MS Theses completed in the Geological Sciences Program, University at Albany

Listing is by year of completion; each entry is a link to a page containing the thesis abstract and bibliographic information, and (if indicated) links to:
  [+] folded map and other large illustrations as scanned image pdf files (the items mostly contained in a back pocket of the bound thesis)
  [#] the thesis text and illustrations as a scanned image pdf file, or
  [x] the thesis text and illustrations as a digital text pdf
  link to kmz file - location shown on Google Earth

Lang D.   1969
Origin of the Mount Merino Chert and Shale, Middle Ordovician, Eastern New York State  [#]  [+] 

Peddada A.   1972 
Petrology of the Nemeiben Lake Ultramafic and associated nickel-sulphide deposits  [#]  [+] 

Lee V.J.B.   1974
Petrography, metamorphism, and geochemistry of the Bermeja Complex and related rocks in southwestern Puerto Rico
and their significance in the evolution of the eastern Greater Antillian Island Arc
  [#] 

Karson J.A.  1975 
Structural studies in the mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Lewis Hills, western Newfoundland  [#]  [+]
PhD SUNYA

Hoffman M.A.   1975 
A study of some petrologic and structural aspects of the East Dover ultramafic bodies, south central Vermont  [#]  [+]

Gregg W.J.  1975 
Structural studies in the Moretown and Cram Hill Units near Ludlow, Vermont  [#]  [+]
PhD SUNYA

Hoyt W.H.   1976 
Long-distance turbidite correlations in the Horseshoe Abyssal Plain   [#]
PhD Univ of Delaware

Delano (Jacobi) L.L. 1977 
Stratigraphy, depositional environment and structure of the Taconic Allochthon, central Washington County, New York   [#]  [+]

Grippi J.  1978 
Geology of the Lucea Inlier, western Jamaica   [#]  [+]

White C.A.   1979 
Petrology and mineral chemistry of some Jan Mayen volcanics   [#]

Sengor A.M.C.  1979 
Geometry and kinematics of continental deformation in zones of collision: examples from Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean  [#]
PhD SUNYA

Scanlon K.  1979 
Paleoclimatic implications of oxygen isotope and sedimentological study of Late Miocene and Early Pliocene sediments
from the South Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean, and the Gulf of Aden
  [#]

Rowley D.B.   1979 
Complex structure and stratigraphy of lower slices of the Taconic Allochthon near Middle Granville, New York   [#]  [+]
PhD SUNYA

O'Connell S.   1979 
Geology of the mafic/ultramafic transition, Table Mountain, western Newfoundland   [#]
PhD Columbia University

Malcolm F.   1979 
Petrography, mineral chemistry and microstructures of gabbros from the Mid-Cayman Rise Spreading Center   [#]

Young J.R.   1980 
Saratoga: the bubbles of reputation and their implications for an embryonic rift system in the upper Hudson River Valley  [#]  [+]

Livaccari R.F.   1980 
Geology of the Lewisporte/Loon Bay Area, Newfoundland, Canada   [#]  [+]
PhD Univ. of New Mexico

Washington P.   1981 
Structural analysis of an area near Middlebury, Vermont   [#]  [+]
PhD Univ of Connecticut, Storrs

Vollmer F.W.   1981 
Structural studies of the Ordovician flysch and melange in Albany County, New York   [#]  [+]
PhD Univ of Minnesota

Sullivan J.W.   1981 
Some chemical and mineralogical aspects of plutonic rocks from the North Arm Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite, Newfoundland   [#]

Stroup J.   1981 
Geologic investigations in the Cayman Trough and the nature of the plutonic foundation of the oceanic crust [#]

Pindell J.   1981 
Permo-Triassic reconstruction of Western Pangea and the evolution of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean region   [#]
PhD Univ of Durham, UK

Idleman B.D.   1981 
Geology of the plutonic and hypabyssal rocks of the Betts Cove Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland   [#]  [+]
PhD SUNYA

Moody R.H.   1982 
The geology of the Oceanographer Transform Fault   [#]

Blake, R.W.   1982 
The structural geology of the tectonized ultramafic suite of the Table Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Complex, Newfoundland   [#]  [+]

Ach J.   1982 
The Petrochemistry of the Ankara Volcanics, central Turkey   [#]  [+]

Xia Z.   1983 
Geology of the western boundary of the Taconic Allochthon near Troy and the anastomosing cleavage in the Taconic Melange [#]  [+]
PhD CUNY

Steinhardt C.  1983 
Structure and stratigraphy of West Haven, Vermont   [#]  [+]
PhD Univ of Queensland, Townsville

Savci G.   1983 
Structure and tectonics of the Keban metamorphics in the northern margin of the Bitlis suture zone, southeastern Turkey   [#]  [+]
PhD Univ of Houston

Klimetz M.P.   1983 
The pre-Tertiary geology and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of eastern China, Southeast Asia and adjacent regions  [#]  [+]

Cooper C.    1983 
Geology of the Fondo Negro region, Dominican Republic   [#]  [+]
PhD Rice University

Be K.   1983 
Geological and thermal aspects of the southern San Joaquin Basin, California:
application of the 40Ar/39Ar stepwise heating technique to detrital microclines
[#]

Tanski S.   1984 
Provenance study of the Middle Ordovician sandstones of New York and western Vermont   [#]  [+]

Mora J.   1984 
Chatham Fault Zone, Old Chatham-East Chatham, New York:
mesostructures and microstructures: their spatial and age relationships
  [#]  [+]

Harris J.M.   1984 
The geology of ophiolitic and adjoining rocks of Chagnon Mountain, southern Quebec   [#]  [+]

Hall P.C.   1984 
Some aspects of deformation fabrics along the Highland/Lowland boundary, northwest Adirondacks, New York State   [#]  [+]

Gallo D.G.    1984 
The influence of oceanic transform boundaries on the generation and evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere   [#]
PhD Univ of Rhode Island, Oceanography

Cushing G.W.   1984 
The tectonic evolution of the eastern Yukon Tanana Upland, Alaska   [#]

Bradley L.    1984 
Structural analysis of deformed Carboniferous strata, Mispec Beach, southern New Brunswick   [#]  [+]

Baldwin S.   1984 
Fission track dating of detrital zircons from the Scotland Sandstones, Barbados, West Indies [#]  [+]
PhD SUNYA

Mahon K.   1985
A numerical approach for determining the variable ascent velocity of a granitoid diapir

Kusky T.M.   1985 
Geology of the Frozen Ocean Lake - New Bay Pond area, north-central Newfoundland   [#]  [+]
PhD Johns Hopkins

Kozinski J. 1985 
Sedimentology and tectonic significance of the Nutzotin Mountains Sequence, Alaska   [#]  [+]

Idleman K.  1985 
The significance of shear zones within the plutonic section of North Arm Mountain, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland   [#]

Aparisi M.   1985 
Stratigraphy and structure of the Ganson Hill area: northern Taconic Allochthon   [#]  [+]

Hoffman P.M.   1986 
Dolomitization of the Hatch Hill arenites and the Burden Iron Ore   [#]  [+]
PhD Queens College, CUNY

Wolf D.    1987
Identification of endmembers for magma mixing in Little Sitkin Volcano, Alaska

Will T.    1987
Structural investigations on experimentally and naturally produced slickensides
PhD Monash University, Melbourne

Stella P.   1987 
Geology of the northern Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada   [#]  [+]

Roma M.   1987 
The Providence Island Formation in the northern Appalachian region -
a Lower-lower Middle Ordovician analogue to recent arid-semiarid tidal-flat carbonates of the Persian Gulf Trucial Coast
  [#]

Ohr M.   1987
Geology, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Lems Ridge olistostrome, Klamath Mountains, California   [+]
PhD Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mihalich J.   1987 
Granitic pegmatites in the southeastern Adirondacks:
their use as indicators of temperature, pressure, and fluid conditions during a late stage of the Grenville Orogeny
[#]

Hoak T.E.   1987 
Structural analysis across the northeast boundary of the Taconic Allochthon, west-central Vermont  [#] [+]
PhD Univ of Texas, Austin

Dyer J.      1987
Petrology of the Kula Volcanic Field, Western Turkey
PhD Minnesota

Jones F.R.   1988
Structural geology of the northern Galice Formation, western Klamath Mountains, Oregon and California   [+]

Park-Jones R.E.   1988
Sedimentology, structure, and geochemistry of the Galice Formation:
sediment fill of a back-arc basin and island arc in the western Klamath Mountains
  [+]

Schirnick C.   1990 
Origin, sedimentary geochemistry, and correlation of middle and late Ordovician K-bentonites:
constraints from melt inclusions and zircon morphology
  [#]
PhD equivalent, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

Grady K.A.   1990
Geology and structure of the rocks associated with the basal (Madstone) thrust of the Josephine Ophiolite in southwestern Oregon:
evidence for a metamorphic sole
  [+]

Bock B.   1990 
Geochemistry of garnet xenocrysts and garnet-bearing xenoliths in Ordovician bentonites  [#]
PhD SUNY Stony Brook

Bierbrauer K. 1990 
The geology of Taconic thrust sheets and surrounding carbonates of the west central Vermont marble belt, north of Rutland, Vermont   [#]  [+]
PhD Wurzburg

Eberle U. 1990
Application of a trace element fractionation model to cumulate gabbroic xenoliths of Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Gaetani G.A. 1990
Petrology and major element geochemistry of basaltic glasses from the Blanco Trough, northeast Pacific
PhD MIT

Lee Y-J. 1991
Slickenside petrography: slip-sense indicators and classification
PhD Texas A&M

Ree B. 1991 
Mineral paragenesis of the granulite facies in the Lake George area, New York   [#]

Schimmrich S. 1991
Evaluation of computational methods of paleostress analysis using fault-striation data

Greisau N. 1992
A kinematic study of the Summit Valley Plutonic Complex, Klamath Mountains, California   [+]

Arz C. 1992
Thermal-mechanical response to an intruding magma chamber

Brüchert V. 1992 
The origin of metalliferous argillites in the Shoal Arm Formation of north-central Newfoundland   [#]
PhD Indiana

Herrman R. 1992 
The geology of the Vermont Valley and the western flank of the Green Mountains between Dorset Mountain and Wallingford, Vermont   [#]  [+]

Tice S.  1993 
A paleoseismic investigation of the McGregor Fault, east-central New York   [#]

Achong C.  1993 
Identifying key variables associated with the temporal and spatial distribution of prolific marine petroleum source rock (MPSR) units
and its application to the Taconic Foreland Basin, eastern New York
  [#]
PhD Cornell

Vogel S.  1993
Trace-element modelling of melting in spinel peridotites

Waechter J.  1993 
Correlation of the Tioga Bentonites using rhyolitic melt inclusions found in quartz phenocrysts as geochemical fingerprints [#]

Plesch A.  1994 
Structure and tectonic significance of deformed medial Ordovician flysch and melange
between Albany and Saratoga Lake and in the central Hudson Valley, New York
  [#]  [+]
PhD GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Haschke M.R.  1994 
The Champlain thrust system in northwestern Vermont -
structure and lithology of the Taconic foreland sequence in the Highgate Center quadrangle
  [#]  [+]
PhD Berlin

Granducci J.L.  1995 
Stratigraphy and structure at the southern end of Lake Champlain in Benson, Vermont  [#]  [+]

Dannenmann S.   1997 
Analysis of glasses present in quartz and apatite phenocrysts from Ordovician K-bentonites in the Mohawk Valley, NY   [#]
PhD SUNYA

Hayman N.W.   1997
Pre-thrust normal faults and post-tectonic micas in the Taconic Range of west-central Vermont   [+]
PhD Univ. Washington

Ren L.    1998
Identification of past climate variability of the eastern Pacific Ocean using both d13C and d18O records in corals from Clipperton Atoll (1994-1906)
PhD SUNYA

Short H.A.   1999 
The geology of the Liberty-Orrington-Passagassawakeag/Fredericton Trough terrane boundary in the Bucksport-Orland area, coastal Maine [x]  [+]
PhD Univ. Maine

Fernandes V.A.   1999
Major-and minor-element analysis of Apollo 14 volcanic green glasses B, and petrogenic modeling of Apollo 14 green glasses A and B
PhD Manchester

Nadeau J.M.   2000 
Oxygen isotopes and metolachlor residues in water samples from a portion of the Canajoharie Creek watershed, Central New York   [x]

Ambrosino A.M.   2001
Sediment characteristics around the Kenyon Island group, Great Sacandaga Lake (NY): economic potential of dredging and land reclamation

Ashcroft T.J.   2002 
Field relations, structural geology, and geochemistry of the Jonestown volcanic field, Lebanon County, southeastern Pennsylvania [x]  [+]
PhD, Univ. Nevada, Reno

Scott E.    2002
The use of a synthetic binary solid solution to model igneous textural evolution
 
Bagnato S.    2003
Assessing the paleoclimatic utility of the Indo-Pacific coral genus Diploastrea in a 225-year oxygen isotope record from Fiji

Erickson E.K.   2004
Road salt application and its effects on sodium and chloride ion concentrations in an urban stream Patroon Creek, Albany, NY

Renda J.F.    2004
Structural analysis of the Gonic Formation in Berwick, Maine   [x]  [+]

Benedict L.    2004
Complexity of Devonian K-bentonites in the Appalachian foreland basin:
geochemical and physical evidence supporting multi-layered K-bentonite horizons
[#]

MacDonald J.    2004
Stable isotopic and trace metal analyses of two Porites Lobata colonies -
Oahu, Hawaii: implications for past seasonal variation and sea surface temperatures and anthropogenic effects on the reef environment
  [#]

Katrib [McClung] J.    2005
Source of meta-igneous blocks and structure of the Colebrooke Schist in the Snowcamp Peak area, Pickett Peak terrane, southwestern Oregon   [#]  [+]

Ratigliano A.    2005
The effects of land use changes on soil carbon in the Russian steppe

Montario M.    2006
Thermochronological evidence for Neogene incision of the Rio Pativilca Canyon, northern Peru
PhD, SUNY Albany

Stolorow A.    2006
Assessing the paleoceanographic potential of the coral Montipora venosa at Fanning Atoll, central equatorial Pacific   [x]

Perry S.    2006
Thermochronology and provenance of the Yakutat terrane, southern Alaska based on fission-track and U/Pb analysis of detrital zircon  

Marsellos A.E., 2006
Mapping of a detachment fault in Kythera Island and study of the related structural shear sense indicators   [x]  [+]
PhD, SUNY Albany

Slater B.E.    2007

Outcrop analog for Lower Paleozoic hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs, Mohawk Valley, NY   [x] [+]

Zhang P.   2007
Interdecadal-decadal climate variability from multi-coral oxygen isotope records in the South Pacific Convergence Zone region since 1650AD   [x]

Begeal C.J., 2008
The effect of chloride ion on heavy metal partitioning and transport in an urban watershed: Patroon Creek, Albany, NY   [x]

Gillen J., 2009

The effect of vegetated roofs on acid precipitation runoff  [x]

Kricheff J., 2009
Metal concentrations in native Yupik foodstuffs from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Neumann B.G., 2009
Mercury uptake by aquatic Macrophytes in urban and rural watersheds, Albany County, NY   [x]

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