Works of the Robert L. Bolin Graduate School of Geology

Theses have passed oral defense and review by an individual research committee composed of three or more graduate faculty.

Student authors may give permission for electronic access to their work. Electronic copies of accessible works are available through the Moffett Library Website.

Aaron, Joshua H., 2019, Subsurface Isopach Mapping of the Major Depositional Sequences of the Ordovician Bromide Formation, South Central Oklahoma. (supervised by J.R. Carlucci).

Alexis, Christopher, 2024, Machine Learning Application in Predictive Mineral Mapping of Southwestern Uganda: Leveraging Airborne Magnetic, Radiometric, and Electromagnetic Data, 158 p., (supervised by A.B. Katumwehe).

Bui,  Steve, 2020, Petrology and Core Well Log Integration of the King Sand in West-Central Texas, 175 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Baugh, Christopher A., 2018, Geologic Mapping and Section Assessment of the Dalquest Desert Research Station, Texas, 85 p. and 2 plates. (supervised by J.D. Price). Library Link

Bergigh, Faisel, 2020, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of K-Field Murzuq Basin, Libya, 135 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Blount, Michelle C., 2017, Reservoir Characterization of the Pontotoc Group, Robberson Field: in Garvin County, Oklahoma, 138 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh). Library Link

Choudhry, Abdul Rauf, 2020, Reservoir Characterization of the Sawan Block, Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan, 88 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Cummings, Chad S., 2022, Importance of Tectonics and Structure of the Knox-Baylor Basin as Framework Controls, 101 p. (supervised by A.B. Katumwehe).

Dillard, Bud, 2020, The Distribution of Effective Porosity from Proximal Shelf to Distal Basin Environment: Lower Spraberry Jo-Mill Sandstone in Borden, Dawson, Howard and Martin Counties, Texas, 194 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Grasmick, Ethan, 2020, Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology of Middle Permian Strata in the Brooks Field, Irion County, Texas, 96 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Hamilton, Chad, 2022, Analysis of the K-feldspar Megacrysts of the Town Mountain Granite, Central Texas, 88 p. (supervised by J.D. Price). 

Hillard, Aarron, 2023, The Mapping and Analysis of the Craterville Facies of the Quanah Granite in the Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, 149 p. (supervised by J.D. Price). 

Hughes, Dillon, 2020, Characterization of Calcite Features in the Rawls Formation, Dalquest Desert Research Station, Texas, 81 p. (supervised by J.D. Price).

Jacobs, Gabriel S., 2017, Geometric Morphometric Ontogeny of the Phacopid Trilobite Calyptaulax: Shape Change During the Meraspid-Holaspid Transition, submitted journal article, 47 p., 12 figures, and 2 tables. (supervised by J.R. Carlucci). Library Link

Masaoud, Mohamed H., 2017, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of the Meghil Field, Sirte Basin, Libya, 220 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh). Library Link

Ola, Damilola, 2023, Evidence of Temporal Strain in the Evolution of Magma Poor Rifts; an Example of the Albertine Rift, 90 p. (supervised by A.B. Katumwehe).

Osuagwu, Bright, 2023, 3D Structural Mapping and Seismic Attributes Analysis for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of Semliki Basin, Western Branch, East African Rift System, 81 p. (supervised by A.B. Katumwehe).

Parker, Evan, 2022, Geospatial Analysis of Features on the Dalquest Desert Research Station, Big Bend, Texas, 66 p. (supervised by J.D. Price).

Quevy, Amber, 2019, Geochemical and Structural Constraints on Pleistocene Volcanism in the Central Oregon Eastern High Cascades, 146 p. (supervised by J.D. Price).

Saucedo, Jared, 2020, An Investigation of Water Production in the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Using Multivariate Statistics and Integrated Reservoir Characterization Techniques, 78 p. (supervised by A.B. Katumwehe).

Schmidt, Megan N., 2021, The origin and nature of heterogeneities within the Cache Granite, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma,  125 p. (supervised by J.D. Price).

Scott, Ashley, 2020, A Petrographic Examination of the Meter-Scale Cycles within the Ordovician Mountain Lake Member of the Bromide Formation, South-Central Oklahoma, 94 p. (supervised by J.R. Carlucci).

Scribner, Benjamin, 2017, Integrating Subsurface Data into a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Ordovician Bromide Formation, South-Central Oklahoma, (supervised by J.R. Carlucci).

Stancik, Lauren, 2024, State of the Cleithrum in Early Permian North American Tetrapods, 96 p. (supervised by S.J. Rosscoe).

Stevenson, Alexandria, 2020, Characterizing Anomalous Granites within the Quanah Granite Pluton, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma. 104 p. (supervised by J.D. Price).

Stuckey, Kyle, 2022, Environment of Deposition and Evaluation of a Failed Waterflood in the Pennsylvanian Morris Sandstone, Lake Coleman Field, Coleman County, Texas, 154 p. (supervised by W.S. Meddaugh).

Rolle, Wiltany, 2024, The Presence of Microplastics in Sand Samples on Long Beach, Long Island, New York, 49 p. (supervised by S.J. Rosscoe).