Geology Graduate Student Theses (GEOL)

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Travers, Abigail	2024	A Geologic block model of the western continental United States	Evans

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Bixler, Jonathan	2023	Dating the Alamo Mountain and Piru Creek Shear Zones Using U-Pb Zircon Geochronology: Insights into Late Cretaceous Tectonics in Southern California	Schwartz
Estrada, Alfredo	2023	Environmental Impacts of Oil Seeps in Coastal Watersheds	Hauswirth
Littleton, Shelby	2023	Using Carbon Isotopes, Phytoliths, and Geochemical Proxies to Constrain C4 Expansion Across Argentina in Response to Changes in Precipitation During the Late Miocene	Cotton

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Brackman, Adam	2022	Evaluating discrepancies between bulk-rock and single mineral geochemical data in the magmatic evolution of cordilleran arc rocks	Schwartz
Brown, Virginia	2022	Integrating Microkinematic Crystallographic Vorticity Axis (CVA) Analysis and Geochronology to Investigate the Temporal Development of Fabric Within a Transpressional Shear Zone, New Zealand	Miranda
Martinez, Priscilla	2022	Petrography and Correlation of Volcaniclastic Intervals in the Quaternary Marine Sedimentary Succession Recovered During IODP Expedition 385 in Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California	Marsaglia

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Chong, Jeng Hann	2021	Strain Partitioning in the Pacific Northwest, USA	Evans
Dietel, Matthew	2021	Linking Regional Tectonics with Microstructural Fabrics Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Crystallographic Vorticity Axis Analysis at the Grebe Shear Zone in	Miranda
Ghosh, Adit	2021	Did changes in seasonality and fire frequency cause C4 grass expansion in South America? Investigations from N.W. Argentina using geochemical proxies for climate and vegetation change.	Cotton
Greenberg, Gillian	2021	The Importance of Amphibole in Magma Differentiation in Cordilleran Arc Crust	Schwartz
Hohn, Rachel	2021	Persistent Environmental Impacts from the Second Largest Mercury Mine in North America: New Idria, CA	Ganguli
Persad, Liselle	2021	Lithostratigraphy and Depositional Model of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California	Marsaglia
Schmitt, Erin	2021	Linking submarine groundwater discharge to mercury biogeochemical cycling at the coastal margin	Ganguli
Stone, David	2021	Provenance of the Paleogene Goler Formation, Southern California, and Implications for Basin Development in the Southwestern US Cordillera	Cecil
Trammell, Cali	2021	Depositional Environments and Basin Geometry of the Paleocene Goler Formation, Mojave Desert, California	Heermance
Wales, Erin	2021	The Role of Magmatic Scapolite in Recording the Volatile Cycle of the Lower-Arc Crust	Schwartz

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Andico, Solishia	2020	Understanding Continental Margin Growth Through Isotopic Mapping of the Median Batholith, Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Carty, Kendra	2020	Testing the 'MASH' Hypothesis: An Investigation of Magma Chamber Geometry and Interconnectivity in the Lower Crust of a Continental Arc, Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Pardo, Justin	2020	Secret nuclear meltdown? Measuring Cs-137 concentration from environmental samples to determine radiation exposure from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Valley, California	Cotton
Ulloa, Sirena	2020	Surface Displacement and Ground Motion from Dynamic Rupture Models of Thrust Faults with Variable Dip Angles and Burial Depths	Lozos

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Garcia, Colleen	2010	A hydrogeologic and water quality study along the western stream tributaries in San Fernando Valley, California	Tabidian
Greenberg, Rebecca	2010	Strain localization in quartzofeldspathic mylonites: A microstructural and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) study of the South Mountains core complex, Arizona	Miranda
Guzman, Nathan	2010	Geology and geomorphology of the intersecting Mission Creek and Banning fault strands, southern San Andreas fault	Yule
Hebeler, Aaron	2010	Middle Holocene surface rupture of the Riasi fault, Kashmir, India	Yule
Luna, Lorena	2010	Stratigraphy and OSL geochronology of the Briska Palms alluvial fan, Indio, CA	Yule
Nguyen, Chinh	2010	Study of trailing conduits in high bond number metal-silicate plumes during core formation	Weeraratne
Parra, Julie	2010	Sand provenance of Poverty Shelf, North Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Rivera, Kevin	2010	Characteristics of Miocene to Pliocene sandy units in the Hikurangi Forearc, North Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Toneva, Snejana	2010	Perchlorate in soils, water resources and crops of San Fernando Valley and Ventura County, California	Tabidian
Ventimiglia, Matthew	2010	A new Miocene cetothere (mammalia: cetacea) from the Monterey formation at Laguna Niguel, Orange County, California	Squires
Velasco, Noel	2010	238U-230Th disequilibrium dating of chevkinite from La Primavera, Jalisco, Mexico	Vazquez
Fleck, Jenna	2011	Tharsis formation from density driven thermo-chemical plumes during planetary differentiation	Weeraratne
McBurnett, Paul	2011	Paleoseismicity of the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone at Millard Canyon: Testing the likelihood of a through-going San Andreas rupture	Yule
McGuire, Kathleen	2011	Tracking cosmogenic 10Be in multiple grain sizes down an alluvial system in an active orogen	Heermance
McKay, Hannah	2011	Quaternary stratigraphy and geologic evolution of Ojai and upper Ojai valleys, western Transverse Ranges, California	Heermance
Neil, Kenda	2011	Aquifer characteristics and hydrostratigraphy of the south Las Posas Basin, Ventura County, California	Tabidian
Ramirez, Cristo	2011	Study of elastic thickness from seamount loading of old oceanic lithosphere: Implications for lithosphere stability	Weeraratne
Annis, David	2012	EBSD and Microstructural Analysis of Quartzofeldspathic Rocks from the South Mountains, Arizona: An Evaluation of Flow Laws and Crustal Rheology	Miranda
Carrasco, Joseph	2012	Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Late-Pleistocene Lacustrine to Alluvial Deposits From The Waipaoa River Catchment, North Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Lafromboise, Eli	2012	Neotectonism of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: Geomorphology and Earthquake Relocations Along the Nicoya Seismic Gap	Simila
Ramzan, Shahid	2012	Paleoseismic investigation of the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone near Cabazon, California	Yule
Bender-Whitaker, Carrie	2013	Holocene-Pleistocene sand provenance in the Canterbury Basin, eastern South Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
del Angel, Jozi	2013	Structural style and shortening magnitude across the Kepintage Fold and Thrust Belt in the Tian Shan Foreland, Northwest China	Heermance
Nunley, Melissa	2013	Seismic anisotropy beneath African plate	Weeraratne
Brand, Danielle	2014	Settling of metal droplets through a magma ocean and metal plume conduits during core formation	Weeraratne
Chehal, Simarjit K.	2014	Estimation of permeability, porosity, and grain-size distributions across the San Andreas Fault Zone in northwest Coachella Valley, California (Riverside County)	Heermance
Doran, Linda	2014	Characterizing modern stream sand to better understand reservoir sandstone provenance in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Escobar, Lennin	2014	Rayleigh wave phase velocities beneath the oceanic and continental margin of the North American and Pacific plate boundary	Weeraratne
Graham, Joshua	2014	Late Holocene glacial advances in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, determined from 10Be cosmogenic exposure dating and dendrochronology	Heermance
Mohammadebrahim, Ehsan	2014	Seismic strong motion array project (SSMAP) and September 5, 2012 (MW=7.6) earthquake in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica	Simila
Rains, Christine	2014	The formation and evolution of liquid metal diapirs with trailing conduits in planetary core formation	Weeraratne
Sotirov ,Teodor	2014	Rayleigh wave phase velocities and anisotropy of old oceanic lithosphere in the Pacific	Weeraratne
Black, Lexine	2015	Shear Wave Velocity Structure and Evolution of Old Oceanic Lithosphere: Constraints from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion across a Local Array of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers	Weeraratne
Clements, Brian	2015	Documenting Lower-Crustal Polyphase Cooling Associated with Cretaceous Continental Breakup and Tertiary Rifting, Western Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Nolasco, Jasmyn	2015	Use of Sedimentary Petrology and Provenance to Resolve Questions Regarding Neogene Fluvial/Lacustrine Drainage Development and Potential Marine Influence in the Southern Rim of the Amazon Basin	Marsaglia
Rathnayaka, Sampath	2015	Rayleigh wave tomography beneath the oceanic and continental margin of the North American and Pacific plate boundary	Weeraratne
Riegel, Hannah	2015	Environmental impacts of rapid climate change at the Pliocene-Quaternary transition in the Qaidam Basin, China	Heermance
Sadorski, Joseph	2015	Time scales of continental arc root construction and deep crustal magmatic flux rates: insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology of a Triassic-Cretaceous arc, Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Tentori, Daniel	2015	Sand compositional changes as a key for sequence-stratigraphic interpretation: the Pleistocene Tiber River delta succession	Marsaglia
Bailey, Claire	2016	Provenance study of miocene to pliocene sand and sandstone intervals recovered on Expedition 317 in the Canterbury Basin, South Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Cardona, Jose	2016	Constraining the most recent surface rupture on the Garnet Hill strand, San Andreas Fault, Coachella Valley, California	Yule
Cohen, Hannah	2016	Constraints on the late Miocene/Pliocene reorganization of the San Andreas fault and basin drainage systems near Tejon Pass, CA, based on stratigraphy, sedimentology, and provenance of the Hungry Valley Formation	Heermance
Decker, Meghann	2016	Triggering mechanisms for a magmatic flare-up of the lower crust in Fiordland, New Zealand, from U-Pb zircon geochronology and O-Hf zircon geochemistry	Schwartz
Dickey, Nathan	2016	Chronology and Paleoclimate of Late Pleistocene Glaciation in the Klamath Mountains,CA	Heermance
Gabauer, Samantha	2016	Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Lower Arc Cooling and Metamorphism, Northern Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Johnson, Kyle	2016	Facies and depositional history of arc-related deep-marine volcaniclastic rocks in core recovered on International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 351, Philippine Sea	Marsaglia
Jones, Kaitlyn	2016	The geology of the Singleton anticline and along-strike change of the San Gorgonio Pass strand, San Andreas Fault from emergent thrust to anticline, near Calimesa, CA	Yule
Joseph, Jeffery	2016	Deformation and fabric transposition in the lower crust during extensional collapse in western Fiordland, New Zealand	Miranda
McDonald, Eric	2016	Stratigraphy and Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the El Paso Mountains Permian Metasedimentary Sequence, Southern California: Constraints on Permian Paleogeography and Tectonic Models for Subduction Initiation Along the Southwestern Margin of Laurentia	Cecil
Nissanka, Uchitha	2016	Formation of Intraplate Seamount Chains by Viscous Fingering Instabilities in the Asthenosphere Using Low Reynolds Number Miscible Fluids with a Moving Surface Boundary	Weeraratne
Rousseau, Nick	2016	Investigation into the Episodic Behavior and Potential Causes of Jurassic Magmatism in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California	Cecil
Wiesenfeld, John	2016	Construction of continental crust by deep crustal fractional crystallization and garnet pyroxenite root development: geochemical evidence from Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Gabriel, Katherine	2017	Late Pleistocene Slip Rate for the Western Pinto Mountain Fault, Morongo Valley, Southern California	Yule
Homan, Emily	2017	Investigating causes of magmatic episodicity in the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia: insights from hafnium and oxygen isotopes in magmatic zircon	Cecil
Huerta, Brittany	2017	Structure and Geomorphology of West Whitewater Hill, a Compressive Stepover between the Banning and Garnet Hill Strands of the San Andreas Fault, Whitewater, CA	Yule
Kennedy, James	2017	Seismic attenuation of the lithosphere and asthenosphere across the North America - Pacific Plate Boundary in Southern California	Weeraratne
Moe, Annelisa	2017	Magnetostratigraphic and stable isotopic analysis of playa-lacustrine deposits in the Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for climate-environmental changes and orbital forcing mechanisms during the Plio-Quaternary transition	Heermance
Stewart,Craig	2017	The rheological evolution of brittle-ductile transition rocks during the earthquake cycle: evidence for a plastic precursor to pseudotachylyte in an extensional fault system, South Mountains, Arizona	Miranda
Buritica Alvarez, Luisa	2018	Temporal and spatial variations in magmatism and transpressional deformation in the middle to lower-crust of a Cretaceous arc, Median Batholith, Fiordland, New Zealand	Schwartz
Desjarlais, Ian	2018	Constraining long term slip rates along the San Andreas Fault System using B4 LiDAR and Cosmogenic Beryllium-10 dating methods at Millard Canyon, San Gorgonio Pass, California	Yule
Hufford, Lonnie	2018	Strain Localization within Arc Crust: Microstructural Investigation of the Grebe Mylonite Zone in Fiordland, New Zealand	Miranda
Martinez, Christopher	2018	Persistence of Metal Sediments at the Core-Mantle Boundary and Implications for the Seismic Ultra-Low Velocity zone	Weeraratne
McGinn, Courtney	2018	Effects of quartz Dauphiné twinning on strain localization in polymineralic rocks in a mid-crustal shear zone, Fiordland, New Zealand	Miranda
McNeil, James	2018	Quaternary slip history of the Morongo Valley Fault, Morongo Valley, CA	Yule
Peshette, Paul	2018	Dynamic Rupture Modeling to Investigate the Role of Fault Geometry in Jumping Rupture Between Parallel-Trace Thrust Faults	Lozos
Ruttenberg, Ian	2018	A compositional, diagenetic, and statistical analysis of marine forearc and reararc basin volcaniclastic sandstones from upper oligocene odp leg 126 and iodp expedition 351 cores, izu-bonin-mariana arc system	Marsaglia
Sample, Bret	2018	Provenance of Miocene Strata of the El Paso Basin, Southern California: Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Paleogeography of the Southern Sierra Nevada Region	Cecil
Vilkas, Marius	2018	Detrital zircon geochronology of the Southern Tian Shan foreland and implications for Late Cenozoic tectonics of regional intracontinental orogenic systems, Northwestern China	Heermance
Wolff, Lisa	2018	6000-year record of large, infrequent earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault system in San Gorgonio Pass, near Cabezon, California	Yule
Gomez, Carlos	2019	Particle-In-Cell Finite Element Models of Deformation Within and Surrounding the Bend in the San Andreas Fault	Weeraratne

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
dePaula, Lemuel	2000	Deposition and diagenesis of terrigenous rocks of the middle member of the Miocene Barstow Formation, Mud Hills, California	Pedone
Fayez, Abdulaziz	2000	Aftershock study of the November 22, 1995 (Mw=7.3) Gulf of Aqabah earthquake, Midyan region, Saudi Arabia	Simila
Devlahovich, Vincent	2001	Miocene igneous rocks associated with the San Onofre Breccia, Santa Cruz and Santa Catalina Islands, California	Weigand
McCord, Brian	2001	Hydrogeochemistry and isotopic analyses of the fractured volcanic aquifer system of Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, California	Tabidian
Tersibashian, Noune	2001	Characterization and quantification of nonpoint source water pollutants emphasizing chloride and nitrate in Simi Valley, Ventura County, California	Tabidian
Field, Leonore	2002	A geochemical and petrologic Study of Poway clasts in San Diego and the Channel Islands, California	Weigand
Saenz, Joseph M.	2002	Geological controls of hydrocarbon seeps in Santa Maria Basin, offshore California	Fischer
Howland, Caryn L.	2003	Determining the depositional age of peat: implications for dating paleoearthquakes at the Burro Flats paleoseismic site near Banning, CA	Yule
James, Dawn E.	2003	Sand Provenance in the Waipaoa River system, North Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Sgriccia, Martha P.	2003	Depositional environments of the Oligocene Alegria Formation, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Neameh, Majd	2004	Structure and petrology of the San Gabriel fault zone near the Wildwood picnic area, San Gabriel Mountains, California	Yule
Orozco, Arturo A.	2004	Offset of a mid-holocene alluvial fan near Banning, CA: Constraints on the slip rate of the San Bernardino strand of the San Andreas Fault	Yule
Shapiro, Shawn A.	2004	Sand provenance of the Bounty Submarine Fan off the Eastern Coast of South Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Stecheson, Mary	2004	Systematic paleontology of marine gastropods from the Upper Cretaceous Chatsworth formation, Simi Hills, Southern California	Squires
Caceres, Carmen	2005	Charophyte limestone in the Miocene Barstow formation, Mud Hills, California	Pedone
DeVaughn, Alissa	2005	Sand and gravel provenance of the Te Arai River, Waipaoa River, and associated quaternary alluvial terrace deposits, North Island, New Zealand	Marsaglia
Fontilea, Kristin	2005	A petrological and geochemical study of cretaceous siliceous rocks from the Shatsky Rise	Marsaglia
Gadley, Kyle	2005	Petrography and correlation of cenozoic ash layers recovered on Shatsky Rise ODP Leg 198	Marsaglia
Kear, Jordan Leigh	2005	Hydrogeology of the Ojai Groundwater Basin: Storativity and Confinement, Ventura County, California	Tabidian
Telles, Franky	2005	Sedimentology, Paleontology, C and O Isotope Chemistry, and Geochronology of Holocene Sediment from Lake Thetis, Cervantes, Western Australia	Pedone
Miles, Jack	2007	Water quality and land use in western San Fernando Valley canyons and tributary streams	Tabidian
Regmi, Anita	2007	Characterization of vadose zone and assessing enhanced recharge potential in canyons and headwater areas of western San Fernando Valley, California	Tabidian
Yong, Alan	2007	Geophysical site characterization using geomorphology, geology and integrated digital imaging methods on satellite data	Simila
Green, Joseph	2008	Analysis of the microseismicity of the Santa Monica Mountains and associated Malibu Coast, Santa Monica-Dume, and Santa Monica Bay faults	Simila
Pavia, Jennifer	2009	Petrography and provenance of sand temper within ceramic sherds from Carriacou, Southern Grenadines, West Indies	Marsaglia
Rains, Jean	2009	The stratigraphic and petrologic record of subduction initiation in the Permian metasedimentary succession of the El Paso Mountains, Kern County, California	Marsaglia
Woolford, Jeffery	2009	Distribution and stratigraphy of basalts in the southwest (Aberdeen) portion of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, Owens Valley, California	Vazquez
Zohar, Alana	2009	Paleomagnetic evidence for timescales of multi-vent basaltic eruptions in Big Pine volcanic field, California	Vazquez

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Flack, Michael	1990	Depositional environments of the Topanga Canyon Formation, central Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California	Fritsche
Oldershaw, Michael	1990	Depositional Environments and Paleogeography of the Miocene Painted Rock Sandstone Member of the Vaqueros Formation in the southeastern Caliente Range, San Luis Obispo County, California	Fritsche
Perri, Michael	1990	Stratigraphic analysis of the Branch Canyon Formation in the Sierra Madre, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Siegele, Paul	1990	Radian and Radon concentrations in Tertiary aquifers along the Texas gulf coast	Adams
Armand, Pierre	1991	Layered crustal velocity model and station correction analysis for the Los Angeles Basin	Simila
Cote, Russell	1991	Paleontology of the "Santa Margarita" Formation on the Coalinga anticline, Fresno County, California	Squires
Groves, Lindsey	1991	Paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene lower Saugus Formation, Santa Susana Mountains, southern California	Squires
Kirby, Michael	1991	Macropaleontology and Biostratigraphy across the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary, San Francisquito Formation, Warm Springs Mountain, Los Angeles County, southern California	Squires
Mills, Gareth	1991	The Structure and activity of the offshore Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon zone of deformation	Fischer
Smith, Theresa	1991	Biostratigraphy of middle Tertiary rocks in Cuyama Basin, southern California	Fritsche
Wang, Shin-Jieh	1991	Microseismicity of the San Andreas Fault in the Frazier Park-Fort Tejon region, California	Simila
Anderson, Steve	1992	Geochemistry and petrology of the hornblende gabbro of Mount Gleason, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California	Weigand
Copeland, Jeff	1992	Hydrogeologic study of the upper water-bearing zone in the vicinity of the Palos Verdes landfill	Tabidian
Gring, Michael	1993	Stratigraphic analysis of the Mabury Formation, Kern and Kings Counties, California	Squires
Ward, Michael	1994	Flatten_Surface: A computer program to restore a folded and faulted gridded surface	Adams
Larson, Robert	1995	Stability of Soil on Natural Slopes	Adams
Shirley, James	1995	Gravitational forces and extended body response	Simila
Smith, James	1995	An exercise in environmental analysis: the Earth observing system	Simila
Striegler, Glenn	1995	Characterization of Mesozoic granitoids in the northern Coso Range Inyo County, California	Dunne
Zhang, Zhaohui	1995	Comprehensive Examination	Fritsche
Anderson, Desideria	1996	Paleogeography and depositional environments of the Vaqueros and Rincon Formations, Topatopa Mountains, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Gossell, Melissa	1996	Application of impeller flowmeter and discrete water sampling techniques for improved groundwater well construction	Tabidian
Jones, Terry	1996	Seismicity of the western transverse ranges of southern California: January, 1981 to January, 1995	Simila
Kelsch, Kenneth	1996	Three-dimensional tectonostratigraphic development of the Los Angeles Basin as viewed through the Beta 3D seismic survey	Fischer
Norgauer, Carl	1996	Physical and chemical controls on microfabric of recent ooids from the Great Salt Lake, Utah	Pedone
Savage, Karen	1996	Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Conejo Volcanics, Santa Monica Mountains, California	Weigand
Swanson, Brian	1996	Structural geology and deformational history of the southern Inyo Mountains east of Keeler, Inyo County, California	Dunne
Evensen, James Jr.	1997	Hydrogeology of the Simi Valley hydrologic basin, Ventura County, California	Tabidian
Ocampo, Adriana	1997	The Geology of Chicxulub impact ejecta in Belize	Fritsche
Cao, Aiguo	1998	Depositional environmnents of the Towsley Formation in the Tujunga Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California	Fritsche
Davis, George	1998	Systematic paleontology of a densely fossiliferous, upper Pliocene molluscan shell lens, 6th and Flower Streets, Los Angeles, California, with commentary on the strategic nomenclature of the "Fernando Formation"	Squires
Martin, Rod	1998	Optimizing the operation of marginal oil production leases in the Placerita Oil Field, Newhall, California, to fit the constraints of an associated cogeneration plant	Fritsche
Schaaf, Joseph	1998	Hydrogeology of the Tierra Rejada Groundwater Basin, Ventura County, California	Tabidian
May, James	1999	Geochemical and petrogenic study of the Late Cretaceous Mt. Wilson intrusion and possible comagmatic plutons, San Gabriel Mountains, southern California	Weigand

Student	Year	Project	Advisor
Richmond, William	1976	Grain size, organic carbon, and trace metal distribution patterns in Mugu Lagoon, California	Fischer
Thor, Devin	1977	Depositional environment and paleogeographic setting of the Santa Margarita Formation, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Blom, Ronald	1978	Spectral reflectance studies of plutonic rocks in the 0.45-2.45 Micron region	Adams
Testa, Stephen	1978	Geochemistry of Mesozoic dolerites from Liberia, Africa, and Spitsbergen	Weigand
Reid, Stephen	1979	Stratigraphic analysis of the Vaqueros Formation in the Big Mountain area, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Werner, Michael	1979	Superposed Mesozoic deformations, southeastern Inyo Mountains, California	Dunne
Anderson, Thomas	1980	A geochemical study of Miocene Volcanics, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California	Weigand
Hartshorn, David	1980	Soil geochemistry as a guide to mineralization in the Drum Mountains, Millard-Juab Counties, Utah	Gustafson
Rudat, Juhani	1980	Quaternary evolution and seismic stratigraphy of the San Pedro Margin, southern California	Fischer
Blake, Thomas	1981	Depostional environments of the Simmler Formation in southern Cuyama Valley, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California	Fritsche
Blundell, Michael	1981	Depositional environments of the Vaqueros Formation in the Big Mountain area, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Muir, Stephen	1981	Holocene deformed sediments of the southern San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California	Fritsche
Ritterbush, Linda	1981	Paleobiology of agnostid trilobites: functional morphology, growth, and evolution	Squires
Van Wagoner, Steven	1981	Geology of a part of the Zaca Lake Quadrangle, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Fowler, Julie	1982	Structural analysis of Mesozoic deformations in the Central Slate Range, eastern California	Dunne
Furst, Bruce	1982	Petrology of the Alkalic Hawi volcanic series of Kohala Volcano, Hawaii	Weigand
Morrison, Lowell	1982	Surface sediment and seismic reflection profiling, outer Newport submarine canyon, southern California continental borderland	Fischer
Peterson, Larry	1982	Impact of seawater intrusion control on the liquefaction susceptibility of the coastal plain, Ventura County, California	Adams
Remsen, Walter Jr.	1982	Geology of San Nicolas Bank - southern California continental borderland	Fritsche
Sterling, Stephen	1982	The geology of the Inner Basin Margin, Newport Beach to Dana Point, Orange County, California	Fischer
Advocate, David	1983	Depositional environments of the Eocene Maniobra Formation, northeastern Orocopia Mountains, Riverside County, southern California	Squires
Johnson, Elizabeth	1983	Textural and compositional sediment characteristics of the southeastern Bristol Bay continental shelf, Alaska	Molnia
Muskat, Judd	1983	Geologic interpretations: Seasat- A radar images and landsat MSS images of a portion of the southern Appalachian Plateau: Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia	Adams
Norby, Philip	1983	A subsurface interpretation using three-dimensional seismic methods of a portion of the Erawan gas/condensate field, Gulf of Thailand	Simila
Oborne, Mark	1983	Stratigraphy of early to middle(?) Triassic marine to continental rocks, Southern Inyo Mountains, California	Dunne
Roush, James	1983	Marine geology of the western extension of the Transverse Ranges: Point Conception to Point Arguello	Fischer
Schymiczek, Herman	1983	Benthic foraminifera and paleobathymetry of the Eocene Llajas Formation, southwestern Santa Susana Mountains, California	Squires
Shariff, Asghar	1983	Geology and paleoenvironment of the Bunker gas field, Solano County, California	Fritsche
Ticken, Edward	1983	Geology of the Inner Basin Margin: Dana Point to San Onofre, California	Fischer
Bouton, Katherine	1984	A spectral reflectance study of the sedimentary Paleozoic rocks around Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Monument	Adams
Custis, Kit	1984	Geology and dike swarms of the Homer Mountain area, San Bernardino County, California	Dunne
Kappeler, Kristine	1984	Depositional environment of the Avenal Sandstone of Reef Ridge, Central California	Squires
Prevost, Dana	1984	Geology of a transect of the Northern Argus Range California	Dunne
Raftery, Peter	1984	Marine geology and geologic evolution of the Northern Channel Islands west of San Miguel Island	Fischer
Taylor, Gary	1984	Depositional environments of the Sespe Formation, northern Simi Valley, California	Squires
Webb, James	1984	Geology of the San Diego margin, Carlsbad to La Jolla, San Diego County, California	Fischer
Woods, Madeline	1984	Seismic stratigraphy and fault activity of the inner San Pedro shelf, California	Fischer
Yaldezian, John	1984	Miocene geology of the east-central portion of the San Rafael wilderness, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Hickey, Edward	1985	The geology of naturally-fractured petroleum reservoirs in the Monterey Formation, Cat Canyon area, Santa Barbara County, California	Simila
Parker, Jonathan	1985	Lower Paleogene geology of the Simi Valley area, Ventura County, California	Squires
Unruh, Mark	1985	Geochemistry and petrology of Triassic granitoids of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California and Nevada	Dunne
White, David	1985	Fluvial-dominated deltaic deposits of the marine Plio-Pleistocene lower Saugus Formation, northern Simi Valley, California	Squires
Kraemer, Susanne	1986	Quaternary morphology, acoustic characteristics, and fan growth of the conception fan, Santa Barbara Basin, California Continental Borderland	Fischer
Roush, Kathleen	1986	Depositional environments of the Eocene Domengine Formation near Coalinga, Fresno County, California	Fritsche
Thomas, June	1986	Correlation and petrogenesis of Miocene volcanic rocks in the San Emigdio and San Juan Bautista areas, California	Weigand
Griffis, Robert	1987	Kern knob pluton and other highly-evolved granitoids in East-central California	Dunne
Liggett, David	1987	Geology and geochemistry of a garnet-bearing granitoid in the Southwestern Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California	Collins
Oborne, Juli	1987	Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Vaqueros Formation, Central Santa Monica Mountains, California	Fritsche
Trembly, Wonderful	1987	Depositional environments of a portion of the Modelo Formation, Canton Canyon, Los Angeles County, California	Fritsche
Chen, Xunhong	1988	Depositional environments and paleogeography of the lower Saugus Formation, northern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California	Fritsche
Clark, Frederick	1988	Stratigraphic analysis of the Middle Miocene Modelo formation at Lower Piru Creek, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Manz, Richard	1988	Groundwater flow modeling of the Ojai basin, using the USGS 3 dimensional MODFLOW model	Adams
Popelar, Stanley	1988	Miocene geology of the southwestern portion of the San Rafael Wilderness, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Russell, Perry	1988	The Point Fermin submarine fan: a small late middle Miocene Age fan within the Monterey Formation	Fischer
Condon, Michael	1989	Stratigraphic analysis of the Hurricane Deck Formation Sierra Madre, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Daniel, Lori	1989	Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the lower Miocene Vaqueros Formation, Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California	Fritsche
Freitag, George	1989	Stratigraphic analysis of the Vaqueros Formation, southeastern Cuyama Valley, California	Fritsche
Jiao, Zunsheng	1989	Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Coldwater Formation, upper Sespe Creek, Ventura County, California	Fritsche
Lamb, Richard	1989	Nonmarine mollusks of Pit 91, Rancho La Brea, southern California, and their paleoecologic and biogeographic implications	Squires
Miller, Cynthia	1989	Characterization of the Indian Springs Formation in east-central California	Dunne
Ogawa, Craig	1989	The Quaternary evolution of the Buena Vista Lagoon and the adjacent inner margin, San Diego County, California	Fischer
Pitts, Brian	1989	The sedimentology of the upper Cretaceous Joaquin Ridge sandstone member of the Panoche Formation near Coalinga, Fresno County, California	Fritsche
Thomas, Garold	1989	Stratigraphic analysis and paleogeography of the Hurricane Deck Formation, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California	Fritsche
Yamashiro, Daniel	1989	Eocene Marine to nonmarine deltaic deposits, Lower Piru Creek, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, southern California	Squires

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