The Theses and Dissertations--Earth and Environmental Sciences collection was formerly known as the Theses and Dissertations--Geology collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
THERMAL ALTERATION OF THE MINERALOGY OF CALCIUM SULFOALUMINATE CEMENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF RAPID REPAIR MATERIALS, Jillian Cavellier
Microstructural, Mineralogical, and Chemical Characterization of the Handys Bend and Flax Creek Meteorites, Kentucky: Relevance for the Iron Meteorite Record, Ethan S.L. Davis
Assessing Microplastic Contamination Within Karst Groundwater Basins in Kentucky, Maaz Fareedi
RECENT PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL HISTORY OF JACKSON LAKE, GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING (USA), Hillary Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
CLOSING THE MODERN SEISMIC GAP ALONG THE TETON FAULT VIA SEISMIC MAPPING OF MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSITS IN JACKSON LAKE, WY, Callia Jacqueline Cortese
THE APPALACHIAN SYSTEM OF BASINS AND PLATFORMS AS A TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC ANALOGUE TO THE BARENTS SEA SHELF: WHERE ARCTIC MEETS THE APPALACHIANS, Gustavo De Aguiar Martins
Hypogene Speleogenesis in the Grand Canyon; Observational, Mineralogical, and Geochemical Investigations from the Bopper Cave System, Sierra Heimel
Applications of Digital Terrain Modeling to Address Problems in Geomorphology and Engineering Geology, Sarah Johnson
Estimating Bedrock Shear Wave Velocity at VSAP, Paducah, Kentucky, Using Ambient Noise, Russel Rogers
FIELD TESTS OF A UAV-COMPATIBLE SPECTROMETER TO EVALUATE ITS SUITABILITY FOR DETAILED SOIL RADON POTENTIAL MAPPING, Alexandria Briahnne Thomas
DISCOVERY OF THE MIDDLE MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE (MMTZ) AND ITS GEODYNAMIC SIGNIFICANCE, Yuping Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
NATURALLY OCCURRING AND INTRODUCED TRACERS FOR EXAMINING WATER PATHWAYS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, Elizabeth Avery
Tryptophan-Like Fluorescence and Non-Point Source Pollution in Karst Basins, Inner Bluegrass Region, Kentucky, Ryan Dapkus
The Revised Systematics and Paleoecology of the Devonian Stemless Crinoid Genus Edriocrinus Hall, 1858, Catherine E. Herbert
Influence of Bedrock Erodibility on Orogen Evolution in Collisional Systems and Implications for Geodynamic Models, Stephanie Ann Sparks
SYN- TO POST-OROGENIC EVOLUTION OF COLLISIONAL MOUNTAIN SYSTEMS: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL FOR CRUSTAL FLOW USING THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND NUMERICAL MODELS, Brandon Spencer
DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON – FLUXES AND INVENTORIES – IN GROWTH-FAULTED COASTAL WETLANDS, Samuel Joel Whitehead
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
ANALYZING SLAB HOLES IN SUBDUCTION ZONES AND THEIR IMPACTS THROUGH NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS, Taylor M. Arrowood
Integrated Geophysical Investigation of Near-Surface Faults - Sassafras Ridge, New Madrid Seismic Zone, USA, Cooper Cearley
Admittance Modeling for Elastic Thickness Across the Mars Crustal Dichotomy Boundary, Aspen Davis
Timing of Regional Metamorphism in the Inner Piedmont and Blue Ridge of North Carolina: Evidence From Monazite U-Pb Geochronology, Nicholas Edwin Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAUSES AND EXTENT OF ELEVATED METHANE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE GROUNDWATER OF EASTERN KENTUCKY, Cristopher Alvarez Villa
