141 p.

1967. Pinkerton, James. Structural Geology of the South-Central Part of the Vallecitos, San Benito County, California. 133 p.

1981. Ponce, David. Gravity Investigations at the Proposed Wahmonie Nuclear Waste Storage Site, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. 76 p.

1978. Porter, Edward. Geology and Hazards of the Bohlman Road Region, Santa Clara County, California. 136 p.

1986. Powell II, Charles. Stratigraphy and Bivalve Molluscan Paleontology of the Neogene Imperial Formation in Riverside County, California. 324 p.

1987. Powell, John. A Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Fort Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, Monterey County, California. 75 p.

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