Schlieren banding in Cretaceous granodiorite, northern Sierra Nevada. Matt Kulow for scale. See Kulow (1996). |
Neoproterozoic diabase dikes, South Africa Dikes are part of a major dike swarm emplaced during rifting along the western margin of the Kalahari craton. See Bartholomew (2008). |
In Progress McCleery, D.A., Geochemistry of the Carlton Rhyolite (Cambrian) in the Wichita Mountains, southwest Oklahoma: Texas Christian University.
2008 Bartholomew, L.T., Paleomagnetism of Neoproterozoic intraplate igneous rocks in the southwest Kalahari craton, Namibia and South Africa: Texas Christian University, 174 p.
2006 Befus, K.S., Late Cretaceous and Eocene phreatomagmatic volcanism and magma-sediment interaction in the Big Bend area of West Texas (M.S. thesis), Texas Christian University, 154 p.
2004 Seidel, E.K., Paleomagnetic and geochronological study of parts of the 1.1 Ga Umkondo igneous province in South Africa (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 178 p.
2003 Berkebile, M.S., Geologic and paleomagnetic studies of a Pliocene volcanic debris-avalanche deposit in the northern Sierra Nevada, California (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 101 p.
2002 Philips, C.M., Paleovolcanology of the A-type Carlton Rhyolite, Blue Creek Canyon area, Wichita Mountains, southern Oklahoma (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 86 p.
2001 Pancake, J.A., Geochronological and paleomagnetic studies of Mesoproterozoic mafic igneous rocks in Botswana (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 163 p.
1999 Hargrove, U.S., Geochronology, structure, and metamorphism of part of the Pan-African Zambezi orogenic belt, Mt. Darwin area, northeast Zimbabwe (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 146 p.
1999 Mariga, J., Structural and geochronological evolution of deep-crustal granulites, supracrustal rocks, and deformed plutons in the Zambezi orogenic belt, Rusambo Mission area, northeastern Zimbabwe (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 110 p.
1999 Singletary, S.J., Geochronology and regional tectonic significance of isolated Proterozoic basement outcrops and drill cores in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 99 p.
1999 Whittington, A.L., Remote-sensing study of structural relations between the Pan-African Zambezi and Mozambique orogenic belts in northeastern Zimbabwe and adjacent parts of Mozambique (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 100 p.
1996 Kulow, M.J., Geology, petrology, age, and intrusive relations of Cretaceous plutons in the Donner Lake - Cisco Grove area, northern Sierra Nevada, California (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 122 p.
1996 Mielke, K.L., Paleovolcanology, petrology, stratigraphy, and structure of Jurassic and Cretaceous island-arc rocks in the Webber Peak and Meadow Lake areas, Nevada and Sierra Counties, Northern Sierra terrane, California (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 109 p.
1995 Phillipson, S.E., Petrology, age, and structural relations of the composite Middle Jurassic Haypress Creek pluton, Northern Sierra terrane, California (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 89 p.
1991 Templeton, J.H., Submarine volcanism and volcaniclastic sedimentation in a Jurassic island-arc environment, northern Sierra Nevada, California (M.S. thesis): Texas Christian University, 134 p.
Recent TCU senior theses and undergraduate research projects:
2009 Clayton, W., A newly discovered Eocene(?) basaltic phreatomagmatic vent complex in Big Bend National Park, Trans-Pecos Texas: (senior research project, presented as a poster at the GSA South-Central Section meeting).
2005 Burkholder, B., Paleovolcanology of the Cartlon Rhyolite, Zodletone Mountain, southern Oklahoma: Texas Christian University (senior thesis).
2002 Cross, J., Interflow volcaniclastic deposits in the Cambrian Carlton Rhyolite on Bally Mountain in the Slick Hills of southwestern Oklahoma (B.S. thesis): Texas Christian University. (supervised in collaboration with R.N. Donovan).
1995 Hargrove, U.S., Syndepositional hypabyssal intrusions emplaced into wet sediments in the Middle Jurassic Tuttle Lake Formation near Huntley Mill Lake, northern Sierra Nevada, California (B.S. thesis): Texas Christian University.
1994 DeGroat, P.J., Cambrian basic intrusive rocks in the Blue Creek Canyon area, Wichita Mountains, southwestern Oklahoma (B.S. thesis): Texas Christian University. (supervised in collaboration with R.N. Donovan).
1994 Kulow, M.J., The Big Bend shear zone: Early Cretaceous ductile deformation associated with pluton emplacement in the Northern Sierra terrane, California (B.S. thesis): Texas Christian University.
1991 Bigger, S.E., Devitrification of the Carlton Rhyolite in the Blue Creek Canyon area, Wichita Mountains, southern Oklahoma (B.S. thesis): Texas Christian University.