Ian Richards pointing to a sill intruding Marjum Formation (Middle Cambrian) at Notch Peak, west-central Utah.
Our students are a special bunch! They get to map geology in some beautiful parts of the country, determine mineral compositions and stable-isotope compositions in the great facilities at UT, and perform elegant mineral–fluid experiments at the world-class Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They have a broad base of mineralogical and petrological experience. I am fortunate to have known and worked with these geologists.
Cara Thompson, Mike DeAngelis, Kathleen Lordo, and Kelly Plummer in the Toquima Range, Nevada
Theses, dissertations, and senior presentations
| Chad Novack | MS 2015 | Experimental Limestone Dissolution and Changes in Multiscale Structure Using Small- and Ultra Small-Angle Neutron Scattering |
| Carissa Snyder | MS 2012 | Metamorphic Phase Equilibria in a Contact Aureole: Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico |
| Michael DeAngelis | PhD 2011 | Experimental Investigations of fluid–mineral interactions in Olivine and Dolomite |
| Andy Foy | BS 2009 | Characterization of alteration zones within the Webster–Addie ultramafic body, North Carolina |
| Stephanie Nicoll | BS 2008 | A sillimanite–garnet–biotite assemblage from New Hampshire |
| Abi Stephens | BS 2006 | Sr-rich feldspar from the Panamint Mountains, California |
| Cara Thompson | MS 2006 | Hydrothermal Diamond anvil cell studies: a possible new calibration mineral and applications to the hydrous-carbonate mineral, Nesquehonite |
| Kelly Plummer | MS 2006 | Contact Metamorphism of Calc-Silicate Rocks in the Belmont Contact Aureole, Central Nevada |
| Michael DeAngelis | MS 2005 | Experimental Investigation of the Breakdown of Dolomite and Isotope Transport in Rock Cores at 100 MPa, 650–750 °C |
| Milo Cameron | MS 2001 | P–T history of the Cullowhee Gneiss, North Carolina |
| Ian J. Richards | PhD 1994 | Role of Fluids during Mesozoic Metamorphism near Lone Mountain, Nevada |
| G. Landon Davidson | MS 1994 | Tectonometamorphic history of a portion of the eastern Blue Ridge, Cullowhee, North Carolina |
| Thomas S. Helms | PhD 1991 | Tectonometamorphism of the Proterozoic Rocks in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota |
| Peter Souza | MS 1991 | Fluid-Rock Interaction during Mesozoic Metamorphism of the Proterozoic Noonday Dolomite and Johnnie Formation, Panamint Mountains, California |
| Jonathan Novick | MS 1987 | Metamorphism of the Weeks Limestone, Notch Peak, Utah: The Low-Grade Reactions and Fluid Inclusions |
| Randal L. Kath | MS 1986 | Petrology of the Contact Metamorphic Rocks beneath the Stillwater Complex, Montana: Conditions and Assemblages of Metamorphism |