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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 2019 2019

EFFECTS OF DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES ON STRENGTH AND COMPRESSIBILITY OF SEDIMENTS USING ELASTIC SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY, Wisam Razzaq Muttashar

RETHINKING KARST HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN KENTUCKY, William P. Pierskalla Jr.

Extension of a Quaternary-Active Shear Zone across the Reelfoot Fault Stepover Arm: Evidence from P- and SH-wave Seismic Reflection Imaging, Brooks Rosandich

THE LINKS BETWEEN GULF OF MEXICO SEAFLOOR CHARACTERISTICS AND PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS FOLLOWING THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL, Kimberly J. Schindler

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CHEMISTRY ALONG THE CUMBERLAND RIVER, ARTEMUS, KENTUCKY, Amanda Rachelle Sherman

A DIATOM PROXY FOR SEASONALITY OVER THE LAST THREE MILLENNIA AT JUNE LAKE, EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA (CA), Laura Caitlin Streib

DETERMINING RATES OF LANDSCAPE RESPONSE TO TECTONIC FORCING ACROSS A RANGE OF TEMPORAL SCALES AND EROSIONAL MECHANISMS: TETON RANGE, WY, Meredith Swallom

A JOINT XRF-δ¹³C_carb CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC APPROACH FOR CHARACTERIZING PALEO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES IN THE MUDSTONE-DOMINATED WOLFCAMP FORMATION OF WEST TEXAS, Frank Tamakloe

TESTING FOR SEDIMENTARY RECYCLING USING DETRITAL MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY, ZIRCON “DOUBLE DATING”, AND TEXTURES IN PENNSYLVANIAN ARENITES OF THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN BASIN, EASTERN KENTUCKY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SINGLE MINERAL SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE ANALYSIS, Steve C. Zotto

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

HYDROLOGIC MONITORING AND 2-D ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING FOR JOINT GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SHALLOW COLLUVIAL LANDSLIDES, Matthew M. Crawford

OCCURRENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF TWO ECHINODERM-BEARING FAUNAS FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN (CHESTERIAN; LOWER SERPUKHOVIAN) RAMEY CREEK MEMBER, SLADE FORMATION, EASTERN KENTUCKY, U.S.A., Ann Well Harris

STRATIGRAPHY AND ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY REVEAL PATTERNS OF LATE QUATERNARY PALEO-PRODUCTIVITY AT MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA, Bailee Nicole Hodelka

CONSERVATION LIMNOGEOLOGY AND BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING IN CENTRAL LAKE TANGANYIKA (TANZANIA), Joseph S. Lucas

A MULTI-INDICATOR APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE DIAGENESIS OF CARBONATES IN PENNSYLVANIAN MUDROCKS OF THE MIDLAND BASIN, Alex J. Reis

GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CARTOOGECHAYE TERRANE, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN TO EARLY PALEOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN LAURENTIAN MARGIN, Kevin B. Walsh Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

ZIRCON AS A PROXY FOR "TAKING THE TEMPERATURE" OF GRANITES: AN EXAMPLE USING ZIRCON THERMOMETRY APPLIED TO GRENVILLIAN MID-CRUSTAL MAGMAS IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE, VIRGINIA, Samantha Rae Burk

POTENTIAL FIELD MODELING ACROSS THE NEODYMIUM LINE DEFINING THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC-MESOPROTEROZOIC BOUNDARY OF THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF LAURENTIA, Rachel Lauren Durham

EFFECTS OF HYDROLOGIC CONNECTIVITY AND LAND USE ON FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA, Jeremy E. Eddy

INITIAL MICROSEISMIC RECORDINGS AT THE ONSET OF UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON DEVELOPMENT IN THE ROME TROUGH, EASTERN KENTUCKY, Andrew Holcomb

SEDIMENTARY RESPONSES TO GROWTH FAULT SLIP AND CLAY SHRINK AND SWELL INDUCED ELEVATION VARIATIONS: EAST MATAGORDA PENINSULA, TEXAS, Wei Ji

INTERPRETATION OF THE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION IN THE UPPER TANGLEWOOD MEMBER (UPPER ORDOVICIAN) OF THE LEXINGTON LIMESTONE, CENTRAL KENTUCKY, U.S.A., Dibya R. Koirala

FLUVIAL-LACUSTRINE PROCESSES SHAPING THE LANDFORMS OF THE DISTAL PARAGUAY FLUVIAL MEGAFAN, Edward Limin Lo

STRATIGRAPHIC, GEOCHEMICAL, AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WOLFCAMP-D INTERVAL, MIDLAND BASIN, TEXAS, Zachary S. Perlman

CONSTRAINING BOUNDARIES AND EXTENT OF THE CHARLESTON UPLIFT, NORTHEAST NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, USING SHALLOW SEISMIC REFLECTION METHODS, Clara Rose Rucker

THE OLIGOCENE WEST ELK BRECCIA: EVIDENCE FOR MASSIVE VOLCANIC DEBRIS AVALANCHES IN THE EASTERN GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY, WEST-CENTRAL COLORADO, U.S.A., Patrick J. Whalen