Geosciences Department - The University of Montana

Graduate Theses

2008

Bonnie Gillan, MS, 2008 - Snow Accumulation and Melt Timing at High Elevations in Northwest Montana.
Nisha Parmar, MS, 2008 - Channel Migration and Bank Erosion of the Clark Fork River at Grant-Kohrs Ranch N.H.S., Western Montana.
Solmaz Mohadjer, MS, 2008 - Under Pressure: Continental Collision and Earthquake Education in Central Asia.
Angie L. Bell, MS, 2008-, Direct and Indirect Modification of Stream Flow in the Flathead River Basin in Northwestern Montana: Hydrologic Parameter Development and Implementation.
Anthony J. Farinacci, MS, 2008- Surface Water and Groundwater Exchanges in Fine and Coarse River Bed System and Responses to Initial States of Dam Removal, Milltown, Montana.
Erin M. Haney, MS, 2008- P-T Evolution of the Anaconda Metamorphic Core Complex, Southwestern Montana.
Julian McCune, MS, 2008- Cenozoic Sedimentary Evolution of the Helmville Basin, West Central Montana.
Donna L. Smith, MS, 2008- "Redox Pumping" in the near Surface Missoula Aquifer on the Flood Plain of the Clark Fork River: Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions and Arsenic Related Chemistry at a Compost Facility near a Wastewater Treatment Plant.

2007

Johnny MacLean, Ph.D., 2007, New Insights on the SE Siberia - SW Laurentia Rodinia Reconstruction from Detrital Zircon Analyses.
Jake Mohrmann, MS, 2007, Controls on Thermal Discharge in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Heather Henry, MS, 2007, Investigation of a Triangle Zone Structure between Augusta and Bowman's Corners, Lewis and Clark County, Montana.
Emily Ward (Geraghty), Ph.D., 2007, Development of the Rocky Mountain Foreland Basin: Combined Structural, Mineralogical, and Geochemical Analysis of Basin Evolution, Rocky Mountain Thrust Front, Northwest Montana.
Mick Bradway, MS, 2007, Stratigraphy and Structural Geometry at the Leading Edge of the Montana Thrust Belt, East of Sun River Canyon, Lewis and Clark and Teton Counties, Montana.
Kirstin Burns, MS, 2007, The Effective Viscosity of Ash-Laden Flows.
Toby Meierbachtol, MS, 2007, Borehole Measurements of Dynamic Basal Drainage Adjustments During Sliding Accelerations: bench Glacier, Alaska.
Mary Sutherland, MS, 2007, Lithologic and Hydrogeologic Controls on the Occurrence, Transport and Fate of MTBE in Fine Grained Glacial-Lacustrine Sediments.
Frank Janiszewski, MS, 2007, Seismic Reflection and gravity Constraints on the bedrock Configuration in the greater East Missoula Area.

2006

Jessica Bleha, MS, 2006, Development and Application of a MODIS Snowmelt Model in Northwestern Montana.
Jason Edwards, M.S., 2006, Evidence for Glacial Outburst Floods Along the Lower Flathead River: Results from Geologic Mapping, Geomorphologic Analysis, and a Gravity Survey near Polson, Montana.
David Tooke, Ph.D., 2006, Transport and Fate of Sulfur in a Kraft Pulp Mill Wastewater Treatment System.
Michael Sperazza , Ph.D., 2006, Acquisition and Evaluation of Sedimentologic, Paleomagnetic, and Geochemical Time-Series Data from Flathead Lake , Montana : Implications for Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoclimate.
Aaron Fiaschetti, M.S., 2006, Assessment of Ground Water Exchange in Two Stream Channels and Associated Riparian Zones, Jocko Valley, Western Montana.
Shawn Naylor, M.S., 2006, The Influence of Glacial Erosion on Landscape Evolution and Basin Morphology in the Bitterroot Mountains , Montana .
Jason Braden, M.S., 2006, History of Syn-Glacial and Post-Glacial Sedimentation at the Former Terminus of the Flathead Ice Lobe near Polson , Montana .
Joel Brown, M.S., 2006, Spatiotemporal Variations of Englacial Scattering of Radar Within Bench Glacier, a Temperate Glacier in Coastal Alaska .
Debbie Bush, M.S. 2006, 3-D Geostatistical Lithofacies Mapping of Ice-Age Flood deposits in a Portion of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Richland, Washington.
Edward Salmon, M.S., 2006, Distribution of Pre-Quaternary and Quaternary Geologic Units at the Former Terminus of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: Analysis of Map Relations North of Polson , Montana .
Laura Strumness, M.S., 2006, Phosphorus Cycling in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming , U.S.A.
Andy Bookter, M.S. 2006, Erosional Processes After Wildfires: The Impact of Vegetative Ash and Morphology of Debris Flows.
Jonathan Reeve, M.S. 2006, The Role of Moulins in Late Summer Subglacial Hydrology.

2005

Michael Hofmann, Ph.D. 2005, Using Sediments to Infer the Geologic History of Northwestern Montana During and After the Last Glacial Maximum, the Record from Flathead Lake.
Garrett Timmerman, M.S. 2005, Constraining temporal relationships between Glacial Lake Missoula, retreat of the Flathead Ice Lobe, and development of the lower Flathead River Valley.
Dan Hoffman, M.S. 2005, Effects of Sediment Pulses on Channel Morphology and Sediment transport in a Gravel-Bed River.
Michelle Foster M.S. 2005, K-Bentonites of the Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Western Montana.
Amy Bondurant, M.S. 2005, Geologic Mapping and Sedimentologic Analysis of Quaternary Deposits Along the Western Shore of Flathead Lake, Northwest Montana; Documenting the Record of Deglaciation.
Amelia Tallman, M.S. 2005, Identifying the Factors Controlling the Sources and Quantity of Water Captured by Municipal Supply Wells in the Highly Conductive Missoula Aquifer, Western Montana.
Andrew Caruthers, M.S. 2005, Upper Triassic Carbonates and Scleractinian Corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane (Alaska and Vancouver Island, Canada): Depositional Environments and Paleobiogeography
Robyn Cook, M.S. 2005, Defining River Recharge and the Fate of Arsenic in the Shallow Groundwater System Adjacent to a Losing River, Western Montana.
Susan Joy, M.S. 2005, An Investigation of Groundwater Resources and the Transport and Fate of Septic Effluent in a Fractured Rock Aquifer, Western Montana.
Ryan Portner, M.S. 2005, Sedimentary and Tectonic Evolution of the Flint Creek Basin, West-central Montana.
Rachele Ambrose, M.S. 2005, A Petrologic Study Of The Chamberlain Carbonate, The Newland Limestone, The Helena Formation, And The Wallace Formation Of The Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana

2003-2004

Nathan Harrison, M.S., 2004, Gravity, Radar And Seismic Investigations To Help Determine Geologic, Hydrologic, And Biologic Relations In The Nyack Valley, Northwestern Montana. (GSA abstract)
Erik Katvala, M.S., 2004, Conodont Biostratigraphy and Facies Correlations in an Upper Triassic Island Arc, Keku Strait, Southeast Alaska
Cain Diehl, M.S., 2004, Hydrogeological Characteristics and Groundwater/River Exchange in a Gravel-Dominated Floodplain, Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Northwestern Montana.
Toby Hewitt, M.S. 2004, Characterization of Impacts to Water Resources of Upper Miller Creek
from Septic System Effluent, Missoula County, Montana
Jeremy Stalker, M.S., 2004, Seismic And Gravity Investigation Of Sediment Depth, Bedrock Topography, And Faulting In The Tertiary Drummond-Hall Basin, Western Montana. (GSA abstract)
Layaka Mann, M.S., 2004, An Examination of the Contact Metamorphic Aureole of the Garnet Stock, Garnet-Coloma Area, Montana
Matt Affolter, M.S., 2004, On The Nature Of Volcanic Lithic Fragments: Definition, Source, And Evolution.
Danielle Hughes, M.S., 2004, Spatial Distribution And Temporal Variation of Trace Metals In Sediments Of A Mine Impacted River Basin: Clear Creek California
John Mocko, M.S., 2004 Spatial and Temporal Variation of Mercury and Other Heavy Metals in a Stream Contaminated by Historic Mining: Silver Bow Creek, Silver Bow County, Montana
Noel Philip, M.S., 2004, Ground Penetrating Radar And Seismic Refraction As Tools To Characterize Shallow Subsurface Conditions On Tongass National Forest, Alaska (GSA abstract)
Toby Hewitt, M.S., 2004, Characterization of Impacts to Water Resources of Upper Miller Creek from Septic System Effluent, Missoula County, Montana
John Mocko, M.S., 2004, Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Mercury and Other Heavy Metals in a Stream Contaminated by Historic Mining, Silver Bow Creek, Silver Bow County, Montana
Emily Godfrey, M.S., 2004, Screening Level Study of Pharmaceuticals in Septic Tanks, Ground Water and Surface Water in Missoula, Montana
John Metesh, Ph.D., 2003, Geochemical Evolution of Flooding Mine Waters in a Zoned, Sulfide-Hosted Ore Deposit, Summit Valley Mining District, Butte, Montana.
Erik Burtis, M.S., 2003, Neoproterozoic Sills and Dikes in Northwestern Montana: Implications for Magmatic Activity Associated with Early Windermere Rifting.
Rebecca Kunz, M.S., 2003, The Alkalic Intrusions of Garrison, Montana: A Possible Extension of the Central Montana Alkalic Province.
Chris Hawkins, M.S., 2003, Imaging the Shallow Subsurface Using Ground Penetrating Radar at the Nyack Floodplain, Western Montana.
Adam Johnson, M.S., 2003, Preliminary Hydrogeological and Geophysical Investigation of Preferential Flow Zones in a Gravel-Dominated Floodplain, Northwest Montana.

2000-2002

Kevin Loustaunau, M.S., 2002, Transport And Fate Of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (Mtbe) In A Flood Plain Aquifer And A Stream Interface, Ronan, Montana.
Jesse Mitchell, M.S., 2002, Evolution of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, During Upper Cretaceous Through Paleocene Retreat Of The Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway And Initiation Of Laramide Uplifts.
Matt Vitale, M.S., 2002, Factors Controlling The Formation Of Mineral Precipitates Lining The Channel In Rabbit Creek, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Ben Swanson, M.S., 2002, Bank erosion and Metal Loading in a Contaminated Floodplain System, Upper Clark Fork River Valley, Montana.
Jan Shifflett, M.S., 2002, The Effect of Discharge Variation on Suspended Sediment and Particulate Contaminant Transport Through Milltown Reservoir, Montana
Natalie Morrow, M.S., 2002, Characterization Of The Lithostratigraphic Factors Controlling Petroleum Hydrocarbon Migration In A Portion Of The Missoula Valley Aquifer, Missoula, Montana
Andrew Urie, M.S., 2002, Sequence Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, And Paleogeography Of Triassic Marginal Marine And Continental Deposits Of The Wind River Basin, West-Central Wyoming
Melanie Kay, M.S., 2002, An Analysis Of Metals Profiles In Sediment Cores From Flathead Lake, Montana: Evidence Of Anthropogenic Pollution Or Just Wishful Thinking?
Brian Boer, M.S., 2002, Septic-Derived Nutrient Loading To The Groundwater And Surface Water In Lolo, Montana
John Corkery, M.S., 2002, Petrography, Mineralogy, And Geochemistry Of The Picket Pin Pge Deposit, Stillwater Complex, Montana
Molly Johnson, M.S., 2002, The Fate of Sewage Effluent Nutrients Applied to Coarse-Grained Soils by Sprinkler Irrigation
Jeff Brooks, M.S., 2002, Bedrock Geologic Maps of the Griffin Creek and Bailey Mountain 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, Powell County, Montana
David Nyquest, M.S., 2001, A Bedrock Model Of The Hellgate Canyon And Bandmann Flats Area, Montana Through Constrained Inversion Of Gravity Data
Sonia Nagorski, Ph.D., 2001, Spatial And Temporal Variation In The Geochemistry Of Several Western Montana Streams And Rivers
Matt Reeves, M.S., 2001, Hydrologic Controls On The Survival Of Water Howellia (Howellia Aquatilis) And Implications Of Land Management, Swan Valley, Montana
Karl Pracht, M.S., 2001, Flow And Aquifer Parameter Evaluation Using Ground-Water Age-Dating, Geochemical Tools And Numerical Modeling; Missoula Aquifer, Western Montana
Noah Hughes, M.S., 2001, Tectonic Significance Of Early Cambrian (And Older?) Eagle Bay Assemblage, Vavenby Area, South-Central British Columbia
Temple McKinnon, M.S., 2001, Sources And Seasonal Variability Of Metal And Arsenic Concentrations In the Surface Water Of The Clark Fork River Basin, Montana
Stephen Moss, M.S., 2001, Magma Mingling As A Trigger To Explosive Silicic Volcanism? A Test Of Models Involving The Interaction Of Mafic And Felsic Magmas In The Eastern Bearpaw Mountains, Montana
Heather Perry, M.S., 2001, Sources And Pathways Of Bacterial Contamination Of Groundwater Resources Within A Rural Montana Subdivision
Adam Perine, M.S., 2001, Examination Of Septic Effluent Denitrification In Natural and Sawdust-Augmented Soils Of The Missoula Valley, Western Montana
Geoff Gilbert, M.S., 2001, Exploration, Characterization, And Analysis Of An Economically Viable Brick-Clay Deposit In Montana
Tom Michalek, M.S., 2001, Quantifying Impacts To A Floodplain Groundwater System From Large-Scale Sand And Gravel Mining
Diane Friend, M.S. 2000, Flexural Rigidity of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Relationship to Crustal Domains and Deformational Style.
Matt O'Brien, M.S 2000, Stratigraphic analysis of the Albian-Campanian Colorado Group within the Clark Fork Depression near Garrison, Montana.
Brian Priest, M.S. 2000, Structural and Paleomagnetic Study of Thrust Rotation of a Late Cretaceous Sill, Gibson Reservoir, Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana
Carla E. Brock, M.S. 2000, Holocene Sand Compositions from the Columbia River Basin: Compositional Diversity of Sediment from a Mixed-Provenance Region
Tyrrell, Christa-Marie, M.S. 2000, Groundwater-Stream Interaction in a Placer-Mined Watershed: An Investigation of Elk Creek, Montana
Borrell, Joshua K., M.S. 2000, Sedimentary Record of Upper Cretaceous through Tertiary Tectonism, Northeastern Crazy Mountains Basin, Central Montana
Anna Breuninger, M.S., 2000, Effects of Floodplain Remediation on Bed Sediment Contamination in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin, Montana
Jeanie Yarnell, M.S., 2000, Paleontology of Two North American Triassic Reef Faunas: Implications for Terrane Paleogeography
Warren Phillips, M.S. 2000, Sulfide Chemistry and Potential Toxicity of Sediments at a Coal-Mine-Pit-Lake in Southeastern Montana.
Jeff Fink, M.S. 2000, Characterization of the One-Dimensional Transport of the Bacteriophage MS2 in a Coarse-Grained Vadose Zone Beneath a Septic Drainfield

1988-1999

Treavor Kendall, M.S., 1999, Early Diagenesis of Thermal Spring Deposits
Mary A. Beck, M.S., 1999 - Sedimentologic and Tectonic Characterization of Mesozoic Strata, Noyon Uul Syncline, Southern Mongolia
Eric M. Roberts, M.S., 1999 - Sedimentology, Taphonomy, and Alluvial Sequence Stratigraphy of the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) near Choteau, Montana
David J. Johnson, Ph.D., 1999 - Sedimentary Structures and Facies in the Helena and Wallace Formations, Middle Proterozoic, Belt Supergroup, Montana
Jeffrey K. Johnson, M.S., 1999 - Contaminant and Hazardous Material Characterization for the Abandoned Paragon Mine Site, Shoshone County, Idaho
Thomas Johannesmeyer, M.S., 1999 - Magma Mixing and Mingling in the Late Cretaceous Ringing Rocks pluton, Jefferson County, Montana, and Implications for the generation of the Boulder Batholith
Rene Foehl, M.S. 1999, Uranium-and Silver-Bearing Veins in the Sunshine Mine, Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho: A Genetic Relationship?
Ruth Lerman, M.S., 1999 - High Temperature Fluids and Calcite Vein Formation in the Montana Disturbed Belt, West-Central Montana.
Betsy Cunningham, M.S., 1999 - Petrogenesis of the Adel Mountains Volcanic Field, Central Montana.
Matthew Gibson, M.S., 1999 - Hydrothermal Water/Groundwater Interaction: A Comparative Study of Electromagnetic Terrain-Conductivity Mapping and Standard Hydrogeochemical Techniques.
Jenni Demonge, M.S. 1999, Streambed Armoring in Iron Spring Creek, Yellowstone National Park Ground Water-Surface Water Interactions.
Jon Carlson, M.S. 1999, Geology and Mineralization of the West Butte Intrusive Complex, Sweet Grass Hills, Northern-Central Montana.
Lauer, Dan, M.S., 1998 - Hydrothermal Copper and Platinum Group Element Mineralization in the Revais Creek Intrusion, Flathead Indian Reservation, West-Central Montana
Goodwin, David, M.S., 1998 - Paleontology, Paleoecology, And Depositional Environments Within The Upper Triassic (Norian) Carbonate Strata of The Antimonio Formation, Northwest Sonora, Mexico
Meckel, Tip, M.S., 1998 - Assessing sedimentary architecture using ground-penetrating radar: Cretaceous Bootlegger Member, Blackleaf Formation, Central Montana
Gould, Randall J., M.S., 1998 - A hydrologic evaluation of lower Ninemile Creek, Montana
Mickey, Jeremy W., M.S., 1998 - The effects of discharge variation on dissolved element concentrations through Milltown Rreservoir, Montana
Schafer, Carl M., M.S., 1998 - High grade metamorphism, melting, and migmatization in the Bitterroot Range, Montana-Idaho
Stewart, Anne M., M.S., 1998 - Groundwater quantity and quality of the Eight Mile, Ravalli County, Montana
Waddell, Amy M., M.S., 1998 - Cordilleran partitioning and foreland basin evolution as recorded by the sedimentation and stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Carten Creek and Golden Spike Formations, central-western Montana
Wilson, Cindy L., M.S., 1998 - Hydrogen peroxide diel cycling in surface geothermal waters: possible formation through metal redox cycling
Castro, James M., Ph.D., 1998 - Pit lakes: their geochemistry and the potential for their remediation
Catherine A. Evans, M.S., 1997 - A Constrained Gravity Model of the Central Missoula Valley and Shape of the Ninemile Fault
Kelly Brunt, M.S., 1997 - Paleomagnetic Investigation of the Lower Cretaceous Kootenai Formation, Western Montana
Sonia Nagorski, M.S., 1997 - Impacts by Acidic, Metals-rich Groundwater on The Hyporheric Zone of an Intermontane Stream
Josh Distler, M.S., 1997 - Paleomagnetic and Structural Analyses of the Wallowa Terrane, Northeast Oregon and West-central Idaho: a Re-evaluation of The Salmon River Suture Zone
Jennifer Menges, M.S., 1997 - Investigation of Temporal Changes of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Sediments and Water of the Blackfoot River, Montana
Devin Shay, M.S., 1997 - An Investigation of the Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of a Floodplain Aquifer System Impacted by Mine Tailings, Silver Bow Creek, Montana
Robert Ward, M.S., 1997 - The Distribution and Occurrence of Radon in the Missoula Valley Aquifer
Steen Simonsen, M.S., 1997 - 40ar/39ar Ages of Eocene Dikes and the Age of Extension in a Tertiary Magmatic Arc, Idaho and Montana
Stephen Porder, M.S., 1997 - Metamorphism and Metasomatism in the Lower Prichard Formation: a Petrologic, Geochemical and Thermobarometric Study of The Lowermost Member of the Belt/purcell Supergroup
William Harris, M.S., 1997 - Defining Benefit and Hazard: Distribution of Upper and Lower Tertiary Formations on the Northeast Flank of the Missoula Valley, Montana
Elizabeth Landrigan, M.S., 1997 - The Effect of Bed Sediment Remobilization On Metal Concentrations: a Study of Ice Jams on the Clark Fork River, Montana
Derek Sjostrom, M.S., 1997 - Lower-middle Jurassic Through Lower Cretaceous Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of Western Mongolia
Glenna Drake, M.S., 1997 - Long Term Variability of Trace Metal Concentrations in Fine-grained Sediment of the Upper Clark Fork River, Montana
YiQiang Zhang, Ph.D., 1997 - Fate of Selenium in Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana
Quinn Kiley, M.S., 1997 - Poliovirus, Bacteriophage, and Bromide Transport Through a Coarse-grained Aquifer, Western Montana
Bruce Lauerman, M.S., 1997 - Virus Occurrence and Transport in a Cold-water, Sand and Gravel Aquifer, Frenchtown, Montana
Derek Feeback, M.S., 1997 - Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Chamberlain Formation-newland Formation Boundary, Lower Belt Supergroup (Middle Proterozoic), Central Montana
Lorin Amidon, M.S., 1997 - Paleoclimate Study of Eocene Fossil Woods and Associated Paleosol from the Gallatin Petrified Forest, Sw Gallatin National Forest, Montana
Jonathan King, M.S., 1997 - A Volcaniclastic Sedimentary Facies Analysis of The Two Medicine Formation, Wolf Creek, Montana
BRICK, CHRISTINE, Temporal Geochemical Processes in Metal Partitioning and Mobilization between Water and Substrate in the Clark Fork River, Montana. Ph.D. 1996
WARNER, JON, Cenozoic Geologic History of the Ruby River Basin and Vicinity, Southwestern Montana. M.S. 1996
Cindy McIlveen, M.S., 1996 - an Anomalous Platinum Group Element Occurrence Below the Jm Reef, Stillwater Complex, Montana
SMELTZER, JERDA, Determination of Ammonia Release from Cyanobacterial Mats: Implications for Early Diagenetic Solution Chemistry. M.S. 1996
HELGEN STEVEN O., Natural Background Determination and Impact Quantification in Trace Metal Contaminated River Sediments. M.S. 1995
PARKER, DAVID B., The Geology, Petrology, and Volcanic History of the Crater Mountain Volcanic Complex, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. M.S. 1995
LAMBERT, SEAN T., Fate and Transport of Halogenated Aliphatic Compounds Associated with Septic System Effluent in an Un-confined Alluvial Ground Water System. M.S. 1995
KING, JEFFREY J., The Cumulative Effects of Septic System Disposal on Groundwater Quality in Selected Portions of Missoula County, Montana. M.S. 1995
LUCY, JULIETTE Geochemical Controls and Metals Partioning in the Vadose Zone and Shallow Ground Water Zone of a Highly Contaminated Floodplain Along Silver Bow Creek, Silver Bow County, Montana. M.S. 1996
ERTEL, BONNIE J. Lithofacies of a Fossil Hot Spring System: McGinness Hills, Nevada. M.S. 1995
LI, JINLIANG A Study of the Effects of Organic Matter on Silica Diagenesis Using Geochemical Modeling. M.S. 1995
SMART, ERIC Hydrogeology of the Upper Clark Fork River Floodplain, Warm Springs, Montana River Water/Ground Water in a Contaminated Floodplain. M.S. 1995
POAGE, MICHAEL Hydration, Metamorphism, and Diabase- Granophyre Relations in a Thick Basaltic Sill Emplaced into Wet Sediments, Western Montana. M.S. 1995
McCAMANT, T. The Role of the Groundwater System in Controlling Nutrient Loading of a Pristine Trout Stream, Eastern, Montana. M.S. 1996
BENNER, SHAWN G. Geochemical Processes in a Transition Zone Between Surface Water and Acidic, Metal-Rich Groundwater. M.S.1994
BOGGS, SALLY J. Temporal and Spatial Variability of Metal Concentrations in Fine-Grained Bed Sediments and Benthic Insect Larvae of the Clark Fork River, Montana. M.S. 1994
JEPSON, WAYNE E. Lateral and Vertical Zonation of Clay Minerals and Associated Alteration Products at the Hog Heaven Mine and Ole Hill Deposit, Hog, Heaven Mining District, Flathead County Montana, M.S. 1994
FAROOQUI, MOHAMMAD A. Petrology and Provenance of the Middle Proterozoic Bonner Formation and Its Correlatives, Belt Supergroup, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, Ph.D. 1994
GESTRING, SCOTT L. The Interaction of the Clark Fork River and the Hellgate Valley Aquifer Near Milltown, Montana, M.S. 1994
PHILLIPS, PERRI ANN. Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in Pingo Ponds of the Mission Valley, Montana, M.S. 1994
FORD, JAMES F. Transport and Fate of Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids in an Alluvial and Karst/Fractured Aquifer, Valley and Ridge Province, Mid- Eastern United States, M.S. 1993
GASKIN, CATHERINE, Crustal structure of the Northern Rocky Mountains based on gravity interpretation. M.S. 1994
CRAIG, WILLIAM H. Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions along the Beaverhead River, Near Dillon, Montana, M.S. 1994
RACENET, PAUL D. Geology of the Mineralized Kendall Breccia Bodies, with Emphasis on the Muleshoe Breccia Body, Northern Moccasin Mountains, Fergus County, Montana M.S. 1994
ENGINEER, VIRAF E. Apparent Dispersion of a Contaminant Plume Under Transient Groundwater Flow Conditions. M.S. 1994
SAVKA, MICHAEL W. Processes Affecting the Transport of Arsenic in the Madison and Missouri Rivers, Montana. M.S. 1993
YOUNG, ANDREW A. Sheetflood Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Middle Proterozoic Revett Formation,Scotchman Peak Proposed Wilderness Area, Montana. M.S. 1993
ELLSWORTH, PETER Alteration and Mineralization of the Copper Cliff Prospect, Garnet Range, Montana. M.S. 1993
MADISON, JAMES P. Hydrologic Model of an Intermontane Basin,Helena Valley, Western Montana. M.S. 1993
SMITH, MONTE P. The Geology and Geomorphology of Lobo Mesa: Evidence of Middle Miocene Volcanism and Quaternary Tectonism in the Gravelly Range, Montana. M.S. 1993
KUZEL, LAURA S. The Role of Fe and Mn Oxy-hydroxides in Contaminated Coarse-Grained River Sediment. M.S. 1993
ANDERSON, ROBERT, Hydrogeology of the Swan River Oxbow Preserve Area, Lake County, Montana. M.S. 1992
GARSON, YVES N., Cenozoic Volcanism and Extensional Tectonics of the Timber Hill Map Area, Southwestern Montana: Disruption of a Neogene Paleovalley. M.S. 1992
REICHL, PAVEL J., Petrology and Geochemistry of the Peridotite Zone in the West Fork Area, Stillwater Complex, Montana. PhD 1992
RIDDELL, JANET, Structure, Stratigraphy and Contact Relationshipsin Mesozoic Volcanic and Sedimentary Rocks, east of Pemberton, Southwestern British Columbia. M.S. 1992
SMITH, CLIFFORD, The Hydrogeology of the Central and Northwestern Missoula Valley. M.S. 1992
STRINGER, ARTHUR, Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Former Burlington Northern Fueling Site, Misssoula, MT. M.S. 1992
TURECK-SCHWARTZ, KATHLEEN R., The Association of Alkalic and Subalkalic Rocks in the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana. M.S. 1992
BILLINGS, JAMES G. Lithostratigraphy and Conodont Bio- stratigraphy of the Grove Creek Dolomite Member of the Snowy Range Formation (Cambrian-Ordovician), Big Snowy Mountains, Montana. M.S. 1992
HELM, CORA TERRELL Magmatic Differentiation of Square Butte Laccolith, Central Montana Alkalic Province. M.S. 1992
ORT, KATHLEEN M. Ductile Strain and Thrust Fault Developmentin the Jocko Mountains, West-Central Montana. M.S. 1992
RYAN, PETER E., Structural Variations in Illite and Chlorite in the Belt Supergroup, Western Montana and Northern Idaho. M.S. 1991
STICKNEY, ALICIA, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Baicalia-Conophyton Cycles, Helena Formation, (Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup) Northwest Montana. M.S. 1991
JOLLY, ARTHUR D., Thrust Sheet Rotation Along the Rocky Mountain Front, West-Central Montana. M.S. 1991
MILLER, ROSS D., A Numerical Flow Model of the Missoula Aquifer: Interpretation of Aquifer Properties and River Interaction. M.S. 1991
REYNOLDS, PAT, Structural Geology of the Blackfoot Thrust System in the Cramer Creek Area, Missoula County Montana. M.S. 1991
WYLIE, ALLAN H. Hydrologic Investigation of Durr and McDonald Swamps, Teton County, Montana. M.S. 1991
BORRASTERO, RAUL, Gold Mineralization at the American GirlB-Zone Mine, Caro Muchacho Mountains, Southeastern California. M.S. 1990
BUCKLEY, STEPHEN. Ductile Extension in a Late Cretaceous Fold and Thrust Belt, Granite County, West-Central Montana. M.S. 1990
DOUGHTY, PAUL T. Paleomagnetism of Eocene Dikes from the Bitterroot Metamorphic Core Complex: Clockwise Crustal Rotation During Tertiary Evolution. M.S. 1990
FURNISS, GEORGE. Gas bubble and Expansion Crack Origin of "Molar Tooth" Calcite Structures in Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Western Montana. M.S. 1990
GUNCKEL, KRISTIN. Intrusion Emplacement and Thrust- Faulting, Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana. M.S. 1990
MCCARTY, DOUG. Burial diagenesis in Two Non-Marine Tertiary Basins, Southwestern Montana. M.S. 1990.
MCROBERTS, CHRIS. Systematic Paleontology, Stratigraphic Occurrence, and Paleoecology of Halobid Bivalves from the Martin Bridge Formation (Upper Triassic),Wallowa Terrane, Oregon. M.S. 1990.
NIMICK, DAVID A., Stratigraphy and Chemistry of Metal-Contaminated Floodplain Sediments, Upper Clark Fork River Valley, Montana. M.S. 1990
BAYUK, DANA S. Hydrogeology of the Lower Hayes Creek Drainage Basin, Western Montana. M.S. 1989
GUNDERSON, JAY A. Paleomagnetism of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene Adel Mountain Volcanics, west central Montana. M.S. 1989
STRAYER, LUTHER M. Direction and Shear Sense During Suturing of the Seven Devils/Wallowa Terrane Against North America in Western Idaho: implications of large scale west-directed thrusting along the Western Idaho Suture Zone. M.S. 1989
WELLS, KENNETH. Digital Filtering and Modeling of the Gravity Field of the Bitterroot Valley, western Montana. M.S. 1989.
HANNEMAN, DEBRA. Cenozoic Basin Evolution in a Part of Southwestern Montana. Ph.D 1989
BRAUN, ERIC R. Epithermal and Hot-Spring Gold-Silver Deposits, Republic Mining District,Ferry County, Washington. Ph.D. 1989.
CRONNIN, CHRIS. Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Ravalli Group (Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup) in the Mission, Swan, and Flathead Ranges, Northwest Montana. M.S. 1989
GRIFFIN, JOE, Structural Style in a Left-Lateral Thrust Ramp Zone, Bearmouth, Montana. M.S. 1989
MAKEPEACE, SETH, Simulation of Ground Water Flow in a Coarse-Grained Alluvial Aquifer in the Jocko Valley, Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. M.S. 1989
PAYNE, SCOTT M. Modeling of Hydrogeologic Conditions and GroundWater Quality at an Oil Well Reserve Pit, Richland County, Montana. M.S. 1989
POPE, MICHAEL. Depositional Environments and TectonicSetting of the Lower Cambrian Rosella Formation,Cassiar Mountains, North-Central British Columbia. M.S. 1989
ROGERS, RAYMOND, Taphonomy of Three Monospecific Dinosaur Bone Beds in the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Northwestern Montana: Evidence for Dinosaur Mass Mortality Related to Episodic Drought. M.S. 1989
PERRY, WILLIAM M. Migration and Degradation of Dissolved Gasoline in a Highly Transmissive, Unconfined Gravel and Cobble Aquifer: A Study of the Champion Missoula Sawmill Spill, Missoula, Montana. M.S. 1988
ANGELONI, LINDA M. The role of water in the formation of granulite and amphibolite facies rocks, Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana. M.S. 1988
BROOK, EDWARD J. Particle-size and chemical control of metals in Clark Fork River bed sediment. M.S. 1988
BROOKS, REBEKAH. Distribution and concentration of metals in sediments and water of the Clark Fork River floodplain, Montana. M.S. 1988
KRUGER, JOHN M. Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian structural setting of western Montana and the stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Flathead sandstone in west- central Montana. M.S. 1988
LAZUK, RAYMOND. The relationship between electrical resistivity and hydraulic conductivity in fractured bedrock aquifers in western Montana. M.S. 1988
THOMPSON, WILLIAM R. Hydrogeology of the Jocko Valley, west-central Montana. M.S. 1988
UDALOY, ANNE G. Arsenic mobilization in response to the draining and filling of the reservoir at Milltown, Montana. M.S. 1988
UTHMAN, WILLIAM. Hydrogeology of the Hamilton North and Corvallis quadrangles, Bitterroot Valley, southwestern Montana. M.S. 1988
POTTINGER, MICHAEL H. The source, fate and movement of herbicides in an unconfined sand and gravel aquifer in Missoula, Montana. M.S. 1988
SIXT, KAREN C. Temperature of deformation and minimum amount of transport in the Bitterroot mylonite zone, Bitterroot Range, Montana. M.S. 1988
WOGSLAND, KAREN L. The effect of urban storm water injection of Class V wells on the Missoula aquifer, Missoula, Montana. M.S. 1988
ACKMAN, BRADFORD C. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Middle Proterozoic Snowslip Formation in the Lewis, Whitefish and Flathead Ranges, northwest Montana. M.S. 1988
FOLGER, PETER F. The geology and mineralization at the Omar copper prospect, Baird Mountains quadrangle, Alaska. M.S. 1988

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