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Geological Sciences Theses and Dissertations Index : 1997-2000
The Master's Theses and PhD Dissertations shown in this table were completed at the University of Texas in the field of Geological Sciences. The list covers the years 1997-2000 and includes links to available master's abstracts. For copyright reasons, PhD abstracts are not included here. Dissertation abstracts may be found in Dissertations and Theses: Full Text.
| Last Name | Subject | Year | Type |
| Akbar | Three-Dimensional Prestack Plane-Wave Kirchhoff Depth Migration | 1997 | PhD |
| Akyurek | Characterization of Dolomitized Carbonate Ramp Reservoirs: Seminole San Andres Unit Well 5309, West Texas | 1999 | MS |
| Aljuhani | Data Integration For Reservoir Characterization: A Central Arabian Oil Field | 1999 | PhD |
| Allen | Hydrogeology Edwards and Trinity Group, Kimble County, Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Aranda | Neogene Contractional Growth Structures, Southern Gulf of Mexico | 1999 | MS |
| Ariza | Leonardian Lower Clear Fork Group, Permian Basin | 1998 | MS |
| Babb | Tectonics, Sedimentation Gulf of Paria, Trinidad | 1997 | PhD |
| Balinsky | Pleistocene to Holocene Microvertebrate Fauna, Central Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Barker | Tectonic Evolution of Bransfield Strait, West Antarctica | 1997 | PhD |
| Bartelmann | Soil Moisture, Rattlesnake Hill, Austin, Texas | 1997 | MS |
| Beall | Wolfcampian (lower Permian) platform and basin carbonates: Hueco Mountains and Midland Basin, West Texas | 1999 | MS |
| Bené | Non-Darcy Flow Through Porous Media | 2000 | MS |
| Boghici | Hydrogeological Investigations, Diamond Y Springs, Pecos County, Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Bradley | 3D Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of South Timbalier Block 54, Gulf of Mexico | 2000 | MS |
| Brochu | Crocodylia phylogenetics | 1997 | PhD |
| Buck | Pleistocene/Holocene Sea Level Changes, New Jersey Outer Continental Shelf | 1997 | MA |
| Calderon | Neural Network Modeling in Geophysical Exploration | 1997 | PhD |
| Camerlo | Detachment Folds, Monterrey Salient, Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico | 1998 | MS |
| Carbón | Facies architecture of Miocene fluvial-deltaic reservoirs in central Orinoco Belt (Eastern Venezuela Basin) | 2000 | MS |
| Castellana | Age And Origin, Coronel João Sá Pluton, Bahia, Brazil | 1998 | MS |
| Castillo | Guadalupe Formation, Cusiana Field, Llanos Foothills of Colombia | 2000 | MS |
| Christoffel | Mesoproterozoic tectonothermal development of southwestern Sweden | 1997 | MS |
| Clark | Along-Strike Variation of a Non-Volcanic Rifted Margin: Galicia Bank and the Iberia Abyssal Plain | 1999 | MS |
| Colbert | Patterns of Evolution and Variation in the Tapiroidea (Mammalia: Perissodactyla | 1999 | PhD |
| Coskun | Seismic Stratigraphy, Northern Part of the Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand | 1998 | MS |
| Courme | Forward Seismic Modeling, Abo Formation, Apache Canyon, West Texas, Compared to Subsurface Equivalent, Kingdom Abo Field, Midland Basin | 1999 | MS |
| Cowley | Oligocene to Recent Stratigraphic & Tectonic History, Central Solomon Intra-arc Basin | 1998 | MS |
| Cruz | Albian Carbonate Analogs: Cedar Park Quarry, TX, USA, and Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil | 1997 | PhD |
| Dai | Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Sun Oil and Gas Field, South Texas | 2000 | PhD |
| Darling | Ground Water Flow, Eagle Flat and Red Light Basins, Trans-Pecos Texas | 1997 | PhD |
| Devereax | Surface Soil Moisture Variability Within Remote-Sensing Footprints | 1998 | MS |
| Díaz | Shore-zone Reservoir System In Barúa Field, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela | 1998 | MS |
| Edgerton | Sediment-Buffered Hydrothermal vents : Red Dog ZN-PB-AG Orebody, Alaska | 1997 | PhD |
| Fang | Yegua Formation, Houston Salt Embayment, Texas Gulf Coast | 2000 | PhD |
| Faulkenberry | Sedimentology, Depositional History, Miocene Gila Group in the Mimbres Basin, Grant County, New Mexico | 1999 | MS |
| Fenstemaker | Density-driven free convection across low permeability strata, South Texas example | 2000 | MS |
| Fimlay | Seismic interpretation of shore zone-inner shelf deposits, Corpus Christi Bay | 2000 | MS |
| Fitchen | Lower Permian Sequence Stratigraphy, Western Delaware Basin Margin, Sierra Diablo, West Texas | 1997 | PhD |
| Gordon | Phylloid Algal Bioherms, Sacramento Mountains New Mexico | 1997 | MA |
| Gournay | Phylloid Algal Bioherms and Ooid Grainstones: Comparing Subsurface Data from the Aneth Platform and Outcrop Data, Southeastern Utah | 1999 | PhD |
| Graham | Continental River Routing for Fully Coupled Climate System Models | 2000 | PhD |
| Grimes | The Grenville Orogeny in West Texas: Structure, Kinematics, Metamorphism and Depositional Environment of the Carrizo Mountain Group | 1999 | PhD |
| Guzman | Miocene Stratigraphy and Depositional Framework of Northeastern Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela: Implications for Reservoir Heterogeneity Prediction in Tectonically-Active Settings | 1999 | PhD |
| Halihan | Permeability Structure in Fractured Aquifers | 2000 | PhD |
| Hamlin | Syn-Orogenic Permian deposition, Ozona Sandstone, Val Verde Basin, SW Texas | 1999 | PhD |
| Harrison | Hydrothermal Alteration and Fluid Evolution of the Grasberg Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Irian Jaya, Indonesia | 1999 | MS |
| Henning | 3-D Seismic Imaging | 1997 | MA |
| Hernandez | Oligocene Frio Depisode, Burgos Basin, Northeastern Mexico. | 2000 | MS |
| Hicks | Cox Sandstone, Finlay Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Hirsch | Quantitative Studies of Porphyroblastic Textures | 2000 | PhD |
| Hoffman | Milankovitch Orbital Forcing, Glen Rose and Fort Terrett Formations | 2000 | PhD |
| Hoh | Deformational History, Valley Spring Domain, Northeastern Llano Uplift, Devil's Waterhole, Inks Lake State Park, Burnet County, Texas | 2000 | MS |
| Hudgeons | Petrology and Geochemistry, Marquez Shale Septarian Concretions, Bastrop County, Texas | 1999 | MS |
| Hunt | Mesoproterozoic Structural Evolution and Lithologic Investigation, Western Llano Uplift, Central Texas | 2000 | MS |
| Hutchings | Sequence Stratigraphy, Permian Delaware Mountain Group, Delaware Basin: Application of Stacking Pattern Analysis | 2000 | MS |
| Jaimes | Multicomponent Seismilogy: Basic Concepts and Applications | 2000 | MA |
| Jiménez | Structural styles of the Andean foothills, Putumayo Basin, Colombia | 1997 | MS |
| John | Stratigraphic correlation, Entrada Formation, Northeast Arizona with emphasis on Todilto Formation deposition | 2000 | MS |
| Johnson | The Role of the Ocean in the Planetary Angular Momentum Budget | 1998 | PhD |
| Kempter | Rincón de la Vieja Volcanic Complex, NW Costa Rica | 1997 | PhD |
| Khorzad | Land Subsidence along the Texas Gulf Coast Due to Oil and Gas Withdrawal | 2000 | MS |
| Kilic | Neural Network Technology in Reservoir Characterization Studies | 1998 | MS |
| Kim | Natural Gas Ultimate Recovery Growth Modeling By Plays In The Gulf Coast Basin | 1998 | PhD |
| Knox | Blair and Rock Springs formations, Southwest Wyoming | 1997 | MA |
| Könnecke | Southern Kerguelen Plateau, Indian Ocean | 1997 | MS |
| Kong | Continental Margin Deformation Analysis and Reconstruction-Evolution Of The East China Sea Basin And Adjacent Plate Interaction | 1998 | PhD |
| Lambert | Subsurface meso-scale structural geology of the Kucing Liar and Amole drifts and petrology of the heavy sulfide zone, South Grasberg igneous complex, Irian Jaya | 2000 | MS |
| Landrum | Hydrogeologic Properties of Fracture Skins and their Effects on Radionuclide Transport | 2000 | MS |
| Leon | Misoa Formation, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela | 1997 | MA |
| Li, N. | Jinding Zn-pb Deposit, Southwest China | 1998 | PhD |
| Lindsay | Controlled Fracture Study of Geologic Materials | 2000 | MS |
| Liu | Late Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional History, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico | 2000 | PhD |
| Lobo | Fractured Reservoirs: Concepts and Case Studies | 2000 | MA |
| Luck | Structural Geology of the Grasberg Lime Quarry and Amole Drift : Implications for Emplacement of the Grasberg Igneous Complex, Irian Jaya, Indonesia | 1999 | MS |
| Luhurbudi | Atlantic Continental Margin, Seismic Processing | 1997 | MA |
| Lundquist | Foraminiferal Biostratigraphic and Paleoceanographic Analysis of the Eagle Ford, Austin, and Lower Taylor Groups, Central Texas | 2000 | PhD |
| Lundy | Seismic Coupling, New Hebrides Trench | 1998 | MS |
| Mace | Ground-water Flow, Solute Transport in Fractured Chalk, North-central Texas | 1998 | PhD |
| McKenna | Fluid and Heat Flow, Rio Grande Embayment, Gulf of Mexico Basin | 1997 | PhD |
| Macrini | High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) of the Skull of an Extant Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and a Comparison of its Ontogeny to Synapsid Phylogeny | 2000 | MS |
| Mahler | Mobile Sediments in a Karst Aquifer | 1997 | PhD |
| Mann | Numerical Modeling, Deformation around Allochthonous Salt Tongues, Gulf Of Mexico | 1998 | MS |
| Martineau | Hydrogeochemistry, Pine River Methane Seeps Durango, Colorado | 1997 | MS |
| Massell | Macquarie Ridge Complex, Pacific-Australia Plate Boundary | 1997 | MA |
| Matzel | Alaska, Mantle Composition, D'' Layer | 1997 | MA |
| Merck | Phylogenetic Analysis of the Euryapsid Reptiles | 1997 | PhD |
| Miller | Squamates, Campanian Terlingua Local Fauna, Big Bend Area, Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Mohr | Investigation of Land/Atmosphere Interactions: Soil Moisture, Heat Fluxes, and Atmospheric Convection | 2000 | PhD |
| Molineux | Pennsylvanian Shales, North-Central Texas | 1997 | PhD |
| Moros | Relationship between fracture aperture and length in sedimentary rocks | 1999 | MS |
| Musgrove | Temporal Links Between Climate and Hydrology: Insights From Central Texas Cave Deposits and Groundwater | 2000 | PhD |
| Muszala | Magnetics, Puerto Rico Trench, and Aeromagnetics, Alaska North Slope | 1998 | MS |
| Nieto | Facies Architecture, Production Optimization, Unit K1, Apiay Field, Llanos Basin, Colombia | 1997 | MA |
| Nuth | The Analysis of Radar Altimeter Waveform Reflections Over Continental Ice Sheets | 1999 | PhD |
| Nyffenegger | Aftershock Occurrence Rate Decay | 1998 | PhD |
| Oribio | Miocene Reservoir Architecture, Bachaquero Field, Maracaibo Basin | 1997 | MA |
| Ortega | Microfractures, Mesaverde Sandstones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico | 1997 | MS |
| Owen | Phylogenetic Relationships Among American Badgers (Taxidiinae) | 2000 | PhD |
| Park | Depositional Facies Analysis from Seismic Attributes in the Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand | 1999 | MS |
| Parra Redondo | Managing Risk with Derivatives in the Oil and Gas Business | 1998 | MA |
| Penniston-Dorland | Veins and Alteration Envelopes, Grasberg Igneous Complex, Irian Jaya, Indonesia | 1997 | MS |
| Piontek | Origin of the 1.3 Ga Hästefjorden and Ursand intrusions, SW Sweden: Nd evidence for crust-mantle interaction in the genesis of A-type suites | 1999 | MS |
| Phinney | Sequence stratigraphy, structure and tectonics, Solomon Islands vicinity | 1997 | MA |
| Pursell | Seawater Chemistry And Diagenesis Derived From 87sr/86sr Variations, Latemar Carbonate Platform, Dolomites, Italy | 1997 | MS |
| Reed | Emplacement and Deformation of Late Syn-Orogenic, Grenville-Age Granites in the Llano Uplift, Central Uplift | 1999 | PhD |
| Rico | Geometric and Kinematic Evolution of a Complete Detachment Fold in a Natural Cross-section | 1999 | MS |
| Riter | Geochemical and Tectonic Evolution of the Colorado Plateau Mantle Lithosphere: Evidence from Grand Canyon Mantle Xenoliths | 1999 | PhD |
| Rodell | Estimating Changes in Terrestrial Water Storage | 2000 | PhD |
| Rodríguez | Tectonic Analysis, Stratigraphy And Depositional History Of The Miocene Sedimentary Section, Central Eastern Venezuela Basin | 1999 | PhD |
| Rogers | Nutrient-Driven Colonization and Weathering of Silicates | 2000 | PhD |
| Romanak | Vadose-zone Geochemistry, Playa Wetlands, High Plains Texas | 1997 | PhD |
| Roth | Nagssugtoqidian Orogen of West Greenland | 2000 | MS |
| Royer | Ice-dominated Deltas, Sydney Basin, Australia | 1998 | MS |
| Sagebiel | Late Pleistocene Fauna, Zesch Cave, Mason County, Texas | 1998 | MS |
| Sapiie | Faults, Breccia, and Porphyry Cu-Au Mineralization Irian Jaya, Indonesia | 1998 | PhD |
| Schlottmann | A Path Integral Formulation of Elastic Wave Propagation | 2000 | PhD |
| Schuster | Hydrogeology Toyah Basin Aquifer | 1997 | MS |
| Schuur | Macquarie Ridge Complex, Antarctic/New Zealand Region Sediment Transport | 1997 | MA |
| Sen | Seismic Survey, Antarctica, Seismic Migration And Target Oriented Velocity Analysis | 1998 | PhD |
| Shepherd | Depositional History and Reservoir Characterization, Northeast Hardesty Field, Texas County, Oklahoma | 2000 | MS |
| Sipahioglu | Upper Miocene Facies Architecture, Depositional History, South Marsh Island Area, Gulf of Mexico | 2000 | MS |
| Smith, V.P. | Hypogene Veining, Tyrone Porphyry Copper Deposit, Grant County, New Mexico | 1998 | MS |
| Souza | Integrated Diagenetic Modeling and Reservoir Quality Assessment of the Água Grande Sandstones, Recôncavo Basin, Northeast Brazil | 1999 | PhD |
| Stachowiak | The Nature and Causes of Backstop Deformation in the Northern Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone | 2000 | MS |
| Steinke | Structure, Kinematics of Northern Plomosa Mountains, Arizona | 1998 | MA |
| Swezey | Climatic And Tectonic Controls, Chott Rharsa Basin, Southern Tunisia | 1997 | PhD |
| Tanis | Prestack Split-Step Fourier Depth Migration Algorithms and Parallel Implementations On Cray T3e | 1998 | PhD |
| Tsoflias | Hydrogeologic Characterization of Fractured Carbonate Aquifers Employing Ground-Penetrating Radar | 1999 | PhD |
| Turich | Paleoecology and Diagenesis, Lower Capitan Reef, Slaughter Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico | 2000 | MS |
| Tykoski | Osteology of Syntarsus Kayentakatae and Its Implications For Ceratosaurid Phylogeny | 1998 | PhD |
| Uliana | Regional groundwater flow paths related to regional structural features, Salt and Toyah Basins, Trans-Pecos Texas | 2000 | PhD |
| Upitis | Paleocene & Eocene Sequence Stratigraphy & Lithostratigraphy, Rio Grande Valley, Texas | 1998 | MS |
| Van Gestel | Structure and tectonics of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands platform and multi-configuration ground penetrating radar data | 2000 | PhD |
| Vélez | Geometric analysis of the Reed Wash detachment fold train, west flank of San Rafael Swell, Utah | 2000 | MS |
| Vur | Petroleum Geological Data Management | 1999 | MA |
| Walsh | Mechanics of Graben Evolution in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah | 2000 | MS |
| Weiland | Emplacement of the Irian Ophiolite and Unroofing of the Ruffaer Metamorphic Belt of Irian Jaya, Indonesia | 1999 | PhD |
| Whitefield | Mesoproterozoic Magmatic Arc In The Llano Uplift, Central Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Xia | Background Velocity Estimation, AVO and Full Waveform Inversion, Horizontally Stratified Media | 1997 | PhD |
| Zahm, C. | Regional Groundwater Flow Measurements, Barton Springs Segment, Edwards Aquifer | 1998 | MS |
| Zahm, L. | Depositional Model and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for Upper Albian/lower Cenomanian Carbonate Ramp, Comanche Shelf, Texas | 1997 | MA |
| Zimmerman | Sorption In A Model Fracture System | 1997 | MS |
| Zirczy | Multicomponent Seismic Interpretation of the Second Wind Field, Kiowa and Cheyenne Counties, Colorado | 2000 | MS |
| Zumbro | A Structural, Petrologic, and Geochemical Investigation, Valley Spring Gneiss, Southeastern Llano Uplift, Central Texas | 1999 | MS |
