DR. GARY SMITH


Graduate Students and Their Research

Ph.D. Students


Michael Grubensky, 1996
Volcanic breccias: Evaluation of fragment and deposit origins and distribution within small-volume composite volcanoes

Joel Pederson, 1999
Variable hillslope process and sediment delivery to tectonically-quiescent basins: A late Miocene thru Quaternary record of buried, relict, and modern hillslopes and their deposits
(co-advised with F.J. Pazzaglia)

Gordon Keating, 1999
Numerical modeling of cooling ignimbrites: Effects of water on heat transfer processes
(co-advised with G. Valentine)

Sean Connell, current
Geomorphic controls on the stratigraphic development of asymmetric extensional basins in the central Rio Grande rift, New Mexico

Masters Students


Danny Katzman, 1991
Hierarchy of transgressive-regressive shorelines and transgressive deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone, southwestern Colorado
(co-advised with R.W. Dunbar)

Thomas Wiberg, 1993
Stratigraphy and transgressive-regressive cyclicity of the Pennsylvanian Lower Madera Limestone, Sandia Mountains, north-central New Mexico

Kyle Gay, 1995
Characterization of rhyolitic phreatomagmatic eruptions and their products: Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Alexis Lavine, 1996
Sedimentologic and temporal relations between volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Keres Group, Jemez Mountains: Implications for the physical and volcanic evolution of Keres Group composite volcanoes

John Rogers, 1996
Quaternary fluvial geomorphic evolution of San Diego Canyon, southwestern Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Andrika Kuhle, 1997
Sedimentology of Miocene alluvial-slope deposits, Española Basin, Rio Grande rift: An outcrop analogue for subsurface heterogeneity

Jessica Moore, 2000
Tectonics and volcanism during deposition of the Oligocene-lower Miocene Abiquiu Formation in northern New Mexico

Claudia Borchert, 2002
Geology and ground-water flow, Tesuque quadrangle, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Michael Gaud, 2002
Outcrop investigation of the permeability and spatial distributions of alluvial-slope lithofacies, near Española, New Mexico


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