Theses & Dissertations: 1999 - 1990
The following is a record of graduates of the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, organized by year, name, degree and major.
| NAME | DEGREE | GRADUATION | ADVISOR |
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1999 |
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| William J. Beck | MS Geophysics | Fall 1999 | Casey |
| Extensional Styles of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge | |||
| Christianne M. Gell | MS Geology | Fall 1999 | Capuano |
| Evaluating Fluid Flow Around the Danbury Salt Dome, Brazoria Cty Texas An Elemental & Stable Isotope Study | |||
| Roxana L. Herrera | MS Geology | Summer 1999 | Dupre |
| Morophology and Stratigraphy of a Coarse-Grained Point Bar On the West Fork San Jacinto River | |||
| Johnny William Kennedy | MS Geology | Summer 1999 | Dupre |
| Stratigraphic Evidence For the Occurrence of Flooding On the Brazos River | |||
1998 |
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| Eric A. Dussaud | BS Geology | Fall 1998 | Reid |
| Composition of Clinopyroxene & Orthopyroxene in Ll Chondrites & Implications For Their Parent Body Metamorphism | |||
| Marco Antonio Guimaraes | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1998 | Zhou |
| Physical Model Study of Seismic Acquistion and Processing of Vertical Cable Data | |||
| Kyou H. Kim | PhD Geology | Summer 1998 | Chafetz |
| Integrated Analyses and Interpretations of the Early Diagenetic Records Imprinted On the Uplifted Pleistocene Coral Reef | |||
| Patricia Persaud | BS Geophysics | Summer 1998 | Hall |
| Interpretation of Gravity and Seismic Data from the Chicxulub Impact Structure in Yucatan | |||
| Mark Cameron Quakenbush | MS Geophysics | Summer 1998 | Zhou |
| Pre-Nmo Statics Estimation | |||
| Kathleen Schwehr | MS Geology | Summer 1998 | Lawrence |
| Oxygen Isotopic Variations of Soda Straw Cave Deposits from the Yucatan Peninsula | |||
| Dejan Sekulic | MS Geology | Summer 1998 | Sheriff |
| Role of Critical Angle | |||
| Oonh Koo Youn | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1998 | Zhou |
| Avo Modeling and Depth Imaging with Multiples | |||
1997 |
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| Fay M. Bourgeois | MS | Summer 1997 | Capuano |
| Elemental and Stable Isotope Study to Determine the Source of Salt-Water Contamination in the Chicot Aquifer | |||
| Peter A. Claypool | MS Geology | Summer 1997 | Copeland |
| Magnetostratigraphy and Petrolo | |||
| Russell Scott Jaynes | MS Geology | Summer 1997 | Chafetz |
| Petrologic Analysis of Caliche | |||
| Matthew Reed Martin | MS Geology | Fall 1997 | Sheriff |
| Sequence Stratigraphy of a Rift Lak | |||
| Rita Sue Smith | MS | Fall 1997 | Butler |
| Numerical Bias in Correlation: Carbonate Model Data, Stratigraphic Thickness Data and Geochemical Data | |||
| Orhan Yilmaz | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1997 | Taner |
| Semi-Elastic Plane Wave Depth Migra | |||
| Julin Zhang | MS Geology | Fall 1997 | Chafetz |
| Isotopic and Trace Elemental Analy | |||
1996 |
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| Turki Al-Ghamdi | MS Geophysics | Summer 1996 | Mcdonald |
| Spatial Sampling Characteristics of Wide-Tow Marine Acquisition | |||
| Othman Al-Mousa | MS Geophysics | Fall 1996 | Mcdonald |
| A Study of the Fresnel Zones of Converted Seismic Waves (P-Sv) Ussing Physical Models | |||
| Sean A. Guidry | MS Geology | Fall 1996 | Chafetz |
| Diagenesis Beneath Paleosurfaces of Exposure: Three Examples from the Paleozoic | |||
| Xiuyuan Li | MS Geophysics | Fall 1996 | Hall |
| A Study On Various Factors Influencing Subsalt Seismic Imaging Through Physical Modeling | |||
| Zhijiang Luo | MS Geophysics | Fall 1996 | Zhou |
| A Study of Hypocentral Determination At Teleseismic Distances | |||
| Steven D. Mills | MS Geology | Fall 1996 | Capuano |
| Ground-Water Recharge Through Clay Rich Sediments | |||
| Yoseph G. Partono | MS Geophysics | Fall 1996 | Sheriff |
| A Study of Overpressuring in the Attaka Field, East Kalimantan, Indomesia | |||
| Ted Ray Pogue | MS Geology | Fall 1996 | Woronow |
| Sea-Surface Temperature Record of the Last 7000 Years | |||
| Rosemarie Ramkhelawan | MS Geophysics | Fall 1996 | Sheriff |
| The Use of Geophysical Methods to Delineate and Describe the Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Mora Field | |||
| Jayanta Ray | MS | Summer 1996 | Capuano |
| Comparative Study of the Deuterium Signatures of Geopressured and Nongeopressured Clays from Brazoria Cty, Texas | |||
| William Scott Snyder | MS Geology | Summer 1996 | Dupre |
| Erosion and Deposition Along the Lower San Jacinto River from the October, 1994 Flood, Houston Texas | |||
| John R. Terwilliger | MS Geophysics | Summer 1996 | Sheriff |
| Seismic Amplitude Variation with Offset and the Bright Spot in the Updip Yegua Trend, Lavaca County, Texas | |||
1995 |
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| Nursyafrin Arbi | MS Geophysics | Summer 1995 | Mcdonald |
| A Comparison of 3D Seismic Time Imaging Results from Physical Model Strike & Dip Acquisitions | |||
| Kimberly Sowden Blizzard | BS Geology | Summer 1995 | Copeland |
| Provenance Evolution Indicated By Chemical Variations in the Siwalik Group (Tertiary), Nepal | |||
| Paul Buchanan | PhD Geology | Summer 1995 | Reid |
| Petrology of Five Howardites & Polymict Eucrites:Bholghati, Petersburg | |||
| Genmeng Chen | PhD Geophysics | Summer 1995 | Zhou |
| Seismic Modeling & Imaging of Heterogeneous Media | |||
| Qin Guo | MS Geophysics | Fall 1995 | Mcdonald |
| Subsalt Imaging a Study of the Effects of Rugosity of the Salt Interface Using Physical Models | |||
| Alan William Hinks | MS Geology | Fall 1995 | Capuano |
| Spartial and Temporal Variations in the Hydrogeology & Hydrochemistry of a Section of the Beaumont Clay | |||
| Alicia Angelica Imerito-Tetzlaff | MS Geology | Summer 1995 | Chafetz |
| Diagenesis in Quaternary Carbonates Offshore Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia | |||
| Phillip A. Norlund | MS Geology | Fall 1995 | Copeland |
| Magnetistratigraphy & 40ar/39ar Analysis of the Siwalik Group, Dhansar Khola Southern Nepal | |||
| Sharma Tadepalli | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1995 | Mcdonald |
| 3-D Avo Analysis-Physical Modeling Study | |||
| Ze-Yuan Zou | MS Geology | Fall 1995 | Capuano |
| Infiltration of Dye Tracers & Nutrients into the Vadose Zone of the Upper Pleistocene Beaumont Formation | |||
1994 |
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| Alta Shamblin Cate | PhD Geology | Fall 1994 | Evans |
| Taphonomy & Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Mollusc Shells from Texas Coastal Bays | |||
| John J. Degenhardt | MS Geology | Fall 1994 | Reid |
| Breccia Veins, Dykes & Melt Rocks from Roter Kamm Crater, Namibia | |||
| Michael S. Edmunds | MS Geology | Summer 1994 | Woronow |
| Characterization of Ejecta Facies Surrounding Large Venusian Impact Craters | |||
| Stephen T. Ha | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1994 | Zhou |
| Benefiting from Directional Phase-Encoded Wavefield: Experimental & Theoretical Implementation of Nieideel-Dolphin Concept | |||
| Rezie Z. Jan | MS Geology | Spring 1994 | Capuano |
| Hydrodynamic Controls of Contaminant Transport in Shallow Porous Media Beaumont Clay | |||
| Thomas Morris Kirkpatrick | MS Geophysics | Fall 1994 | Sheriff |
| Morphology & Stratigraphy of Middle to Late Pleistocene Shelf Submarine Canyons | |||
| Tamara Lester | MS Geophysics | Fall 1994 | Hall |
| A Model For the Tectonic Evolution of the Galapagos Rise | |||
| Michael Scari Milliken | MS Geology | Spring 1994 | Casey |
| Correlation & Depositional Environment Using Major Elements & Trace Elements Cores Db-01&Db-02, Northwest Shelf | |||
| Nancy Kathleen Roldan | MS Geo-Geoph | Summer 1994 | Mcdonald |
| Physical Model Study of the Effect of Transverse Isotrophy On Dip Moveout Processing | |||
| Daniel Kent Ross | PhD Geology | Summer 1994 | Butler |
| Geochemistry of Cumulate Rocks from the Stillwater Layered Intrusion & the Mid-Atlantic Ridge | |||
| Rhonda Lynne Schenk | MS Geo/Geoph | Summer 1994 | Hall |
| Integrated Gravity Modeling of Salt Features in the Central Mississippi Salt Basin | |||
| Susan Elaine Smith | PhD Geology | Fall 1994 | Casey |
| Geochemistry and Petrology of Basaltic & Plutonic Rocks from the Hayes Transform Region | |||
1993 |
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| Richard Beaubouef | PhD Geology | Summer 1993 | Casey |
| Three Case Studies in the Application of Paleomagnetic & Rock Magnetic Techniques to Geologic Problems | |||
| Genmeng Chen | MS Geophysics | Spring 1993 | Zhou |
| Two Dimensional Waveform Analysis Using the Boundary Element Method | |||
| Abu Nasser Chowdhury | MS Geophysics | Fall 1993 | Sheriff |
| Sequence Stratigraphy & Structure of Pliocene Sedimentd in Northeast Gulf of Mexico-An Example of Slope Sedimentation | |||
| Radmilo M. Gregovic | MS Geophysics | Fall 1993 | Mcdonald |
| Propagation of Shear Waves & Converted Shear Waves Through An Azimuthally Anisotropic Media | |||
| Ning Guo | MS Geophysics | Fall 1993 | Zhou |
| Improvement On Kinematic Raytracing in Crosswell Traveltime Tomography | |||
| Curtis A. Link | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1993 | Zhou |
| Crosshole Seismic Analysis For Reservoir Characterization and Lithology Indication | |||
| Jennifer Nicole Lytwyn | PhD Geology | Summer 1993 | Casey |
| Geochemistry & Petrogenesis of Forearc Volcanics & Instrusives Possibly Associated with Ridge Subduction | |||
| Stev En Allen Markley | MS Geophysics | Summer 1993 | Mcdonald |
| Residual Deconvolution By Stack Power Maximization | |||
| David Owen Martens | MS Geophysics | Spring 1993 | Sheriff |
| Stratigraphic Study of An Upper Jurassic Norphlet Sand Sea in Pensacola & Destin Dome Areas Offshore Florida | |||
| Everett Rutherford, Jr | PhD Geology | Spring 1993 | Casey |
| Structural & Metamorphic Evolution of Ophiolites & Oceanic Crust Illustrated By Hydrothermal Alteration | |||
| Drago Stankovic | MS Geophysics | Summer 1993 | Mcdonald |
| Crosswell Traveltime Tomography in Complex Media: a Physical Modeling Study | |||
| Jack Wang | MS Geology | Spring 1993 | Casey |
| James Brian Whitfield | MS Geophysics | Fall 1993 | Sheriff |
| The Relation of Net Pay to Amplitude Versus Offset Gradients; a Gulf of Mexico Case Study | |||
1992 |
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| Jamal Mustafa Ass'ad | PhD Geophysics | Spring 1992 | Mcdonald |
| Seismic Model Studies On Scattering of Waves By Cracks of Varying Crack Density & Aspect Ratio: Comparisons Between Experiment & Theory | |||
| Arthur E. Beaird | MS Geology | Fall 1992 | Dupre |
| Late Pleistocene to Recent Sedimentation and Eustat Sea-Level Changes On the Louisiana Outer Continental Shelf | |||
| Chih-Hsiung Chang | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1992 | Mcdonald |
| A Physical Model Study of Elastic Wave Propagation in a Transversely Isotropic Solid with An Application to Predict Fracture | |||
| Clell R. Hooton | MS Geophysics | Fall 1992 | Hall |
| Interpret Ation of Regional Gravity Anomalies Over the North Central Margin of the Gulf of Mexico | |||
| Matthew John Kadillak | MS Geophysics | Spring 1992 | Mcdonald |
| A Study of Fresnel Zone and Diffraction Amplitudes in a Physical Modeling Experiment | |||
| Keith Grant Kilson | MS Geology | Fall 1992 | Lawrence |
| Mixing Patterns in Lake Houston Using Chloride and Oxygen Isotope Ratios As Tracers | |||
| Ilyas Juzer Najmuddin | MS Geophysics | Fall 1992 | Hall |
| Analysis and Interpretation of Total Field Magnetic Anomalies Over the Eastern Deep Gulf of Mexico | |||
| Alicia Angelica Polat | MS Geology | Summer 1992 | Casey |
| Structural & Geochemical Evolution of the Aladag Melange Complex & Greenschist Division | |||
| Gary Charles Robinson | MS Geophysics | Summer 1992 | Sheriff |
| Seismic Stratigraphy, Seismic Facies & Depositional Environment of a Middle Miocene Reservoir | |||
| Richard Drew Slack | MS Geophysics | Fall 1992 | Mcdonald |
| Thin Beds and Shear-Wave Splitting | |||
| Ann Marie Therriault | MS Geology | Summer 1992 | Reid |
| Field Study, Petrology and Chemistry of the Vredefort Granophyre, South Africa | |||
1991 |
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| Dale Bird | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Hall |
| An Integrated Geophuysical Interpretation of the Grenada Basin | |||
| Paul Buchanan | MS Geology | Spring 1991 | King |
| Petrography & Mineral Chemistry of Dark Inclusions from the Meteorite Allende | |||
| Evonda Isom | MS Geophysics | Spring 1991 | Sheriff |
| A New Alorithm to Perform Dip Moveout (Dmo) and Prestack Imaging (Psi) As Invariant Convolutions | |||
| Mark E. Juedeman | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Casey |
| Regional Structure and Simpson Group Stratigraphy, Permian Basin Texas: Implication For Paleozoic Tectonic Development | |||
| Scott William Mackay | PhD Geophysics | Summer 1991 | Mcdonald |
| Application of Depth-Focusing Analysis Toseismic Imaging | |||
| John James Mastroianni | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Norman |
| A Study of Active Fault Movement, Houston Texas and Vicinity | |||
| Jorge Mendoza-Amuchastegui | MS Geophysics | Fall 1991 | Zhou |
| Enhanced Arrived Time Picking in High Frequency Transmission Tomography | |||
| John Henry Ruhl | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Norman |
| Indentification Geometry and Movement History of Active Surface Faults in Fort Bend County, Texas | |||
| Abhijit Sanyal | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Lawrence |
| A Study of the Salinity and Isotopic Distributions in the Trinity-San Jacinto Estuarine System | |||
| David Alan Schoderbek | MS Geology | Fall 1991 | Chafetz |
| Environments of Deposition & Patterns of Cyclicity of the Panther Seep Formation Southern San Andres Mountains | |||
| Sabyasachi Sen | MS Geology | Summer 1991 | Reid |
| Experimental Studies of the Atomic Structure and Physical Properties of Highly Siliceous Impact Generated Melts/Glasses | |||
| Hongwei Wang | MS Geophysics | Fall 1991 | Zhou |
| A Noise Suppression Method As Applied to Multi-Component Or Multi-Race Seismic Data | |||
| Orhan Yilmaz | MS Geophysics | Summer 1991 | Mcdonald |
| Iterative Least Mean Error Squares Method of Plane Wave Decomposition | |||
1990 |
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| Gerard Abrams | MS Geophysics | Fall 1990 | Hall |
| A Paleomagnetic Study of the Early Triassic Shamrock Formation and the Upper Triassic Luning Formation | |||
| George Adcock | MS Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Sheriff |
| Estimating Sonic Traveltimes in Texas Wellbores Using Electrical Resistivity & Gamma Ray Measurements | |||
| Chris Buczynski | PhD Geology | Spring 1990 | Chafetz |
| Douglas Turner Collins | BS Geology | Fall 1990 | King |
| Trace Element Geochemistry of Gabroic Rocks from the Mid-Cayman Rise Spreading Center | |||
| Daniel Andrew Ebrom | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1990 | Mcdonald |
| Acquistion & Interpretation of Mult-Component Seismic Data in Isotropic & Azimuthally Anisotropic Media | |||
| Sean Patrick Fitzmaurice | MS Geology | Fall 1990 | Chafetz |
| Nirmalya Ghosh | PhD Geophysics | Summer 1990 | Hall |
| Magnetic Anomaly Studies of the Colombian Basin Area and Gravity Field Study of the Southeastern Caribbean Plate Boundry | |||
| John Gibson | MS Geology | Spring 1990 | Burke |
| Marquez Dome-An Impact in Leon County, Texas | |||
| Richard Norris Grigsby | MS Geology | Fall 1990 | Norman |
| Structural Development of Low-Amplitude Salt Anticlines Along the Northwest Margin of the East Texas Basin | |||
| Timothy John Grow | MS Geology | Spring 1990 | Woronow |
| A Computer Simulation of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Through Fracture Channels | |||
| Rezie Z. Jan | BS Geology | Spring 1990 | |
| A New Alorithm to Perform Dip Moveout (Dmo) and Prestack Imaging (Psi) As Invariant Convolutions | |||
| David Allan Lieblich | MS Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Mcdonald |
| An Experimental & Theoretical Investigation of Diffraction from a Line Source & It's Application Tos Eismic Data Processing | |||
| Antonello Lilliu-Giglio | MS Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Sheriff |
| Geophysical Interpretation of Maturin Foreland Northeastern Venezuela | |||
| Rosanne M. Lindholm | PhD Geology | Fall 1990 | Casey |
| Regiional Correlation Age Provenance & Tectonic Significance of Sandstone-Mudstone Sequences in the Humber Arm Allochtho | |||
| Karen Love | PhD Geology | Spring 1990 | Woronow |
| Chemical Diagenesis Preceding the Inversion of Biogenic Aragonite a Reappraisal with Implications For Paleoenviromental | |||
| Karen Marks | PhD Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Hall |
| Geophysical Investigation of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance Zone | |||
| Sandra Beaumont Phillips | MS Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Mcdonald |
| Determining the Usefulness of Borehole Seismic Surveys in Delineating a Known Reservoir | |||
| Duane Brendan Pierce | MS Geology | Fall 1990 | Chafetz |
| Petrography and Provenance Od Siliciclastic Sands from a Carbonate Environment Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia | |||
| Nick Bradley Pollard | MS Geology | Fall 1990 | Chafetz |
| Depositional Environments Diagenesis & Regional Paleogeography For the Upper Glen Rose D (Lower Cretaceous) Intervals | |||
| Guy Winsor Purnell | PhD Geophysics | Fall 1990 | Mcdonald |
| Imaging Beneath a High Velocity Ayer Using Converted Waves | |||
| Zucheng Shang | PhD Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Mcdonald |
| The Extraction of Amplitude Versus Incident Angle Information in the Presence of Geologic Structure | |||
| Gregory Alan Stevens | MS Geology | Spring 1990 | Chafetz |
| The Petrolography Diagenesis & Depositional Environment of Carbonate Mud Mounds of the Strawn Formation (Pennsylvanian) | |||
| Karel Vynhal | MS Geophysics | Summer 1990 | Sheriff |
| Dip Movement and Prestack Migration By Forward Modeling On Time Slices | |||
| James Tokuhei Womble | MS Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Sheriff |
| Interactive Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis Using Structurally Flattened Horizons | |||
| Yu Xu | PhD Geophysics | Spring 1990 | Mcdonald |
| Three Dimensional Migration of Zero-Offset Seismic Data from a Medium with Vertically Aligned Fractures | |||