Archive of Senior Thesis Projects 1972 - present

Spring

Carol Balone The Annotated Geologic Time-Scale
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Ed Jacobsen Surface Mining Operations in Tennessee Coal Mines
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Steven Keirstead Petrography of a Triassic Diabase Dike Near Frederick, Maryland
Advisor: Ann Wylie, Jerry Weidner

Fall

Charles Davis The Effects and the Effectiveness of Channelization on Paint Branch Creek
Advisor:

Bryan Fountain Detection of Metallic Minerals in the Gold-Pyrite Belt of Northern Piedmont Virginia, Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Hill Hench The Potomac Marble Formation Near Point of Rock Maryland
Advisor:

Jeff Miller Determining Possible Methods for Investigation of Airborne Asbestos Particles with Possible Application to the Rockville Quarry
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Steve Novak Identification of Serpentine Minerals Present in the Rockville Crushed Stone Quarry Using X-Ray Powder Photography
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Gai Smythe Apparatus for dispersion Staining and its use in the Identification of the Refractive Indices of Sample Glasses
Advisor: Ann Wylie, Jerry Weidner

Lawrence Thrasher A Biostratigraphic Analysis of Fossiliferous Chert Found in Local Gravel Deposits
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Alicia Watson The Iron-Rich Sedimentary Rocks of the Patuxent Formation
Advisor:

Rick Zimmerman The Relationship of Nickel in the Hunting Hill Serpentinite
Advisor: Ann Wylie, Sheldon Sommers