Ph.D. Dissertations Since 1988
| Author | Title | Year | Professor |
| Mayes, Melanie | Solute Transport and U(VI) Reactivity in Natural Heterogeneous Sediments | 2006 | Phil Jardine & Larry McKay |
| Pace, Mary F. N. | Unsaturated Flow and Transport of 90Sr, Co(II)EDTA, and U(VI) in Undistriburbed Cores from the Hanford Formation, Hanford, WA | Dec. 2005 | L. D. McKay |
| Miller, Dana | – | Aug. 2005 | C. Mora |
| Tanner, Benjamin R. | C3/C4 Variations in High Salt Marsh Sediments: An Application of Compound Specific Isotopic Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers To Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Research | Aug. 2005 | M. E. Uhle |
| Slater–Reynolds, Valerie | Geochemical Investigations of Ordinary Chondrites, Sherrgottites, and Hawaiin Basalts | Aug. 2005 | H.Y. McSween |
| Stockstill, Karen Renee | Analysis of Martian Parental Melts and Thermal Infrared Studies of Putative Paleolake Basins on Mars | Aug. 2005 | H.Y. McSween |
| Whisner, Stephen Christopher | The Middle Ordovician Tellico–Sevier Syncline: A Stratigraphic, Structural and Paleoseimic Investigation | Aug. 2005 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Dean, William Gray | Relative Biodiversity Trends of the Cenozoic Caribbean Region: Investigations of Possible Causes and Issues of Scale using a Biostratigraphic Database of Corals, Echinoids, Bivalves and Gastropods | Dec. 2003 | M. L. McKinney |
| Bream, Brendan R. | Tectonic Implications of Para– and Orthogneiss Geochronology and Geochemistry From The Southern Appalachian Crystalline Core | Dec. 2002 | R. D. Hatcher |
| Stone, Katherine O. | Martian Xenon Components in The Basaltic Shergottite Meteorites | Dec. 2002 | H.Y. McSween |
| Wyatt, Michael | Analysis of Terrestrial and Martian Volcanic Compositions Using Thermal Emission Spectroscopy | May 2002 | H.Y. McSween |
| Wiesli, Rene' A. | Geochemistry of Eclogites and Metapelites from the Adula Nappe, Central Alps, Switzerland | Aug. 2002 | L.A. Taylor |
| Stiles, Cynthia A. | Pedogenic Relationships in a Texas Vertisol Climosequence Defined by Geochemical Mass Balance of Whole Soil and Chemistry of Iron–Manganese Nodules | Dec. 2001 | S.G. Driese |
| Montes, Camilo | Three Dimensional Structure and Kinematics of the Piedras–Girardot Foldbelt in the Northern Andes of Columbia | Dec. 2001 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Chen, Zhensheng | Diagenesis of Upper Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone in the Illinois Basin–Microscale Investigation of Basinal Fluid Migration and Mass Transfer | Dec. 2001 | C.I. Mora |
| Promprated, Prinya | Petrology and Geochemistry of Upper Mantle and Lower Crustal Xenoliths From Thailand | May, 2001 | L.A. Taylor |
| Lenczewski, Melissa | Biodegradation of TCE in Fractured Shaleand Saprolite | May, 2001 | L.D. McKay |
| Elick, Jennifer M. | Paleoenvironmental Interpretation ofTerrestrial Deposits: The Cap–Aux–OSand Fort Prevel Members, Battery PointFormation (Early–Middle Devonian),Gaspe Bay, Quebec | Dec. 1999 | S.G. Driese |
| Dunagan, Stan P. | Lacustrine and Palustrine Carbonatesfrom the Morrison Formation (UpperJurassic), East–Central Colorado, USA:Implications for Depositional Patterns, Paleoecology, Paleohydrology, and Paleoclimatology | Aug. 1998 | K.R. Walker |
| Tolliver, Robert L. | Diatom Succession Across the Late Pleistocene/Holocene Interval: An Example from the Southeastern United States. | May, 1998 | P.A. Delcourt |
| Sobolev, Vladimir | Mantle Metasomatism Beneath the Siberian Platform | Dec. 1997 | L.A. Taylor |
| Sarkar, Dibyendu | Adsorption of Mercury onto Variable Charge Surfaces | Dec. 1997 | K.C. Misra |
| Glumac, Bosiljka | Cessation of Grand Cycle Deposition in the Framework of passive Margin Evolution: Controlling Mechanisms and Effects on Carbonate Deposition and Diagenesis, Cambrian Maynardville Formation, Southern Appalachians | May, 1997 | K.R. Walker |
| Ghosh, Amitabha | A Thermal Model for the Differentiation of Asteroid 4 Vesta, Based on Radiogenic and Collisional Heating | May, 1997 | H.Y. McSween |
| Smart, Kevin Joseph | Kinematic Analysis and Mechanical Modeling of Roof Sequence Response to Blind Thrusting | Dec. 1996 | W.D. Dunne |
| Caudill, Michael R | Paleoclimate, Burial Compaction, and Perched Water Tables; Carboniferous Vertic Paleosols, Ohio and Tennessee | Dec. 1996 | S.G. Driese |
| Green, David Michael | A Morphometric Analysis of Pleistocene and Recent Succineidae (Pulmonata): The Dynamics of Stasis | Dec. 1995 | M.L. McKinney |
| Browning, Lauren B. | The Aqueous Alteration of CM Carbonaceous Chondrites | Dec. 1995 | H.Y. McSween |
| Bennett, Marvin E. III | Separating Thermal Metamorphism from Shock Metamorphism in the L Chondrite Asteroidal Parent Body. | May, 1995 | H.Y. McSween |
| Tobin, Kenneth John | Early Diagenesis of Selected Middle Ordovician Organic Buildup Deposits and Oolite Shoals from the Southern Appalachians. | Dec. 1994 | K.R. Walker |
| Frederick, Daniel Lee | Eocene and Oligocene Benthic Foraminifera in the Eastern Gulf Coast. | Dec. 1994 | M.L. McKinney |
| Roberson, Keith E. | Depositional History and Early Freshwater Diagenesis of Basal Middle Ordovician Peritidal Carbonate Rocks, East Tennessee. | May, 1994 | K.R. Walker |
| Hopson, Janet Lynne | Geology of Part of the Eastern Blue Ridge, Northeast Georgia and the Adjacent Carolinas. | May, 1994 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Qi, Qu | Petrology and Geochemistry of the Mantle/Crust Xenoliths and the Host Basalts from Southeastern China. | Dec. 1993 | L.A. Taylor |
| McClellan, Elizabeth Ann | Tectonic Evolution of the Einunnfjellet – Savalen Area, Hedmark fylke, Central–Southern Norwegian Caledonides. | Dec. 1993 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Dorsch, Joachim Oskar | Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Taconic Molasse in Southwestern Virginia. | Dec. 1993 | S.G. Driese |
| Steinhauff, David Mark | Sequence Stratigraphy and Comparative Diagenesis of Middle Ordovician Shelf to Shelf–Edge Limestones, The Copper Creek Allochthon, East Tennessee. | Aug. 1993 | K.R. Walker |
| Srinivasan, Krishnan | Depositional History, Sequence Stratigraphy and Diagenesis of Maryville, Limestone (Middle Cambrian), Southern Appalachians. | Aug. 1993 | K.R. Walker |
| Davis, Timothy L. | Lithostratigraphy, Structure, and Metamorphism of a Crystalline Thrust Terrane, Western Inner Piedmont, North Carolina. | May, 1993 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Connelly, Jeffrey B. | Structural Development, Strain History, and Timing of Deformation in the Eastern Great Smoky Mountains. | May, 1993 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Bolton, James C. | Depositional History of the Red Mountain Formation, Northwest Georgia and Northern Alabama. | Dec. 1992 | S.G. Driese |
| Lemiszki, Peter John | Geology of the Bethel Valley Quadrangle – Part of the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Reservation in the Southern Appalachian Foreland Fold–Thrust Belt and Fracture Mechanics Modeling of Extension Fracture Growth During Basin Subsidence and Buckle Folding. | Aug. 1992 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Liu, Angang | Structural Geology and Deformation History of the Brevard Fault Zone, Chauga Belt, and Inner Piedmont, Northwestern South Carolina and Adjacent Areas. | Dec. 1991 | R.D. Hatcher |
| Bryan, Jonathan R. | Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of Paleocene and Oligocene Carbonate Facies of the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. | Dec. 1991 | M.L. McKinney |
| Jin, Yuequn | Petrology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of Upper Mantle/Lower Crustal Xenoliths and Their Host Basalts from Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia. | Aug. 1991 | L.A. Taylor |
| Helms, Thomas Seaman | Metamorphism of Early Proterozoic Schists of the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota. | Aug. 1991 | T.C. Labotka |
| Foreman, J. Lincoln | Petrologic and Geochemical Evidence For Water–Rock Interaction In The Mixed Carbonate–Siliciclastic Nolichucky Shale (Upper Cambrian) In East Tennessee. | May, 1991 | K.R. Walker |
| Walter, Kathryn Anne | Geochemistry and Trace–Element Models for the Petrogenesis of the Mafic Rocks in the Hayesville Thrust Sheet. Georgia–North Carolina Blue Ridge. | Aug. 1990 | H.Y. McSween |
| Walker, James Daniel | The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Chilhowee Group (Uppermost Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian) of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina: The Evolution of the Laurentian–Iapetos Margin. | May, 1990 | S.G. Driese |
| Clement, Craig R. | Echinodern Faunas of the Decatur Limestone and Ross Formation (Upper Silurian to Lower Devonian) of West–Central Tennessee. | Dec. 1989 | T.W. Broadhead |
| Weber, Lawrence J. | Paleoenvironmental Analysis and Test of Stratigraphic Cyclicity in the Nolichucky Shale and Maynardville Limestone (Upper Cambrian) in Central East Tennessee. | Aug. 1988 | K.R. Walker |
| Gibson, Michael A. | Paleogeography, Depositional Environments, Paleoecology, and Biotic Interactions of the Rockhouse Limestone and Birdsong Shale Members of the Ross Formation (Lower Devonian), Western Tennessee. | Aug. 1988 | T.W. Broadhead |