Independent and original research is a valuable part of an undergraduate education as a Geology major, and all Geology majors complete a research project during their senior year. Senior research provides students the opportunity to explore a particular sub-discipline of geology in detail and to apply the research skills that they have mastered in their geology coursework to a specific research question they find fascinating.
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Geology Senior Theses from 2002
Hydrogeology of an Ancient Cisten on Bieta Giyorgis in Axum, Ethiopia, Jeffery Robert Soltess
Structural Geometry of the Arvonia and Long Island synclines, Virginia Piedmont, Ethan Weikel
Geology Senior Theses from 2001
The Correlation of Knickpoints of the James River and other Major tributaries in the Piedmont of Virginia, Krisen Axselle
Influence of underlying geology on seasonal nearshore sediment character and morphology, Jesse H. Baldwin
The Impact of the Sugar Hollow Reservoir on the Discharge on the Moormans River, Lisa Coughlin
The age and origin of pseudoachylyte in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Kenneth J. Davis
Mineralogical and Chemical aiability plus a Three-AMphibole Occurence in an Outcrop of the Chopawamsic Formation, Cenral Piedmont Province, Virginia, Rebecca A. Dill
Knickpoints in the James River, Ian M. Dubinski
The Geology of the Southeastern Part of the Columbia 7.5' Quadrangle, John DuBose
Vorticity and Strain Analysis of Transpressional and Extensional High-Strain Zones: Examples from the Arizona Basin and Range and Virginia Piedmont, Eleanor L. Eyster
The Structural History of the Cenral Piedmon Fault Zone in Central Virginia, Barbara E. Francis
Neotectonics of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Stephen B. Gallagher
The Effect of Land Use Change on the Water Chemistry and Suspended Sediment in he Crossroads Area, Williamsburg, Virginia, Donna Gatliff
Petrologic and Structural Analysis of the Columbia Pluton, Central Virginia Piedmont, Matthew C. Goodman
Quantifying the impact of urban runoff through a comparison of developed and undeveloped stream basins, Ryan Greene-Roesel
Fluvial Terraces of the James River, Powhatan and Coochland Counties, Virginia, Willow Johnson
Chert as an Indicator in River Sediments of the James River Drainage Basin, Valley and Ridge Province, Virginia, Kristen Markman
Diagenesis of a Fossil Whate and Associated Fauna from the Yorktown Formation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Newport New, Virginia, WIlliam Phillip Sadler III
Adventures in Mud: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Active Mud Layer of the York River Estuary, Carrie L. Snyder
Areal Extent, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Granites in the State Farm Gneiss, Goochland Terrane, Virginia, Adam K. Teepe
History of Sedimentation of the Lake Powell basin, James City County, Virginia, Jon Weston-Friedrichs
Geology Senior Theses from 2000
The Taxonomy and Taphonomy of the Monk-Iverson-Haddock Cetaceans, found near St. Stephens Church, King and Queen County, Virginia, David Agresto
High-Strain Zones and Contact Relationships in he Basement Complex of the Blue Ridge Province in Madison County, Virginia, Peter J. Berquist
Evolution of sand dunes a Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Sandbridge, Virginia, Hannah Cupp
Determining uplift ad extension rates along the Cordillera Blanca Detachment Fault of the Central Peruvian Andes, Megan DeSmedt
Color Variation in Kyanite from the Central Piedmont Province, Virginia: Causes and Implications, Susan E. Dickerson
Shoreline Erosion Processes and Rates on the Carter's Grove Bluffs James City County, Virginia, Lacey E. England
The Effect of Urbanization on Waller Mill Reservoir, York County, Virginia, Russ Lotspeich
The Effect of the Chesapeake ay Impact Crater on the Yorktown-Eastover Aquifer, Yorktown Virginia, Suzanne M. Moore
Tidal Oscillations and their Effects on Groundwater Table of James River Fort, Jamestown Virginia, Cynthia Roller
Hydraulic Variables and Their Affect on the Morphology Of the Robinson River Valley Madison County, Virginia, Richard H. Santoro II
Morpholohy and Stratigraphy of Carolina Bays in Chesterfield Couny, Virginia, Sara Spradlin
The Origin of Mafic and Ulramafic Rock Bodies in the Blue Ridge Province, Madison Couny, Virginia, Jonathan R. Weiss
