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Theses and Dissertations--Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Theses and Dissertations--Earth and Environmental Sciences collection was formerly known as the Theses and Dissertations--Geology collection.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

CLOSING THE MODERN SEISMIC GAP ALONG THE TETON FAULT VIA SEISMIC MAPPING OF MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSITS IN JACKSON LAKE, WY, Callia Jacqueline Cortese

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 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

DEFORMATION OF WALL ROCKS AND OVERBURDEN SEQUENCES PROXIMAL TO SALT DIAPIRS IN SALT VALLEY, UTAH: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREDICTING SUBSEISMIC DAMAGE IN SALT TECTONIC SYSTEMS, William Swanger

DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON – FLUXES AND INVENTORIES – IN GROWTH-FAULTED COASTAL WETLANDS, Samuel Joel Whitehead

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 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 2020

IDENTIFICATION OF THE CAUSES AND EXTENT OF ELEVATED METHANE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE GROUNDWATER OF EASTERN KENTUCKY, Cristopher Alvarez Villa

“THE TALE OF 3,000 ZIRCONS”: AN INVESTIGATION OF GRENVILLE SEDIMENTATION IN AMAZONIA USING U/PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY, Felicia R. Harris

TESTING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DISPLACEMENT MAGNITUDE OF THE TETON FAULT AND UPLIFT OF THE TETON RANGE, WYOMING WITH INTEGRATED FLEXURAL-KINEMATIC AND THERMAL MODELING, Autumn Helfrich

A MULTI-METHOD INVESTIGATION OF THE MODERN SEDIMENTATION AND LATE HOLOCENE PALEOLIMNOLOGY OF JUNE LAKE (MONO COUNTY, CA), AND A SURVEY-BASED ANALYSIS OF NINTH GRADERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS GEOLOGY, Eva Lyon

TRACING SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSESS SPATIAL PATTERNS OF EROSION IN A MIXED LAND USE ENVIRONMENT: OTTER CREEK CATCHMENT, FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY, Cara Peterman

ISOTOPIC AND GEOCHEMICAL TRACERS OF GROUNDWATER FLOW IN THE SHIVWITS PLATEAU, GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Jonathan W. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

VARIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CHEMISTRY IN THE HOUZHAI KARST BASIN, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA, Joshua M. Barna

HOLOCENE HYDROCLIMATIC AND VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SIERRA NEVADA USING POLLEN AND STABLE ISOTOPES FROM CONVICT LAKE, Morgan Black

THE FORESTRY RECLAMATION APPROACH: MEASURING SEDIMENT MASS ACCUMULATION RATES IN RECLAIMED MINE LANDS AND NATURALLY REGENERATED LOGGED FORESTS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY, William E. Bond

INTEGRATED SEISMIC-REFLECTION AND MICROGRAVITY IMAGING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE CHARLESTON UPLIFT, NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, USA, Drew D. Burford Jr.

CHARACTERIZATIONS OF LINEAR GROUND MOTION SITE RESPONSE IN THE NEW MADRID AND WABASH VALLEY SEISMIC ZONES AND SEISMICITY IN THE NORTHERN EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE AND ROME TROUGH, EASTERN KENTUCKY, Nicholas von Seth Carpenter

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