Geology Department Student Theses 2014-15

The timing of oxygenation events throughout Earth's history remains controversial. Oceans and the atmosphere were essentially devoid of oxygen until the "great oxygenatio [...]

An assemblage of massive remobilized sandstone bodies and subsidiary sedimentary dikes, hosted by Pikes Peak Granite and older Proterozoic rocks, exists in the Colorado F [...]

Moulins are a crucial but poorly understood aspect of the glacial hydrological system, providing a channel for proglacial meltwater to drain into englacial conduits. This [...]

Fire is a natural process, influenced by climate and vegetation (fuel source). The relationships between fire, climate and vegetation under changing climatic conditions a [...]

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) images of Taylor Glacier, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, reveal an englacial drainage system near this polar glacier's terminus at [...]

The timing and uplift of the Laramide province in Western North America to current mean elevations of 2500 m continues to be a subject of great debate among geologists. P [...]

Despite superb exposure of the Ordovician strata in the region, and detailed knowledge of the eastern and northeastern margins, the western margin of the North China Bloc [...]

Little was previously known for certain about the age and depositional history of the strata exposed in Picket Wire Canyon in Comanche National Grasslands, CO, as prior w [...]

Aden Crater and the Albuquerque volcanoes are spatter and cinder cone systems with minor lava flows. They developed within the Rio Grande rift, a wedge shaped extensional [...]