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1984

Spring

Alan Bascom A Strain Analysis of the Ridgeley Sandstone in the Cacapon Mountain Anticlinorium
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Eugenia Dillon Phase Relations of the Cordierite-Enstatite Binary System and Orientation Results
Advisor: Luke Chang, Ann Wylie, Roth

Kurt Elkins Geobotanical Prospecting in the Linganore District of Frederick County, Maryland
Advisor: Philip Candela

Judith Elkins The Effects of Bipyridylium Herbicides on Smevtite Structure
Advisor: Luke Chang

Carla S. Evans An investigation of periglacial frost action features in the Dolly Sods, West Virginia
Advisor: Bob Ridky

Richard Frew The Environmental Significance of a Fossil Mollusk Assemblage in the Mariana Limestone Near Chalan Pago, Guam
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Clifford Hugh Kraus Shoreline Changes and Bathymetric Gradients of the Tangier Sound Region
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Charles O'Carroll The Origin or Paleozoic Lineaments in the Western Arabian Peninsula
Advisor: Blodget, Lowman, Jerry Weidner

Clifford Oliver Hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rock and the mobility of selected trace elements
Advisor: Philip Candela

Jeff Raffensperger The Threshold of Bed Disturbance as Affected by Particle Shape
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Barbara Rosenthal Historical Loss of Tidal Salt Marsh Area in the Ocean City, Maryland Quadrangle
Advisor: Pete Stifel, Leatherman

Robert Shenk A Meso-Sedimentation Study of a Cave in Guam
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Guy A. Tomassoni Porosity Evolution in a Emergent Holicene Reef Limestone Toguam Bay, Guam
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Fall

David Andreasen Hydrogeologic Study of a High Yield field in Ft. Meade, Md.
Advisor: Anthony Segovia

Emad Awadalla Sedimentary Petrology of Silurian Age Iron-rich Sandstone Near Cumberland, Maryland
Advisor:

Kathleen Burch A Study of the Opaque Oxide Minerals in a Mafic Diabase and it's Associated Pegmatite Near Leesburg, Va.
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

April Cannon A Study of Cause and Effect of Land Instability in Sherwood Forest, Maryland
Advisor: Bob Ridky

Tony Creamer The Consanguineous Nature of a Tonalite-Granodiorite Pluton and its Mafic Inclusion, Boca De Quadra Pluton, Southeastern Alaska
Advisor: Eileen McLellan

Cheryl Edwards An Analysis of Fore-Reef Sediments: Mariana Islands
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Steven Eichinger Evolution of a Reach of Shoreline in Talbot County, Maryland from Bruffs Island to Fairview Point.
Advisor: Pete Stifel, Leatherman

Lisa Ettlinger Phase Equilibrium Relations in the Ternary System BaO-TiO2-Nb2O5
Advisor: Luke Chang

David Falatko Petrological Investigation of a Section of the Upper Pennsylvanian in Western Maryland
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

John Fleming Devonian Starfish from Washington County, Maryland
Advisor: Pete Stifel

David Greenan Investigation on the Possible use of Phytolith for Environmental Reconstructions
Advisor: Anthony Segovia

Douglas Hanna The Effect of Sea Level Rise on Shoreline Evolution of Ocean City, Maryland
Advisor: Bob Ridky, Leatherman

Brian Hart A potential Field Study of the Magnetite Bearing Deposits of the Central Portion of the Sykesville Mining District
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Katherine P. Heller A Reconnaissance Study of the Origin of Small Talc and Serpentine Bodies in the Wissahickon Formation Within the Maryland Piedmont
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Dale Kyle A Microtopographic Examination of Glacial Striations Through the Use of Profilometry
Advisor: Bob Ridky

James Lang Strain Analysis of a Fold in Maryland's Valley and Ridge
Advisor:

Carol Lucas Petrographic Criteria for Discrimination between Beach Rock and other Detrital Limestones
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Tom McCollum Non-Random Asymmetry in Planform of Meandering Rivers
Advisor: Bob Ridky

Dennis McElrath Analysis of a Fractured and Unfractured Zone by Clay Mineral Species in the Hampshire Formation, Western Washington County, Maryland
Advisor: Luke Chang

Elizabeth Montgomerie-Neilson Development of Stylolites in the Hampshire Formation
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Don Mullis A New Application of Fourier Series Grain Shape Analysis: Discriminating Deposits and Process Histories of Olean Age Glacial Sediment; Pocono Platea, PA.
Advisor: Bob Ridky

Eric Roberts Relating Concentrations of Lead, Zinc, and Copper in Soil to Biomass Accumulation in Selected Oak Species--A Ground Truth Experiment
Advisor: Philip Candela

Thomas Skelly An Investigation into the Relationship between the Intensity of Magnetism and Soil Copper Concentration in the Monroe and Beasman Prospects of the Sykesville District, Carroll County, Maryland
Advisor: