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Graduate Students who have gotten their degrees under my primary supervision are listed below. 

Roger C. Holeywell, M.S., June 1973, "Rock Cleavage in the Martinsburg Formation, Lehigh Gap, Eastern Pennsylvania"

Martha J. Withjack, M.S., June 1975, "Development of a Gage for Measurement of In Situ Stress"

Denise M. Nelson, M.S., June 1977, "Finite Element Study of Temperature Distribution in Solid Medium Apparatus Sample Assembly"

Janet H. Hickey, M.S., June 1979, "Diffusion and Deformation Studies of Olivine"

Daniel Ela, M.S., June 1982, "Considerations for Rock Friction Measurements at High Temperature"

Frank G. Horowitz, M.S., June 1982, "Finite Element Study of Flow Laws for Polyphase Aggregates of Power Law Minerals"

Glen S. Stockmal, Ph.D., August 1983, "Numerical Studies of Deformation of Fold and Thrust Wedges"

Z. Zhoa, M.S., June 1983, "High Pressure, High temperature Deformation of Rock"

Timothy Bechtel, M.S., June 1984, "Textures and Frictional Properties of Sheared Granite"

Michael L. Blanpied, M.S., June 1985, Ph.D., June 1989, "Friction Constitutive Behavior & Textural Evolution of Experiment Faults in Granite"

Elizabeth Lorenzetti, M.S., June 1988, "Geodetic Predictions of a Strike-Slip Fault Model: Implications for Intermediate- and Short-Term Earthquake Prediction"

William L. Power, Ph.D., June 1989, "Roughness of Natural Fault Surfaces: Implications for Friction and Deformation in Fault Zones"

Linda A. Reinen, Ph.D., June 1993, "The Frictional Behavior of Serpentinite: Experiments, Constitutive Models, and Implications for Natural Faults"

Nicholas M. Beeler, Ph.D., October 1994, "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Rock Friction and Earthquake Rupture"

Valerie J. Scruggs, Ph.D., February 1997, "Frictional Constitutive Properties and Related Microstructures of Albite, Muscovite, Biotite and Talc"

Scott W. Costello, M.S., June 1999, "Can Free Oscillations Trigger Foreshocks that Allow Earthquake Prediction?"

Ph.D. Research of Giulio De Toro, "Laboratory and Field studies of Pseudotachylite Generation"