The Theses and Dissertations--Earth and Environmental Sciences collection was formerly known as the Theses and Dissertations--Geology collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
DISTRIBUTION AND IMPACTS OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS IN LOUISIANA TIDAL MARSH SEDIMENTS FOLLOWING THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL, Rachel S. Hatch
MODELING OF CO2-WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS IN A MISSISSIPPIAN SANDSTONE RESERVOIR OF KENTUCKY, Anne M. Schumacher
SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE AND CONTAMINANT FLUXES ALONG A CHANNELIZED STREAM IN WESTERN KENTUCKY, Ganesh N. Tripathi
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
GEOLOGY OF THE EAU CLAIRE FORMATION AND CONASAUGA GROUP IN PART OF KENTUCKY AND ANALYSIS OF THEIR SUITABILITY AS CAPROCKS FOR DEEPER CO2 SEQUESTRATION, Ralph E. Bandy III
INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF KARST FEATURES – INNER BLUEGRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY, Jamin C. Frommel
GEOTHERMOBAROMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL LAND ECLOGITES, EAST GREENLAND CALEDONIDES, Gabriel E. RiCharde
SH-WAVE REFRACTION AND REFLECTION INVESTIGATION OF QUATERNARY GEOLOGY―CENTRAL UNITED STATES SEISMIC OBSERVATORY, Carrington L. Wright
Dissertations from 2011
PETROLOGIC, GEOCHEMICAL, AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN, BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, Eric Douglas Anderson
FATE OF STABLE ISOTOPE LABEL DURING PREDATION OF 15N-TAGGED WILD-TYPE ESCHERICHIA COLI BY PROTOZOA, Ashley M. Barton
LOCATING HOT SPOTS OF FECAL POLLUTION IN AN URBAN WATERSHED OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY USING BACTEROIDES 16S rRNA MARKERS, Tricia L. Coakley
ARSENIC HETEROGENEITY IN AQUIFER SEDIMENTS FROM WEST BENGAL, INDIA, Emily Eastridge
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND RESIDENCE TIME OF GROUNDWATER IN THE WILCOX AQUIFER OF THE NORTHERN GULF COASTAL PLAIN, Estifanos Haile
STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF AN INTRACRATONIC RIFT SYSTEM; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY GRABEN, ROUGH CREEK GRABEN, AND ROME TROUGH OF KENTUCKY, USA, John Bibb Hickman Jr.
A CLASSIFICATION OF LOWER PALEOZOIC CARBONATE-BEARING ROCKS FOR GEOTECHNICAL APPLICATIONS, Bethany L. Overfield
DEPOSITIONAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MARINE, GREEN-CLAY, MINERAL FACIES IN THE LOWER-MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN BORDEN AND FORT PAYNE FORMATIONS, WESTERN APPALACHIAN AND EASTERN ILLINOIS BASINS, KENTUCKY, Devi Bhagabati Prasad Udgata
BEDROCK GEOLOGY AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN CENTRAL MAINE ZONE, SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS, Thomas Bradley Walker
Dissertations from 2010
PROVENANCE OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC OCOEE SUPERGROUP, EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, Suvankar Chakraborty
PALINSPASTIC RECONSTRUCTION AROUND A THRUST BELT RECESS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE APPALACHIAN THRUST BELT IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA, Brian Stephen Cook
LATEST QUATERNARY PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION UTILIZING STABLE ISOTOPIC AND TRACE ELEMENT PROXIES IN A STALAGMITE FROM CULVERSON CREEK CAVE, WEST VIRGINIA, Ashley Nicole Gilbert
ORIGIN OF BLUE RIDGE BASEMENT ROCKS, DELLWOOD QUAD, WESTERN NC: NEW EVIDENCE FROM U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND WHOLE ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY, Donald Franklin Loughry Jr.
THE NO. 5 BLOCK IN EASTERN KENTUCKY: A CRITICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF THE PETROLOGY WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE ORIGIN OF INERTINITE MACERALS IN THE SPLINT LITHOTYPES, Allison Ranae Richardson
TECTONIC CONTROLS ON LOWER DEVONIAN SANDSTONE DISTRIBUTION, ALABAMA, Michael P. Solis
FEASIBILITY OF USING 15N-ENRICHED ESCHERICHIA COLI AS A BACTERIAL TRACER IN THE CANE RUN/ROYAL SPRING BASIN, KENTUCKY, John G. Warden
