Graduate Students

The final hurdle for Graduate Students in an MS program is the thesis. At TCU this involves a piece of independent work that is recorded as 6 hours credit (out of the 30 required for the degree). As thesis supervisor, it is my job to impart an element of realism by making sure that the research remains focussed. Part of my commitment is to make sure that theses are completed in a timely fashion. This means that I help in the design of the project, including details of the approach, a timetable for operations and a sensible budget. Subsequently I help in analysis and interpretation and of course in manuscript production. Candidly this is one of the most enjoyable parts of my job as a university professor. Most of the theses that I have supervised involve a substantial element of field work. The scope of the problems is broad: a variety of carbonates, siliciclastics, the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, various structural problems etc. Quite obviously I love to work in southern Oklahoma!!

The following theses have been or will be completed under my supervision.

1978 Trent, W., Some aspects of the petrology and geochemistry of selected freshwater carbonates, 121 p.
1978 Kwang, J., Petrography and geochemistry of Lower Permian cornstones in southeastern Oklahoma, 135 p.
1980 Babaei, A., The structural geology of part of the limestone hills in the Wichita Mountains, Caddo and Comanche Counties, Oklahoma, 63 p.
1980 Black, G., Geology of the Upper Cretaceous Nacatosh Sand of South Arkansas, 74 p.
1982 McKenna, R.D., Petroleum geology of the Mississippi Lime in parts of Payne and Pawnee Counties, Oklahoma, 71 p.
1983 Beauchamp, W., The structural geology of the southern part of the Lawtonka graben, Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma, 119 p.
1983 Ferraro, T., T he geology of the coastal tract between Rockfield and Tarbert Ness, Ross shire, Scotland, 288 p.
1983 McConnell, D., The structural geology of the northern part of the Lawtonka graben, Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma, 131 p.
1983 Munsil, M., The sedimentary geology of the Bromide Formation (Ordovician) in
the Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma, 183 p. 1983 Ragland, D.A., The sedimentary geology of the Cool Creek Formation (Ordovician) in the Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma, 170 p.
1983 Tsegay, T., The sedimentary geology of the Reagan Formation (Cambrian) in the Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma, 95 p.
1984 Sweet, R., The sedimentary geology of the Jurassic Morrison Formation in the area of Canon City, Colorado, 210 p.
1984 Cloyd, K., Dolomite in the Arbuckle Group as exposed in southwestern Oklahoma,80p.
1984 Ditzell, C., The sedimentary geology of the Signal Mountain and McKenzie Hill Formations as exposed in the Slick Hills of southwestern Oklahoma, 165 p.
1984 Rafalowski, M., The sedimentary geology of the Honey Creek and Fort Sill Formations as they are exposed in the Slick Hills of southwestern Oklahoma, 147 p.
1985 Bridges, S., Mapping, stratigraphy and tectonic implications of Lower Permian strata, eastern Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, 125 p.
1985 Collins, K. Depositional and diagenetic history of the Permian Rocks in the Meers Valley, southwestern Oklahoma, 110 p.
1985 French, T., A petrographic study of Devonian sediments of a closed basin in northern Scotland and southern Shetland Islands, 146 p.
1985 Hester, K., Fracture patterns and flow orientation in the Carlton Rhyolite, Wichita Mountains area, southwestern Oklahoma, 70 p.
1985 Race, K., Geochemical analysis and environmental reconstruction of a Devonian lake basin in northern Scotland, 220 p.
1986 Younger, P.L., Barite travertine from southwestern Oklahoma and west central Colorado, 163 p.
1986 Gong, Jingyao, The evolution of the Canon City embayment, Colorado, 130 p.
1987 Richardson, J., The Jurassic Ralston Creek Formation in the Canon City area of Colorado, 147 p. (Oklahoma State University)
1988 Ward, R., Isolated bioherms in the Tansil Formation (Guadeloupian), Dark Canyon, Guadeloupe Mountains, Southeastern New Mexico.54 p.
1989 Shelby, D., The Saddle Mountain Dolomite, Slick Hills, Oklahoma.114 p.
1990 Butaud, T., A petrographic study of the Vanoss Formation proximal to the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma. 100 p.
1990 Stephenson, M., The mapping and Analysis of the Structural Geology of the southeastern Eastern Slick Hills, Commanche County, Oklahoma. 120 p.
1991 Smith, S.S. , The anatomy of Pennsylvanian folds in the Blue Creek Canyon area, Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma. 96 p.
1991 White, S., A test of transpression; fracture patterns in the western Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma. 109 p.
1992 Schmidt, K., Fracture patterns in the Wichita uplift. 44 p. 1993 McElmoyl, C. The significance of an unconformity in the Cambrian Honey Creek Limestone of Southern Oklahoma. 62 p.
1994 McCall, R., The Geology of the Blue Creek Canyon Fault, southwestern Oklahoma. 73 p.
1994 Jusczuk, S., The structural geology of an unnamed hill south of Bally Mountain , northwestern Slick Hills, Oklahoma. 105 p.
1996 Blake, Robert, The diagenetic history of the dolomited of the Newala Limestone Formation of the Lower Ordovician Knox Group, Shelby County, Alabama. 215 p.
1996 Walters, M., Fracture patterns and porosity studies in the Bandelier Tuff, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
1996 Hosey, R., A sedimentological study of the Fort Sill Formation (Cambrian), Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma.
1997 Ayan, D. The base of the Arbuckle Group.
1997 Bucheit A. K., The Character of the Franconian Land Surface in Southern Oklahoma.
1999 Stevens, M. S. Structural interpretation of the Continental Divide 3-D Seismic Survey, Sweetwater, Wyoming.
1999 Szabo, S. Facies and ecological partitioning around islands in the Southern Oklahoma Archipelago. 77 p.
2000 Callaway, A.. Cambro-Ordovician facies development on the Laurentian craton. A comparison between northwest Scotland and Southern Oklahoma. 99p
2000 Zimmerman, B. Karst inprints in the Ellenburger Group and its lateral equivalents, an example form Marble Falls, Burnett County, Texas. 142 p.
2000 Fairbanks, J. The termination of the Ketch Creek fault, Slick Hills, southwestern Oklahoma.
Pending
2001 Hosey, R., A sedimentological study of the Fort Sill Formation (Cambrian), Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma.
2001 Stroud, J. Microbial and bryozoan mounds in the Fort Worth Basin.

This page created 8-20-02 by Sara Donaldson
Last revised 8-31-02
© 2002, Nowell Donovan
Maintained by Sara Donaldson