Current Research

The Sego Sandstone


M.S. Research

    I completed my M.S. thesis in 2009. I defended in December of 2008 and all revisions were accepted in January of 2009.

The Shannon Sandstone: New Observations and Constraints Applied to Depositional Models

Previous Research & Published Abstracts

    I have been involved in a variety of research during my stay at BYU-I and my internships at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  The research that has been presented at professional meetings can be categorized as structural and geomorphic projects.  The following links are to my published abstracts as well as a couple of my presentations which are now available on the AAPG Search and Discovery webpage.

Painter, C.S., Martinsen, R.S., 2007, Another Look at Hartzog Draw Stratigraphy, Powder River Basin, WY, American Association
of Petroleum Geologists 2007 Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Snowbird, UT, Abstracts with Programs.

Sussman, A., Weil A.B., Yonkee, A., Painter, C.S., 2006, Fracture Analysis in Oblique Ramps of the Wyoming Salient,
Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt: Evolution from Early Layer Parallel Shortening to Final Orogenic Curvature, Geological Society
of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7., p. 412.

Painter, C.S., Little, W.W., Embree, G.F., Millard, M., 2005, Inverted Valley Development and Geomorphic Response of
the Henrys Fork of the Snake River to Episodic Basalt Damming, Mesa Falls Recreation Area, Caribou-Targhee National Forest,
Idaho, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 463.

Millard, M., Clayton, R.W., Painter, C.S., 2005, Preferred Fracture Orientations Resulting from Secondary Deformation
of a Rhyolitic Ash Flow Tuff: 2 Ma Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Southeast Idaho, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with
Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 209.

Presentations and posters that are viewable online through AAPG Search and Discovery.

Painter, C.S., Little, W.W., Embree, G.F., Millard, M., 2005, Geomorphic Response of the Henrys Fork River to Pleistocene
Volcanism, Mesa Falls Recreation Area, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Idaho, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
2005 Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY, Abstracts with Programs, p. 44.

Millard, M., Clayton, R.W., Painter, C.S., 2005, Sediment Diapirism and Gravity Sliding of the 2 Ma Huckleberry Tuff Near
Teton Dam, Idaho: Small-Scale Structural Constraints, American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2005 Rocky Mountain Section
Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY, Abstracts with Programs, p. 39.

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