PDF copies of some theses are available for download see below links as well as UMD Digital Conservatory at http://conservancy.umn.edu/

2012

Cota, Avery, 2012, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 122 p. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACID DEPOSITION IN THE WEST MIDLANDS ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (pdf)

Chorn, Benjamin, 2012, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson, Brown) 119 p. TEPHROCHRONOLOGY OF THE LAKE MALAWI DRILL CORES: A FEASIBILITY STUDY (pdf)

Gustafson, Daniel J, 2012, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Swenson, Wattrus) 109 p. A GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF DEWATERING STRUCTURE IN WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR (pdf)

Johnson, Andrea, 2012, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 54 p. TIMING AND PATTERN OF VALLEY EXCAVATION, LE
SUEUR RIVER, SOUTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA, USA (pdf)

Pierce-Rubesch, Megan, 2012, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown/Werne) 127 p. A 40,000 YEAR GEOCHEMICAL RECORD FROM LAKE CHALCO, MEXICO (pdf)

2011

Abbott ,April, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson, Werne) p. PLEISTOCENE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY IN EAST AFRICA: A 1.2 MILLION YEAR TEX86 RECORD FROM LAKE MALAWI (pdf)

Cervin, Dan, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: P. Morton/Miller) 155 p. CHARACTERIZATION OF PRECIOUS METAL MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN THE NORTH MET DEPOSIT OF THE PATRIDGE RIVER INTRUSION, DULUTH COMPLEX, MINNESOTA (pdf)

Dayton, Ryan, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 99 p. THE GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE SONJU LAKE INTRUSION: ASSIMILATION AND FRACTIONAL CRYSSTALLIZATION IN A LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSION NEAR FINLAND, MINNESOTA (pdf)

Dunn, Emily, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gran) 74 p. INCIPIENT VEGETATION RECOVERY AND IT'S EFFECT ON BRAIDED CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY AT MOUNT PINATUBO, PHILIPPINES (pdf)

Foley, Daniel, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 109 p. PETROLOGY AND Cu-Ni-PGE MINERALIZATION OF THE BOVINE IGNEOUS COMPLEX, BARAGA COUNTY, NORTHERN MICHIGAN (pdf)

Goldner, Brian, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 156 p. PETROLOGY OF THE NI-CU-PGE MINERALIZED TAMARACK INTRUSION, AITKIN AND CARLTON COUNTIES, MINNESOTA (pdf),(Appendix)  

Theriault, Stephanie, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 165 p. MINERALOGY SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF SULFIDE MINERALS IN THE BIWABIK IRON FORMATION (pdf)

Wartman, Jakob, 2011, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Ron Morton) 165 P. PHYSICAL VOLCANOLOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF THE RAINY RIVER GOLD PROJECT, NORTHWEST ONTARIO (pdf)

2010

Costello, Daniel E., 2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 118 p. GEOLOGY AND PETROGENESIS OF THE TUSCARORA INTRUSION OF THE DULUTH COMPLEX, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Frost, Shelby J.,2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 141 p. THE EFFECTS OF CONTACT METAMORPHISM BY THE DULUTH COMPLEX ON PROTEROZOIC FOOTWALL ROCKS IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Hoaglund, Steven A., 2010 M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Miller) 96 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 (pdf)

Mossberger, Irvin, 2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Mooers) 80 p. POTENTIAL FOR SLUMPS, SEDIMENT VOLCANOES, AND EXCESS TURBIDITY IN THE NEMADJI RIVER BASIN (pdf)

Rush, Robert A., 2010 M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 138 p. HIGH ROSOLUTION XRF DATA FROM ELK LAKE, MINNESOTA; A HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD FROM VARVED LUCUSTRINE SEDIMENTS (pdf)

Voytek, Emily, 2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Coleman/Wattrus) 86 p. SEISMIC STRATiGRAPHY OF THUNDER BAY AND THE ISLE ROYAL REGION OF LAKE SUPERIOR (pdf)

Wendt, Kelly, 2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisor Johnson) 47 p. A POSTGLACIAL RECORD OF CLIMATE CHANGE FROM EAST CROOKED LAKE AND TOFTE LAKE, MINNESOTA (pdf)

White, Christopher, 2010, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Goodge/Miller) 221 p. THE PETROLOGY, PETROGENESIS, AND METALLOGENESIS OF THE SOUTH KAWISHIWI INTRUSION IN THE NOKOMIS DEPOSIT AREA, DULUTH COMPLEX NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

2009

Bjonnes, Emily E., 2009, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Hansen/Swenson) 80 p. THE PLAUSIBILITY OF VENUSIAN EQUILIBRIUM RESURFACING USING MONTE CARLO MODELS (pdf)

Gary, Jessica L., 2009, 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 (pdf)

Johnson, Thomas K., 2009, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen/Hudak) 143 p. STRUCTURAL, KINEMATIC, AND HYDROTHERMAL FLUID INVESTIGATION OF THE GOLD-BEARING MURRAY SHEAR ZONE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Karberg, Susan M., 2009, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Hansen) 70 p. STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MUD CREEK SHEAR ZONE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Meyer, Margretta S., 2009, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Mooers) 64 p. PALEOGLACIOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF ROGEN MORAINE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Petrick, Benjamin F., 2009, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Brown) 109 p. A 2000 YEAR SU-ANNUAL RECORD OF CLIMATE CHANGE FROM LAKE MALAWI

2008

Erickson, Emerald J., 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 62 p. STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHAGAWA LAKE SHEAR ZONE, SUPERIOR PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (pdf)

Gamble, Valerie C., 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 98 p. AN APPLICATION OF U-TH DATING TO LACUSTRINE SYSTEM; LAKE PETEN-ITZA, GUATEMALA AND LAKE MALAWI, MALAWI (pdf)

Goodman, Sally K., 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 82 p. STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE KAWISHIWI SHEAR ZONE, SUPERIOR PROVINCE (pdf)

Gruhn, Leah M., 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 117 p. SEASONAL DELTA 18 O AND SR/CA RECORDS FROM SUBMERGED PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL CORALS IN THE WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC (Pdf)

Larson, Phillip C., 2008, 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 (pdf)

Sharpe, Andrew T., 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Wattrus) 82 p. EVIDENCE OF SOFT-SEDIMENT POST-DEPOSITIONAL DEFORMATION IN LAKE SUPERIOR

Shankar, Bhairavi, 2008, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Hansen) 86 p. A GLOBAL SURVEY OF CIRCULAR LOWS: A SUBSET OF CORONEA, VENUS (pdf)

2007

Ali-Adeeb, Riyad, 2007, 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, 2007, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Goodge) 117 p. PROVENANCE OF GLACIALLY TRANSPORTED MATERIAL NEAR NIMROD GLACIER, EAST ANTARCTICA: EVIDENCE OF THE ICE-COVERED EAST ANTARCTIC SHIELD

Castaneda, Isla, 2007, Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Johnson/Werne) 203 p. PALEOENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY IN THE SOUTHEAST AFRICAN TROPICS SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM: MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC RECORDS FROM LAKE MALAWI

Endsley, Erin, 2007, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 46 p. LATE HOLOCENE DRY PERIODS RECORDED IN SPELEOTHEM FROM THE MAYA LOWLANDS OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO

Erickson, Ryan, 2007, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Demko/Swenson) 114 p. THE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHINLE FORMATION IN THE DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT REGION, UTAH AND COLORADO, USA

Freiburger, Nicholas, 2007, M.S. Thesis (Advisor: Gallup) 47 p. NEW U-SERIES FOSSIL CORAL DATES FROM THE LAST INTERGLACIAL TERRACE, BARBADOS, WEST INDIES: A REEVALUATION OF EVIDENCE FOR TERMINATION II

Hoffman, Adam, 2007, M.S. Thesis (Advisors: Peterson/Hudak) 295 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, 2006, 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, 2006, M.S. Thesis, (Advisor: Hansen) 83 p. GEOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATION IN THE INTERIOR OF ARTEMIS (VENUS, 34°S, 132°E) [Abstract and TOC PDF, ~20 KB] [Text PDF, ~ 6.6 MB] [Plate 1 PDF, ~8.6 MB]

Lang, Nicholas, 2006, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota (Advisor: Hansen) ?? p. GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN VENUS' LOWLANDS

Mohr, Jere, 2006, M.S. Thesis, (Advisor: Swenson) 54 p. FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATION CONTROLLED BY DISTAL SUBAQUEOUS SEDIMENT DYNAMICS

Van Alstine, Jon, 2006, M.S. Thesis, (Advisor: Johnson) 154 p. A HIGH RESOLUTION STUDY OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC COMPOUNDS IN OFFSHORE LAKE SUPERIOR SEDIMENTS

2005

Beer, Joseph, 2005, 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 [PDF, ~6.8 MB]

Breckenridge, Andy, 2005, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota (Advisor: Johnson) 250 p. LAKE SUPERIOR VARVES: RECORDS OF LAKE AGASSIZ OVERFLOW AND ICE SHEET DYNAMICS

McDaniel, Kelly, 2005, M.S. Thesis, (Advisor: Hansen) 79 p. CIRCULAR LOWS, A GENETICALLY DISTINCT SUBSET OF CORONAE ON VENUS? [Abstract and TOC PDF, ~44 KB] [Text PDF, ~2.8 MB]

Rieser, Michael E.

, 2005, M.S. Thesis, (Advisor: Goodge) 96 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 [

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Text PDF, ~3.2 MB