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Theses/Dissertations from 1991
A Regional Study of Ground-Water Quality in Barry County, Michigan, Margene K. Brewer
Structural, Depositional, and Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Development: St. Peter Sandstone, Newaygo County, Michigan, Mark S. Caldwell
Sedimentological, Structural, and Organic Geochemical Controls on Natural Gas Occurrence in the Antrim Formation in Otsego County, Michigan, Timothy M. Dellapenna
Diagenesis in the St. Peter Sandstone, Michigan Basin, Carl E. Lundgren
Facies Analysis and Diagenesis of the Lower Engadine Group and the Manistique Group in Manistee, Mason and Oceana Counties, Michigan, Karen S. Mater
The Effects of Urbanization on a Portion of the Portage Creek Watershed: A Case Study on Surface Water and Groundwater Quality, Susan E. Rezek
Basement Control on the Development of Selected Michigan Basin Oil and Gas Fields as Constrained by Fabric Elements in Paleozoic Limestones, Robert Thomas Versical
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Spatial and Temporal Variations of Synthetic Organic Compounds in the Contaminant Plume Emanating from the KL Landfill, Lynn Diane Broede
A Hydrogeological and Hydrogeochemical Investigation of Groundwater at a Landfill for Sludge from the Kalamazoo Wastewater Treatment Plant, Richard Howard Christensen
Cambrian-Early Ordovician Sequence Stratigraphy and Mount Simon Sandstone Petrology-Michigan Basin, Jeffrey T. Cottingham
Reservoir Geology of the Dundee Limestone, West Branch Field, Michigan, Brendan Ciaran Curran
Simulation of Bromide Transport in a Layered Aquifer Using Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Computer Models, Kathleen Michelle Hewitt
Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry of the Tekonsha Moraine and Adjacent Interlobate Deposits in Charleston Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Victor V. Melbardis
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The Relation of Radium-226 and 228 to the Groundwater Geochemistry of Carbon, Sulfur, and Chlorine near Michigan's Saginaw Bay, Ray Milejczak
A Laboratory Characterization of Pulp and Paper Mill Solid Wastes for Potential Use as Hydraulic Barrier Material in Landfill Covers, Carleton Van Maltby
Wetland Study of Southeastern Portage Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Kevin M. Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Definition of the B Salt Edge of Southern Limb of the Michigan Basin Using Seismic Techniques, Huseyin Ali Fici
A Seismic Analysis of Reefs in the Traverse Limestone of Allegan County, Michigan, William Charles Henderson
Electrical Resistivity as an Approach to Evaluating Brine Contamination of Groundwater in the Walker Oil Field, Ottawa County, Michigan, Janet A. Koehler
An Investigation of a Soil Gas Sampling Technique and Its Applicability for Detecting Gaseous PCE and TCA Over an Unconfined Granular Aquifer, Timothy J. Mayotte
Geometry and Kinematics of the Central Snowcrest Range: A Rocky Mountain Forehand Uplift in Southwestern Montana, Barry Christopher McBride
The Significance of Organic Complexing in the Mobility of Iron in the KL Landfill Leachate Plume, Kalamazoo, Michigan, James D. Rudder
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Feasibility of the Proposed Garden Lane Recharge Basin in Portage, Michigan, Sandra K. Barnick
The Effect of Well Efficiency on In-Situ Permeability Test Results, Scott T. Dennis
A Trace Element Geochemical Analysis of the Lake Ellen Kimberlite, Crystal Falls, Michigan, U.S.A., Michelle Ellen Fults
Structural Geology and Geothermal Investigation of the White Sulphur Springs Area, Montana, William G. Gierke
A Seismic Reflection Survey Over the Wayne-25 Oil Field in Cass County, Michigan, Paul D. Horton
A Thermodynamic Study of the Zeolite Stilbite, David Adams Howell
Possible Role of Petroliferous Materials in Sulfide Precipitation at the Frank R. Millikan Mine, Southeast Missouri, Clark Alan Niewendorp
Deposition, Diagenesis, and Porosity Development of the Middle Devonian, Lucas Formation in the West Branch Oil Field, Ogemaw County, Michigan, Scott Gregory Park
Nitrate Pollution of Ground Water in Glacial Sediments Underlying a Fertigated Site in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Michael Wireman
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
A Structural Investigation of a Basement-Involved Thrust System in Southern Sphinx Mountain Quadrangle (Madison Range) Southwestern Montana, Jeffrey Scott Brown
A Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Balkema Wetland, Daniel V. Fronczek
The Provenance of the Jacobsville Formation of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan through a Petrographic Study, David Walter Lindsay
Hydrodynamic Character of the Dundee Limestone in the Central Michigan Basin, Ann Carol Little
Facies Development and Porosity Relationships in the Dundee Limestone of Gladwin County, Michigan, Eric Lee Montgomery
Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Analysis of the Middle Devonian Filer Sandstone, John Charles Rodwan
Petrography, Diagenetic History, and Development of Porosity in the Richfield Member of the Lower Middle Devonian Lucas Formation, Northeast Isabella County, Central Michigan Basin, Kevin James Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Subsurface Stratigrapy and Sedimentologic Control on the Productive Middle Devonian Age Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation in the Michigan Basin, Sukru Nail Apak
The Use of Electrical Resistivity to Delineate a Brine Contamination Plume in the Walker Oilfield, Kent County, Michigan, Kent E. Meisel
Lithofacies and Geochemistry of Interreef Carbonates, Middle Silurian, Michigan Basin, Eric N. Porcher
A Seismic Study of an Impact Feature in Cass County, Michigan, Mancheol Suh
The Response of the Kentucky River Drainage Basin to a Lowering of Base Level Control, David B. Warwick
A Gravity Investigation of Mountain Flank Thrusting and Normal Faulting, Madison and Tobacco Root Ranges, Montana, Stephen Thomas Wigger
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Land Use Effects on Shallow Earth Resistivity, Gary James Barton
Uranium-Lead Zircon Ages and Crustal Contamination of the Northeastern Idaho Batholith, James J. Dexter
Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Factors Influencing the Impact of a Chromium-Arsenic-Copper Wastewater Discharge on a Glacial Outwash Aquifer, Michael J. Gallagher
A Geophysical Investigation of a Possible Astrobleme in Southwestern Michigan, Suhas L. Ghatge
Geology of a Section of the Northwest Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison County, Southwest Montana, Kiff James Samuelson
Structural Geology of the Northern Snowcrest Range, Beaverhead and Madison Counties, Montana, Mark Kenneth Sheedlo
The Depositional History of the Point Pleasant Member of the Cynthiana Formation in Northern Kentucky, Gary J. Stefaniak
Inland Seawalls in Southwestern- Michigan: A Limnological Approach, Jeroen Wagendorp
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Sedimentation Rate of Salt Determined by Micrometeorite Analysis, James Matthew Barnett
Electrical Resistivity Survey Near the "KL" Avenue Landfill, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, David W. Hall
The Geology and Geochemistry of the Summit Creek Molybdenum Prospect, Custer County, Idaho, Thomas Murray Hanna
A High Resolution Ground Magnetic Study of Part of the Albion-Scipio Trend, Steven James Hoin
A Magnetic and Resistivity Survey of Cork Street Landfill, Stanislaw Leja
Environment of Deposition of the A-1 Carbonate, Salina Group, Michigan Basin, Barbara June Leonard
The Geology of Burnt Ridge Quadrangle and Vicinity Ravalli County, Montana, Randall Reichert
The Geology of the Southern Bull Mountain Area, Jefferson County, Montana, Michael Edward Streeter
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
The Origin of Carbonate Cements in Bahama Escarpment Limestones, Katharine D. Fulker
The Features and Significance of Layering and Shearing Within the Zone of Mylonitization, Northeastern Idaho Batholith, Jon Michael Hermann
Pennsylvanian Deltaic Sedimentation in Grand Ledge, Michigan, Jeffrey R. Martin
Nitrate Levels in the Groundwater of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, William Robert Norman
The Effects of Precipitation on the Quality of Ground Water and Leachate Seeps at a Stabilizing Landfill, Nicholas C. Pogoncheff
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
U-Pb Systematics and Ages of Rocks from the Zone of Cataclasis, Bitterroot Dome, Southwestern Montana, Edward Charles Arruda
Petrology of Fluvial and Shoreline Sands in a Modern Arc-Trench Gap, Guatemala, James Robert Bartel
Structural Analysis of Precambrian Metasedimentary Rocks of the Swede Gulch Formation, Nahant, South Dakota, Richard G. Cookman
The Hydrologic Factors that Control Carbonate Hardness in Kalamazoo County Lakes, Southwestern Michigan, Linda Brittain Fenner
The Petrology and Geochemistry of Keweenawan Diabase Dikes in Ontonagon, Gogebic, Iron and Dickinson Counties, Michigan, James J. Hahnenberg
An Analysis of Nitrate Concentrations in the Ground-Water of Antwerp Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, John Emil Klanke
A Geochemical Study of the Sudbury Breccia, Kevin M. Prochaska
The Paleoecology of Carbonaceous (Algal) Material in the Middle Devonian Rockport Quarry Limestone of the Northeastern Portion of Michegan's Lower Peninsula, Jeffrey Dean Spruit
Dolomitization of the Brassfield Formation (Lower Silurian) in Adams County, Ohio, Lisa L. Varga
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Relationship of Gravity Anomalies to a Drift Filled Bedrock Valley System in Calhoun County Michigan, James W. Farnsworth
Variations in the Depositional Environment of the Lower Cincinnatian Kope Formation, Thomas K. Mahan
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Hydrogeology of the Minjur Aquifer System in the Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim A. Al-Jallal
Analysis and Interpretation of the 5,000 ft (1,538 M) Red-Bed Sequence Encountered in the Sparks et al. #1-8 (Michigan Basin Deep Borehole), John H. Fowler
Postglacial Environmental History of a Marl Lake Site in Kalamazoo County, Southwestern Michigan, Valerie A. Naeve
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Shallow Water High-Magnesium Calcite Mud Production and Dispersal, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jonathan A. Fuller
Paleoecology of the Spiriferid Brachiopods of the Silica Shale Formation (Middle Devonian), S.E. Michigan and N.W. Ohio, Darioush T. Ghahremani
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Analysis of an Interlobate Boundary in the Wisconsinan Drift of Kalamazoo County and Adjacent Areas in Southwestern Michigan, Norman A. Lovan
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Petrology of the Rockport Quarry Limestone (Middle Devonian Traverse Group) Alpena, Presque Isle and Montmorency Counties, Michigan, Charles Willard Cookman
Rubidium-Strontium and Uranium-Lead Geochronology of the Northeastern Border Zone of the Idaho Batholith Bitterroot Range, Montana, Steven E. Tripp
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Some Pegmatites Near Gwinn, Michigan, Michael J. Moss
Trace Fossils of the Brassfield Formation, Lower Silurian, in South-Central Ohio and North Central Kentucky, Eugene J. Murray
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Sediments and Sedimentary Environments of a Barrier Island, Cedar Island, Virginia, John Walter Heinsius
Geology of Klump's Cave, Perry County, Missouri, Ernest L. Kern
Geology of the Sweetwater Canyon Area and Origin of Interbasinal Canyons, Southwestern Montana, James Carl Peterson
Noise Pollution a Study in Kalamazoo, Michigan, William Thomas Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
A Study of Shore Erosion at Seventeen Sites along Eastern Lake Michigan, Walter George Fingleton
Petrogenetic and Trend Surface Analysis of Hell Canyon Pluton, Montana, William M. Johanns
Implications of Photogeologic Linears in the South Long Lake Area, Alpena and Presque Isle Counties, Michigan, Richard E. Kimmel
Geology of Atwater Well Field Kalamazoo County, Michigan, John E. Malanchak
Campground Usage and User Attitudes in the Allegan State Game Area, Allegan County, Michigan, Gregg R. Squire
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Sediment-Topography Relationships in the Inner Nearshore Zone, Southeastern Lake Michigan, Robert David LoPiccolo