Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Geology Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
In addition to this digital archive, physical copies of the Geology Department comps from 1972 to the present are available at Gould Library, though the most recent year may not be available yet. Comps from the years 2003 to 2006 are available on CD-ROM in the College Archives.
Submissions from 2015
Anders James Berglund, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Examining Possible Source Calderas for the Arikareean Tuffs of Western Nebraska Using Major Element Biotite Geochemistry
Luke McCoy Fairchild, Geology (GEOL) 2015, High temperature emplacement of clastic breccia dikes and implications for the development and magnetization of impact craters
William Edward Grimm, Geology (GEOL) 2015, A tectonic and provenance study of the Chugach-Prince William terrane, Alaska, with specific focus on the Paleogene Orca Group, Using U-Pb dating of detrital zircons
Emily Houlihan, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Age constraints of Mid-Continent Rift sedimentary rocks in Northern Minnesota using paleomagnetic analysis
Jabari Coleman Jones, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessing the Role of Turbulence in the Entrainment of an Individual Gravel Particle
Charles Omar Kaufman, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Burn severity effects on hill-slope soil characteristics and local variation four years after the Fourmile Fire, Boulder County, Colorado
Callum Laird McCulloch, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Timing of Proterozoic deformation of the Needle Mountains, Colorado: using U/Pb isotope geochronology to unravel the Yavapai Orogeny
Katherine Chandler McLellan, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Timing of the Fluvial Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, northwest Wyoming, USA
III Frank Rudolph Molinek, Geology (GEOL) 2015, etrital zircon U/Pb ages and provenance study of the Paleocene to Miocene Tofino basin sedimentary sequence, Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Leah Nelson, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Evaluating a method of thermal infrared remote sensing of sub-debris ice ablation: Emmons Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington
Jayne Herta Pasternak, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Geophysical explorations: a case study of two archaeological sites in Grevena, Greece: Aghios Giorgios Aghia Varvara and Itea Panaghia/Profitis Ilias
Jeremy Spencer Randolph-Flagg, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Remote Sensing of Water Isotopes to Detect Transpiration: An Initial Investigation in the Amazon and central Siberia
Ian R. B. Reeves, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessment of Two Stormwater Retention Ponds in the Spring Creek Watershed, Northfield, MN: Flood Mitigation Capabilities and Sedimentological History
Ian R. B. Reeves, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Seismology in Theory and Practice: Translation of the Disputatio Philosophica De Terraemotibus Anni 1670
Julia Anne Reich, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Microbial response to nitrogen deposition, invasive species presence, and flooding in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain, La Crosse, WI
Lauren M. Salberg, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessing Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) as a Best Management Practice to Remove Nitrates in Constructed Lakes in Northfield, MN
Erica Kimberly Sheline, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Examining Phosphate Precipitation: Impact of Biological Nucleation Sites on the Precipitation of Fluorapatite Crystals as Liesegang Bands in a Double-Diffusion Setup
Jackson Vanfleet-Brown, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Plant dynamics and soils influencing ecological restoration of Potentilla hickmanii at Rancho Corral de Tierra, San Mateo County, California
Submissions from 2014
Sarah Ostergren Alexander, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Using field and laboratory data to characterize deformation in the outside corner of a ridge-transform intersection in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Catherine Ann Christenson, Geology (GEOL) 2014, A Site History and Soil Contamination Source Study in the Area of 5th and 7th Streets and Washington and Water Streets, Northfield, MN
Anderson Richard Cole, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Provenance analyses of siliciclastic dikes and Paleozoic formations near Colorado Springs, CO using detrital zircon U/Pb ages
John Rybeck Garlow, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Grain shape and microtexture analysis to interpret provenance and transport history of Upper Mississippi Valley Cambrian - Ordovican supermature quartz arenites
Mary Reagan Harvey, Geology (GEOL) 2014, A Geochemical analysis of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Rachel Elizabeth Johnson, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Delta Progradation in a Flood Control Reservoir: A Case Study from Littleville Lake, Huntington, MA
Maureen Jennings Kahn, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Constraining exhumation using zircon (U-Th)/He dating in the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountains, Idaho
Elizabeth Ann Kimberly, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Aggradation and Avulsions: A Case Study of a Carbon River Floodplain, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Ryan LeVan Lawrence, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Geochemistry of the Early Eocene Coast Range Volcanic Province, Pacific Northwestern United States, and Evidence for Plume-Ridge Interaction
Lucy Fay Livesay, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Deformation bands in the Etchegoin Formation at Parkfield: Implications for stresses on the San Andreas Fault in Central California
Chloe Nelson, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Petrography and Thermobarometry of a Metamorphosed Sedimentary Screen associated with the Western Idaho Shear Zone, West Mountain, Idaho
MacKenzie A. C. Persen, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Provenance of pebbles from the Kataboi Member of the Nachukui Formation near the Turkwel River, Turkana Basin, Kenya
Mariah Josephine Radue, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Three-dimensional fabric analysis and deformation of the South Mountain anticline, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Brianna Joy Rick, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Provenance of the Chugach-Prince William terrane through U/Pb dating of detrital zircons, Baranof Island, SE Alaska
Milana Lauren Socha, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Complexities of Aging Mussels from the Cannon River
Kaopuanani Nani O Kao Sutton, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Exploration of Groundwater Resources in Mauna Kea, Island of Hawaii
Chelsea Anna Wagner, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Paleomagnetic constraints on the location of a fossil spreading ridge in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Cameron Joseph Webb, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Distribution and geologic analysis of the indoor geohazard of radon gas in Clark County, Washington
Joshua Edward Zoellmer, Geology (GEOL) 2014, An evaluation of EO-1 Hyperion data in mapping surficial geology near Loiyangalani, Northern Kenya
Submissions from 2013
Thomas H. Birren, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Petrology of the Nickel Lake Macrodike: Implications for Exploration of Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits, Duluth Complex, Minnesota
Laura Danielle Karson, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Urban Science Education in the United States: Developing Lesson Plans to Overcome Misconceptions
Taylor J. LaCasse, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Using a coarse-grained conglomerate to investigate lateral offset along the Leavenworth Fault Zone, North Cascades, Washington
Schuyler Van Antwerp Metcalf, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Geochemsitry of Twin Sisters Creek dike swarm, Fort Bayard, New Mexico: Evidence for low angle subduction of the Farallon plate during the Laramide Orogeny
Jennifer Sophie Piela, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Exploring relationships between climate and topography using 10Be cosmogenic nuclide- derived erosion rates and stream long profiles in the Western Ghats, India
Caroline Rebecca Scheevel, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Determining crustal velocities of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada using local mine blasts
Tyler Clarisse Schuetz, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Examining the paleoenvironment of the Chickaloon Formation, Matanuska Valley, Alaska through Campeloma and Unionoida fossil assemblages
Submissions from 2012
Charlotte Jean Alster, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Microbial enzymatic response to reduced precipitation and increased nitrogen in a southern Californian grassland
Kristofer Erik Asp, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Crystallization History of the Sawbill Lake Intrusion
Sarah Frances Berry, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Dendrohydrological δ18O Stable Isotopic Forward Modeling of Carapa Guianensis Tree Ring Cellulose for the Determination of Climate Change Variability in Source Waters
Adam Charles Denny, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Geochemistry of the Lower Crescent Formation, Washington, and Reevaluation of Proposed Formation Hypotheses
Megan Dunleavy Ferre, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Rainsplash Diffusion: Experimental Smoothing of Landscapes
Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A U/Pb detrital zircon provenance study of the flysch of the Paleogene Orca Group, Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Alaska
Laura Allison Hockenbury, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The Way of the Arun: Interdependent Intricacies of Stream Chemistry in the Nepal Himalayas
Evan Michael Johnson, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Assessment of the Effects of Four Small Bridge Abutments on the Stability of the Banks of the Cannon River in the Cowling Arboretum, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Elizabeth Anne Lundstrom, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Variations in hydrothermal chloride flux in the area of ongoing uplift west of South Sister volcano, Oregon
Sarah Rebecca Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A potential terrane boundary within the Wyoming Province along the Yellowstone River shear zone in northern Yellowstone National Park, USA
Ailsa Elizabeth Caroline McCulloch, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Using a Natural Tidal Slug to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity of Wetland Soils in the Palo Alto Baylands, San Francisco Bay
Peter Scheuermann, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Metamorphic Petrology and Structural Geology of the Granite Peak Screen, Western Idaho Shear Zone, Cascade, Idaho
Zach Walker Stewart, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Eolian and Subaqueous Sedimentary Structures of the Devils Island Sandstone, Sand Island, Wisconsin (U.S.A.)
Angus Anson Vaughan, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Paleomagnetic data from 1.1 Ga Osler Group basalt flows on Simpson Island, Ontario: Evidence for rapid plate motion of Laurentia in the late Mesoproterozoic
Alex Earl Walker, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Effects of a 1970 restoration planting on soil in the Carleton College Lower Arboretum, Northfield, MN
Nina Millicent Whitney, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Geochemical analysis of Tertiary dikes emplaced in the Hrafnfjordur central volcano, northwest Iceland: Implications for dike origin
Griffin Arthur Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The effect of annual cover crop growth on soil moisture of a temperate Minnesota Mollisol
Submissions from 2011
Miki Annette Beavis, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Soil Erosion Risk Assessment near Archaeological Sites in Grevena, Northwestern Greece using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and GIS
Lillian Naomi Betke-Brunswick, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Kinematic modeling of dike deformation near the Husavik-Flatey fault, Flateyjarskagi, Iceland
Anne Lightfoot Boucher, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Analysis of geomorphic evidence for a late Wisconsinan alpine glaciation in the Adirondack High Peaks region, New York
Hannah Elizabeth Fariss, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Lateral variability in a transgressive systems tract of the Mazomanie Formation at the Boomsite, Stillwater, MN: Evidence for estuarine deposition?
Nicholas Donald Holschuh, Geology (GEOL) 2011, An Analysis of Tsunami Sensitivity to Fault Plane Orientation Using a Rapid Linear Model
Alice Caroline Newman, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Using small-scale structures as a tool for understanding regional deformation: A study of deformation bands and faults at Kettleman Hills, California
Masaru Konishi Nobu, Geology (GEOL) 2011, The euxinic zone anaerobic phototrophic microbial ecology of meromictic Green Lake as an analogue for Proterozoic ocean microbial ecology
Benjamin H. Parks, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Metamorphic Petrology of Archean Metapelites and Ironstones in the Garnet Hill Area, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Noah Gabriel Randolph-Flagg, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Variations in Heat Advected from Devils Kitchen Fumarolic Area, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, 1922-2010
Colin Mackenzie Sinclair, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Glacial processes and the changing landscape of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
Analeisha Marie Vang, Geology (GEOL) 2011, A Pre-Dam Removal Assessment: The Ames Mill Dam, Northfield, MN
Andrew Philip Walters, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Local versus global control of ?13C isotope excursions in the Ordovician (Turinian) Platteville Formation, southeastern Minnesota and eastern Iowa
Adrienne Kathleen Wilber, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Late Quaternary climate in the southern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska based on stable isotope analysis of lake sediment
Amanda Rose Yourd, Geology (GEOL) 2011, An examination of the development of Kettleman Hills North Dome, central California using paleomagnetic and map-based analysis
Submissions from 2010
Lila Battis, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Auntie Clementine's Guide to Fossils: A Children's Book
Laura Kathleen Bazzetta, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Linking River Morphology to Larval Drift of an Endangered Sturgeon
James Bethune, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Snowpack trends in the contributing region to the Central Valley of California
David Brink-Roby, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Fault development in the Cathedral Peak Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada batholith: Evidence for directional emplacement of the Johnson Granite Porphyry
Sarah E. Crump, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Paleomagnetic data from the Rinconada fault in central California: Evidence for off-fault deformation
Travis Drake, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Transient Storage, Discharge, and Nutrient Uptake in Small Streams of the Kolyma River Basin, Siberia
Kimberly J. Elson, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Substrate preference of freshwater mussels in the Cannon River, Northfield, Minnesota
Jordan David Epstein, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Paleomagnetism and Geochemistry of Tertiary Intrusions and Flows Associated with the Kootznahoo Formation near Kake, Southeast Alaska, and Implications for the Alexander Terrane
Nathan Samuel Evenson, Geology (GEOL) 2010, U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation, southeastern Alaska: A sedimentary record of Coast Mountains exhumation
Neil Foley, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes in the Formation of Mars
Mark William Hagemann, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Assessment of potential seasonal climate signals preserved in a late Pleistocene stalagmite from central Texas
Lauren Elizabeth Howell, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Characterizing shallow intrasedimentary faults using magnetic depth estimation methods: Preliminary results of a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey at the San Luis Basin, south-central Colorado
William Z. Jacobson, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Liquefaction features in Cantorian-Ordovician boundary strata of southeastern Minnesota: evidence for paleoseismicity in the cratonic interior?
Samuel A. Kanner, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Using Low and High Frequency Subbottom Surveys to Locate Cretaceous and Quaternary Sediments in Block Island Sound: an Analysis to Estimate the Cost of an Offshore Wind Farm
Zachary Philip Montes, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Field and microstrucural observations of granulite facies rocks, Hamilton Downs, Mt. Hay Block, central Australia
Allison Pfeiffer, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Effects of soil disturbance on aggregation and mineral-associated carbon and nitrogen storage
Andrew Douglas Ritts, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Limnological Analysis of the Groundwater, Biological, and Morphological Factors in Relation to Stratification and Dissolved Oxygen Levels of the North and South Basins of Roosevelt Lake, MN
Nathaniel A. Ryan, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Microstructures of a deformed kyanite-quartz vein of the Raft River Mountains in northwest Utah
Julia Elizabeth Schwarz, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Influence of lithology and climate on spring chemistry in the Upper Deschutes River watershed, Oregon
Chelsea Phipps Scott, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Kinematic modeling of deformation in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Mahima Swarup, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Tectonic evolution of the Menderes massif core complex and Alasehir graben, southwestern Turkey: counter evidence to a rolling-hinge mechanism
Smith Stuart Alan Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Characterization of two atypical refractory inclusions from separate CV3 chondritic meteorites: Petrogenesis in the early solar system
Allison R. Vitkus, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Microfossil fauna from the Blue Earth Siltstone of the Lower Ordovician Prairie du Chien Group, Minnesota, USA
Sibo Wang, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Reconstructions of Late Ordovician crinoids and bryozoans from the Decorah Shale, Upper Mississippi Valley
Sophie Gabrielle Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Soil microbial biomass and respiration dynamics in a 14 year chronosequence of restored tallgrass prairie
