PhD Dissertations 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).
[o] Some dissertations contain coloured or greyscale photographs which are mostly obscure in the microfilm-derived version which can be obtained from Proquest UMI. The pages from the dissertation with these coloured/greyscale photos are available where indicated as a pdf file linked on the abstract page.

Nesbit, B. 1976
Structural studies in the northern Chester Dome of East-Central Vermont [+] [o]

Shibata, T. 1976
Petrology of the Oceanographer Fracture Zone (35ºN 35ºW)

Karson, J.A. 1977
Geology of the Northern Lewis Hills, Western Newfoundland [+]

Gregg, W.J. 1979
The development of foliations in low, medium and high grade Metamorphic Tectonites [+]

Nelson, K.D. 1979
Geology of the Badger Bay-Seal Bay Area, North-Central Newfoundland [+] [o]

Bosworth, W.P. 1980
Structural geology of the Fort Miller, Schuylerville and portions of the Schaghticoke 7 1/2' quadrangles, eastern New York,
and its implications in Taconic geology; and experimental and theoretical studies of solution transfer in deforming heterogeneous systems
[+]

Casey, J.F. 1980
The Geology of the Southern Part of the North Arm Mountain Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Western Newfoundland
with Application to Ophiolite Obduction and the Genesis of the Plutonic Portions of Oceanic Crust and Upper Mantle
[+]

Rosencrantz, E.J. 1980
The Geology of the Northern Part of North Arm Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland:
With Application to Upper Oceanic Crust Lithology Structure, and Genesis
[+]

Thiessen, R. 1980
Theoretical and computer assisted studies in tectonics, structural geology and isotope dating

Hempton, M.R. 1982
Structure of the Northern Margin of the Bitlis Suture Zone near Sivrice, Southeastern Turkey [+] [o]

Sengor, A.M.C. 1982
The geology of the Albula Pass area, eastern Switzerland in its Tethyan setting: Palaeo-Tethyan factor in Neo-Tethyan opening [+]

Swanson, M.T. 1982
The structure and tectonics of Mesozoic dike swarms in eastern New England [+]

Bobyarchick, A.B. 1983
Structure of the Brevard Zone and Blue Ridge near Lenoir, North Carolina,
with observations on oblique crenulation cleavage and a preliminary theory for irrotational structures in shear zones
[+]

Mann, P. 1983
Cenozoic tectonics of the Caribbean: Structural and stratigraphic studies in Jamaica and Hispaniola [+] [o]

Rowley, D.B. 1983
Operation of the Wilson Cycle in western New England during the Early Paleozoic:
with emphasis on the stratigraphy, structure, and emplacement of the Taconic Allochthon
[+]

Bradley, D.C. 1984
Late Paleozoic strike slip tectonics of the Northern Appalachians [+]

Jessell, M. 1986
Dynamic grain boundary migration and fabric development: observations, experiments and simulations

Loureiro, D. 1986
Electrochemical determination of the oxygen fugacity of mantle-derived ilmenite megacrysts

Baldwin, S. 1988
Thermochronology of a subduction complex in western Baja California

Foster, D.A. 1989
Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermal history of the eastern Mojave Desert, California and western Arizona,
with emphasis on the Old Woman Mountains area and the Chemehuevi Metamorphic Core Complex

Norrell, G.T. 1989
Structural geology of the Josephine Peridotite, northern California: implications for structural processes at slow spreading centers [+]

Wang, P. 1989
Progressive metamorphism of pelitic schists from the Tri-State, MA, CT and NY, area:
a field and theoretical analysis of Garnet + Chlorite + Chloritoid + Biotite assemblages

Copeland, P. 1990
Cenozoic Tectonic History of the southern Tibetan Plateau and eastern Himalaya: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar Dating

Idleman, B.D. 1990
Geology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Coastal Complex near Trout River and Lark Harbour, western Newfoundland [+]

Ree, J-H. 1991
High temperature deformation of octachloropropane: a microstructural study

Spell, T.L. 1991
The application of microanalytical techniques in isotope geochemistry:
1. Single crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating of rhyolites in the Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico, with implications for evolution of the magma system.
2. Towards development of a Laser Microprobe Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer for isotopic analysis of geologic samples

Alexander, R.J. 1992
Oceanic faulting and hydrothermal circulation within the crustal sequence of the Josephine Ophiolite, Northwest California and Southwest Oregon, USA [+]

Pan, Y. 1993
Unroofing and structural evolution of the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau:
implications for the continental collision between India and Asia
[+]

Park, Y., 1994
Microstructural evolution in crystal-melt systems

Hanson, B., 1995
A geochemical study of rhyolitic melt inclusions in igneous phenocrysts from Lower Devonian bentonites [+]

Coulton, A. J., 1995
Fault-related oceanic and emplacement-age serpentinization in the Josephine ophiolite of NW California and SW Oregon [+]

Edwards, M.A., 1998
Examples of tectonic mechanisms for local contraction and exhumation of the leading edge of India.
Southern Tibet (28-29N; 89-91E) and Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
[+]

Kosanke, S. B., 2000
The geology, geochronology, structure and geochemistry of the Wild Rogue Wilderness remnant of the Coast Range ophiolite, southwest Oregon
implications for the magmatic and tectonic evolution of the Coast Range ophiolite
[+]

Li T., 2000
Experimental growth of fibers and fibrous veins

Dannenmann, S., 2001
A multi-proxy study of planktonic foraminifera to identify past millennial-scale climate variability
in the East Asian Monsoon and the Western Pacific Warm Pool

Ren, L., 2002
A study of a multi-century coral stable isotope record from Rarotonga, southwest subtropical Pacific, for the period 1726-1997

Yuan, F., 2003
Late Holocene hydrologic and climatic variability in the Walker Lake basin, Nevada and California

Zhu, B.,   2003
Sedimentology, petrography, and tectonic significance of Cretaceous to lower Tertiary deposits in the Tingri-Gyantse area, southern Tibet

Li, Y.,  2004

Geological mapping and crustal shortening of central Tibet [+]

Schoonmaker, A., 2005
Convergent and collisional tectonics in parts of Oregon, Maine, and the Vermont/Quebec border
[+]

MacDonald, J., 2006
Petrology, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of Jurassic rocks of the central Cascades, Washington, and western Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon [+]

Lim, C., 2007
Late structures and strain history accompanying fluid flows in the western Taconic Orogen of the New York-Vermont Appalachians,
and structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Namche Barwa region, Tibet
[+]

Marsellos, A., 2008
Extension and exhumation of the Hellenic forearc; and radiation damage in zircons [+]

Adhya, S., 2009
Geochemical fingerprinting of volcanic airfall deposits: A tool in stratigraphic correlation


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