Degree Held:

BS Geology, Illinois State University

Degree Sought:

MS Earth Sciences

Advisor:

Dr. Devon Orme

Preferred Email Address:

joseph.moll@student.montana.edu

Research Project:

Characterizing the provenance and REE/trace element distributions of the Cambrian Flathead Sandstone, southwest Montana

My research primarily focuses on how sedimentary basins record and respond to tectonics and volcanism through the integration of field mapping and detrital geochronology.

Teaching Experience and Professional Experience:

Research Assistant, Michigan Geological Survey; Sept 2024-Jan 2025

Geophysical Field Technician, Advantage Geophysics, Inc.; Summer 2024

Teaching Assistantships:

GEO 309: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy; Montana State University, Fall 2025

GEO 306a27: Regional & Area Studies: Lake Superior Precambrian Geology; Illinois State University, Fall 2023

Publications:

Bowen, A., Helgerson, R.T, Moll, J., and Malone, D.H., (2025). Geologic Map of the Hunter Mesa 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Wyoming (Scale 1:24,000): Manuscript in review at The Mountain Geologist on December 11, 2024.

Moll, J.R., Helgerson, R.T., Malone., D.H., and Craddock, J.P., (2025). Provenance of the Post-Laramide Paleogene Mountain Meadows Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota: Manuscript in review at The Mountain Geologist on December 15, 2024.

Moll, J., Trzinski, A., Saul, C., and Malone, D. (2025). Provenance of Paleogene strata at Pumpkin Buttes, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Manuscript in review at The Mountain Geologist on December 11, 2024.

Moll, J., Ali, S. B., Malone, D., Strasser, J., & Arkle, J., 2025, Tectonic Influence of the Transcontinental Arch on Sediment Provenance: Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Middle Cambrian Flathead Sandstone, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: The Mountain Geologist, v. 62, no. 1, p. 87–107, doi:10.31582/rmag.mg.62.1.87

Moll, J., Maher, H., Malone, J., Malone, D., and Craddock, J. (2024). Provenance of Paleogene Strata at Slim Buttes, South Dakota: Implications for post-Laramide evolution of western Laurentia. The Sedimentary Record, 22(1). doi:10.2110/001c.123596

Poster Presentations:

Moll, J., Maher, H., Craddock, J.P., Malone, D.H, Malone, J.R., and Hacker, D., 2023b, Provenance of Paleogene Strata at Slim Buttes, South Dakota, USA, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/abs/2023AM-393475

Bowen, A., Helgerson, R., Moll, J., and Malone, D.H., 2023, Preliminary Geologic Map of the Hunter Mesa 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Johnson County, Wyoming, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/abs/2023AM-393521.