The Theses and Dissertations--Earth and Environmental Sciences collection was formerly known as the Theses and Dissertations--Geology collection.
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
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
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
“THE TALE OF 3,000 ZIRCONS”: AN INVESTIGATION OF GRENVILLE SEDIMENTATION IN AMAZONIA USING U/PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY, Felicia R. Harris
ISOTOPIC AND GEOCHEMICAL TRACERS OF GROUNDWATER FLOW IN THE SHIVWITS PLATEAU, GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Jonathan W. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 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
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