Christine Siddoway
Teaching and Research Mentoring
[ Courses Taught -- Distinctions Research – Senior projects-- Other projects -- Abstracts]
GY100
Studies in Geology:
Antarctica: Geology and
Environment
GY100
Studies in Geology:
Antarctica: Geological records of Global Change
GY140 Physical Geology
GY140 FYE First
Year Experience: Physical Geology
GY210 Fundamental Geological Methods and Rocky Mountain Evolution
GY307 Independent
Studies in Geology: diverse topics, see below
GY 313 Metamorphic
Petrology
GY 315 Structural Geology
GY316 Field
analysis of Geological Structures
GY345 Regional
Studies in Geology (1994): the Cascades (team-taught with Eric Leonard)
GY345 Regional
Studies in Geology (1996): the Canadian
Rockies (team-taught with Eric Leonard)
GY345 Regional
Studies in Geology (1998): the Death Valley (team-taught with Paul Myrow)
GY345 Regional
Studies in Geology (2007): New Zealand (team-taught with Eric Leonard)
GY345 Regional
Studies in Geology (2000): Scotland (team-taught with Eric Leonard)
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 Paleoenvironmental History of the Bighorn Basin,
Wyoming (team-taught with Henry Fricke)
GY405 Research Topics in Geology: varied topics—see list of theses and projects,
below.
P. Zion Klos, 2009, Paleoseismology of active faults in New Zealand: Records from the Tuki Tuki thrust and Wairarapa strike slip 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, 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
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, 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, 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
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, 2003 to present:
Student names
in boldface type, * indicates graduate student.
*McFadden, R., Teyssier, C., Siddoway, C.S., and Fanning, C.M., 2008, Evidence from the Fosdick Mountains, Antarctica for Rapid Cooling of Mid- to Lower Crustal Rocks during Cretaceous Intracontinental Extension of the East Gondwana Margin, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40 (6), Paper no. TBD
*McFadden, R., Teyssier, C., Siddoway, C., Fanning, C.M., 2008, Structural and rheological controls of km-scale melt transport and accumulation in a migmatite complex: Fosdick Mountains, West Antarctica, Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada, Abstracts, v. 33, p. 108-109.
Vail, Rose A.and Siddoway, C.S., 2007, Microstructural analysis of the migmatites from the Fosdick dome, West Antarctica: A quest for anatexis, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39 (6), p. 394, Paper no. 143-55.
Labadie, Julia, Harms, T., Siddoway, C.S., 2006, New evidence for the Proterozoic Big Sky Orogeny recorded in biotite-sillimanite-garnet gneisses from shear zones in the Highland Mountains, Montana; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Rocky Mountain section, v. 38, abstract 8-3.
*McFadden, Rory, Teyssier, C., Siddoway, Christine, and Fanning, C. Mark, 2007, Duration of melt-present to solid-state deformation in the South Fosdick Detachment Zone, Fosdick Mountains, West Antarctica, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39 (6), p. 229, Paper no. 83-36.
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. [*CC grad 1996]
*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.