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1982

Spring

Mark Beal A Geologic Evaluation of a Placer Gold Deposit in Southern Fauquier County, Virginia
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Sherryl. Clarke A mineralogical Analysis of the Effect of Weathering on a Diabase Dike Near Frederick, Maryland
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

Eric J. Dougherty A General Description of the Ecologic Formations Within the Patuxent River Basin and an Infiltration Rate Study on the Arundel Clay (Cretaceous)
Advisor: Anthony Segovia

William J. Dove Lunar Stratigraphy of the Sinus Amoris Using Orbital X-Ray Fluorescence Data of Impact Craters
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Charles K. Egar Comparative Petrography of Two Upper Devonian Oil Sands of Warren County, Pennsylvania
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

Richard Gestson Effect of a foreign Compound in the Mother Liquor of Two Ionic Solutions of Similar Salts
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Jesselyn Grandy Grain-Size and Texture in the Pleasant Grove Schist
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

Lyle Griffith Mapping a Mineralized Vein with the Proton Precession Magnetometer in the Monroe and Beasman Prospects of the Sykesville District, Carroll County, Md.
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Keith Krause Examining the Suitability of the Maryland Green Marble for Geologic Storage of Nuclear Waste
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Sharon O'Donnell The Coal Geology of Eastern McCreary and Western Whitley Counties South-Eastern Kentucky
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Frank Samstag The Behavior of Some Common Clays in Response To Various Oilfield Fluids Using Atterberg Limits as an Investigative Tool
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Lee Shackelford Determining the Geomorphic History of Cove Point
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Wendy Smith Do Differences in Gradients Distinguish the Dip Slope from the Trans-Strats Slope
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Eric Windsor Determination of Dimensional Variations in Cleavage Fragments Resulting From Dimensional Variations in Crystal Habit in Amphibole Minerals
Advisor: Ann Wylie, Galt Siegrist

Fall

ap Rhys Anneke The Use of Fossil Chysophyte Algae Cysts in Determining Paleoenviroments
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Timothy Collins A Revision of the Systematics, and the Paleoecology of the Silicified Gastrepoda of the Tonoloway Formation at Pinto, Maryland
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Elizabeth A. Creamer Surface Expression Mafic Pluton
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Eric Eisold An Evaluation of Landsat's Ability to Locate Serpentine in Maryland
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

Randolph Faux Geothermometry of quartz
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Mark Filar Gravel Resources Cedarville Natural Resources Management Area
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Lincoln Foreman Stratigraphy and Evolution of Map Area Near Warren Point, Pennsylvania
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Susan Greenbaum Predation as Related to Ornamentation in Pliocene Age Turritella
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Morris Levin Characterization of Part of the Sykesville Magnetite District by a Magnetometer
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Robert Manzitti Bellerophon gastropod from Hancock Maryland
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Jacob Margolis Trace Elements in Ore Minerals as Indicators of Ore Genesis at the Mineral Hill Mine, Carroll County, Maryland
Advisor: Jerry Weidner, Ann Wylie

Theodore Myer Effects of Volume Loss on Bulk Chemistry on Martinsburg Shale
Advisor: Charlie Onasch

Robert Pate The Relationships of Lineaments Derived From Landsat Imagery to Hydrocarbons in Western Maryland and Nearby States
Advisor: Galt Siegrist

Timothy Peck The Importance of Pebble Shape In Determining the Plunge Angle of Imbricated Fluvial Deposits
Advisor: Bob Ridky

Dennis Ray A proposal for a Mining Feasibility Study
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Joseph Segreti The effects of Size and Shape Vs. Surface Properties on the Cytotoxicity of Chrysotile
Advisor: Ann Wylie

James Stoll A Lithology Column for the Gulf 718-1 OCS Well
Advisor: Pete Stifel

Alan Strauss Morphological Variation of the Obstracode Krithe
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Larry Thomas A Geochemical Study of the Ijamsville Phyllite
Advisor: Jerry Weidner

John Varndell Zoning in Chesapeake Bay Dredge Piles
Advisor: Ann Wylie

Marc Yalom The Simulated Effect of Time of Satellite Overpass in Mapping Lineaments
Advisor: Charlie Onasch