NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY - FARGO, N D


Updated: February 28, 2007

GEOLOGY 496
DEATH VALLEY FIELD COURSE:
PROJECT TITLES & ASSIGNMENTS

Student presentation at Ubehebe Crater,
Death Valley National Park.
(Photo by D.P. Schwert)

  • 1. Classic characteristics of aridisols and other aridic soils --- Scott Stockdill

  • 2. Amargosa Chaos, Death Valley --- Kelly Gorz

  • 3. Recent seismic activity in the Death Valley region --- Megann Long Voelkner

  • 4. Evaporite mineralogies and occurrences in Death Valley --- Hugh Cowan

  • 5. Pleistocene lake history of Death Valley --- Jeffery Dunham

  • 6. Turtleback structures of Death Valley --- Donald Schwert

  • 7. Mylonitic fabrics of the Badwater turtleback --- Dan Thorstad

  • 8. Alluvial and related landforms in Death Valley I: Alluvial fans --- Sharon Brozo

  • 9. Alluvial and related landforms in Death Valley II: Debris flows --- Ted Feit

  • 10. Desert varnish--- Chris Augustin

  • 11. Ubehebe Crater and the geology of maars--- Todd Morken

  • 12. Sliding boulders at Racetrack Playa, Death Valley --- Andy Gorz

  • 13. Devils Hole speleothems as paleoclimatic indicators --- Jessie Rock

  • 14. The Geology of Yucca Mountain --- Michael Totenhagen

  • 15. Selected pupfish of the southwestern United States. --- Grant Neuharth

  • 16. Packrat middens and their value in paleoclimatological studies --- John Fielding

  • 17. Petrocalcic soils, with special reference to Death Valley --- Kyle Thomson

  • 18. The classification of sand dunes, and their occurrence in Death Valley --- Mauro Brito

  • 19. The Noonday Dolomite, and its relevance to "Snowball Earth." --- Mary Schuh

  • 20. Paleontological setting of Death Valley --- Rich Thomasson

  • 21. The Keystone Overthrust --- Jason Braunberger

  • 22. Basin and Range tectonics --- Carrie Wirth

  • 23. "23 Skidoo, and a gold mine too" --- Kenneth Lepper

  • 24. Hard rock pedology: silica cemented soils of arid regions --- David Hopkins

  • 25. Plant and microbial life of Death Valley as an analog to Mars --- Laura Overstreet


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