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2004

Kroll, Steven E., "Influence of Ethanol on the Biodegradation and Transport of BTEX Compounds in Undisturbed Columns of Fine-Grained Material," 70 p. (Director: Melissa E. Lenczewski)

2003

Mickelson, J. Erik, "U-series disequilibrium: An interpretation of Guatemalan Magmatic Processes" 92 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

Scheller, M. Bernadette, "The Mesoproterozoic Volcanic Rocks of Leatherwood Creek, Missouri," 214 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

2002

Williams, Sara L., "Modeling and Delineation of the Five-Year Recharge Areas for the Freeport Community Water Supply Facility, Stephenson County, Illinois," 190 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

2001

Christensen, Ryan D., "Variation in Reservoir-Scale Deformation of the Jurassic Carmel Formation Through a Structural Transition in the San Rafael Swell, East-Central Utah," 137 p. (Director: Mark P. Fischer)

Eargle, Geoffrey A.J., "Petrology and Geo-chemistry of Alkaline Volcanic Rocks from the Possession Islands, Antarctica," 246 p. (Director: Jonathan H. Berg)

2000

Carney, Clint P., "Modeling the Groundwater Flowsystem and Five-Year Recharge Area of the Fawn Hills Subdivision, Peoria County, Illinois," 212 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Cooper, James M., "Seismic Sequence Architecture and Late-Pleistocene Glacial History of the Yakataga Formation, Northeastern Gulf of Alaska," 174 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

McInnes, James N., "Characterization of a Polar Glacimarine Environment: Mackay Glacier, South Victoria Land, Anatarctica," 167 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

Peterson, Steven M., "A Groundwater Flow Model and Time-Related Capture Zone for the Harristown, Illinois Public Supply Well," 193 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

1999

Kraske, Kurt A., "The Effect of Septic Systems on Groundwater Quality in the Prairie Aquigroup and Alexandrian-Maquoketa Aquifer, Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois," 258 p. (Co-Directors: Colin J. Booth and Paul Loubere)

Templeton, Sharon, "Hydrothermal Systems at Volcán Santa María, Guatemala," 166 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

1998

Hardisty, Daina V., "A General Geochemical Characterization of Ground Water in Glacial Drift Aquifers at Northern Lake County, Illinois," 197 p. (Director: Jay A. Stravers)

McClain, Jana G., "Tertiary Carbonate Biostrati-graphy of Northwestern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico," 125 p. (Director: Eugene C. Perry)

Padar, Craig A., "Assessment of the Hydro-geologic Framework Beneath Campbell Army Airfield, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Using Geophysical Technologies," 77 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Reid, Rebecca J., "A Hydrogeologic Characterization of a Sedge-Meadow Wetland, Van Patten Woods, Lake County, Illinois," 184 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Schneider, James C., "Geophysical Identification of Karst Fissures Near a Landfill in Southwest Illinois," 86 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Spokas, Kurt A., "Analysis and Modeling of Vadose Zone Gas Transport: Modeling Methane Emissions from Landfills," 121 p. (Director: Elizabeth A. Burton)

Wegman, Scott W., "Impact of Fertilization on Nutrient Transport in a Large Wetland Complex in Gurnee, Illinois," 97 p. (Director: Elizabeth A. Burton)

1997

Bertsch, Lawrence Paul, "The Effects on Ground-water Chemistry of Longwall Mine Subsidence at Two Sites in Southern Illinois," 287 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Black, Christopher J., "Internal Structure of the 800 Area Landfill, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, from Integrated Geophysical Measurements," 132 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Bograd, Steven E., "Effects of Marine-Ending Glaciers with Tidewater Termini on Fjord Water Properties," 277 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

Dawber, Michael, "Benthic Communities and the Potential Fossil Record at Polar Glacier Grounding Lines," 158 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

1996

Benson, Matthew A., "Characterization of the Hydrogeologic Framework in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System Using Marine Seismic Reflection Profiling," 177 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Broadway, Daniel J., "Identification of Hydraulically Significant Fractures from Geophysical Well Logs Using Cluster Analysis," 112 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Evans, Harry D., IV, "Hydrogeologic Characterization of a DNAPL Contaminated Site Using Kriged Ground Penetrating Radar and Subsurface Sample Data Sets," 130 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Miller, Joseph D., "Hydrogeologic Characterization of a Heterogeneous Sandstone Aquifer Overlying a High Extraction Longwall Coal Mine," 205 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Morrison, Jacqueline N., "Evaluation of the Hydrogeology and Groundwater Chemistry of the Bedrock Valley in Northern DeKalb County, Illinois," 135 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Pippin, Charles G., "Geology and Geochemistry of the Cope Hollow Formation and the Western St. Francois Mountains, Southeastern Missouri," 182 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

Vosburgh, Eric T., "An Analysis of the Eclectic Sandstone Structures in the Cascade Springs Quadrangle of Fall River County, South Dakota," 133 p. (Director: Paul R. Stoddard)

1995

Morris, Harry H., "The Potential for Landfill Gas to Impact Ground Water Quality," 217 p. (Director: Elizabeth A. Burton)

Prinos, Scott T., "Examination of a Possible Environment of Dolomite Formation in the Mixing Zone, Yucatan, Mexico," 137 p. (Director: Eugene C. Perry)

Urbanik, Ronald T., "Correlation of Agricultural Activities with Rain Water Chemistry," 177 p. (Director: Elizabeth A. Burton)

1994

Escamilla, Marcia A., "Holocene Palynological Correlation Between Baby Tuktu Lake, Southern Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada and Brevoort Basic, Davis Strait," 88 p. (Director: Jay A. Stravers)

Hooyer, Thomas S., "Magnificent Marine Mud: A Late Foxe Paleoclimate Record from Outer Frobisher Bay and Brevoort Basin, Baffin Island, Canada," 163 p. (Director: Jay A. Stravers)

Mayer, David L., "Stable and Radioactive Isotopic Study of Chilled Margins and Dikes in the Nain Complex, Labrador," 78 p. (Director: Ruth I. Kalamarides)

Murnane, John E., "REE Systematics of Sulfide-Sulfate Deposits and Sea-Floor Substrates at Sediment-Starved and Sediment-Covered Spreading Centers in the Northeast Pacific Ocean," 154 p. (Director: Donald M. Davidson, Jr.)

Pattee, Charles Thomas, "Long-Term Hydrogeologic Impact of Longwall Subsidence on a Shallow Bedrock Aquifer in Illinois," 220 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

1993

Kelleher, Daniel L., "The Hydrostratigraphic Setting of Significant Glacial Drift Aquifers within Township 45 North, Lake County, Illinois," 178 p. (Director: Jay A. Stravers)

Tulaczyk, Slawomir M., "Karst Geomorphology and Hydrogeology of the Northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico," 189 p. (Director: Eugene C. Perry)

1992

Brehm, Daniel J., "Gravity Model of the Wolf River Batholith," 97 p. (Director: C. Patrick Ervin)

Dahlen, Paul R., "Imagery Analysis of Linear Features Within the Northern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia," 88 p. (Director: Donald M. Davidson, Jr.)

Fariduddin, Mohammad, "Regional Significance and Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous Radiolaria from Pakistan," 141 p. (Director: Hsin Yi Ling)

Gottler, Paul F., "Ice-rafting at a Temperate Tide-water Glacier; McBride Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska," 296 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

1991

Carrillo, Antonio M., "The Hydrostratigraphy of the Pleistocene Deposits of the Buried Paw Paw Bedrock Valley: A Preliminary Study," 156 p. (Director: Jay A. Stravers)

Matheney, Michael P., "Anelastic Attenuation of Compressional Seismic Waves in Glacial Deposits," 112 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Ong, Reynaldo G., "Fluorine Distribution in the Neogene Phosphorites, Aurora Phosphate District, Beaufort County, North Carolina," 69 p. (Director: Donald M. Davidson, Jr.)

Sanborn, Robert K., "Petrography and Geo-chemistry of a Calcrete Profile from the North-western Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Chuburna, Yucatan, Mexico," 209 p. (Director: Eugene C. Perry)

Schwartz, Elaine C., "Agricultural Contamination and Ground Water Susceptibility in DeKalb County, Illinois," 256 p. (Director: Ronald S. Kaufmann)

Stank, Kevin R., "Physical, Chemical, and Biologic Mediation of Rock Fabrics Along a Subaerial Surface: Antigua Formation (Oligocene), Antigua, British West Indies," 322 p. (Director: Elizabeth A. Burton)

Tremper, Charles W., "High Resolution Reflectance Spectroscopy of Rocks and Soils in the Drum Mountains, West-Central Utah," 327 p. (Director: Donald M. Davidson, Jr.)

1990

Bannantine, James E., "Petrology and Geochemistry of Scapolite-Clinopyroxene Lower Crustal Granulite Xenoliths from the Royal Society Range - McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica," 146 p. (Director: Jonathan H. Berg)

de Vries, Rimmer D., "Tales of Tertiary Tuffs in Central Utah," 160 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

Eddy, Christine M., "A Finite Element Simulation of Total Nitrogen Concentrations in Ground Water from Spray Irrigation Versus Sand Bed Filtration," 154 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Fong, Alan W., "The Geology of the Fountain Green South 7.5' Quadrangle, Juab and Sanpete Counties, Utah," 361 p. (Director: Malcolm P. Weiss)

Gmitro, Todd T., "Chemostratigraphy and Petrogenesis of Keweenawan Lavas at Alona Bay, Ontario," 243 p. (Director: James A. Walker)

Keeley, Martin C., "Infiltration Rate, and Azimuthal Resistivity Measurements Over a Fractured Landfill Cover Composed of Compacted Glacial Till," 174 p. (Director: Philip J. Carpenter)

Markey, Richard S., "The Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Newark Island Layered Intrusion, Labrador," 134 p. (Director: Ruth I. Kalamarides)

Miner, James Jon, "The Lake Michigan Icefoot Complex: Conditions of Formation and Destruction, and an Evaluation of Winter Erosion at Wilmette, Illinois," 89 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

Morrow, William S., "Temporal Gravity Variations Due to Mississippi River Bank Infiltration Near New Madrid, Missouri," 81 p. (Director: C. Patrick Ervin)

Moscati, Richard John, "Petrology and Thermobarometry of Pyroxene Granulite from Spinel Lherzolite Xenoliths from a Modern Continental Rift, Royal Society Range - McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica," 185 p. (Director: Jonathan H. Berg)

Neumiller, Christine MacKay, "The Makganyene Diamictite, South Africa: Evidence for an Early Proterozoic Glacial Event," 407 p. (Director: Ross D. Powell)

Price, Bethany C., "Infiltration at a Northeastern Illinois Landfill," 233 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Reeve, Andrew S., "The Hydrogeology and Aqueous Geochemistry of the Western North Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula; Chuburna, Mexico," 191 p. (Director: Eugene C. Perry)

Schumacher, David A., "The Hydrogeology of the Galena-Platteville Dolomite in DeKalb and Kane Counties, Northeastern Illinois," 173 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

Spande, Erik D., "Effects of Longwall-Induced Subsidence on Hydraulic Properties at a site in Jefferson County, Illinois," 245 p. (Director: Colin J. Booth)

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