Tom Kelty Student Research

Student Presentations

Jacqueline Chavez, Paul Day, and Thomas Kelty, 2007, Earthquake Potential of the Agit Fault, Central Mongolia [poster], CSULB College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Student Research Symposium.

Paul Day, Behl, R.J., Kelty, T.K., Ribeiro, A., 2006, Petrology of bedded chert along the Hustain fault [poster], Second International Workshop, IGCP Project 480, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Angela Ribeiro, Kelty, T.K., and Gehrels, G., 2005, Geological transect through the Hangay-Hentey basin, Mongolia [abstract], Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Karen Anderson, Kelty, T.K., Ryland, T., Brenner, J. and Perry, B., 2005, Student peer instruction of general geology laboratories: success for visual learners [abstract], Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Graduate Student Theses

Angela Ribeiro, 2007
"Geological Transect Through the Hangay-Hentey Basin: Implications for the Contraction of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean, Mongolia"

Ewa Burchard, 2007
"Evaluation of Ozone Sparging in Hydrocarbon-contaminated Groundwater Using Analytical and Numerical Methods"

Paul Day, 2008
"Geology and Seismicity of the Hustain Fault, Central Mongolia"

Student Photographs

The blue bus is the most common mode of transportation used by graduate students.

Angela Ribeiro's camp in the Zamaarin Mountains, 2005.

The "ger" is the preferred living quarters of Mongolians in the countryside.

Professors Chuluun, Tsetseg, and Batulzii share a traditional Mongolian feast with Paul Day, Diane Escobedo and Tom Kelty. The highlight of the meal was fermented mare's milk (koumiss).

Paul Day and Diane Escobedo make a new friend in Mongolia.

Diane Escobedo and Paul Day discover an effective method of resolving differences in their geological interpretations.

Angela Ribeiro on a Mongol horse.

Diane Escobedo shows off her Russian dancing skills.

Dan Pankratz examines foliation along the Hustain Fault in 2006.

Angela Ribeiro and Cathleen Zeleski collect data from outcrops near Lun.

Completed in 2007, the statue of history's best-known Mongolian, Chinggis Khaan at Sukhbaatar Square.

Paul Day and Diane Escobedo visit Gandantegchinlen Khiid, Mongolia's largest Buddhist Monastery (1838).

Angela Ribeiro at the Ongot Monuments (~600 AD).