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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Dr. Robert A. Gastaldo

Current Students:

• STEVANOVIC, IVANA. A Paleontological Study of an Early Pennsylvanian Forest Preserved Above the Blue Creek Coal Seam, Pottsville Formation, northwestern Alabama.
FUNDED BY:
• The Paleontological Society
• The Paleobiological Fund
• Southeastern Section of GSA
• Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

• WARE, WILLIAM N. A Paleoecological Study of an In Situ Peat-forming Carboniferous Forest in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama.
FUNDED BY:
• The Paleontological Society
• The Paleobiological Fund
• Southeastern Section of GSA
• Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

Matriculated Students:

• BLANTON-HOOKS, ALLYN. 21 March 2000. Non-Thesis Option.
  • Independent Project: Whole Plant Reconstruction of a Recently Discovered Isoetalean Lycopsid from the Late Mississippian of the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama.

• SLONE, JAMES C. 19 March 1999. Taphonomy of Holocene Palynomorphs in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Alabama. 117 p. + CD ROM THESIS ABSTRACT

• PEDENTCHOUK, NICOLAI. 12 March 1997. Palynofacies Analysis of Holocene Sediments in the Rajang River Delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia. 100 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• WEBSTER, WILLIAM A. 12 March 1997. Heavy Metal Trends in Subsurface Sediments of Mudhole Creek and Little Bateau Bay, Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Baldwin County, Alabama. 125 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• FENG, WEIWEI. 9 December 1994. Palynofacies Analysis of Channel Deposits of The Rajang River Delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia. 82 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• BRYANT, TERRY W. 8 June 1994. Criteria to Aid in the Establishment of Genetic Boundaries Within a Carboniferous Basin: Mary Lee Coal Zone, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. 159 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• FELTON, DAVID SCOTT. 13 December 1991. Genesis And Development of Kramer's Splay, Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Southern Alabama. 183 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• DEGGES, CARLETON WILLIAM. 13 December 1991. Carboniferous Pith-Casting Mechanisms and Sedimentology of the Mary Lee Coal-Seam Split in Northwestern Walker County, Alabama. 120 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• DEMKO, TIMOTHY MICHAEL. 30 August 1990. Paleogeography and Depositional Environments of the Lower Mary Lee Coal Zone, Pottsville Formation Warrior Basin, Northwestern Alabama. 195 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• LIU, YUEJIN. 16 March 1990. Provenance, Paleoenvironments And the Transgressive Character of the Upper Mary Lee Coal Zone, Lower Pennsylvanian "Pottsville" Formation, Northwestern Alabama. 173 p. THESIS ABSTRACT

• HAAS, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN. 10 June 1988. Barrier Island Depositional Systems in the Black Warrior Basin, Lower Pennsylvanian Parkwood and Pottsville Formations in northwestern Alabama. 172 p.

• GIBSON, MICHAEL ALLEN. 26 August 1983. The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Invertebrate Megafauna Associated with the Upper Cliff Coals, Plateau Coalfield, Alabama. 171 p.

• WOERNER, ERIC GERARD. 28 August 1981. A Palynological Investigation of the Mary Lee and Blue Creek Coal Seams in the Northern Black Warrior Basin, Alabama. 115 p. 1 pl.

• GRAY, TONY DOUGLAS. 10 June 1981. Depositional Systems of the Upper Cliff Coals in a Portion of the Plateau Coal Field, Alabama. 119 p.

SERVED AS COMMITTEE MEMBER

• BARNETT, WAYNE STEPHEN. 28 August 1981. A Morphometric, Stratigraphic and Paleoecologic Analysis of the Genera Voluticorbis and Athleta (Gastropoda, Voluta) from the Paleocene and Eocene Epochs of Alabama. 222 p.

• REYNOLDS, WILLIAM KENNEDY. 10 December 1981. Distribution and Paleoecology of Benthic Foraminifera in the Tallahatta Formation in Alabama. 177 p.

• CRAWFORD, JOSEPH EDWARD. 10 December 1981. Kinetics of Phase Transformation Phenomena in the System Fe-S-H₂ Between 350 C and 400 C. 91 p.

• HILDICK, MARGARET E. 9 December 1982. The Petrology, Rank, and Correlation of the Lower Pennsylvanian Blue Creek and Mary Lee Coal Seams in Jefferson and Walker Counties, Alabama. 162 p. 2 pl.

• SMITH, LARRY WARREN. 13 December 1984. Depositional Setting and Stratigraphy of the Tuscaloosa Formation, Central Alabama to West-central Georgia. 139 p. 4 pl. Microfiche.

• SKOTNICKI, MICHAEL C. 12 December 1985. Stratigraphy And Depositonal Environments of The Upper Cretaceous Blufftown Formation, Eastern Coastal Plain of Alabama. 149 p. 3 pl.

• HARRER, JOSEPH W., JR. 12 December 1986. The Depositional Environments and Paleoecology of Benthic Foraminifera in the Clayton Formation (Danian) of Alabama. 255 p. 5 pl.

• WYLIE, JERRY AUSTIN. 20 March 1987. Sedimentary Facies Depositional Environments and Sea-level Cycles of the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk (Campanian) West-central Alabama. 144 p.

• ESPOSITO, RICHARD ANTHONY, JR. 10 June 1987. Stratigraphic Analysis and Depositional Environments of the Smackover Formation in the Conecuh Basin, Escambia County, Southwestern, Alabama. 124 p.

• PEEBLES, MARK WHITNEY. 31 August 1988. Taphonomy of Common Shallow-water Benthic Foraminifera from San Salvador, the Bahamas. 134 p.

• MOORE, DANIEL KEITH. 12 June 1991. Carbonate Depositional Environments and Facies Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Southwestern Portion of the Manila Embayment, Southwest Alabama. 150 p.

• OZALAS, KATHERINE. 19 March 1993. Character and Paleoevnironmental Implications of Bioturbated Even Beds in the Siliceous Facies of the Monterey Formation (Miocene), Lompoc Area, Central California. 173 p.

• HUCHISON, RICHARD A. 27 August 1993. Character And Origin of Rhythmic Bedding in the Pine Barren Member of the Clayton Formation, Lower Paleocene, Alabama. 147 p.

• SCHEIWE, THOMAS D. 9 December 1994. Paleoautecology And Taphonomy of Irregular Echinoids: Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation, South-central Alabama. 190 p.

• ECHOLS, CATARINA. 30 August 1995. Epibionts and Their Effects on the Taphonomy of Recent Crinoid Ossicles, Friday Harbor, Washington, and San Salvador, Bahamas. 161 p.

• McRAE, CHRISTOPHER. 11 December 1995. Geochemistry and Origin of Arsenic-rich Pyrite in the Uphaphee Creek, Macon County, Alabama. 116 p.

• WARREN, JEFFREY D. 29 August 1997. Carbonate Cycles in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Demopolis Chalk, west-central Alabama. 158 p.

• DONALD, CATHEY N. 29 August 1997. The Impact of the Inclusion of Students with Handicaps and Disabilities in the Regular Education Science Classroom. 170 p. (D.Ed.)

• MORROW, ANGELA C. 29 August 1997. Investigation of the Intertracheid Pit Membrane of the Woody Fern Botrychium. 125 p. (Ph.D.)

• SADLER, MALCOLM T. 20 March 1998. Actualistic Paleontology of the Irregular Echinoid Meoma ventricosa at San Salvador, Bahamas. 90 p.

• LOCKLAIR, ROBERT E. 20 March 1998. Ichnofabric of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Demopolis Chalk, West-Central Alabama: Implications for Paleoenvironment, Depositional Cyclicity, Tiering, and Ecology. 140 p.

Last modified 11 July 2000