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Geosciences Thesis & Dissertation List

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 Present-2000   1999-1990   1989-1980   1979-1970
  1969-1960   1959-1950   1949 and earlier


1989 - 1980

NAME

DEGREE

GRADUATION

ADVISOR
Donald E. Ashabranner MS Geology Fall 1986 Casey
A 2d Phase-Shift Migration Algorithm for Latetally Varying Velocity Fields & an Analysis of Ophiolite-Dervied Models of Accretion
Paul Dean Baerenwald MS Geology Spring 1989 Chafetz
Nearshore Sediment Distribution in a Microtidal Lagoon East Matagorda Bay, Texas
John Battie MS Geophysics Summer 1981 Fan
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Baltimore Canyon Trough Area
Edip Baysal PhD Geophysics Fall 1982 Mcdonald
Modeling and Migration by the Fourier Transform Method
Justine Ann Boccanera MS Geology Spring 1989 Norman
Investigation of Surface Faulting Brazoria County
Joseph Bonfiglio MS Geology Spring 1982 Evans
Paleomagnetic Study of the Cretaceous (Albian) Aurora Limestone Coahuila, Mexico
Ronald Steven Brink MS Geology Fall 1987 Casey
A Microstructural Investigation of the Deformational Conditions & Kinematics of Flow in Peridotite Tectonites
Lawrence Bruno MS Geology Summer 1987 Chafetz
Depositional Environments & Diagenesis of the Cable Canyon Sandstone & Upham Dolomite, Ordovician of Southern New Mexico
Chris Buczynski MS Geology Spring 1985 Chafetz
The Sedimentology & Diagenesis of the Lueders Formation (Permian) of Baylor County, Texas
David Warren Burge MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
A Physical Model Study of Seismic Data for Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Flooded Reservoirs
Thomas Stuart Burns MS Geology Fall 1989 Norman
Changes in Rock Properties Associated With Creep
Kent Ellsworth Carter MS Geology Spring 1985 Elthon
The Geochemistry & Petrology of Plagiogranitesfrom North Arm Mountain, Bay of Islands Ophiolite, Newfouldland, Canada
Jac Cashore MS Geology Spring 1987 Woronow
A New Monte Carlo Model of the Development of the Lunar Megaregolith
Alta Shamblin Cate MS Geology Spring 1987 Evans
Population Dynamics of Selected Species of Brachiopoda & Gastropoda from the Strawn Canyon & Cisci Groups
Genmeng Chen MS Geophysics Spring 1993 Zhou
Two Dimensional Waveform Analysis Using the Boundary Element Method
Genmeng Chen PhD Geophysics Summer 1995 Zhou
Seismic Modeling & Imaging of Heterogeneous Media
Marianne Clippard MS Geophysics Fall 1989 Mcdonald
Analysis & Classification of Seismic Waveshapes Using Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis & Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Alberto Cominguez PhD Geophysics Spring 1983 Mcdonald
Estimation of the Seismic Wavelet Using a Multi-Channel Procedure
Paul Conway MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
Pre-Stack Depth Migration Using Wavefield Continuation & One-Way Travel Time Determination
John Thomas Cox MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Hall
Crustal Stretching & Subsidence in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
James Hewitt Crane MS Geophysics Fall 1989 Sheriff
Late Pleistocene to Recent Sedimentation & Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, Offshore Louisiana
Edward C. Crase PhD Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
Robust Elastic Nonlinear Inversion of Seismic Waveform Data
Mayurika C. Damle MS Geophysics Fall 1987 Mcdonald
Velocity Analysis Based on Pre-Stac Imaging
Andrew Joseph Davidoff MS Geology Fall 1989 Norman
Investigation of an Unnamed Basin Between the East Texas Basin & the Houston Embayment
Christopher Davin MS Geophysics Fall 1985 Sheriff
A Seismic Stratigraphic Interpret & Geohistory Analysis of the Sable Island Area of the Scotian Shelf, Eastern Canada
George Dillman MS Summer 1985 Casey
Structural Investigation & Tectonic History of Central Parras Basin, Saltito, Caohuila, Mexico
Robert Duffy, Jr MS Geophysics Spring 1980 Hilterman
Seismic Coal Seam Modeling Constrained by Depositional Environment
Patricia M. Dutt-Komor MS Geology Fall 1982 Hall
A Shallow Temperature Study Near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Daniel Andrew Ebrom MS Geophysics Spring 1987 Mcdonald
Physical Modeling of the Acoustic Absorption Characteristics of a Particulate Suspension
Mark Stephen Egan PhD Geophysics Summer 1988 Mcdonald
Dispersive and Anisotropic Aspects of Stratigraphic Filtering
Durl Kent England MS Geophysics Spring 1988 Mcdonald
A Physical Model Experiment Tos Tudy the Monitoring of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using the Seismic Reflection Method
Andrew David Eyer MS Geology Spring 1984 Dupre
Geomorphology & Morphologic Development of Bolivar Roads Inlet & Bolivar Peninsula, Texas
John Kenneth Faraguna MS Geology Spring 1988 Woronow
The Dipmeters a Stratigraphic Took: Recognizing Sedimentary Structures on Two-Dimensional Correlation Surface
Paul Albert Farmer MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
Prestack Velocity Replacment Via the Tau-P Transform
Hillary Farrow MS Geophysics Fall 1985 Mcdonald
Applications of First Breaks to Cross-Borehole Geotomography
David Fisher MS Geophysics Fall 1983 Sheriff
Complex Seismic Trace Attributes from Theoretical and Scaled Physical Model Data
David Forel MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Mcdonald
Dip Moveout Correction in Three and Two Dimensions
Susan E. Frey MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Mcdonald
Data Acquisition Processing & Structural Interpretation of 2d & 3d Seismic Data from the Woodada Gas Field
Jill D Geeslin MS Geology Fall 1980 Chafetz
Petrography of the Aleman Formation, Upper Ordovician Silver City Range Southwestern New Mexico
Kirk Randal Geno MS Geology Spring 1980 Chafetz
Coated Grains in Recent Fluival Carbonate Sediments of Central Texas
E. Charlotte Glenn PhD Geology Spring 1989 Evans
Foraminifera and Associated Sedimentary Constituents in Holocene and Miocene Reefs of the Phillipines & Indonesia
Concepcion Gomez-Moran MS Geology Fall 1986 Elthon
Geochemistry and Petrology of Xenoliths from Xalapasco De La Joya, State of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Karen Kay Graber MS Geology Summer 1988 Chafetz
Stratigraphy & Petrography of Bedded Barite in Phosphatic Devonian Slaven Chert, Toquima Range, Nye County, Central Nevada
Tiong T. Ha MS Geophysics Fall 1987 Mcdonald
CPF Transforms and Convolution
Jane Trendel Harrison MS Geology Fall 1988 Elthon
Geochemistry and Petrology of Pyroxenite Xenoliths from Xalapasco De La Joya Honda, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Donald M. Hellstern MS Geophysics Spring 1987 Sheriff
Seismic Stratigraphic Processing & Interpretation of the Lower Miocene Robulus Mayeri Intervals in the Matagorga Island Area
David Lee Herlinger MS Geology Spring 1981 Chafetz
Petrology of the Fall Creek Travertine Bonneville County, Idaho
Robert R. Herrick MS Geophysics Spring 1988 Hall
Analysis of Gravity Data Over Aphrodite Terra, Venus
Charles Hillendbrand III MS Geology Spring 1985 Vansiclen
Subsidence and Fault Activation Related to Fluid Extraction Sacet Field, Nueces County, Texas
Francois Hindlet PhD Geophysics Spring 1986 Mcdonald
Amplitude Decomposition of Thin Layer Offset Versus Amplitude Data
Linda Ho MS Geology Fall 1989 Dupre
The Effect of the Galvestion Seawall on Beach Morphodynamics Galveston Island, Texas
Scott Caleb Hornbostel PhD Geophysics Spring 1988 Mcdonald
Iterative Deconvolution Using Generalized "Positivity"
Hann-Chen Huang PhD Geophysics Summer 1988 Mcdonald
Iteractive and Iterative Sesimic Residual Statics Analyses
Grace Hwang MS Geophysics Summer 1984 Mcdonald
Factors That Effect the Recovery of Amplitude and Waveform Form Sign-Bit Vibroseis Data
Philip Leon Inderwiesen MS Geophysics Spring 1987 Mcdonald
Direct Inversion of Kirchhoff Migration of Unstacked Seismic Data Using Ray-Theoretical Methods
James Johnson MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
Observations of Shear-Wave Anisotrophy Associated With Oriented Fractures: a Physical Modeling Study
William B. Jones MS Geology Spring 1989 Elthon
Geochemistry & Petrology of Kaersutite Megacrysts & Hornblende-Bearing Pyroxenite Xenoliths
David Park Kammer MS Geology Fall 1987 Elthon
Petrology & Geochemistry of the Patagonian Batholith Between 69w & 72w Longitude South of the Strait of Magellan
Denise Marie Kane MS Geophysics Summer 1989 Mcdonald
Analysis of Seismic Acoustics Laboratory Physical Models Using X-Ray Computed Tomography
Martin Karrenbach MS Geophysics Spring 1988 Mcdonald
Three Dimensional Migration of Zero Offset Seismic Data Using Fourier Transforms of Time Slices
Mark L. Kemner MS Geology Spring 1985 Woronow
A Markovian Computer Simulation of Conservative Groundwater Tracer Behavior During Transport
Ronald Scott Kerr MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Woronow
Physical and Numerical Modeling of an Overthrust Zone Including Radial Trace Profiles an Dip Moveout Processing
Nazneen K. Kharas-Khumbata MS Geology Fall 1988 Casey
Geochemistry & Petrology of the Gabbronic Rocks from Blow Me Down Mountain Bay of Islands Complex
John Klein MS Geology Fall 1980 Dupre
Stratigraphy, Petrology and Depositional Setting of Recent Peat Deposits, Yukon Delta, Alaska
Stephen Charles Komor PhD Geology Spring 1985 Elthon
A Detailed Petrologic Study of Selected Portions of the Layered Gabbro Unit At the North Arm Mountain Massif
Richard F. Lane MS Geology Spring 1988 Casey
Mineralogy & Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Serpentinized Ultramafic Rocks from Blow-Me-Down Mountain of the Bay Islands
Luh-Cheng Liang PhD Geophysics Fall 1981 Mcdonald
Three-Dimensional Seismic Modeling Velocity Analysis and Interpretation
Yan Liang MS Geology Spring 1989 Elthon
Geocheistry & Petrology of Spinel Lherzolite Xenoliths from Xalapasco De La Joya, San Luis Potosi S.L.P. Mexico
Susan A. Lock MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Sheriff
Salt Tectonic a Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis of Offshore Louisiana Gulf of Mexico Region
Joann Locklin MS Geology Fall 1981 Maddocks
Recent Foraminifera Around Petoleum Production Platforms on the Southwest Louisiana Shelf
Karen Marie Love MS Geology Fall 1985 Chafetz
Petrology of Quartenary Travertine Depopsits, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma
Floyd Beachley Main MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Sheriff
DMO and Pre-Stack Imaging As Applied Toa Numerical Model Data Set and a Physical Model Data Set
Marhadi MS Geophysics Fall 1983 Sheriff
Physical Modeling Studies of Thin Beds
Geraldine Barbara Maxwell MS Geophysics Summer 1988 Mcdonald
Influence of Poisson's Ratio on Head Waves from Thin Layers
Michael David Mccormack PhD Geophysics Spring 1980 Hilterman
Two-Dimensional Modeling and Migration Using a Hybrid Kirchhoff-Trorey Approach
Allen Glenn Mcintosh MS Geology Spring 1983 Chafetz
The Depositional Environments and Diagenesis of Sediments from the Arabian Gulf
Mark Stephen McNew MS Geology Summer 1988 Woronow
Evaluating the Effects of Grain Size Distribution on the Porosity of Unconsolidated Grain Assemblages by Computer Modeling
Daniel Glen Mcquillen MS Geology Spring 1984 Dupre
Sand Body Geometry and Facies Distribution of a Holocene Washover Fan Complex, Brown Cedar Cut East Matagorda Bay, Tx
Thomas Meier MS Geology Spring 1985 King
Multispectral and Geomorphic Investigations of Surface of Europa
Jose Mejin PhD Geology Spring 1980 Butler
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Nevada Del Ruiz Volcano, Northern Andes, Colombia
David H. Melnyk PhD Geology Fall 1985 Maddocks
Biofacies & Ostracode Biostratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous of Central & North Central Texas
John Courtney Meredith MS Geology Fall 1980 Chafetz
Diagenesis of Holocene-Pleistocene (?) Travertine Deposits: Fritz Creek, Clark County& Fall Creek, Bonneville Cty, Idaho
David Paul Meaux MS Summer 1989 Casey
Geology and Geochemistry of Subophioltic Volcanic Rocks in the Humber Arm Allochthon Western Newfoundland, Canada
Thomas Morgan PhD Geophysics Summer 1981 Hilterman
Three-Dimensional Migration Velocity Analysis in the Space-Frequency Domain
Keith Allan Myers MS Geology Spring 1983 Chafetz
Petrology & Depositional Environments of the Lake Valley Formation Lower Mississippian Southwestern New Mexico
Michael James Nowicki MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Hall
Paleomagnetic Study of Cretaceous Limestones in the Vicinity of Torreon Coahuila Mexico
William O'Brien MS Geology Summer 1986 Dupre
The Role of Source Depositional Environment and Age on the Composition of Quaternary Sands Monterey Bay California
Jeffry Ottman MS Geology Spring 1981 Van Siclen
Hydrodynamic Entrapment of Petroleum in the "J" Sandstone of the Denver Basin Northeastern Colorado
Joseph Kwane Owusu PhD Geophysics Spring 1981 Mcdonald
Velocities and Drillability Profiles Derived from Three Dimensional Sesimic Data
Naide Pan PhD Geophysics Summer 1987 Mcdonald
The Double Slant Stack With Application to Seismic Data Analysis
Ruben Valenzuela Pascual MS Geophysics Fall 1984 Mcdonald
A Comparison of Multi-Fold Seismic Data With Cdp Gathers Recorded Along the Strike Versus the Dip of a 2-Dimensional Overthr
Caroline S. Peterson MS Geophysics Spring 1983 Evans
Petrographic Study of the Oligocene Arida Sandstone Formation Sirte Basin, Libya
Guy Winsor Purnell MS Geophysics Fall 1983 Mcdonald
Measurement and Analysis of Wave Attenuation and Dispersion Using a Physical Modeling System
Phyllis M. Radack MS Geology Summer 1986 Dupre
Wave & Fluival Dominated Deltaic Deposits of the Cerro Huerta & Canon Del Tule Formations (Upper Cretaceous) N E Mexico
Santi Corrado Randazzo MS Geophysics Fall 1988 Mcdonald
Seismic Model Experiments Using the Solid Physical Modeling System
Janet Lois Rashkes MS Geology Spring 1988 Lawrence
Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Kalolinites in the Lower Cretaceous Dakota Group & Mowry Shale North Central Colorado
Carlos Manuel Reyes MS Geophysics Fall 1985 Sheriff
Dynamic Decomposition of a Seismic Trace With Application to Time Varying Filtering
Paul Marcus Robertson MS Geology Spring 1986 Burke
Strike-Slip Faulting in the Vicinity of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies & Its Tectonic Significance
Daniel Kent Ross MS Geology Fall 1988 Elthon
Mineral Chemistry and Petrogenesis of Cumulatedunites from Blow Me Down Mountain, Newfoundland
James Edwin Ross MS Geology Spring 1983 Maddocks
Recurrent Species Associations & Species Diversity of Cytheracean Ostracodes in the Upper Austin & Lower Taylor Groups
Patrick F. Rush PhD Geology Summer 1989 Chafetz
Diagenesis of the Lower Devonian Helderberg Group in New York State & the Chemical Alteration of Petrographically
Jonathon Carl Sadow MS Geology Spring 1989 King
The Petrography and Mineralogy of Lunar Chondrules
Raul Lievano Sarmiento MS Geophysics Summer 1987 Mcdonald
Dip Movement by Migration of Radial Trace Profiles from Shot Records
Milos Savic MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Mcdonald
Study of Seismic Velocities Using a Minimum Error Zero-Offset Traveltime Method
Thomas Edward See MS Geology Spring 1985 King
Appollo 16 Impact Melt-Splashes
Ashley Shepherd MS Geophysics Spring 1983 Hall
A Study of the Magnetic Anomalies in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Francis Xavier Siroky MS Geology Fall 1983 Elthon
Geochemical Vatiation of Basalts from the Bay of Islands Ophilite Newfoundland, Canada
Daniel Todd Smith MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Sheriff
Interactive Seismic Processing Parameter Selection
Stepahnie Diane Smith MS Geology Spring 1989 Dupre
Geographic Variations of Modern Coastal Sands Along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
Susan Elaine Smith MS Geology Fall 1985 Elthon
Geochemistry & Petrology of Residual Mantle & Plutonic Rocks from the Lewis Hills Massif, Bay of Islands
Thomas Andrew Smith PhD Geophysics Spring 1981 Hilterman
Three-Dimesional Kirchhoff Methods of Acoustic Modeling and Migration
Caryn Joy Sodden MS Geology Fall 1989 Norman
An Investigation and Analysis of Surface Faults in Galveston County, Texas
Jerry John Spetseris MS Geology Fall 1986 Van Siclen
Depositional Model of the Queen City Formation (Eocene) in the Hagist Ranch Field Duval & Mcmullen Counties, Texas
Livia Jo Squires MS Geophysics Fall 1986 Mcdonald
Two Algorithms for the Complex Cepstrum With Application to Wavelet Extraction and Phase Unwrapping
Goran Stankovic MS Geophysics Fall 1989 Mcdonald
Numerical Solution of the 2d Wave Equation for Inhomogeneous and Arbitrary Anisotrophic Media by Fourier Transform MTH
Randall Stewart MS Geology Spring 1984 Carman
Stratigraphy and Petrology of the Alamo Creek Basalt, Bif Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas
Roger Sung MS Geophysics Fall 1985 Mcdonald
Plane Wave Decomposition With Application Amplitude-Offset Analyses
Jeffrey Alan Tanner MS Geology Fall 1987 Lawrence
Chemical & Isotopic Evidence of the Origin of Hydrocarbons & Source Potential of Rocks from the Vicksburg & Jackson Formation
Radmilo Tatalovic MS Geophysics Spring 1985 Mcdonald
Numerical and Physical Modeling Studies of the Resolution of Thin Beds for Thickness Calculation
Rodney Thompson MS Geology Summer 1984 Dupre
Sedimentation of the Yukon Delta, Alaska
Rong-Fung Tzeng MS Geophysics Fall 1984 Mcdonald
Migration of Vertical Seismic Profiles by Time Reversal Extrapolation & Ray Ray Tracing
Norman Frederick Uren MS Geophysics Spring 1989 Mcdonald
Processing of Seismic Data in the Presence of Elliptical Anisotropy
Milovan Urosevic MS Geophysics Fall 1985 Mcdonald
Some Effects of an Anisotropic Medium on P and Sw Waves: a Physical Modeling Study
Nancy Mceachron Utech MS Geology Fall 1988 Chafetz
Geochemical & Petrographic Analyses of Traveltine Precipitating Waters & Associated Travertine Deposits
Richard Wayne Verm PhD Geophysics Fall 1983 Mcdonald
Interactive Image Processing of Synthetic Seismic Wavefronts
Kenneth Voight MS Geology Spring 1985 Carman
Geochemical Study of Leon Mountain Analcite Syenogabbro, Brewster County, Texas
Jerry Howard Wagstaff BS Geology Spring 1982 Butler
A Metallographic Study of the Elton and Wimberly Iron Meteorites
Peter Wang MS Geophysics Spring 1986 Mcdonald
Estimation of Elastic Parameters Using Seismic Amplitude Versus Offset Information
Adele Fuller Williams MS Geology Fall 1982 King
Double-Ringed and Multiringed Basins on the Moon and Mercury: Morphologic Correlations With Size and Other Parameters
Stephen Edward Williams MS Geophysics Fall 1989 Mcdonald
Propagation of Ground Roll in the Presence of Near Surface Heterogene Using Physical Models
Wen-Jen Wu PhD Geophysics Fall 1981 Gardner
Algebraic Kirchhof-Thorey Inversion
Chunshou Xia MS Geology Fall 1988 Casey
A Microstructural Study of Mantle Peridotites from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Near 23'n
Julie Karen Zweig MS Geology Fall 1985 Mcdonald
Processing and Interpretation of Seismic Data in the Northeastern Gulf of Alaska, Offshore Yakutat