Thesis Supervision

Degrees in progress:

Ryan Thigpen PhD
'Strain and vorticity within mylonites from the Moine thrust zone of NW Scotland'

Degrees completed:

Micah Jessup PhD 2007
'Kinematic Evolution, Metamorphism and Exhumation of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Mount Everest Massif, Tibet/Nepal'

Now an Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
e-mail: mjessup@utk.edu
web: http://web.eps.utk.edu/faculty/jessup/index.html

K. Michelsen MS 2004
'Heterogeneous internal fabric of the Mount Barcroft pluton, White Mountains of eastern California: an anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility study'.

W. Sullivan MS 2003
'Geometry, kinematics and age of the northern half of the White Mountain shear zone, eastern California and Nevada'.

Now in the PhD program at University of Wyoming at Laramie.
e-mail: wasulliv@uwyo.edu
web: http://www.gg.uwyo.edu/ggstudent/wasulliv/

J. Maynard MS 1999 (co-chair with K.A. Eriksson)
'The Upper Mississipian Bluefield Formation in the central Appalachian Basin: A hierarchical sequence stratigraphic record of a greenhouse to icehouse transition'.

J. Vines MS 1999
'Emplacement of the Santa Rita Flat pluton and kinematic analysis of cross cutting shear zones, eastern California'.

Now at British Petroleum, Houston, Texas.
e-mail: vinesja@bp.com

K. Rose MS 1999
'Identification of fold hinge migration in natural deformation: A new technique using grain shape fabric analysis'.

S. S. Morgan PhD 1998
'Pluton emplacement, aureole deformation and metamorphism, and regional deformation within the White-Inyo Range of eastern California'.

Now on the faculty at Central Michigan University.
e-mail: sven.morgan@cmich.edu
web: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/gel/FACPAGES/ssm.htm

N. Brauer MS 1998 (co-chair with with R. Bodnar)
'Fluid inclusions as a monitor of progressive grain-scale deformation during cooling of the Papoose Flat pluton, eastern California'.

G. Vaughn MS 1997
'Orientations and magnitudes of paleostress in the Valley & Ridge Province of northern Virginia'.

J. VanDerHurst MS 1996
(co-chair with S. Watts - Radford University) 'The development of an interactive computer model for managing geologic hazard inventories'.

R.S. Whitmarsh MS 1994
'Structural framework of the Fries Fault Zone south of Rhiner, Virginia'.

E. Gardner MS 1994
'Microstructural and crystallographic fabric analysis of stretched pebble conglomerates in Central Vermont'.

C.M. Davisson MS 1993 (co-chair with K.A. Eriksson)
'The sedimentological and structural evolution of the Miocene Diligencia Basin, Riverside County, California'.

S.S. Morgan MS 1992
'Strain path partitioning during forceful emplacement of the Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, California'.

M. W. Nyman PhD 1992 (co-chair with R. Tracy)
'The interaction between chemical and mechanical processes during metamorphism: a microstructural and petrologic study of amphibolite shear zones, Cheyenne Belt, southeastern Wyoming'.

Postdoctoral supervision

1992 - 1994 R. Martino
'Structural and tectonic significance of shear zones in the Sierras Pampeanas near Cordoba,
central Argentina'.

1992 M.W. Nyman
'Thermometry profiles across the Papoose Flat pluton aureole using calcite-dolomite and silicate equilibria microprobe-based techniques'.