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 2010
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
Submissions from 2009
Elsass Kirke Anderson, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Hydraulic conductivity of Pliocene & Pleistocene sediments in the San Diego Bay subsurface
Jonathan Aronson, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Overhauser magnetometer survey of Midcontinent Rift accomodation zone in southeastern Minnesota and implications for subsurface structure
Kathryn Buckner, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Timing development: a new approach to ANWR
Kort Butler, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Preliminary seismic refraction survey of the Cannon River Wilderness Park
Lauren Colwell, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Evidence for differential Louisville and Emperor-Hawaiian mantle plume motion based on 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Tiffany F. Cox, Geology (GEOL) 2009, June 2006 seismic swarm and dike emplacement beneath the Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, Mexico
Aaron Fricke, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Precambrian geologic history of the Gravelly Range, southwest Montana
Mary A. Henke-Haney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, From formation to faucet: groundwater in Southeast Minnesota
Justin LaMont, Geology (GEOL) 2009, A survey of throughgoing fractures in Upper Ordovician carbonate rocks, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Dylan Scott Linet, Geology (GEOL) 2009, The Spring Creek project series: two geology projects to be taught at the introductory level
Jessica Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Using major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of melt inclusions to study magma dynamics and evolution at Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Maija Sipola, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Geomorphologic and anthropogenic impacts on artifact distribution within the Mugello Valley, Tuscany, Italy
Kristin Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Characterization of a partitioned section of the Hoh Serh Fault: Mongolian Altai
Phillip Varela, Geology (GEOL) 2009, New evidence for reconstructing the marine faunal assemblage of the Decorah formation (southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa, USA): a qualitative survey of microfossils.
Elizabeth Webb, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Re-mapping the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami inundation in the Banda Aceh region with attention to probable sea level rise
Submissions from 2004
David J. Auerbach, Geology (GEOL) 2004, The Steptoean Positive Isotopic Carbon Excursion (SPICE) in siliciclastic facies of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Implications for mass extinction and sea level change in the Upper Cambrian
Josep Graly, Geology (GEOL) 2004, An Intrusive Complex in the Khövsgöl Ulaanbadrakhin Terrane, southeastern Mongolia
Bess Koffman, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a bacterial mat community, Le Grotte di Frasassi, Italy
Sarah Margoles, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Terrestrial carbon storage and sedimentation in the Coon Creek Watershed, Wisconsin
Leah Morgan, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Molecular Evidence for Microbially-Mediated Sulfur Cycling in the Deep Subsurface of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa
