Recent Theses

Recent MS theses completed under LawtonÕs supervision illustrate the types of projects that students undertake.

Hunt, G.J., in prep., U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Lower Cretaceous Conglomerates of Utah Cordilleran Foreland Basin--Implications for Detrital Sources, Conglomerate Correlations and Sediment Dispersal Networks [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University.

Buller, C.D., in prep., The Influence of Salt on Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Cutler Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University.

Hannah, P.T., 2009, Outcrop Analysis of an Allochthonous Salt Canopy and Salt System, Eastern Willouran Ranges, South Australia [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 90 p.

Leggett, W.J., 2009, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Geochronology of Lower and Middle Jurassic Rocks Near Rancho San Martin del Rincon, North-central Sonora, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 203 p.

Hearon, T.E., IV, 2008, Geology and Tectonics of Neoproterozoic Salt Diapirs and Salt Sheets in the Eastern Willouran Ranges, South Australia [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 138 p.

Holbrook, C.W., 2008, Geology and Stratigraphy of Cerro La Paz and Vicinity, La Popa Basin, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 71 p.

Mauel, D.J., 2008, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geochronology of Upper Jurassic Rocks of the Altar-Cucurpe Basin in the Vicinity of Cucurpe, North-central Sonora, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 174 p.

Welle, B.A., 2008, Testing the Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits-Mesaverde Fluvial Connection: A Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronologic and Petrographic Provenance Approach [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 145 p.

Bradford, I.A., 2007, Provenance of the Difunta Group (Maastrichtian-Paleogene) as Determined by Petrography and Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, La Popa and Parras Basins, Northeastern Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 209 p.

Furgal, S.A., 2006, Sedimentary geochemistry and Provenance of Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene Sandstones in the La Popa Basin Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 68 p. (Advised jointly with N.J. McMillan).

Peryam, T.C., 2006, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Geochronology and Sediment Provenance of Lower Cretaceous Strata of the Altar-Cucurpe Basin, North-central Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 247 p.

Christensen, A.E., 2005, Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Provenance of the Drip Tank Member, Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau, Southwestern Utah: New Mexico State University, 97 p.

Couch, R.D., 2005, Style, Timing and Uplift History of the Frontal Sierra Madre Oriental Determined Through Analysis of Growth Strata and Vitrinite Reflectance: New Mexico State University, 234 p.

Shipley, K.W., 2004, Ejecta-bearing Deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and Their Implications for Timing of Hidalgoan (Laramide) Folding, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 146 p.

Waidmann, B.R., 2004, Geometries of Strata in a Salt-withdrawal Basin as Predictors of Shortening-driven Diapir Tectonics: Carroza Formation, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 131 p.

Graff, K.S., 2003, Development of a Vertical Salt Weld, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 127 p.

Hon, K.D., 2001, Salt-influenced Growth-stratal Geometries and Structure of the Muerto Formation Adjacent to an Ancient Secondary Salt Weld, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 97 p.

Shannon, K., 2001, Structural Geology and Tectonostratigraphic Development of Part of the La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 84 p.

Shelley, D.C., 2001, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petrology of the Paleocene Upper Sandstone Member of the Potrerillos Formation, La Popa Basin, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 212 p.

Weislogel, A.L., 2001, The Influence of Diapirism and Foreland Evolution on the Depositional System, Stratigraphy, and Petrology of the Maastrichtian Muerto Formation, La Popa Basin, Mexico [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 310 p.

Pollock, S.L., 1999, Provenance, Geometry, Lithofacies, and Age of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Cordilleran Foreland Basin, Southern Utah [M.S. thesis]: New Mexico State University, 117 p.