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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 2018 2018

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

FIELD, GEOCHRONOLOGIC, AND GEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LATE PRECAMBRIAN TO EARLY PALEOZOIC TERRANE ACCRETION IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE, Emma A. Larkin

Dating Deformation in the Palmer Zone of Transpression, Central Massachusetts: Temporal Constraints on Models for Progressive Deformation in the Middle Crust, James K. McCulla

Use and Evaluation of LiDAR for Mapping Sinkholes in Royal Spring Groundwater Basin, Fidele Nsonguh Tibouo

Development of a Semi-Automated Methodology for Discriminating Between Natural and Manmade Seismic Events Using the OIINK Seismic Array, Paul Rodriguez Asihama

STRATIGRAPHIC, GEOCHEMICAL, AND WELL LOG ANALYSIS OF THE WOLFCAMP-D UNCONVENTIONAL PLAY IN THE CENTRAL MIDLAND BASIN, TEXAS, Patrick Thomas Ryan