Christine Siddoway -- Professor of Geology
Students Research Advising: Theses and Senior Projects, 1998 to Present
Distinctions Theses
- P. Zion Klos, 2009, Paleoseismology of active faults in New Zealand: The
Ruataniwha Fault and Tuki Tuki thrust structures
- Merril Stypula, 2009, An integrated geospatial database for West
Antarctica (jointly advised with Paul Morin, Antarctic Geospatial
Information Center)
- Betsy Friedlander, 2007, Microscopic and atomic scale investigation of
deformation mechanisms responsible for welding in silicic pyroclastic materials deformed in the lab [co-advised with visitor Steve Quane]
- Sylvia Fadrhonc, 2007, Study of zircon growth during migmatitization using the Super High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP)
- Jennifer Haywood, 2006, Assessment of gneiss dome emplacement mechanisms: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Fosdick Mountains, Antarctica
- Julia LaBadie, 2006, Metamorphic facies and dynamic fabrics in shear zones of the Highland Mountains, Montana: Evidence for the 1.75 Ga "Big Sky Orogeny?
- Rebecca Henderson, 2005, Brittle kinematic analysis of Neogene mesoscopic faults, Howard, CO
- Seth Cowdery, 2001, Holocene deglaciation of the Ford Ranges, eastern Ross Sea region, Antarctica
- Louis C. Sass III, 2000, Brittle kinematic analysis of minor faults in the Sarnoff and Denfield Mountains, West Antarctica: implications for late Cretaceous and Cenozoic structural evolution of the Ford Ranges
- Grant D. Kaye, 2000, Using apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry to study the low-temperature thermal history of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, with implications for Laramide uplift and exhumation
- Meadow Koslen, 2000, Quaternary Deformation of miocene and pleistocene strata near Point Arena, the Gualala Block, Northern California
- Anne Whitehead, 1999, Kinematic analysis of small-scale brittle structures in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
- Reyna Abeyta, 1998, A Geochemical and Petrographic Analysis of Archean quartzofeldspathic gneisses in the Indian Creek Metamorphic Suite and Pony Middle Mountain Metamorphic Suite, Tobacco Root Mountains, Southwestern Montana
- Christian Baxter, 1998, Fluid Inclusion Analysis and P-T Determinations for High Grade Gneisses from Antarctica
- Rima Givot, 1998, Proterozoic Deformation and Metamorphism of Five Points Gulch, Colorado
- Lindsey Quackenbush, 1998, Petrology, geochemistry and structure of mid-Proterozoic gneisses and granitoids in the Wet Mountains, Colorado (advised jointly with Jeff Noblett)
Senior projects
- Eric Daniels, 2009, Tectonic correlations between West Antarctica and New Zealand, and study of structures recording Cretaceous breakup between the two landmasses
- Rose Vail, 2008, Quest for Anatexis: A petrographic study of melt microstructures and the role of melt in deformation at the grain scale
- Matthew Rosales, 2008, Enigmatic and intriguing sandstone dikes of the Colorado Front Range – development and testing of hypotheses for their
origins
- Helen Lynn, 2007, Analog experiments of rhyolitic tuff from the northern Cascade chain: investigation of rheological changes during welding [co-advised with visitor Steve Quane]
- David Mendel, 2006, Gravity survey of Garden of the Gods, Colorado, as a test of hypotheses for Rampart Range fault geometry
- Thomas Collins III, 2005, Mapping and metamorphic petrology along the eastern boundary of the Five Points Gulch shear zone, Arkansas River Canyon, CO
- Elizabeth Fay, 2005, Brittle kinematic analysis of structures within the Ute Pass fault zone, Colorado Springs
- Peter G. Anderson, 2004, Impact breccias from Tavan Khar Ovoo crater, Mongolia
- Emily “Ross” Baldwin, Metamorphic history of the Red Wine Complex, Labrador (junior project)
- Sonya Hernandez, 2001, Petrology of ultra-blueschist gneisses, Syros, Greece
- Deborah Roth, 2001, Fabric shape analysis of tonalitic gneisses of the Quottoon pluton, British Columbia
- Joseph Gartner, 2001, Geological field mapping of the Precambrian gneiss terrane, Arkansas River Canyon, Colorado
- Valerie Esser, 2000, Oxygen isotope analysis of mineralized fault planes, Five Springs region, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
- Clifton Koontz, 2000, Structural and petrologic analysis of the Vari Gneiss, a fault-bounded panel of quartzofeldspathic rock, Syros, Greece
- Katie Vaughn, 2000, Analysis of small scale faults in Glen Eyrie, Colorado
Junior projects
- P. Zion Klos, 2007, Quantifying Radiative Inputs to Headwater Streams in
Recently Harvested Forests
- Rose Vail, 2007, Marine survey and seafloor mapping of Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, with assessment of glacier scour conduits for warm ocean water to base of Ice Shelf: an independent study arising from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory cruise starting/ending in McMurdo Station
- Jon Rotzien and Meredith Bush, 2006, Marine Geophysics at Sea: an independent study arising from a Caltech research cruise of Pacific Plate fracture zones starting/ending in New Zealand
- P. Zion Klos, 2005, GIS database development and satellite image processing for West Antarctica
Link to abstracts co-authored with students
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