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2026
- Alqattan, Hussain — Quantifying Surface Processes Using Remote Sensing: Accretion in River Deltas and Migration of Barchan Dunes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Deng, Ruolin — Tracking Cosmic Dust with Extraterrestrial Helium and Neon in Deep-Sea Sediments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hernández-Montenegro, Juan David — As on Earth, So on Mars: Magmatic Records of Planetary Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Houchin, Shane Kenyon — X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Uranium in Zircon and the Redox Evolution of the Continental Crust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kanine, Oak Arden — A Tale of Two Craters: Reconstructing Mars Paleoenvironment Using Orbital and Rover Data at Endeavour and Jezero (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wilner, Oliver David — Fluorinated Granitic Magmas: A Comprehensive Geochemical Study (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2025
- Nghiem, Justin Anh-Khoa — Flocculation and Transport of Mud in Rivers and Deltas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ryan-Davis, Juliet Rose — Crystalline Records of Mafic Arc Magmas Across the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Seeger, Christina Hope — Surface Evolution on Basaltic Bodies: Tectonic, Geomorphic, and Diagenetic Modification on Io and Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2024
- Dallas, Brooke Hillary — Intermolecular and Intramolecular Stable Isotope Studies in Alanine (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Morris, Freya Kurt — Depositional and Structural History of the Pavian and Kudu Nappes in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sosa, Emma Sofia — Composition, Structure, and Formation of the Lower Crust in Continental and Oceanic Arc Settings: Insights from the Xenolith Record (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Swindle, Carl Raymond — Fluid-Rock Interactions from the Lithosphere to Earth’s Surface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2023
- Douglas, Madison Marie — Mechanics of River Erosion and its Effects on Floodplain Biogeochemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2022
- Saper, Lee Michael — Experimental Studies on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Coexisting Olivine, Silicate Melt, and Vapor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Scheller, Eva Linghan — A Multi-Disciplinary Approach: How Aqueous Minerals Hold the Key to Understanding the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2021
- Hayden, Alistair Thompson — Exhumed Fluvial Deposits: New Paleohydrological Tools Indicate Long-Duration Fluvial Activity on Early Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Roback, Kevin Patrick — Investigating Sand Transport and Landslides, and Implications for Past and Present Environments on Mars and Earth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sabbeth, Leah — Provenance, Structural Geology, and Sedimentation of the Miocene and Pliocene Californias (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2020
- Chadwick, Austin John — Mechanics of River Avulsions on Lowland River Deltas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Leask, Ellen Kathleen — Investigating the Evolution of Surface Water on Mars through Spectroscopy of Secondary Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2019
- Hofmann, Florian — Iron-Oxide Geochronology to Constrain the Formation of Soils and Paleosols (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Witkosky, Rebecca Amber — Tectonics in Nevada and Southern California: Subsidence of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Cumulative Offset Along the Lavic Lake Fault, and Geomorphic Surface Development Along the Southern San Andreas Fault (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2018
- Buz, Jennifer — Macro Mars to Micro Mars: Mapping Minerals and Magnetization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Quinn, Daven Patel — Regional Structural Geology of Earth and Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2017
- Lapôtre, Mathieu Gaetan Andre — Sedimentary Processes on Earth and Mars: Canyon Erosion, Sand-Ripple Formation, and Mineral Composition (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Malatesta, Luca Claude — Impact of Climate and Tectonics on the Morphodynamics of Alluvial Piedmonts, Implications for Sediment Transfer and the Stratigraphic Record (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Price, Jason Brian — I: Normal Faulting on the Austroalpine ‘Overthrust’ Constrained by Thermochronometry and Kinematic Analysis, Central Alps, Graubünden Region, Switzerland. II: Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Carbonate Phases Associated with the Copper Deposits of Kennecott, Alaska (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2016
- Newcombe, Megan Eve — Solubility and Diffusivity of Water in Lunar Basalt, and Chemical Zonation in Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Prancevic, Jeffrey Paul — Sediment Mobility in Steep Channels and the Transition to Landsliding (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Scheingross, Joel Simon — Mechanics of Sediment Transport and Bedrock Erosion in Steep Landscapes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Siebach, Kirsten Leigh — Formation and Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks in Gale Crater, Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sousa, Francis Joseph — Tectonics of Central and Eastern California, Late Cretaceous to Modern (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Stevens, Victoria Louise — Reconciling Geodetic Strain and Seismicity Rate with Frequency-Magnitude Relation of the Largest Earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2015
- Piasecki, Alison Martha — Site-Specific Isotopes in Small Organic Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Stack, Kathryn Marie Morgan — Reconstructing Past Depositional and Diagenetic Processes through Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis of the Martian Sedimentary Rock Record (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Swanson, Erika McGoldrick — Structural and Clumped-Isotope Constraints on the Mechanisms of Displacement Along Low-Angle Detachments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2014
- Thomas, Marion Y. — Frictional Properties of Fault: From Observations on the Longitudinal Valley Fault, Taiwan, to Dynamic Simulations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2013
- Bergmann, Kristin Diane — Constraints on the Carbon Cycle and Climate During the Early Evolution of Animals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Edgar, Lauren Ashley — Identifying and Interpreting Stratification in Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Insight from Rover and Orbital Observations and Terrestrial Field Analogs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hamecher, Emily A. — Studies of the Equation of State and Elasticity of Mantle Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lin, Yunung Nina — Using Space Geodesy to Constrain Variations in Seismogenic Behavior on Subduction Megathrusts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Philibosian, Belle — Characterization of Diverse Megathrust Fault Behavior Related to Seismic Supercycles, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Skinner, Steven Michael — Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Thomas, Claire Waller — Liquid Silicate Equation of State: Using Shock Waves to Understand the Properties of the Deep Earth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wang, Yu — Earthquake Geology of Myanmar (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Williams, Nneka Njeri Akosua — Defining the Relationship between Seismicity and Deformation at Regional and Local Scales (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2012
- Chapman, Alan Daniel — Late Cretaceous Gravitational Collapse of the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith and Adjacent Areas Above Underplated Schists, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kidder, Steven Brooks — Microstructural, Metamorphic and Experimental Constraints on Differential Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Matzen, Andrew Keith — Fe-Mg and Ni Partitioning between Olivine and Silicate Melt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2010
- Amidon, William Henry — Cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne Dating in Accessory Mineral Phases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Balta, Joseph Brian — 1. Experimental Investigation of Hydrous Melting of the Earth’s Upper Mantle, and 2. Olivine Abundances and Compositions in Hawaiian Lavas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Meltzner, Aron Jeffrey — Earthquake Recurrence, Clustering, and Persistent Segmentation near the Southern End of the 2004 Sunda Megathrust Rupture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2009
- Petterson, Ryan — I. Glaciagenic and Related Strata of the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Panamint Range, Death Valley Region, California. II. The Basal Ediacaran Noonday Formation, Eastern California, and Implications for Laurentian Equivalents. III. Rifting of Southwest Laurentia During the Sturtian-Marinoan Interglacial: The Argenta Orogeny (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Verdel, Charles Steven — I. Cenozoic Geology of Iran: An Integrated Study of Extensional Tectonics and Related Vulcanism. II. Ediacaran Stratigraphy of the North American Cordillera: New Observations from Eastern California and Northern Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2007
- Nadin, Elisabeth Sophia — Structure and History of the Kern Canyon Fault System, Southern Sierra Nevada, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2006
- Ai, Huirong (Anita) — Shock-Induced Damage in Rocks: Application to Impact Cratering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Shyu, J. Bruce Hao-Te Hsu — A Neotectonic Model of Taiwan, with a Focus on the Longitudinal Valley Suture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2004
- Lohman, Rowena Benfer — The Inversion of Geodetic Data for Earthquake Parameters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zeng, Lingsen — Non-Modal Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Pendants in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Implications for the Deep Origin of Within-Pluton Isotopic Heterogeneity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2003
- Akins, Joseph Albert — Dynamic Compression of Minerals in the MgO-FeO-SiO₂ System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Liu, Jing — Part I. Slip Behavior of the San Andreas Fault Through Several Earthquake Cycles Part II. A Structural Interpretation of the Aftershock "Cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers Earthquake (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Natawidjaja, Danny Hilman — Neotectonics of the Sumatran Fault and Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Subduction Zone (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
2002
- Niemi, Nathan Alan — Extensional Tectonics in the Basin and Range Province and the Geology of the Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley Region, California and Nevada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Oskin, Michael Eugene — Part I. Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico, Deduced from Conjugate Rifted Margins of the Upper Delfín Basin. Part II. Active Folding and Seismic Hazard in Central Los Angeles, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Schauble, Edwin Arthur — I. Predicting Equilibrium Stable Isotope Fractionations of Iron, Chlorine, and Chromium. II. Oxygen-Isotope Investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Granitoids of the Northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1999
- Abolins, Mark Joseph — I. Stratigraphic constraints on the number of discrete neoproterozoic glaciations and the relationship between glaciation and ediacaran evolution. II. The Kwichup Spring thrust in the northwestern Spring Mountains, Nevada : implications for large-magnitude extension and the structure of the Cordilleran thrust belt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Spotila, James Anthony — The neotectonics of the San Bernardino Mountains and adjacent San Andreas Fault : a case study of uplift associated with strike-slip fault systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Tulaczyk, Slawek M. — Basal mechanics and geologic record of ice streaming, West Antarctica (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wasylenki, Laura Eileen — Partial Melting of Depleted Peridotite in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Implications for Generation of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1998
- Brady, Robert John — The Geology of the Gold Butte Breakaway Zone and the Mechanical Evolution of Normal Fault Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ducea, Mihai Nicolae — A petrologic investigation of deep-crustal and upper-mantle xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada, California ; constraints on lithospheric composition beneath continental arcs and the origin of cordilleran batholiths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Evans, David Aspinwall Dai — I. Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Supercontinental Tectonics and True Polar Wander. II. Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Proterozoic Glaciations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zachariasen, Judith Ann — Paleoseismology and Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Subduction Zone: A Study of Vertical Deformation Using Coral Microatolls (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1997
- Asimow, Paul David — A Thermodynamic Model of Adiabatic Melting of the Mantle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Holk, Gregory James — The Role of Water in the Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution of Metamorphic Core Complexes: A stable Isotope Study of the Southern Omineca Crystalline Belt, British Columbia, Canada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Holt, John William — I. Detailed Records of Geomagnetic Field Behavior from Death Valley and Hawaii. II. An Age Constraint on Gulf of California Rifting from Santa Rosalía, Baja California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hsieh, Jean Chia Chin — An Oxygen Isotopic Study of Soil Water and Pedogenic Clays in Hawaii (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Nagy, Elizabeth Ann — Extensional Deformation and Volcanism Within the Northern Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Sierra Santa Isabel, Baja California, Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wolf, Richmond Andrew — The development of the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wood, David Judson — Geology of the Eastern Tehachapi Mountains and Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Sierra Nevada Region, Kern County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1996
- Lee, Woh-jer — Experimental Study on Liquid Immiscibility in Silicate-Carbonate Systems with Applications to Carbonatites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Yule, John Douglas — Geologic and tectonic evolution of jurassic marginal ocean basin lithosphere, Klamath Mountains, Oregon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1995
- Gazis, Carey Alice — An isotopic study of the fluid flow and thermal history of the 2.8 Ma Chegem ash-flow caldera and related intrusive rocks (Caucasus Mountains, Russia) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Huang, Weishi — Seismic Strain Rates and the State of Tectonic Stress in the Southern California Region (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1994
- Chamberlin, Laurinda Ann — Pd-oxide equilibration: a new experimental method for the direct determination of the activities of oxide components in melts and minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Garnero, Edward James — Seismic structure above and below the core-mantle boundary (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Keszthelyi, László P. — On the Thermal Budget of Pahoehoe Lava Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Song, Xiaodong — Structure of the earth's core and lowermost mantle from seismic PKP waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Tackley, Paul James — Three-dimensional models of mantle convection : influence of phase transitions and temperature-dependent viscosity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1993
- Burt, Emelia Anna — Oxygen isotope studies of some sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the central and northern Appalachian Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Ouachita Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dreger, Douglas S. — Modeling earthquakes with local and regional broadband data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Grant, Lisa Baugh — Characterization of Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain: Implications for Fault Mechanics and Seismic Hazard (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- LaTourrette, Thomas — Experimental Determination of U and Th Partitioning Between Clinopyroxene, Garnet, Olivine, and Natural and Synthetic Silicate Melt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ma, Kuo-Fong — The origin of tsunamis excited by local earthquakes. Broadband waveform observation of local earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Santee, Michelle — The thermal structure, dust loading, and meridional transport in the Martian atmosphere during late southern summer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wald, David Jay — Rupture characteristics of California earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1992
- Dixon, Jacqueline Eaby — Water and carbon dioxide in basaltic magmas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Donnellan, Andrea — A geodetic study of crustal deformation in the Ventura Basin region, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Knott, Diane Clemens — Geologic and isotopic investigations of the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith, Tulare Co., CA, and the Ivrea Zone, NW Italian Alps: examples of interaction between mantle-derived magma and continental crust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- McGill, Sara Hanley Fagerson — Paleoseismology and neotectonics of the central and eastern Garlock Fault, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sheng, Yuntai Jack — Origin of plagioclase-olivine inclusions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wolf, Michael Bennett — Amphibolite-tonalite relationships: Part I. Experimental investigation of the phase relationships and textural development of amphibolite dehydration-melting. Part II. The geology, petrology and geochronology of a tonalitic and mafic dike swarm (southwestern foothills terrane, California) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Worden, Charles Bruce — Interactive seismic imaging on a multicomputer and application to the Hosgri fault (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zhang, Yu-Shen — Three-dimensional modeling of upper mantle structure and its significance to tectonics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1991
- Fahnestock, Mark Allen — Hydrologic control of sliding velocity in two Alaskan glaciers : observation and theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ihinger, Phillip Dean — An experimental study of the interaction of water with granitic melt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- King, Scott David — The interaction of subducting slabs and the 670 kilometer discontinuity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Pickett, David Alan — An isotopic and petrologic study of an exposure of the deep Sierra Nevada batholith, Tehachapi Mountains, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rubin, Charles Martin — Structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic analysis of the Alexander-Taku terrane boundary and the overlapping upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous gravina sequence, southeast Alaska (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Shaller, Philip John — Analysis and implications of large Martian and terrestrial landslides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Webb, Francis H. — Geodetic measurement of deformation in the offshore of southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1990
- Gudmundsson, Olafur — Some problems in global tomography: modeling the core-mantle boundary and statistical analysis of travel-time data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- LeFevre, L. Victoria — I. A seismotectonic study of the Middle America Subduction Zone. II. Lithosphere and upper mantle structure of the Canadian Shield and Eastern North America (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Liu, Wei — Paleomagnetism of miocene sedimentary rocks in the Transverse ranges: the implications for tectonic history (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Magistrale, Harold William — I. The Superstition Hills, California, earthquakes of 24 November 1987. II. Three-dimensional velocity structure of southern California. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Miller, Gregory Hale — The Equation of State and Petrogenesis of Komatiite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ripperdan, Robert Lowell — Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the lower paleozoic system boundaries, and associated paleogeographic implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Stead, Richard J. — Finite differences and a coupled analytic technique with applications to explosions and earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1989
- Bursik, Marcus Ivan — Late Quaternary Volcano-Tectonic Evolution of the Mono Basin, Eastern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Maher, Kevin A. — Geology of the Jackson Mountains, Northwest Nevada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Navon, Oded — Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Micro-Inclusions in Diamonds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Nourse, Jonathan Alan — Geological Evolution of Two Crustal Scale Shear Zones. Part I: The Rand Thrust Complex, Northwestern Mojave Desert, California. Part II: The Magdalena Metamorphic Core Complex, North Central Sonora, Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Prentice, Carol Seabury — Earthquake Geology of the Northern San Andreas Fault Near Point Arena, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Solomon, George Cleve — An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Study of Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Granitic Batholiths of the Southwestern North American Cordillera (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1988
- Manduca, Cathryn Clement Allen — Geology and Geochemistry of the Oceanic Arc-Continent Boundary in the Western Idaho Batholith near McCall (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Silver, Lynn Alison — Water in Silicate Glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1987
- Brugman, Melinda Mary — Water Flow at the Base of a Surging Glacier (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1986
- Fine, Gerald Jonathan — Carbon Dioxide in Synthetic and Natural Silicate Glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Gehrels, George Ellery — Geologic and Tectonic Evolution of Annette, Gravina, Duke, and Southern Prince of Wales Islands, Southeastern Alaska (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rigden, Sally Miranda — The Determination of the Equation of State of Molten Silicates at High Pressures Using Shock-Wave Techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Weldon, Ray James, II — The Late Cenozoic Geology of Cajon Pass; Implications for Tectonics and Sedimentation along the San Andreas Fault (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1984
- Hill, Robert Ian — Petrology and Petrogenesis of Batholithic Rocks, San Jacinto Mountains, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hofmeister, Anne Marie — A Spectroscopic and Chemical Study of the Coloration of Feldspars by Irradiation and Impurities, Including Water (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Larson, Peter Brennan — I. An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Investigation of the Lake City Caldera, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. II. ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Relationships in Tertiary Ash-Flow Tuffs from Complex Caldera Structures in Central Nevada and the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Meisling, Kristian Erik — Neotectonics of the North Frontal Fault System of the San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California: Cajon Pass to Lucerne Valley (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Shaw, Henry Francis, III — Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Isotopic Systematics of Tektites and Other Impactites, Appalachian Mafic Rocks, and Marine Carbonates and Phosphates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1983
- Lewis, Richard Edwin — Geology of the Hackberry Mountain Volcanic Center, Yavapai County, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1982
- Gillespie, Alan Reed — Quaternary Glaciation and Tectonism in the Southeastern Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Vizgirda, Joana Marija — Dynamic Properties of Carbonates and Applications to Cratering Processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1981
- Gregory, Robert Theodore — Geology and Isotope Geochemistry of the Samail Ophiolite Complex, Southeastern Oman Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Powell, Robert Edward — Geology of the Crystalline Basement Complex, Eastern Transverse Ranges, Southern California: Constraints on Regional Tectonic Interpretation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Quick, James Edward — Part I: Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Trinity Peridotite, Northern California. Part II: Petrogenesis of Lunar Breccia 12013 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1980
- Beaty, David Wayne — Part I. Comparative Petrology of the Apollo 11 Mare Basalts. Part II. The Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Carter, Bruce Alan — Structure and Petrology of the San Gabriel Anorthosite-Syenite Body, Los Angeles County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Champion, Duane Edwin — Holocene Geomagnetic Secular Variation in the Western United States: Implications for the Global Geomagnetic Field (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Jeanloz, Raymond — Physics of Mantle and Core Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- McCulloch, Malcolm Thomas — Part I. Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Chronology of Crustal Formation. Part II. Ba, Nd and Sm Isotopic Anomalies in the Allende Meteorite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1979
- Baldridge, Warren Scott — Petrology and Petrogenesis of Basaltic Rocks and Their Inclusions: Studies from the Rio Grande Rift, the Roman Comagmatic Province, and Oceanus Procellarum (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Van Alstine, David Ralph — Apparent Polar Wandering with Respect to North America Since the Late Precambrian (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1978
- DePaolo, Donald James — Study of Magma Sources, Mantle Structure and the Differentiation of the Earth from Variations of ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd in Igneous Rocks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Labotka, Theodore Charles — Geology of the Telescope Peak Quadrangle, California and Late Mesozoic Regional Metamorphism, Death Valley Area, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Murray, Jay Dennis — The Structure and Petrology of the San Jose Pluton, Northern Baja California, Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1977
- Anderson, James Rodney — The Polymetamorphic Sequence in the Paleozoic Rocks of Northern Vermont: A New Approach Using Metamorphic Veins as Petrologic and Structural Markers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dymek, Robert F. — Mineralogic and Petrologic Studies of Archaean Metamorphic Rocks from West Greenland, Lunar Samples, and the Meteorite Kapoeta (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Laird, Jo — Phase Equilibria in Mafic Schist and the Polymetamorphic History of Vermont (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1976
- Conway, Clay Michael — Petrology, Structure, and Evolution of a Precambrian Volcanic and Plutonic Complex, Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Foley, Michael Glen — Scour and Fill in Ephemeral Streams (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Gancarz, Alexander John, Jr. — I: Isotopic Systematics in Archean Rocks, West Greenland. II: Mineralogic and Petrologic Investigations of Lunar Rock Samples (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Smith, Roger Stanley Uhr — Late-Quaternary Pluvial and Tectonic History of Panamint Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1975
- Hinkley, Todd King — Weathering Mechanisms and Mass Balance in a High Sierra Nevada Watershed: Distribution of Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals in Components of Rock and Soil, Snow, Soil Moisture and Stream Outflow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wood, Spencer Hoffman — Holocene Stratigraphy and Chronology of Mountain Meadows, Sierra Nevada, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1974
- Fuis, Gary Stephen — The Geology and Mechanics of Formation of the Fort Rock Dome, Yavapai County, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Gibbons, Rex Vincent — Experimental Effects of High Shock Pressure on Materials of Geological and Geophysical Interest (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Joesten, Raymond Leonard — Metasomatism and Magmatic Assimilation at a Gabbro-Limestone Contact, Christmas Mountains, Big Bend Region, Texas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ludwig, Kenneth Raymond — Precambrian Geology of the Central Mazatzal Mountains, Arizona (part I). Lead Isotope Heterogeneity in Precambrian Igneous Feldspars (Part II) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1971
- Arabasz, Walter Joseph, Jr. — Geological and Geophysical Studies of the Atacama Fault Zone in Northern Chile (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1969
- Smith, Douglas — Mineralogy and Petrology of an Olivine Diabase Sill Complex and Associated Unusually Potassic Granophyres, Sierra Ancha, Central Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1968
- McGetchin, Thomas Richard — The Moses Rock Dike: Geology, Petrology and Mode of Emplacement of a Kimberlite-Bearing Breccia Dike, San Juan County, Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1967
- McDowell, Stewart Douglas — The Intrusive History of the Little Chief Granite Porphyry Stock, Panamint Range, California: I. Structural Relationships. II. Petrogenesis, Based on Microprobe Analyses of the Feldspars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Naylor, Richard Stevens — A Field and Geochronologic Study of Mantled Gneiss Domes in Central New England (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1966
- Hollister, Lincoln Steffens — Electron Microprobe Investigations of Metamorphic Reactions and Mineral Growth Histories, Kwoiek Area, British Columbia (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Johnson, Lane Richard — Measurements of Mantle Velocities of P Waves with a Large Array (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Roddy, David John — The Paleozoic Crater at Flynn Creek, Tennessee (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sellers, George August — Hydrothermal Experiments on the Thermal Stability of Amino Substances in Sediments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wu, Francis Taming — Part I. Lower Limit of the Total Energy of Earthquakes and Partitioning of Energy Among Seismic Waves. Part II. Reflected Waves and Crustal Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1965
- Hooke, Roger LeBaron — Alluvial Fans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sharp, Robert Victor — Geology of the San Jacinto Fault Zone in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1964
- Chapple, William Massee — Mathematical Study of Finite-Amplitude Rock-Folding (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Grant, James Alexander — The Nature of the Grenville Front near Lake Timagami, Ontario (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Harper, Charles Woods — The Brachiopod Fauna of the Arisaig Series (Silurian-Lower Devonian) of Nova Scotia (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Jory, Lisle Thomas — Mineralogical and Isotopic Relations in the Port Radium Pitchblende Deposit, Great Bear Lake, Canada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1963
- Zartman, Robert Eugene — A Geochronological Study of the Lone Grove Pluton from the Llano Uplift, Texas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1962
- Conel, James Ekstedt — Studies on the Development of Fabrics in Some Naturally Deformed Limestones (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lanphere, Marvin Alder — I. Geology of the Wildrose Area, Panamint Range, California. II. Geochronologic Studies in the Death Valley-Mojave Region, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1961
- Gross, Meredith Grant — Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis of Pleistocene Limestones in the Bermuda Islands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wilson, John Coe — Geology of the Alta stock, Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1960
- Benson, Carl S. — Stratigraphic Studies in the Snow and Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Doe, Bruce Roger — The Distribution and Composition of Sulfide Minerals at Balmat, New York (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lloyd, Ronald Michael — The Shell Chemistry of Some Recent and Pleistocene Mollusks and its Environmental Significance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Raychaudhuri, Bimalendu — Studies of Amphibolites and Constituent Hornblendes From an Area of Progressive Metamorphism Near Lead, South Dakota (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Schwarcz, Henry Philip — I. Geology of the Winchester-Hemet Area, Riverside County, California. II. Geochemical Investigations of an Arkosic Quartzite of the Winchester-Hemet Area, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Simpson, Dale Rodekohr — Geology of the Ramona Pegmatites, San Diego County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Stanton, Robert James — Paleoecology of the Upper Miocene Castaic Formation, Los Angeles County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1959
- Campbell, Richard Bradford — The Texture, Origin, and Emplacement of the Granitic Rocks of Glenlyon Range, Yukon, Canada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Irvine, Thomas Neil — The Ultramafic Complex and Related Rocks of Duke Island, Southeastern Alaska (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Shreve, Ronald Lee — Geology and Mechanics of the Blackhawk Rockslide, Lucerne Valley, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1958
- Lewis, Arthur Edward — Geology and Mineralization Connected with the Intrusion of a Quartz Monzonite Porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs District, Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rose, Arthur William — Trace Elements in Sulfide Minerals from the Central Mining District, New Mexico, and the Bingham Mining District, Utah (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1957
- Eaton, Gordon Pryor — Miocene Volcanic Activity in Los Angeles Basin and Vicinity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Meier, Mark Frederick — Mode of Flow of Saskatchewan Glacier, Alberta, Canada (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ruckmick, John Christian — Ultramafic Intrusives and Associated Magnetite Deposits at Union Bay, Southeast Alaska (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1956
- Kamb, Walter Barclay — The Crystal Structure of Zunyite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Smith, George Irving — Geology and Petrology of the Lava Mountains, San Bernardino County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1955
- Campbell, Douglas Dean — Geology of the Pitchblende Deposits of Port Radium, Great Bear Lake, N.W.T. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Howes, Thomas B — A Brief Study of the Geology and Ground Water Conditions in the Pauma Valley Area, San Diego County, California (Master's thesis)
- Rogers, John James William — Textural Studies in Igneous Rocks near Twentynine Palms, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Silver, Leon Theodore — The Structure and Petrology of the Johnny Lyon Hills Area, Cochise County, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1954
- Allen, Clarence Roderic — The San Andreas Fault Zone in San Gorgonio Pass, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Allingham, John Wing — Metamorphism at the Contact of the Cable Stock, Montana (Master's thesis)
- Barker, Fred — Pre-Cambrian and Tertiary Geology of the Las Tablas Quadrangle, New Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Muehlberger, William Rudolf — Deposition and Deformation in the Northern Soledad Basin, Los Angeles County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Otte, Carel, Jr. — Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Stratigraphy of the Northern Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Potter, Donald Brandreth — High Alumina Metamorphic Rocks of the Kings Mountain District, North Carolina and South Carolina (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ruiz-Elizondo, Jesús — A Study of the Safe Yield and Replenishment Conditions for the Yucaipa Basin Area, California (Engineer's thesis)
- Winters, Herbert Harris — The Pleistocene Fauna of the Manix Beds in the Mojave Desert, California (Master's thesis)
1953
- Norris, Donald Kring — Structural Conditions and Violent Stress Relief in Coal Mines of the Southern Canadian Cordillera (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Peck, Dallas Lynn — Geology of the Paradox No. 3 Mine Area (Master's thesis)
- Rigsby, George Pierce — Studies of Crystal Fabrics and Structures in Glaciers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ruiz-Elizondo, Jesús — Geology of the St. Francis Dam Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Woodcock, John Richard — Geology of the Tick Canyon Area (Master's thesis)
1952
- Barker, Fred — The Coast Range Batholith Between Haines, Alaska and Bennett Lake, British Columbia (Master's thesis)
- Bieler, Barrie Hill — The Design, Construction, and Testing of a Low Magnification Camera to Photograph Polished Ore Specimens (Master's thesis)
- Leighton, Freeman Beach — Geology of the Vermiculite Deposits of the Gold Butte Mining District, Southern Virgin Mountains, Nevada. Ogives of the East Twin Glacier, Alaska: Their Nature and Origin. Investigations in the Taku Glacier Firn (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- O'Neill, Bernard Joseph — Geology of the Anorthosite Massif in Chester County, Pennsylvania (Master's thesis)
- Pray, Lloyd Charles — Stratigraphy of the Escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico. The Mocam Bastnaesite Deposit, San Bernardino County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1951
- Bass, Manuel Nathan — A Vertebrate Fauna from Late Tertiary Beds Near Frazier Mountain, California (Master's thesis)
- Campbell, Richard Bradford — Continental Glaciation in the Glenlyon Area, Pelly River District, Yukon, Canada (Master's thesis)
- Foote, Royal Stuart — The Geology of the Houser Canyon Pegmatite with an X-Ray Analysis of Monazite (Master's thesis)
- Phipps, Rodney Thirsk — Geology of the Monte Cristo Mining Area (Master's thesis)
- Roberts, William Brian — Geology of a Part of the Rosamond Hills Area, Kern County, California (Master's thesis)
- Smith, George Irving — The Geology of the Cache Creek Region, Kern County, California (Master's thesis)
- Wright, Lauren Albert — An Invertebrate Assemblage From the "Modelo" Formation of Reynier Canyon, Los Angeles, California. Geology and Origin of Talc Deposits of Eastern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1950
- Alexander, Joseph Brightwell — Heavy Minerals of Certain Quartzites from Malaya: a Study in Differentiation and Correlation (Master's thesis)
- Birman, Joseph Harold — Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, California (Master's thesis)
- Cook, Phillip Granville — The Optical and X-Ray Properties of the Ferromagnesian Olivine Minerals with Charts to Aid Identification (Master's thesis)
- Harris, Paul Bernard — Geology of the Tunis-Pastoria Creek area, Kern County, California (Master's thesis)
- Irwin, William Porter — The Vasquez Series in the Upper Tick Canyon Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- MacKevett, Edward Malcolm — The Geology of the Jurupa Mountains, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California (Master's thesis)
- Otte, Carel, Jr. — Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Rigsby, George Pierce — Glaciological Studies in the St. Elias Range, Canada (Master's thesis)
- Roddick, James Archibald — Some Features of the Geology of the North Vancouver Area (Master's thesis)
1949
- Allen, Charles W. — Structure of the Northwestern Puente Hills, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Basham, William L. — Geology of the Pacoima Hills (Senior thesis (Major))
- Cutsforth, David Harrison — The Geology of a Portion of the San Jose Hills (Master's thesis)
- Fisher, Robert Lloyd — The Pacoima Area (Senior thesis (Major))
- Leighton, Freeman Beach — Contributions to the Glaciology of the Seward Ice Field, Canada, and the Malaspina Glacier, Alaska (Master's thesis)
- Muehlberger, William Rudolf — Mode of Emplacement of the Barre Granite, Vermont (Master's thesis)
- Thomas, Blakemore Ewing — Geology and Ore Deposits of the Wallapai District, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1948
- Agnew, Haddon Wilson — The Geology of a Part of the Ravenna Quadrangle, California (Master's thesis)
- Allingham, John Wing — Geology of the Pacoima Area, Los Angeles County, California (Senior thesis (Major))
- Dort, Wakefield, Jr. — The Geology of a Portion of Eastern Ventura Basin, California (Master's thesis)
- Edwards, Charles DeVries — Geology of the Del Valle Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Hedden, Albert Henry — The Geology of the Pinyon Peak Area, East Tintic Mts., Utah. The Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- MacNeill, Robert John — Geology of the Humphreys Station area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Moore, Return Francis — Geology of the Pre-Cretaceous Rocks in a Portion of the Santa Ana Mountains (Master's thesis)
- Shoemaker, Eugene Merle — Petrology of the Hopewell Series in the Ojo Caliente of New Mexico (Master's thesis)
- Smith, Raymond James — Geology of Portions of the Humphreys and Sylmar Quadrangles (Master's thesis)
1947
- Buffington, Edwin Conger — An Invertebrate Fauna from the "Modelo" of Dry Canyon, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Edmundson, James Wiliam — A Study of the Subsurface Conditions Prevailing in the Newhall-Potrero Oil Field (Master's thesis)
- Martin, Joseph Stewart — Geology of the Dry Canyon Area in the Eastern Section of the Ventura Basin, California (Master's thesis)
- Menard, Henry William — Geology of the Agua Dulce Canyon area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Shoemaker, Eugene Merle — Geomorphology of a Portion of the Easternmost Ventura Basin (Senior thesis (Major))
- Shoemaker, Eugene Merle; Glover, Patrick Norman; Muehlberger, William R.; Nicolai, Fred H. — A Geologic Report on the Pacoima Area (Senior thesis (Major))
- White, Robert Carleton — Age of the "Modelo" in Haskell Canyon, Easternmost Ventura Basin, California (Master's thesis)
1946
- Holser, William Thomas — Geology of the Mint Canyon Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Lance, John Franklin — Evidence of Termites in the Pleistocene Asphalt of Carpinteria, California (Master's thesis)
- Nigra, John Oscar — A Statistical Study of the Metapodials of the Dire Wolf from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (Master's thesis)
- Wallace, Robert Earl — A Portion of the San Andreas Rift in Southern California. A Miocene Mammalian Fauna from Beatty Buttes, Oregon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1945
- Carlson, Harry William — Geology of the Elysian Park-Silver Lake District, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
1944
- Cebeci, Ahmet — A Study of Quartz Deposits Near Highway Highlands, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Fillippone, Walter Ross — Investigation of the Alaskan Earthquake of May 4, 1934 (Master's thesis)
- Silgado Ferro, Enrique — The Partition of Amplitudes for an SV-Wave by Zoeppritz's Method (Master's thesis)
- Yüngül, Sulhi — Magnetic Survey of the San Gabriel Wash (Master's thesis)
1943
- Akman, Mustafa Seyfettin — A Map Area South of Spadra, Two and One Half Miles Southwest of Pomona, California (Master's thesis)
- Daleon, Benjamin Angel — Some Philippine Upper Tertiary Foraminera (Master's thesis)
- Dehlinger, Peter — A Magnetic Survey of Sand Canyon for Placer Deposits, San Gabriel Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Ergin, Kazim — Improved Epicentres of Earthquakes in Turkey (Master's thesis)
- Greenwood, Robert — Geology of the Sugar Pine Area, Madera County, California (Master's thesis)
- Jahns, Richard Henry — Tactite Rocks of the Iron Mountain District, Sierra and Socorro Counties, New Mexico. Stratigraphy of the Easternmost Ventura Basin, California, with a Description of a New Lower Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Tick Canyon Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Pray, Lloyd Charles — Studies of Certain Sierran Concrete Aggregates (Master's thesis)
- Regan, Louis John — Origin of the Eocene Sands of the Coalinga District, California. The Lower and Middle Eocene Foraminifera of the Coalinga District, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Smith, Clay Taylor — The Origin of Some Chromite Deposits in the Pacific Coast Region. The Biostratigraphy of Glycymeris veatchii in California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zebal, George Patterson — The Upper Cretaceous Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Simi Hills, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California (Master's thesis)
1942
- Fuller, William Perrin — Spectrographic Study of Gold-Quartz Ores from Alleghany, California (Master's thesis)
- Howell, Benjamin Franklin — Some Effects of Geologic Structure on Radio Rreception (Master's thesis)
- Tovell, Walter Massey — Geology of the Nodular Shale of the Middle and Upper Miocene of the Western Los Angeles Basin (Master's thesis)
- Wilson, Harry David Bruce — Geochemical Studies of the Epithermal Deposits at Goldfield, Nevada. Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous and Eocene Rocks of the Santa Monica Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1941
- Grobecker, Alan John — Travel Time Curves at Small Distances and Wave Velocities of Principal Phases in the Southern California Ranges (Master's thesis)
- Jordan, John Thomas — Geology of the Cactus Mines, Rosamond, Kern Co., California (Master's thesis)
- Lewis, Lloyd Alan — Geology of the Northern Part of the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California (Master's thesis)
- Lieber, Paul — Temperature Perturbations and their Effect on the Temperature Maxima and Minima in the Interior of the Earth (Master's thesis)
- Quarles, Miller Winthrop — Geology of the Repetto and Montebello Hills (Master's thesis)
- Regan, Louis John — The Composition, Texture, Structure, and Probable Origin of the "Gatchell" Sand (Master's thesis)
- Rupnik, John Joseph — The Geology of the Wiley Canyon Area, Oak Ridge Anticline, T 3-4 N, R 18-19 W, Ventura County, California (Master's thesis)
1940
- Anderson, Keith Elliott — Geology of a portion of the Sunland Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Cleveland, William Roy — Geology of Black Butte, Los Angeles County, California. Geology of the Puente Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
- Doolittle, Russell Carter — The Theory, Construction, and Field Use of a Direct Current Potentiometer for Measuring Earth Resistivity (Master's thesis)
- Findlay, Willard Alexander — Sources of Miocene Sediments in Southwestern San Joaquin Valley (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Haffner, Bernhard K.; Wasem, Richard — Geology of Part of the Adelanto Hills. Report on the Geology of the Puente Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
- Henshaw, Paul Carrington — A Tertiary Mammalian Fauna from the San Antonio Mountains Near Tonopah, Nevada. Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Holloway, John Marshall — Areal Geology and Contact Relations of the Basement Complex and Later Sediments, West End of the San Gabriel Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Karubian, Ruhollah Yahyaw — Surface and Subsurface Geology of Montebello Hills, California (Master's thesis)
- Kupfer, Donald Harry — Geology of Bluff Cove (Bachelor's thesis)
- Kupfer, Donald Harry; Varnes, David Joseph — Geology of a Part of Seminole Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California. Geology of the Bluff Cove Region, Palos Verdes, Southern California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Levet, Melvin Newton — Geology of the San Juan Canyon Area, Orange County, California (Master's thesis)
- Lewis, William Dabney — The Geology of the Upper Las Llajas Canyon Area, Santa Susana Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Munk, Walter Heinrich — Internal Waves in the Gulf of California (Master's thesis)
- Oder, Frederic Carl Emil — The Geology of a Part of Seminole Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California. Geology of Black Butte Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Quarles, Miller Winthrop — Geology of the Whittier Hills, Whittier, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Reynolds, Howard W. — Geology of a Section of the Palos Verdes Sea Coast. Geology of a Portion of the Adelanto Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
- Roberts, Ellis Earl — Geology of the Alston District Houghton and Baraga Counties, Michigan (Master's thesis)
- Smith, Clay Taylor — Geology and Ore Deposits of the Northeast Quarter of the Seiad Quadrangle, California (Master's thesis)
- Staatz, Mortimer Hay — Geology of Mount Pinos area, Ventura County (Bachelor's thesis)
- Van Dyke, Gilbert Rusk — Geologic Report of Black Butte, Antelope Valley, California. Geologic Report of Puente Hills, Puente, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Wallace, Robert Earl — Volcanic Tuff Beds of the Mint Canyon Formation (Master's thesis)
- Weir, Gordon Bruce — Geology of a Portion of the Sunland, California Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
1939
- Battle, John Allen — Geology of the Placerita Canyon Area (Bachelor's thesis)
- Cabeen, William Ross — Geology of the Aliso and Browns Canyons area, Santa Susana Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Drescher, Arthur Bernard — A New Pliocene Badger from Mexico (Master's thesis)
- Dreyer, Robert Marx — The Geochemistry of Quicksilver Mineralization. Magnetometer Examination of the Monte Cristo Magnetite-Ilmenite Deposits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Eichelberger, Alexis Martin — Application of Well-Logging Methods to Shot Holes (Master's thesis)
- Flint, Delos Edward — The Geology of a Portion of the Humphreys Quadrangle, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Gombotz, Joseph John — The Geology of a Portion of Humphreys and San Francisquito Quadrangles (Bachelor's thesis)
- Griffiths, John Robert — Geology of the Sand Canyon-Soledad Canyon area (Bachelor's thesis)
- Hagen, Robert Christian — Geology of a Portion of the South Side of the Santa Clara Valley Near Newhall, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Hendry, Noel Williamson; Wilson, Harry David Bruce — Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Coso Hot Springs Area, Inyo County, California (Master's thesis)
- Hopper, Richard Hutchinson — A Geologic Section from the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hoy, Robert Beck — Geology and Ore Deposits of the Capps Gold Mine, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (Master's thesis)
- Levet, Melvin Newton — Geology of Parts of the Pacoima and Sylmar Quadrangles (Bachelor's thesis)
- Regan, Louis John — The Geology of a Portion of the Saugus and Red Mountains Quadrangles (Bachelor's thesis)
- Scott, David Holcomb — The Geology of a Portion of Humphrey's Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
- Urick, Robert Joseph — The Determination of Sound Velocity in Core Samples (Master's thesis)
1938
- Ahlroth, Carl Wilhelm — Geology of the Southern Part of the Red Mountain Quadrangle, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Allen, Richard Harvey — A Short Investigation of the North Central Portion of the Lang Quadrangle, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Carr, Robert Bradwell — The Geology of Sand Canyon, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Cowie, Roger Harrison — Geology of a Portion of the Ravenna Quadrangle, Los Angeles County (Bachelor's thesis)
- Hayward, Russell Edward — A Report on the Structure, Stratigraphy and Fossil Content of a Small Portion of the San Gabriel Range (Bachelor's thesis)
- Henshaw, Paul Carrington — A Tertiary Mammalian Fauna From the Avawatz Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Knight, Jack William — Geology of a Portion of Piru and Santa Susana Quadrangles (Bachelor's thesis)
- Lohman, Stanley William — Ground Water in Northeastern Pennsylvania (Master's thesis)
- Orr, James McPhail — An Investigation of the Geological Occurrence and Use of Titanium With Special Reference to the San Gabriel Titanium Deposits, California (Master's thesis)
- Osborn, Elburt Franklin — Micrometric and Petrofabric Studies of the Val Verde Tonalite, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rynearson, Garn Arthur — Geology of the Fernando Pass Region (Bachelor's thesis)
- Sklar, Maurice — Petrology of the Volcanic Rocks of the Region Around Boulder Dam (Master's thesis)
- Smith, Clay Taylor — Geologic Report on a Portion of the Lang Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
- Watson, Samuel Eugene — Geology of the NE 1/4 of the Humphreys Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Wells, John Cawse — Petrology and Structure of the Crystal Lake Area, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
1937
- Bryson, Robert Pearne — Faulted Fanglomerates at the Mouth of Perry Aiken Creek, Northern Inyo Range, California, Nevada (Master's thesis)
- Church, Harry Victor — The Structure and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Near Redding, California (Master's thesis)
- Cogen, William Maurice — Mechanics of Landslides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dawson, Charles Alexander — Petrology of the Igneous Complex Near Lang, California (Master's thesis)
- Dreyer, Robert Marx — Mutual Interference in the Microchemical Determination of Ore Minerals (Master's thesis)
- Dreyer, Robert Marx; Dawson, Charles Alexander — Magnetometer Examination of the Monte Cristo Magnetite-Ilmenite Deposits (Master's thesis)
- Fiedler, William Morris — Structure and Stratigraphy of a Section Across the White Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- George, John (Jack) Wesley — Geologic Report on a Portion of the Little Tujunga Quadrangle and a Portion of the Sunland Quadrangle (Senior thesis (Major))
- Kelley, Vincent Cooper — Geology and Ore Deposits of the Darwin Silver-Lead Mining District, Inyo County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kemnitzer, Luis Emmett — Structural Studies in the Whipple Mountains, Southeastern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Legge, John Allan — Geology of a Northern Portion of the Sunland Quadrangle, Los Angeles County (Bachelor's thesis)
- Lockwood, Robert Bruce — Geology of the Central Portion of the Sunland Quadrangle, California (Senior thesis (Major))
- Nolte, Claude Byron — Structure and Stratigraphy of a Portion of San Gabriel Foothills in the Northern Third of the Sunland Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Park, Noel Robertson — Geology of the Puente Hills Region in the Puente Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
- Putnam, William Clement — Physiography of the Ventura Region, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Putnam, William Clement — The Geology of the Mono Craters, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Pye, Willard Dickison — A Comparison of Records from the Linear Strain and Pendulum Seismographs (Master's thesis)
- Schombel, Leonard Frederick — Geology of Area Near Sunland, California (Senior thesis (Major))
- Webb, Robert Wallace — Geology of a Portion of the Southern Sierra Nevada of California: The Northern Kernville Quadrangle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- White, Walter Stanley — Geology of the Pacoima-Little Tujunga area (Master's thesis)
1936
- Borys, Edmund — A Horizontal Intensity Magnetic Survey Across the Rosamond Fault (Master's thesis)
- Evans, Milton Harrison — The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Manzana Quadrangle, Los Angeles County (Master's thesis)
- MacLellan, Donald Dominic — The Geology of the East Coachella Tunnel of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. A San Diego Fauna in the Vicinity of Val Verde, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Nelson, Loyal Edward — Geologic Studies in the Vicinity of Dry Canyon, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Popenoe, Willis Parkison — The Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Schafer, Sidney — Experiments Testing the Use of the Magnetometer in Determining Geologic Structure (Master's thesis)
- Scherb, Ivan Victor — An Investigation of the Mill Creek Earthquakes of October, 1935 (Master's thesis)
- Uhrig, Leonard Frederick — Structural Study of a Portion of the Lang and Humphreys Quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
1935
- Benioff, Victor Hugo — A Linear Strain Seismograph. The Physical Evaluation of Seismic Destructiveness. A Method for the Instrumental Determination of the Extent of Faulting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bonillas, Ygnacio, III — A Study of Miocene Vulcanism in Southern California (Master's thesis)
- Dawson, Charles Alexander — The Geology of a Portion of the Mint Canyon Region (Bachelor's thesis)
- Donnelly, Maurice Ghirarr — The Lithia Pegmatites of Pala and Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Evans, Milton Harrison — The Geology of a Portion of the Rand Mountains, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Jahns, Richard Henry — Geology of the Ravenna Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
- Judson, Jack Finlay — Geology of the Le Brun and Mint Canyon Quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Peterson, Raymond Alfred — Results of Gravity Measurements in Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Scherb, Ivan Victor — Geology of the Le Brun and Mint Canyon Quadrangles, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Sharp, Robert Phillip — Geology of the Ravenna Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Soske, Joshua Lawrence — Theory of Magnetic Methods of Applied Geophysics with an Application to the San Andreas Fault (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1934
- Chawner, William Donald — The Montrose-La Crescenta (California) Flood of January 1, 1934, and its Sedimentary Aspects (Master's thesis)
- Cooksey, Charlton Dows — The Geology of Portions of the Humphreys, Sylmar, Newhall, and Saugus Quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Judson, Jack Finlay — General Geology of Verdugo Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
- Krick, Irving Parkhurst — I. Foehn Winds of Southern California. II. Foehn Wind Cyclo-Genesis. III. Weather Conditions Associated With the Akron Disaster. IV. The Los Angeles Storm of December 30, 1933 to January 1, 1934 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- McNaughton, Duncan Anderson — Geology of the Eastern Portion of the San Gabriel Mountains (Master's thesis)
- Rice, Harington Molesworth Anthony — The Geology and Economic Geology of the Cranbrook District, British Columbia. A San Diego Fauna in the Newhall Quadrangle, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sharp, Robert Phillip — Geology of the Tujunga region, Southwestern San Gabriel Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
- Smith, Hampton — The Origin of Some of the Siliceous Miocene Rocks of California. Stratigraphic Position of Some of the Diatomite Horizons in the Los Angeles Basin, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Thayer, Thomas Prence — The General Geology of the North Santiam River Section of the Oregon Cascades. The Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Salem Hills, Oregon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1933
- Anderson, George Harold — Geology of the North Half of the White Mountain Quadrangle, California-Nevada. Petrography of the North Half of the White Mountain Quadrangle, California-Nevada. Stratigraphy and Faunal Relationships of Pliocene Beds of San Diego Age in the Vicinity of Las Llajas Canyon, Simi Valley, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bell, Frank Wagner — The Stratigraphy and Foraminiferal Fauna of the Santa Susana Formation (Master's thesis)
- Bonillas, Ygnacio, III — Geology of Tick Canyon (Bachelor's thesis)
- Cogen, William Maurice — A Study of the Heavy Minerals of the Modelo Formation in the Eastern Portion of the Santa Monica Mountains (Master's thesis)
- Donnelly, Maurice Ghirarr — Preliminary Report of the Geology of the Julian Region, California (Master's thesis)
- Edwards, Everett Carlyle — Pliocene Conglomerates of the Los Angeles Basin and their Paleographic Significance. Foraminifera of the Repetto Hills (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Engel, Rene — Geology of the Lake Elsinore Quadrangle, California and Mineral Deposits of Lake Elsinore Quadrangle, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ericson, David Barnard — Geology of the Whittier Hills, California (Master's thesis)
- Franklin, Elmer Sherwood — Geology of the Haskell Canyon Region, Southern California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Harshman, Elbert Nelson — Geology of the San Jose Hills, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Holzman, Benjamin — Geophysical Applications of Radon Measurements (Master's thesis)
- Kemnitzer, Luis Emmett — Geology of San Nicolas and Santa Barbara Islands, Southern California (Master's thesis)
- Shappell, Maple Delos — The Cleavage of Ionic Minerals. The Crystal Structure of Bixbyite and the C-Modification of the Sesquioxides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Taylor, George Frederic — Quaternary Fault Structure of the Bishop Region, East-Central California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
1932
- Bolles, Lawrence William — Geology of the Las Flores and Dry Canyon Quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Clark, Alex — The Cool-Water Timms Point Pleistocene Horizon at San Pedro, California (Master's thesis)
- Clements, Thomas — The Geology of the Southeastern Portion of the Tejon Quadrangle, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Findlay, Willard Alexander — Geology of a Part of the San Joaquin Hills (Master's thesis)
- Finney, Howard William — Geology of a Portion of the Santa Susanna Mountains, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Harshman, Elbert Nelson — The Geology of a Portion of Newhall and Sylmar Quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Kelley, Vincent Cooper — Geology of the Santa Monica Mountains, West of the Malibu Ranch, Ventura County, California (Master's thesis)
- Patterson, John Wilfred — The Manto Type Limestone Replacement Deposits of Northern Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Reilly, James Thomas — A Report on the Geology of a Portion of Los Angeles County Located West of the City of Pasadena, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Webb, Robert Wallace — The Geology of Eastern Sierra Pelona Ridge and Vicinity in the Southeastern Part of the Elizabeth Lake Quadrangle, California (Master's thesis)
1931
- Bolles, Lawrence William — The Geology of a Portion of the Redlands Quadrangle, California : a Study in Faulting (Bachelor's thesis)
- Cogen, William Maurice — Geology of a Part of the Southwestern Portion of the San Gabriel Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
- Daly, John Warlaumont — The Geology and Mineralogy of the Limestone Deposits at Crestmore, Riverside County, California (Master's thesis)
- Holzman, Benjamin — The Geology of a Portion of the Santa Monica Mountains with a Section on Rock Cleavage (Bachelor's thesis)
- Lohman, Kenneth Elmo — Diatoms From the Modelo Formation (Upper Miocene) Near Girard, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Maxson, John Haviland — Geology of the Western Siskiyou Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Nickell, Frank Andrew — Geology of the Soledad Quadrangle, Central California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Peterson, Raymond Alfred — Geology of a Portion of the Santa Monica Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
- Stanton, William Layton — Geology of the Adelaida Quadrangle, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Taylor, George Frederic — The Geology of the Merced Hills, Los Angeles County, California, With a Section on the Radioactivity of the Oils and Waters (Master's thesis)
1930
- Eckis, Rollin Pollard — The Geology of the Southern Part of the Indio Quadrangle, California (Master's thesis)
- Gazin, Charles Lewis — Geology of the Central Portion of the Mount Pinos Quadrangle, Ventura and Kern Counties, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hodder, Roland Frederick — A Report on the Geology of a Portion of the Whittier Hills Between Turnbull and La Habra Canyons (Bachelor's thesis)
- Hookway, Lozell Charles — Geology of a Portion of the Lompoc Quadrangle of Santa Barbara County, California (Master's thesis)
- Kuhn, Truman Howard — Geology of the Eastern Part of the San Jose Hills, Southern California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Lupher, Ralph Leonard — Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Marine Jurassic Deposits of Central Oregon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Moore, Bernard Nettleton — Geology of the Southern Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Murphy, Franklin Mac — Geology and Ore Deposits of a Part of the Panamint Range, California (Master's thesis)
- Sutherland, John Clark — The Clays of Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California (Master's thesis)
- Wilson, Robert Warren — The Geology of a Portion of the Repetto Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
1929
- Clements, Thomas — Geology of a Portion of the Southeast Quarter of the Tejon Quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (Master's thesis)
- Daly, John Warlaumont — The Geology of Mount Washington (Bachelor's thesis)
- Lohman, Stanley William — A Report on the Geology of a Portion of the Whittier Hills, Southern California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Sandberg, Edward Charles — The Gold Quartz Veins of the Julian District, California (Master's thesis)
- Southwick, Thomas Scott — Geology of a Portion of the Santa Ana Mountains, California (Master's thesis)
- Sperling, Milton Heyer — The Geology of the Southeastern Portion of the Glendale Quadrangle and the Northeastern Portion of the Los Angeles Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)
- Sutherland, John Clark — The Santa Susana Thrust Fault and its Related Problems: a Progress Report (Bachelor's thesis)
- Taylor, George Frederic — Geology of a Portion of the Eastern Santa Monica Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
1928
- Bell, Frank Wagner — Report on the Geology of the San Pedro Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
- Compton, Thomas H. — Geology of the Jawbone Canyon Region, Kern County, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Hookway, Lozell Charlie; Clark, Alexander; Beverly, Burt Jr. — Geology of the Southwestern Part of the El Paso Mountains in the Region of Red Rock Canyon, Mojave Desert (Bachelor's thesis)
- Joujon-Roche, Jean Edward — A Geological Report on a Small Part of the Santa Monica Mountains (Bachelor's thesis)
- Maxson, John Haviland — A Tertiary Mammalian Fauna from the Mint Canyon Formation, Southern California (Master's thesis)
- Nickell, Frank Andrew — The Geology of the Southwestern Part of Lake Elizabeth Quadrangle Between San Francisquito and Bouquet Canyons (Master's thesis)
- Schroter, G. Austin — Geology of a Portion of the Tehachapi Mountains in the Vicinity of Jawbone Canyon, California (Bachelor's thesis)
- Smith, Hampton; Bell, Frank Wagner — The Geology of a Portion of the San Pedro Hills (Bachelor's thesis)
- Turner, Francis Earl — The Geology of the Quail Lake Region (Master's thesis)
1927
- Gazin, Charles Lewis — The Geology of the Northwestern Portion of the Alhambra Quadrangle (Bachelor's thesis)