Graduate Students
John Rockhold, M.S. (1987) Origin of rhythmic layering in the Calamity Peak satellite pluton of the Harney Peak Granite, South Dakota.
G. Wesley McCall, M.S (1987) Implications of the petrogenesis of lamprophyres and other igneous rocks for the Archean evolution of the Southern VGC, NE Minnesota. (Co-advised with R. Bauer.
Thomas Pallesen, M.S. (1988) Compositional and textural zonation in the Silvermine Granite, Missouri: the role of liquid fractionation and K-metasomatism in the formation of a W-Sn deposit .
Craig Schwandt, M.S. (1988) The petrogenesis of composite mafic-felsic dikes from the Vermilion granitic complex. (Co-advised with R. Bauer.)
Timothy Sheehan, M.S. (1989) Petrogenesis of selected migmatites from the Vermilion granitic complex of Northeastern Minnesota. (Co-advised with R. Bauer.)
Deborah Bergfeld, M.S. (1994) Polymetamorphism in the Panamint Mountains, California : stable isotope evidence for thermal conditions and origins of metamorphic fluids.
Kim Ternes, M.S. (1995) Fluid inclusion evidence for the evolution of magmatic fluids in the Harney Peak Granite, Black Hills, South Dakota
Miriam Hart, M.S. Petrogenesis of alkalic rhyolites near the Pea Ridge iron mine, Missouri.
Jennifer Diestlehorst, M.S. (1999) Analysis of regional metamorphic and deformational fabrics in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota. (Co-advised with R. Bauer.)
Cindy Bartlett, M.S. (1999) Fertility of metasedimentary rocks during anatexis: An example from the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Mona-Liza Sirbescu, Ph.D. (2002) Chemical evolution of fluids in the Harney Peak Granite-Pegmatite system, Black Hills, South Dakota.
Xiaojun Cui, Ph.D. (2002) Hydrodynamics of fluid flow in contact aureoles. (Co-advised with M. Liu.)
Timothy Huff, M.S. (2004) Composition of metamorphic fluids in the Black Hills, South Dakota, as revealed by fluid inclusions.
Ry Stone, M.S. (2005) Compositional controls on incipient garnet growth in metapelites.
Joseph Hill, Ph.D. (2006) Thermotectonic history of the Precambrian terrane in the Black Hills, South Dakota. (Co-advised with R. Bauer.)
Angela Van Boening, M.S. (2007) Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of mafic rocks in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Jennifer Maloney, M.S. (2007) Lithium and lithium isotopes in tourmaline as indicators of crystallization processes: A study of San Diego County pegmatites, California.
Sarah Stephenson, M.S. (2010) Composition of fluids associated with recrystallization of quartzite in the EJB aureole, White Mountains, California.
Yanying Chen, M.S. (2012) Unraveling the fluid-present metamorphism of schists from garnet compositions in the Black Hills, South Dakota
Benjamin Gross, M.S. (2013) Li isotope evidence for rates of tourmaline growth in granitic pegmatites.
Mark Grzovic, M.S. (2013) Compositions of magmatic fluids in the Harney Peak Granite, South Dakota: Implications for minor element solubility in magmas and metasomatism.
Ashraf Gafeer, M.S. (2013) Petrogenesis of main petrologic and chronologic volcanic phases in the Gharyan Province, NW Libya.
Elizabeth Gammel, M.S (2014). Role of Li and B bearing fluids in crystallization and alteration of granitic pegmatites, San Diego, California.
Eric Nowariak, M.S. (2016) Paleoproterozoic metamorphic, structural, and tectonic evolution of the Hartville Uplift, southeastern Wyoming.
Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Córdoba. M.S. (2016) Geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic setting of igneous rocks of the Hartville Uplift, eastern Wyoming.
Yanying Chen, Ph.D. (2017) Influences of pluton growth on magma crystallinity, aureole rheology, chamber stability and metamorphic fluid flow: Numerical modeling of the growth of Papoose Flat Pluton, White-Inyo Range, California .
Elizabeth Gammel, Ph.D. (2018) Petrogenesis of the White-Inyo continental arc rocks, California.
Ashraf Gafeer, Ph.D. (2021) Petrogenesis of Libyan volcanic provinces.
Senior Theses Students
D. Weinrich, J. Denison, J. Fels, E. Norton, R. Schafer, T. Bennett