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Author:: Carte, Jared L
Title:: Uranium-series Geochemistry in Residual Soils: Examples from Central Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Uranium
Weathering
Geochemistry
Soils
Soil Uranium
File:: Download Jared_Carte_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew S Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Herschel Adams Elliott, Committee Member

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Author:: Kenigsberg, Abby
Title:: Elastodynamic and Mechanical Properties of Smectite-Rich Fault Gouge
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: smectite
fault gouge
velocities
fabric
permeability
File:: Download kenigsberg_dissertation_091619.pdf
Committee Members:: Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Sclafani, Judith
Title:: Morphological change in response to mass extinction: a case study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) at the Late Ordovician
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Late Ordovician mass extinction
recovery
morphometrics
paleoecology
evolutionary history
File:: Download DissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Wyatt, Damaris Christine
Title:: Constraints from Monazite Petrochronology on the Assembly of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Lower Crust
Metamorphism
Lower Continental Crust
Monazite
U-Pb Geochronology
Metamorphic Petrology
Tectonics
Trace Element Geochemistry
Thermobarometry
Pseudosection Modeling
File:: Download wyatt_ms_2019____.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew James Smye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Yoxtheimer, David
Title:: UTILIZATION OF THE SQUARE ARRAY EARTH RESISTIVITY METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY IN FRACTURED SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: earth resistivity
square array
anisotropy
fractured bedrock
karst
hydrogeology
paradox of anisotropy
File:: Download Yoxtheimer_dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Anthony Robert Buda, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Silverhart, Perri
Title:: Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed headwater catchment in central Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: erosion
agricultural erosion
critical zone
czo
cesium-137
File:: Download silverhart_thesis_final3.pdf
Committee Members:: Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Marcon, Virginia Margaret
Title:: THE EFFECT OF LITHOLOGY ON (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING: SANDSTONE TO SERPENTINITE
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: biogeochemical weathering
critical zone
Shale Hills
87Sr/86Sr
mineral biosignatures
δ13C
porosity
File:: Download MarconDissertation_Formatted_Nov2019b.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Alotaibi, Thamer
Title:: Lithospheric Geodynamics of the Arabian Margin
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Lithospheric geodyanmics
Arabian Margin deformation
Red Sea rifting evolution
File:: Download PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Kevin Patrick Furlong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
Rocco Malservisi, Special Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Karp, Allison
Title:: The role of fire ecology in vegetation change during the Neogene: New applications of molecular and isotopic proxies for vegetation burning in the paleorecord
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: paleofire
paleoecology
stable isotope geochemistry
organic geochemistry
C4 grassland expnasion
Neogene
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
leaf waxes
biogeochemistry
File:: Download CertificateOfCompletion_Karp.pdfDownload Proquest_UMI_Agreement_Karp_Disseration.pdfDownload Karp_Dissertation_2020_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member
Sarah J Ivory, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Pitcavage, Erica
Title:: Geochemical investigations of continental rift magmatism: a case study in East Africa's Western Rift
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: East African Rift
geochemistry
petrology
isotope geochemistry
geochronology
Uganda
magmatism
volcanism
File:: Download EPitcavage_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Tanya Furman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member
Danny Glynn Sykes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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