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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

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN ‘WOLFCAMP D’ SHALE, MIDLAND BASIN (USA): IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND UNCONVENTIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVIORS, Patrick W. Baldwin

Mobility of Escherichia coli within Karst Terrains, Kentucky, USA, Ashley M. Bandy

Paleoearthquakes of the Past ~6000 Years at the Dead Mouse Site, West-Central Denali Fault at the Nenana River, Alaska, Joseph K. Carlson

INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN INVESTIGATION OF CLAIBORNE AQUIFER HYDROSTRATIGRAPHY, JACKSON PURCHASE, KENTUCKY, Marie Cooper

DEUTERIUM AND OXYGEN-18 DIFFUSION IN A CONFINED AQUIFER: A NUMERICAL MODEL OF STABLE ISOTOPE DIFFUSION ACROSS AQUITARD-AQUIFER BOUNDARIES, Benjamin J. Currens

DENALI IN A BOX: ANALOG EXPERIMENTS MODELED AFTER A NATURAL SETTING PROVIDE INSIGHT ON GENTLE RESTRAINING BEND DEFORMATION, Anne M. Fendick

Spring Responses to Storms and Seasonal Variations in Recharge in the Middle Atlas Region of Morocco, Brett Andrew Howell