Senior Theses

Below is a list of all W&L Geology and Earth and Environmental Geoscience Theses. Please contact Taylor McCoy at tmccoy2@wlu.edu if you would like to receive an abstract or electronic copy of any thesis.

  • Adams, Cameron: The Lower Chilhowee Group at Balcony Falls, Virginia (1985)
  • Adams, Katharine C.: Late Wisconsin Glacier Surface Elevations and Flow Directions form the Beartooth Plateau to the Clarks Fork Valley, Wyoming (1995)
  • Anderson, John W., Playing the Dam Game: How a Proposed Hydroelectric Dam Could Tigger Central Asia's First Water War: Geopolitics of Central Asia Major (2016)
  • Armstrong, John R.: Depositional Environment of the Rockfish Conglomerate (1977)
  • Atkins, John E.: The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Simsboro Gas Field Lincoln Parish, Louisiana (1986)
  • Bacastow, Amy Lynn: Martian North Polar Crater Morphology: Implications for an Aquifer (2006)
  • Backus, Andrew H.: Depositional Environment of the Rose Hill Formation in West Central Virginia (1983)
  • Badgett, Jeffrey V.: Origin and Geologic History of the Roseland Alkalic Anorthositic Massif as Determined from Textural Analysis (1978)
  • Ball, Stephen M., Using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry for interpreting growth strata in Rocas de Benet, Catalan Coastal Range (honors) (2016)
  • Barnhart, William: Microstructural and Lattice-Preferred Orientation Analyses of Ductile Shear Zones: Maggia Nappe, Switzerland (2008)
  • Beninati, Joseph M., δ13C and δ18O Analyses of Carbonate Concretions and Nodules and the Evidence for a Cretaceous Greenhouse (2016)
  • Benson, William Matthew: Assessment of Live Coral Cover and Carbonate Production Across Time, Depth, and Space in the Caribbean (2012)
  • Bent, James V. Jr.: The Sedimentology of the Snowden Member of the Late Precambrian-Early Cambrian (?) Harpers Formation in Central Virginia (1982)
  • Berry, Sam H.: Oil Production in the East Texas Field (1956)
  • Berry, Sam H.: Geology and Mineral Resources of Colorado (1956)
  • Biemiller, James: Plucking as a Mechanism of Fluvial Erosion on Mars (2015)
  • Biegel, Jenna: Timing and tectonic history of low grade deformation along the Rockfish Valley Deformation Zone in the Central Blue Ridge, VA (2017)
  • Bladen, Andrew, Investigating Post-Glacial Fluvial Geomorphology: Knickpoint Evolution and Canyon Formation in Whetstone Gulf of Tug Hill Plateau, New York (2016)
  • Blanton, Thomas L., III: Geology of the Chilhowee Group near Glasgow, Virginia (1969)
  • Blazek, Judson M.: A Determination of Chemical Oxygen Diffusion Rates in the Systems Anorthite80-Diopside20 and Anorthite100 Via Iron Redox Experiments (1991)
  • Bovay, A. Caroline: Valley in the Andean Eastern Cordillera: A Response to Transient Incision of the Rio Iruya, NW Argentina (2011)
  • Bow, Craig S.: Geochemical Analysis of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Amhert Quadrangle, Virginia (1971)
  • Bowles, John L.: The Economic Geology of the Mineable Coal in Southern West Virginia 1952)
  • Bowles, John L.: The Economic Geology of the Bedded Halite Deposits of the United States 1952)
  • Bowles, Kevin W.: Geology of Cave Mountain Arnold Valley Quadrangle, Virginia (1982)
  • Bowring, Christopher B.: The Stratigraphic Relationship of the Catoctin, Unicol, and Harpers Formations Within a Fault-Bounded Rift Basin in Central Virginia (1987)
  • Bradley, Bryant West: Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploration Tools: Past, Present, and Future Utility as Examined in the Iron Bridge Field, Dickens County, Texas (2011)
  • Brand, Stephen G.: Migration of the Drainage Divide Separating Atlantic and Gulf Drainage in the Blacksburg/Christiansburg Area, Virginia (1982)
  • Braunscheidel, Michael Peter: Automated Cross-section Construction and Forward Modeling of the Northern Terminus of the Sequatchie Valley Antecline (2008)
  • Bua-Iam, Sequoya: Dating lacustrine molluscan subfossil assemblages using AAR techniques to assist in reconstructing the paleo-communities of temperate Wisconsin (2017)
  • Buckthal, John R.: A Review of Agallala Aquifer Experiments in the Southern High Plains of Texas (1976)
  • Bull, Jonathan M.: The Development of an Iron Based Oxygen Barometer (1991)
  • Burpee, Alex: Trophic Dynamics and Sediment Production in Marine Reserves (2008)
  • Busch, James: GeoEye-1 multispectral satellite imagery classification: An accurate method for identifying populations of Acropora spp. corals prior to a field study (honors) (2015)
  • Cannon, Craig J.: The Geology of Brown Mountain, Virginia (1984)
  • Carroll, Brian P.: Dye Tracing Methods: Their Application to Karst Watersheds (1978)
  • Carson, J.W.M.: The Petrochemistry of the Intrusives Near Monterey Virginia (1971)
  • Cedarholm, Jeffrey R.: The Paleoecology of the Upper Martinsburg Formation Catawba Mountain, Virginia (1974)
  • Clark, P.E., Morse, H.R.: Occurrence of Murat Limestone near East Lexington, Virginia (1906)
  • Claroni, Daniel J.: Utilizing UAV Technology to Monitor and Assess a Variety of Natural and Artificial Geohazards (honors) (2017)
  • Clements, Andrew G., Velocity Modeling and Earth Modeling on the Chukchi Platform, Chukchi Shelf, Alaska (2016)
  • Connolly, David L.: Gathright Valley Terraces (1973)
  • Coppersmith, Kevin J.: Geology of a Portion of the Snowden Quadrangle, Virginia (1974)
  • Coppersmith, Ryan T.: 3D Structural Modeling Using Remote Sensing and Ground-Base LIDAR (2006)
  • Cox, Michael J.: Geochemistry and petrography of amphibolites from the Spuhler Peak Metamorphic Suite near the Branham Lakes area, Tobacco Root Mountains, southwestern Montana (1996)
  • Crawford, James J., Jr., Henes, Walter E., Mcthenia, Andrew W., Jr., Ogden, Maynard B., Jr.: Geology of the Irish Creek Area in Rockbridge County, Virginia (1958)
  • Crawford, James J., Jr.: The Origin and Occurrence of Some of the Important Ore Deposits of the Canadian Shield (1958)
  • Creel, Randy: The Structure and Stratigraphy of Arizona (1957)
  • Croy, Marina: Analyzing the relationships between aqueous manganese and environmental and geochemical factors in groundwater in the Shenandoah Valley (2022)
  • Cuilik, Michael: Phase Mixing in Lower Crustal Shear Zones: An Example from the Maggia Nappe Switzerland (2018)
  • Culbertson, Haley: Assessing the Impact of Soil and Groundwater Interactions on Aqueous Manganese Contamination (honors) (2022)
  • Dalton, James B.: Problematic Stromatactis-Stromatolitic "Open Space Structures" of the Upper Cambrian Conococheague Formation (1982)
  • Daniel, Garland H.: The Major Element Geochemistry of the Jurassic Alkalic Intrusives of West Central Virginia (1973)
  • Dannehl, John: Isotopic analysis of sediments as a proxy for environmental quality in temperate lakes of Wisconsin (2017)
  • Davis, Chase C.: A Petrological and Geochemical Study of the Gabbros and Associated Rocks from the Pikes Peak Batholith, Southern Front Range, Colorado (1993)
  • Davis, James H.: Locher Brick Company, Inc. (1956)
  • Davis, James H., Sherman, Charles L., IV: Geologic Map of Small Area NW of Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia (1957)
  • Devine, Paul E.: Analysis of the Dynamic Factors Associated with a Successful Artificial Beach Nourishment Program, Hatteras Island, North Carolina (1975)
  • Dewhurst, Andrew D.: Capturing the 3D Structural Geometry in the Catalonian Coastal Range to Understand Fault-Related Folding (2005)
  • Dodge, Kent H.: Submarine Topography off the Coast of California with Emphasis Placed on the Canyons (1959)
  • Dodge, Kent H.: Vibrations and the Seismograph (1959)
  • Doerhoefer, Basil, III, Wood, R.S.: Structure and Stratigraphy of the Lone Jack Quarry Area Glasgow, Virginia (1956)
  • Doerhoefer, Basil, III, Wood, R.S.: Mineralogical Studies of Sediments from the Susquehanna River of Pennsylvania (1956)
  • Doss, Whitney C.: Serpulids as indicators of mid-late Holocene climate: Timing and paleoclimate significance of large worm tube aggregates, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (2006)
  • Dunlevy, Colleen A.: Sedimentology and Depositional Setting of the Miocene Marnoso-Arenacea Flysch, Marche Region, Italy (1996)
  • Eaton, Gilbert J.: Geochemical Analysis of the Pedlar Formation, Vesuvius Quadrangle, Virginia (1970)
  • Elium, Elizabeth: Field and Flume Exploration of Channel Bedrock Erosion by Plucking (2015)
  • Eppes, Martha C.: Late Quaternary Glacial History of Middle Roaring Creek Valley, Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado (1993)
  • Farquhar, James:  A Recently Discovered Trace Fossil Suite: Implications for Environment and Age of the Middle and Upper Chilhowee Group near Arnold Valley, Virginia (1987)
  • Figgers, Robert L.: Geology of Utah (1953)
  • Figgers, Robert L.: Potential Iron Ore Resources of the Western Hemisphere (1952)
  • Follo, Michael F.: Geology of the Precambrian Igneous-Metamorphic Complex of the Blue Ridge in the Snowden Quadrangle, Virginia (1979)
  • Forkgen, Peter E.: Structural Studies in the Vicinity of Lexington, Virginia (1951)
  • Forkgen, Peter E.: The Geology and Mineral Resources of Venezuela (1951)
  • Foster, William H., Jr.: The Oil and Gas Industry of Oklahoma (1952)
  • Foster, William H., Jr.: Williston Basin Oil and Gas (1952)
  • Frampton, Joseph B.: Quaternary Mass Movement in Allegheny, Rockbridge, and Botetourt Counties, Virginia (1995)
  • Freeman, James, Evidence of Plucking at Balcony Falls on the James River, Virginia (2016)
  • Frierson, Allen N.: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Eastern Colville Basin, North Slope, Alaska (2011)
  • Funkhouser, Karl M.: Mineral Collecting Localities in the State of Virginia (1957)
  • Funkhouser, Karl M.: Economic Geology of the State of Minnesota (1957)
  • Gabrielson, Tyler: Microstructure, Strain, and Quartz Crystallographic Preferred Orientation Fabrics of the Antietam Formation, Central Appalachians, Virginia (2015)
  • Garlington, Julius P.: Economic Mineral Resources of Georgia (1954)
  • Garner, David L.: An Introduction to Heat Flow Modeling (1980)
  • Gentry, Charles: Sequence Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretation of the Hanna Trough in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska (2015)
  • George, Elizabeth Jean: Reconstructing Environmental Changes in the Lower Connecticut River Using Diatoms (2012)
  • Ginn, George W.: The Possibilities of Road Aggregates in the State of Virginia (1950)
  • Gjertsen, Emilyn, Reconstructing the uplift and erosion history of the Eastern Cordillera near Nazareno, Salta Province, Argentina using Zircon U-Th/He dating (2016)
  • Gombos, Andrew M.: Microfacies of the Middle Ordovician New Market Limestone in Rockbridge County, Virginia (1970)
  • Goodrich, Edward A.: The Oil Picture in Western Canada as of January (1950)
  • Goodrich, Edward A.: Oil in Illinois (1950)
  • Gordon, James H., Jr.: Mineral Collecting Localities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee (1952)
  • Gordon, James H., Jr.: Ground Water of Florida (1952)
  • Gottwald, John: A Study of the Composition of the Pebbles of the Tye and Rivanna Rivers of Central Virginia (1977)
  • Gould, Sally: Growth Record of Greater Caribbean Corals: Potential Impacts of the Amazon River Plume (2010)
  • Graham, Taylor: Lead Contamination in the Soils of the Woods Creek Watershed (2002)
  • Greene, William M.: A Study of Igneous Rock in Idaho (1957)
  • Greene, William M.: The Economic Importance of Certain Geological Resources of Alabama Geology 1957)
  • Griffith, Bertram S., Jr.: The Structure and Stratigraphy of New York State (1954)
  • Haight, Ehrich K.: Bauxite Deposits of the Caribbean (1954)
  • Haight, Ehrich K.: Structure and Stratigraphy of Canada and Newfoundland (1954)
  • Haley, J. Christopher: Textural and Lithologic Relationships in a Section of the Blue Ridge Basement Complex, Big Island, Virginia (1979)
  • Hall, W. Douglas: The Juniata-Oswego Problem (1969)
  • Hanlin, T.A.: The Murat Limestone (1908)
  • Hannah, P. Tyler: Kinematic analysis of a gneiss dome and possible big sky orogeny structure, Highland Mountains, Southwest Montana (2006)
  • Harden, Wesley E.: Climactic Factors Affecting Carbonate Weathering at the Soil-Bedrock Interface (2003)
  • Harper, Robert M. Jr.: Corals and Bryozoans of the Transverse Formation (Middle Devonian) from a Core in LaPorte County, Indiana (1972)
  • Head, James W., III: Geology of the Kerr Creek Area Rockbridge, County, Virginia
  • Hempstead, Edward B., Jr.: The Petroleum Industry in Russia and Her Satellites 1958)
  • Hempstead, Edward B., Jr.: Failure of Man-made Structures due to Geological Process (1957)
  • Hinkle, James L.: Secondary Recovery West of the Mississippi River (1952)
  • Hinkle, James L.: The Geology and Resources of New Mexico (1953)
  • Hinton, Carl: Correlation of the Coals of the Kanawha and New River Districts in West Virginia
  • Hodge, E. Beaumont, III: Geology of the Northwestern Limb of the Blue Ridge near Humphreys Gap, VA (1984)
  • Holshouser, John: 3-D Seismic Attribute Analysis of the Yegua Formation, Yougeen Field, Bee County, Texas (2013)
  • Honig, Shlomo: Constraining Structural Complexity in the Sadlerochit Mountains, Northeastern Alaska, from Remote Geologic Mapping and Cross Section Construction (honors) (2018)
  • Hornbuckle, John Spence, III: Seismic Anisotropy Beneath the Bighorn Mountains (2011)
  • Horowitz, Alan: Development of the Nomenclature of Ordovician Stratigraphy in Virginia (1952)
  • Horowitz, Alan: Lithologic Boundaries in the Lower Middle Ordovician Limestones West of Lexington, Virginia with Accompanying Maps (1951)
  • Horowitz, Alan:  Lithologic Variations in the Lower Ordovician Limestones West of Lexington, Virginia (1951)
  • Hoss, Frank A., Jr.: Well Logging with Emphasis on Major Electrical Logs (1958)
  • Howard, James J.: Polymetamorphism in Precambrian Rocks of the Virginia Piedmont (1975)
  • Howard, Scott: A Gravity and Modeling Study of the Roseland Anorthosite, Nelson and Amherst Counties, Virginia (1979)
  • Howe, Harvey S., Jr.: From Shale to Oil (1958)
  • Howe, Harvey S., Jr.: Concrete Engineering (1958)
  • Howell, Katie J.: Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Irish Creek Gneiss and Unakite Pedlar Massif, Virginia (2004)
  • Hughes, Amanda Nicole: Fold Simplification and Fault Estimation for Inverse Modeling of Fault-Bend Folding (2006)
  • Hull, E. Benjamin: A Geophysical Survey of Mole Hill (1980)
  • Humphris, Curtis C., Jr.: Copper Deposits of North and South America, Exclusive of the United States (1950)
  • Humphris, Curtis C., Jr.: A Review of the Geology of the Piedmont Province of Virginia (1950)
  • Hundley, Thomas (Hal): Experimental Rock Deformation of Cambrian-Ordovician Carbonates from the Valley and Ridge of the Appalachians (2014)
  • Hunt, W. Herbert: Reefs (Bioherms) and Their Relationship to Oil (1951)
  • Hunt, W. Herbert: Salt Creek Field, Kent County, Texas (1951)
  • Hunt, W. Herbert: The Oil Possibilities of South America (1950)
  • Hynson, Richard W., Jr.: A Brief Sketch of Virginia Coastal Plain Geology (1950)
  • Hynson, Richard W., Jr.: Iron Ore Resources of the Western Hemisphere Exclusive of the United States (1950)
  • Iosso, Chantal: Impacts of Low-Head Dam Construction and Removal with Little Channel Sediment Storage: Case Study from the Maury River, Virginia (honors) (2020)
  • Jackson, Julie:  An analysis of Acropora cervicornis growth in relation to mid-Holocene climate change, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic (2007)
  • Johnson, Steven C.: Hydrological Study of North Buffalo and Moore's Creek Watershed (1980)
  • Jones, A.O., Jr.: Geophysics (1956)
  • Jones, A.O., Jr.: Geology of Michigan (1956)
  • Jones, W. Steven: A Quantitative Study of Summit Levels in the Valley of Virginia (1969)
  • Kane, John Kent, II: The Structure and Stratigraphy of the Coastal Plain Province of Virginia (1956)
  • Kane, John Kent, II: Economic Geology of Arizona (1956)
  • Kean, J. Randolph: Sulphuric Acid Raw Materials of the United States (1953)
  • Kean, J. Randolph: Phosphate and Potash Deposits of the United States (1952)
  • Kelafant, Jonathan R.: Paleoecological Study of Millboro Formation Macrofossils in West Central Virginia (1983)
  • Kille, Wayne B.: Trace Element Analysis of Soils Using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (1970)
  • Kilby, Richard E.: Strain Analysis of the Antietam Formation, Southern Central Appalachians, Virginia (2003)
  • Kiley, Quinn T.: The Quaternary History of Sunlight Creek Near White Mountain, Park County, Wyoming (1995)
  • Kimball, Jesse B.: Hydrology and Restoration of the Woods Creek Corridor (2002)
  • Kimmel, Stacey E.: Size Discrepancies of Water Gaps in Silurian Rocks of the Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province (2003)
  • Kitch, Gabriella, Terrestrial mercury cycling in Northern Michigan: Honeysuckle Creek watershed and Burt Lake (honors) (2016)
  • Knapp, Elizabeth Pryor: Fracture and Structural Analysis of Archean Rocks, The Northern Extension of the Burntside Lake Fault Zone: The Quetico Provincial Park, Canada (1990)
  • Knudsen, Robert W.: Strategic Factors of Alaska Defense (Geology and Geography) (1951)
  • Kohl, Daniel: Late Palocene-Eocene Syn-Orogenic Fluvial Sedimentation and Detrital Fission Track Thermochronology of Laramide Syn-Orogenic Sediments, Denver Basin, CO (2010)
  • Kong, Kyeong Pil: Hf and Pb isotope data for mafic lava flows from the Three Sisters and Newberry region of the central Oregon Cascades (honors) (2015)
  • Koon, Karl: The Geology and Speleogenesis of Windmill Deep Cave (1978)
  • Kostera, Alexander Z.: Mineralogy and Petrology of Xenoliths in the HueHue Flows of Hualalai volcano, Hawaii (1997)
  • LaForge, Ashley, A.: Fracture Patterns in Clark Fork Valley, Park County, Wyoming (1997)
  • Larkin, Katherine : The Removal of the Jordan's Point Dam: Examining Channel Restructuure ad Risk for Legacy Sediment Mobilization (honors) (2022)
  • Larramendi, Gustavo: Regional Stratigraphic and Geologic Map Compilation in the Southern Central Appalachians for Cross Section Construction (2015)
  • Laucks, Jeremy: Evidence for Multiple Stage Development of Granitic Spires, Castle Rocks, Idaho (2003)
  • Laurent, J. Scott: A Sedimentary Intrusion Rockbridge County, Virginia (1995)
  • Leach, David C.: The Geology, Geography and Occurrence of Manganese, Nickel, Tin, Tungsten, and Chromium (1951)
  • Leach, David C.: The Geology, Geography and Occurrence of Tantalum, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Magnesium, Cobalt, and Titanium (1951)
  • Levy, Robert, B.: Alaska - Our 49th State - Its Geology and Mineral Resources (1959)
  • Lewis, James W.: Structure and Geology of the St. Lawrence Province of the Canadian Precambrian Shield (1956)
  • Lewis, James W.: The Sedimentary Deposits and Processes of the North Atlantic Ocean (1956)
  • Lucier, Amie: Compensation across the Alaska Range (2002)
  • Lurate, R.B.: Mexico's Important Antimony, Mercury, Tin, and Tungsten Deposits (1958)
  • Lurate, R.B.: The Origin and Occurrence of Manganese Deposits with Special Interest Devoted to Virginia Deposits (1958)
  • MacCubbin, Robert J.: Ground Water Resources of New England (1953)
  • MacCubbin, Robert J.: Economic Geology of New England (1953)
  • MacFarlane, Jackson A.: The Edinburg/Martinsburg Boundary Problem in West Central Virginia (1985)
  • Macintosh, Charles A.: Structural and Stratigraphic Traps for Oil and Gas (1956)
  • Macintosh, Charles A.: The Geology of the San Joaquin Valley Oil Fields, California (1956)
  • MacMillan, Keith J.: Hydrologic Study of the South Buffalo Creek Watershed: Emphasis on Stream Piracy at Coleman's Spring (1980)
  • Mann, Elizabeth: Bioturbation of Forested Shale Soils: Tree Throw in the Appalachian Mountains (2012)
  • Marshall, Lee: The Mineral Resources of Kentucky (1957)
  • Marthinson, Detlow M.: The Submarine Canyons of Lower and Middle California with Regard to the Other Topographic Features by Which They are Formed (1956)
  • Marthinson, Detlow M.: The Science of Oceanography with Reference to the Configuration of the Floor of the Ocean, the Deposits Which Comprise the Floor, the Chemical Properties of the Sea Water, and the Movements of the Water in the Sea (1956)
  • Maslansky, Steven P.: Petrology of Unakite in the Vesuvius Area of the Central Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia (1970)
  • McCain, David W.: The Structure and Stratigraphy of Wyoming (1952)
  • McClintock, Fletcher T.: Major Copper Deposits of the United States (1952)
  • McColloch, Anne Lindsey: Improving Cross Sections using Automated Kink-Method Approaches and Digital Surface Data (2009)
  • McCoy, William Arthur: The Murat Limestone between North River and Timber Ridge (1908)
  • McCullum, James: The potential of soils to sequester carbon: a look at agricultural and cemetery soils of Rockbridge County, Virginia (2015)
  • McDonald, Richard R.: Insoluble Residue Studies of the Ordovician Formations West of Lexington, Virginia (1951)
  • McDonald, Richard R.: The Uranium Resources of the World (1951)
  • McGlue, Michael M.: GIS Analysis of the Maury River Watershed: Modeling Land Use Change and Fluvial Response Using NASINS and the Nonpoint Source Model (2000)
  • McTague, S.B., Jr.: Petrography and Petrology of "Unakites" Located in the Mount Rogers Area, Southwestern Virginia
  • McThenia, Andrew W., Jr., Hoss, Frank A., Jr., Henes, Walter E. Jr.: Geology of the Cornwall Area in Rockbridge County, Virginia (1958)
  • Mead, Allan J.: Oil Production (1958)
  • Messerich, Chris: Constraining the structure of the Sadlerochit Mountains, North east Alaska from high resolution photogrammetry (2020)
  • Metzger, Christine: Pedological and geochemical characteristics of a buried forest soil formed before the Little Ice Age at the Herbert Glacier, Southeastern Alaska (2001)
  • Miller, Dan: Bauxite Deposits of the Caribbean and Their Relation to the United States' Aluminum Industry (1959)
  • Miller, Dan: The Bauxite Deposits of Arkansas (1959)
  • Miller, Tom: A History of the Economic Mineral Resources of Rockbridge County, Virginia (1951)
  • Miller, Tom: Phosphate Deposits of the United States (1951)
  • Mixson, Alan R., Ward, Dederick: Structural and Stratigraphic Mapping of Arnold Valley, Virginia (1956)
  • Mixson, Alan R.: The General Geology from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada (1956)
  • Moehringer, Brendan: Plastic Overprinting of Quartz Slickenfibers Along Thrust Faults in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (honors) (2023)
  • Monroe, Douglas D., Jr.: The Geology and Mineral Resources of Bolivia (1955)
  • Monroe, Douglas D., Jr.: Geology and Mineral Resources of Alabama (1955)
  • Monroe, Samuel E.: Fundamentals of Oil Well Drilling (1958)
  • Monroe, Samuel E.: Oil Fields of Venezuela (1958)
  • Monson, Ryan: Evaluating the use of NDVI analysis in a Soil Matter study of grazed pastures, Rockbridge, VA (2020)
  • Montgomery, Charles W., III: The Clifton Forge Sandstone: Distribution, Lithology, and Paleocurrents (1967)
  • Montgomery, Warren: A Basin Analysis of the Upper Silurian Appalachian Geosyncline in Eight Counties of Western, Virginia (1967)
  • Moore, Jeffrey A.: Textural, Mineralogical and Geochemical variations Across an Intrusive Basaltic Dike (1995)
  • Moreland, Duke R.: Oil and Gas of the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico (1952)
  • Moreland, Duke R.: Texas Gulf Coast Oil and Gas (1952)
  • Morgan, Iszak: Exploring Soil Organic Carbon Methodology and Variability in Rockbridge County Pastures (2020)
  • Neblett, T.B.: The Geology and Metallic Mineral Resources of Idaho (1956)
  • Neblett, T.B.: Structure, Stratigraphy, and General Geologic Features of Oregon (1956)
  • Neff, A. Parker: Coastal Erosion Causes Effects Control (1952)
  • Neff, A. Parker: An Analysis of the Hypotheses of the Carolina Bays (1952)
  • Nelson, J. Scott: Sedimentation of the Wilhite Formation of Central Eastern Tennessee (1975)
  • Nelson, Prewitt, Jr.: Salt and Sulphur in Louisiana (1952)
  • Nelson, Prewitt, Jr.: Oil and Gas in Louisiana (1951)
  • Newell, Hal H., III: A Petrologic and Geochemical Study of Volcanics from the Region of Rye Spur and Mt. Harriman in Southern Oregon (1993)
  • Newell, W.B.: Algae and Diatoms of Lindsay's Spring and Wood's Creek Lexington, Virginia
  • Newton, J.G.: Copper Mines of Arizona (1907)
  • Niebo, Ronald W.: The Low Pressure Experimental Study of a Trachybasalt from the Guffey Thirty-nine Mile Volcanic Field, Colorado (1966)
  • Noble, David G.: Bethlehem Steel Company (1958)
  • Noble, David G.: The Geology and Origin of Chromite in Central and North America (1958)
  • O'Day, M.W.: Turbidity Currents (1959)
  • Odom, Blake T.: Rift-Related Crustal Scale Extensional Fault Timing and Late Cretaceous-Tertiary Reactivation, U.S. Chukchi Shelf, Alaska (2016)
  • Ogden, Maynard B., Jr.: The Origin and Migration of Petroleum (1958)
  • Olson, Elizabeth: Assessment of Current Radiometric Dating Techniques of Beachrock on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica (2014)
  • Ordeman, Herman W.: The Copper Deposits of Arizona (1909)
  • Oref, Wallace R.: Oil and Gas in West Virginia (1951)
  • Oref, Wallace R.: The Non-Metallic Minerals of West Virginia (1951)
  • Osborne, William L., Jr.: Coal Formations in Southwest Virginia (1953)
  • Osborne, William L., Jr.: Oil and Gas in California (1953)
  • Parker, James A.: Oil in the Middle East, Volume I (1952)
  • Parker, James A.: Oil in the Middle East, Volume II (1952)
  • Parker, Melissa: In Situ Stress Orientation Determined by Borehole Breakouts on the Northeastern Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska (1998)
  • Parkins, Rebecca Kern: The Magnetic Properties of the Catoctin and the Use of Magnetic Intensity in Mapping Greenstone Contacts in the Catoctin Formation, Buena Vista Quadrangle, Virginia
  • Paul, Henry P., II: Heavy Mineral Separation and Heavy Minerals in New Jersey Sands (1959)
  • Paul, Henry P., II: Techniques of Blow Pipe Analysis (1959)
  • Paxton, W.M.: Description of Sallings Mountain Rockbridge County, Virginia
  • Pearcy, Ralph E., II: A Structural Analysis of the Harpers Shale and the Antietam Quartzite Balcony Falls, Virginia (1969)
  • Pease, Scott: Determination of Quaternary uplift rates from emergent marine wave-cut platforms around Pt. Delgada, California (1996)
  • Pendley, Anna: Artifact Distribution and Geoarchaeological Investigation of the Podere Funghi (2009)
  • Penick, Daniel A., Jr.: Vibrations and The Seismograph (1958)
  • Peery, William M.: Geomorphic Study of Castellated Karst Development on the Murat Facies of the Lincolnshire Formation in Rockbridge County, Virginia (1982)
  • Perry, Albert J.: Geochemical Prospecting (1954)
  • Perry, Albert J.: Geology of the Beekmantown Formation Brownsburg, Virginia Area (1953)
  • Pettiette, Rose: Tectonic Evolution of th Chugach-Prince William Terrane: U/Pb Detrital Zircon Age and Provenance of Cover Strata to the Paleocene Resurrection Peninsula Ophiolite in Seward, Alaska (2013)
  • Pitard, Alden M.: The Earth in Retrospect (1952)
  • Pitard, Alden M.: The Structure and Stratigraphy of Maryland (1953)
  • Plummer, Benjamin P.: The Southwest Harbor Granite: A Field, Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization of the Forgotten Unit on Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Popovich, Dan: Bituminous Coal of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Fields (1952)
  • Popovich, Dan: Geology of the Black Hills of South Dakota (1953)
  • Pritchard, E. Harris, Cretaceous Oblique-Slip Reactivation of Late Paleozoic Rift-Related Faults on the Chukchi Platform, Southern Cukchi Shelf, Alaska (2016)
  • Radcliffe, A.A., III: The Mantle or Crustal Derivation of Granitic Plutons in the Southeastern Piedmont as Determined by the Morphological Study of Zircons (1976)
  • Raring, Andrew: Middle Ordovician Limestones: Spatial Distribution and Environments of Deposition (1967)
  • Reimi, Maria: An Experimental Determination of the Incorporation of Trace Metals into Calcite (2012)
  • Reynolds, Patrick H.: An Examination of Two Mechanisms for the Initiation of Large Scale, Thin-Skinned Overthrusts (1983)
  • Rhea, Elizabeth: Examining δ13C and δ18O Composition of Skeletal Carbonate in Scleractinian Coral Acropora cervicornis (2009)
  • Rich, James C.: Some Calcareous Rocks of Virginia (1954)
  • Rich, James C.: Pennsylvania Anthracite and Its Problems (1954)
  • Richardson, Donald W.: Petrographic Analysis of the Mobley Mountain Granite, in Amherst County, Virginia (1984)
  • Rigg, Kent: Submarine Geology and Topography (1952)
  • Rigg, Kent: Soil Conservation: Erosion and Its Economic Relationships (1952)
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  • Young, George M.: Oil and Gas in Mississippi (1954)
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