Christine Siddoway

Teaching and Research Mentoring

 

[ Courses Taught  -- Distinctions Research – Senior projects--  Other projects -- Abstracts]

 

 

Courses taught

GY100             Studies in Geology:  Antarctica:  Geology and Environment

GY100             Studies in Geology:  Antarctica:   Geological Evolution and Current Scientific Research

GY100              Studies in Geology:  Geological context for SW cultures

GY130              Introductory Geology

GY140              Physical Geology

GY140 FYE      First Year Experience: Physical Geology

GY202              Introduction to Petrology

GY307              Independent Studies in Geology:  diverse topics

GY 313             Metamorphic Petrology

GY 315             Structural Geology

GY316              Field analysis of Geological Structures

GY345              Regional Studies in Geology (1994):  the Cascades

GY345              Regional Studies in Geology (1996):  the Canadian Rockies

GY345              Regional Studies in Geology (2000): South Island, New Zealand

GY345              Regional Studies in Geology (2000): Scotland

GY350              Field Methods in Geology

GY400              Senior Seminar (1998):   Geological Evolution of West Antarctica:  from Plate Tectonic Theory to Global Change

       GY400              Senior Seminar (2001):   Intermontane Basins as Geological Libraries - A Case    Study of the Structural, Sedimentological, and Paleoenviron-mental History of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (to be team-taught with Henry Fricke)

      GY405               Research Topics in Geology:  varied topics—see list of theses and projects, below.

 

 

 

Distinctions Theses advised:                        

 

Sylvia Fadrhonc, 2006, 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, CO

Lindsey Quackenbush,  1997,  Petrology, geochemistry and structure of mid-Proterozoic gneisses and   granitoids in the Wet Mountains, Colorado  (advised jointly with Jeff Noblett)

Abbey Moore, 1997, Kinematic analysis for Garden of the Gods. 

 

 

Senior Research Projects advised

 

Helen Lynn, 2006, Kinematic analysis of migmatite fabrics and partial melt networks, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho

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, Tavan Har impact crater, Mongolia: Of impact or other origin?

--On sabbatical, 2002-03--

George Perkins, 2002,  Proterozoic dynamic high-temperature metamoprhism and deformation, Wet Mountains, Colorado

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

Seth Cowdery, 2000, Uncommon glacial tills of the northern Ford Ranges, Antarctica

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

John Lien, 1996, Igneous petrology and commingling textures of coastal Maine batholiths

 

Other Research Projects advised:

P. Zion Klos, 2005, GIS database development and satellite image processing for West Antarctica

David Mendel, 2005, Assessment of within-plate deformation near fracture zones, based on the March 2004 transit cruise from New Zealand to Chile on the Nathaniel B. Palmer

Matthew Rosales, 2005, Introduction to geological field mapping: fundamentals of geometrical analysis

Emily “Ross” Baldwin, 2004, Field investigation of shear zone rocks, Metchin River, Labrador

Teresa Juarez, 2003, Native science and geological practices of Pueblo peoples, New Mexico

 

 

Collaborations with students that resulted in presentations at national and regional meetings:                              

Student names in boldface type, *  indicates graduate student.

 

Haywood, Jenny and Siddoway, C.S., 2005, Investigation of cordierite and sillimanite textures as a test of emplacement models for the Fosdick gneiss dome, Antarctica, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 226.

Collins, T. IV, Siddoway, C.S., and *Jones, James IV, 2004, Shear zone roots in the middle crust: the Transition from partitioned deformation to penetrative ductive flow in the northern Wet Mountains, CO, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5, Abstract No. 78053.

Fay, Elizabeth and Siddoway, C., 2004, Insights on the kinematic evolution of the Ute Pass fault zone from investigation of mesoscopic brittle faults, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5, Abstract No. 78370.

Henderson, Rebecca and Siddoway, C., 2004, Neogene development of the Pleasant Valley graben (Howard, CO) based on the study of mesoscopic faults, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5, Abstract No. 78047.

Gaffney, Amy* and Siddoway, C. S., 2004, Geochemical constraints on mantle sources of Pleistocene lavas, Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, in McPhie, J., and McGoldrick, P. (eds.), Dynamic Earth: Past, present and future, Abstracts 73: Geological Society of Australia [AGC 2004, Hobart, Tasmania], p. 266.

*Jones, James V. III, Siddoway, C., Connelly J., *Perkins, G., 2004, Circa 1.4 Ga penetrative deformation in the southern Wet Mountains, Colorado:  Implications for Mesoproterozoic intracontinental tectonism across the southern Rocky Mountains, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5, Abstract No. 173-10.

*Dean, R.L., Andronicos, C., Siddoway, C., and Ray, J., 2002, Syntectonic emplacement of the 1.44 Ga Oak Creek pluton, Wet Mountains, Colorado, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 243 , paper No. 107-4.

*Dean, R.L., Ray, J., Acevedo, G., Andronicos, C. L., Siddoway, C., 2002, Precambrian granulite facies metamorphism in the Wet Mountains of southeastern Colorado:  Implications for Laramide right-slip. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, No. 3, p. 11.

Siddoway, C., Andronicos, C. L., Davidson, C., Callahan, O., Ray, J., and Perkins, G., 1.4 Ga Tectonics Recorded by Synchronous High Temperature Deformation, Retrogression of Granulite Gneisses, and Magmatism, Wet Mountains, Colorado, Eos Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S31B-0596.

Gartner, Joe, and C.S. Siddoway, 2001, Field investigation of small Mesoproterozoic intrusions in southern Colorado:  Lack of deformation fabrics gives evidence for comparatively shallow emplacement, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Vol. 33, No. 5, April 2001.

C.S. Siddoway, Clark, B., Fischer, W., Koontz, C., Sass, L.C. III, and Whitehead, A., 1999, Brittle fault arrays in Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO: A close look at a distributed deformational zone, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-113.

A.L. Whitehead, C.S. Siddoway, and F.W. van der Wateren, Kinematic Analysis of Small-Scale Brittle Structures in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, Wellington, New Zealand, July 5-9, 1999; p. 316.

Baxter, C., and Siddoway, C., 1998, Fluid Inclusion Analysis and P-T Determinations for High Grade Gneisses from Antarctica, SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme, Pontignano, Italy.

Givot R. & Siddoway C., 1998, Deformation of mid-Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, Five Points Gulch shear zone, Colorado, , Geological Society of America (GSA) Abstracts with Program, v. 30, no. 6, p. 9.

Wilson M., Stevens S., Siddoway C., & Noblett J., 1998, Structural analysis and metamorphic history of a cordierite schist unit, Fremont County, south-central Colorado, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 30, no. 6, p. 40.