BSc Honours 2015
Miengah Abrahams
Thesis Title: The stratigraphic value of the Pronksberg bentonite in the upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic) Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Supervisor/s: Emese Bordy and Ryan Tucker
Contact details:
Email: abrmie002@myuct.ac.za
Quote: I have always loved science fiction and its ideas of time travel and teleportation. By understanding geology, when I hold a rock, I am truly transported back millions of years to a different world.
Travis America
Thesis Title: Provenance history of the Cretaceous megaconglomerates and associated clastic rocks, ~NNW of Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
Supervisor/s: Emese Bordy
Contact details:
Email: amrtra001@myuct.ac.za or amrtra001@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Travis America
Quote: The top of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest standing at ~8840m above sea level, is marine limestone.
Sascha Dyer
Thesis Title: Petrology of the metapelites in the Cape Peninsula Batholith aureole, Western Cape, South Africa
Supervisor/s: Johann Diener
Contact details:
Email: dyrsas001@myuct.ac.za
Jennifer Ehima
Thesis Title: Late Quaternary depositional history of the western continental slope of South Africa, South of the Cape Canyon.
Supervisor/s: John Compton and Eugene Bergh
Contact details:
Email: ehmjen001@myuct.ac.za
James Lister
Thesis Title: Using seismic, and other available, data to establish the controlling factors for sedimentation within the Orange Basin
Supervisor/s: John Compton and Beth Kahle
Contact details:
Email: lstjam001@myuct.ac.za
Lucrecia Maboane
Thesis Title: Stable isotope analysis of the Garies wollastonite
Supervisor/s: Chris Harris
Contact details:
Email: mbnluc002@myuct.ac.za
Why I love geology: ''When I break a rock open with my pick, I;m a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been.''- Chrstina Dodd, Virtue Falls
Silence Magagula
Thesis Title: Nyanzian (Kenya) Basalt Geochemical classification
Supervisor/s: Lynnette Greyling
Contact details:
Email: magagulasilence@gmail.com
Why I love geology: The story of the earth is the most fascinating story out there, and just like human history (before the invention of paper, of course) this history is stored in the rocks. I just want to learn how to read it
Aquinar Malatji
Thesis Title: Short-term investigation of the recharge rates of Table Mountain springs using both oxygen and hydrogen isotopes.
Supervisor/s: Chris Harris
Contact details:
Email: mltaqu001@myuct. ac.za
Jonny Martin
Thesis Title: The accomodation of Strain in Migmatites
Supervisor/s: Johann Diener
Contact details:
Email: Jonny.Martin@alumni.uct.ac.za
Research interests: metamorphic and structural geology
Justin Paul
Thesis Title: The petrology of the Ondermatjie kimberlite, South East Namibia
Supervisor/s: Phil Janney
Contact details:
Email: plxjus001@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Justin Paul
Research interests: Petrology of kimberlites and understanding how the composition of primary kimberlite magma chnages as it rises to the surface of the earth.
Why I study geology: Geology allows me to explore the new places while at the same time contributing to research and the needs of society.