M.S. Geology Theses

California State University, Bakersfield

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Catherine Sarah Schindler (2010) 3D Fault Geometry and Basin Evolution in the Northern Continental Borderland Offshore Southern California  (pdf)

Gregory S. Gordon (2009) Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Controls on Reservoir Quality and Distribution:  Middle Wildcat Group, Grizzley Bluff Gas Field, Humbolt County California (pdf)

Sean Taylor (2008) Geologic and petrophysical Characterization of the Basal Etchegoin Formation in the Elk Hills area, southern San Joaquin Basin (pdf)

Brian Taylor (2008) Diagenesis and porosity development in the middle to late Eocene Point of Rock Sandstone in the McKittrick Oil Field, California (pdf)

Lorelea Samano (2008) Geohistory Analysis of the Maricopa Sub-basin (pdf)

Anne Draucker (2007) Geochemical Characterization of Obsidian from the Coso Range, California by Laser Ablation ICP-MS as a tool for archaeological investigations (pdf)

Leslie Boockoff (2006) Arsenic in Groundwater from Kern Water Bank, California (pdf)

Sophia Luz-Cobos (2006) Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy of Late Miocene to Pliocene Sediments in the Elk Hills area, Southern San Joaquin Basin

Ariel Auffant (2005) Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Calitroleum Zone, Etchegoin Formation, Elk Hills and Coles Levee Fields, San Joaquin Basin, California

Elizabeth M. Golob (2005) Tephrochronology of Four Neogene Volcanic Units from California and Nevada, U.S.A., Using Laser Ablation ICP/MS: Implications for Petroleum Bearing Formations in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Cari E. Meyer (2005) A Paleoclimate Record from the Black Rock Subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, U.S.A.: 29,000-11,000 Calendar Years

Craig B. Byington (2004) An Integrated Structural Analysis Defining Structural and Geochemical Controls of Petroleum Migration Near the 38 and 44 Fault Systems in the Midway-Sunset Oilfield, Kern County, California

Jason A. Anthony (2002) Solubility of Two Ferric Chromates: Implications for Risk Assessment and Remediation of Chromium-Contaminated Soil and Groundwater

Bauer, Charles M. (2002) The Hydrogeology of Rose Valley and Little Lake Ranch, Inyo County, California (pdf)*Note-several large maps are not included in pdf file but are available in the CSUB library.

Karin Hagan (2001) The effects of the White Wolf fault on groundwater hydrology in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California  

Mladen Zic (2001) Sediment Magnetism of the B&B Core from Summer Lake, Oregon, USA: Implications for Regional and Global Millennial-Scale Climate Change from 46 to 23 ka

Kevin L. Hamilton (2000) Vertical Electrical Sounding Study to Investigate the Areal Extent of a Clay Layer Beneath the Shafter-Wasco Sanitary Landfill, Kern County, California

Dawn Mitchell Hanson (1998) Diagenesis of Fine-Grained Arkosic Wackes, Temblor Formation, North Belridge Oil Field, Kern County, California

James R. Ostdick (1997) The Hydrogeology of Southwest Indian Wells Valley, Kern County, California: Evidence for Extrabasinal, Fracture-Directed Groundwater Recharge from the Adjacent Sierra Nevada Mountains

Dawne Ann Pennell (1997) Diagenetic Effect of Steam Injection on the Kern River Formation (Pliocene-Pleistocene), Kern River Oil Field, California

Dan Steward (1997) Sequence Stratigraphy of the Late Neogene, Southern San Joaquin Basin, California

Michael G. Coburn (1996) The Hydrogeology of the Round Mountain, Santa Margarita, Chanac and Kern River Formations, Kern River Field, California

Daniel B. Erbes (1996) Late Pleistocene Lithostratigraphy of Pluvial Lake Chewaucan, Oregon: Implications for Past Climate Variation

Inge Ewing (1996) Paleomagnetism and Paleoecology of Late Pleistocene Lacustrine Sediments from the Black Rock Desert, Humboldt County, Nevada: Implications for the Onset of the Last Pluvial Maximum in the Western Great Basin

Robert J. Swartz (1995) A Study of the Occurrence of Arsenic on the Kern Fan Element of the Kern Water Bank, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Patrick K. McCullough (1995) Diagenesis and Porosity Development in Lower Miocene/Eocene Sandstones of the Tulare Lake Area, Central San Joaquin Basin, California

Barbara  Houghton (1994) Ground Water Geochemistry of the Indian Wells Valley

Kathy E. Parker (1993) Magnetostratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene Sediments from the Humboldt River Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada

Bill S. Robin (1991) A Seismic Refraction Survey for Water in Short Canyon, Kern County, California

Michael D. Wracher (1991) The Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Emigrant GAP Composite Pluton, and its Structural Relationship to the Shoo Fly Complex (Degree awarded at San Diego State University)

John Acord (1989) A Gravity Study of the Soda-Avawatz Fault Zone, San Bernardino County., California