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81. A seismic investigation of basal conditions in glaciated regions

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Author:
Peters, Leo Everett
Title:
A seismic investigation of basal conditions in glaciated regions
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
glaciology
AVO analysis
basal conditions
seismology
File:
Download LEP_PhD_diss_2009_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Charles Holland, Committee Member

82. Response of calcareous nannoplankton to climatic perturbations and the long-term impact on communities

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Author:
Schneider, Leah Jill
Title:
Response of calcareous nannoplankton to climatic perturbations and the long-term impact on communities
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
calcareous nannoplankton
geosciences
paleoceanography
Cenozoic
File:
Download LSchneiderDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Lee Kump, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Bralower, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Special Member

83. ANALYZING TAMSEIS DATA FOR SEISMIC EVENTS OF HIGH TEMPORAL REGULARITY AND LARGE MAGNITUDE (Mw=1.8) BENEATH DAVID GLACIER, AND FOR LONG-PERIOD PLATE-MARGIN EVENTS

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Author:
Zoet, Lucas Keith
Title:
ANALYZING TAMSEIS DATA FOR SEISMIC EVENTS OF HIGH TEMPORAL REGULARITY AND LARGE MAGNITUDE (Mw=1.8) BENEATH DAVID GLACIER, AND FOR LONG-PERIOD PLATE-MARGIN EVENTS
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
ice quake
TAMSEIS
Seismic
Antarctica
File:
Download lkz_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

84. Topographically Driven Groundwater Flow Through A Heterogeneous Permeability Subsurface: Implications for Surface Heat Flow Near Parkfield, California and in the Western Mojave Desert

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Author:
Popek, Margaret Ann
Title:
Topographically Driven Groundwater Flow Through A Heterogeneous Permeability Subsurface: Implications for Surface Heat Flow Near Parkfield, California and in the Western Mojave Desert
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
heat flow
California
groundwater flow
tectonics
File:
Download Margaret_A_Popek_Masters_Thesis.pdfDownload Appendices_A_B_D_E_F_and_G.pdfDownload Appendix_C.pdf
Committee Members:
Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

85. Volcano-Tectonic Evolution of Flateyjarskagi, North Central Iceland

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Author:
Jancin, Mark D.
Title:
Volcano-Tectonic Evolution of Flateyjarskagi, North Central Iceland
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Iceland
plate tectonics
spreading history
paleomagnetism
Tjornes Fracture Zone
volcanic stratigraphy
File:
Download Jancin_PhD.pdf
Committee Members:
Barry Voight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Voight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member

86. The Diversity and Coping Mechanisms of Life Inhabiting the Hypersaline Dead Sea

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Author:
Rhodes, Matthew E
Title:
The Diversity and Coping Mechanisms of Life Inhabiting the Hypersaline Dead Sea
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Lateral Gene Transfer
Haloarchaea
Halophile
Dead Sea
Metagenomics
File:
Download Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

87. Local and broad scale changes in North American small mammal community structure: the late Pleistocene through the late Holocene

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Author:
Pardi, Melissa Irene
Title:
Local and broad scale changes in North American small mammal community structure: the late Pleistocene through the late Holocene
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
multivariate analysis
paleoecology
Holocene
Pleistocene
glacial
small mammals
non-analog
File:
Download Completed_Thesis_04_11_2_2010.pdf
Committee Members:
Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

88. Compositional, mechanical, and hydrologic controls on fault slip behavior

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Author:
Ikari, Matt
Title:
Compositional, mechanical, and hydrologic controls on fault slip behavior
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
faults
friction
earthquakes
clay minerals
permeability
subduction zones
File:
Download ikari_Phd_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eliza Richardson, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andre Niemeijer, Committee Member

92. Quantifying Subsurface Nitrate Transport and Remediation Using Gene Expression and Finite Element Models

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Author:
Bachmann, Matthew
Title:
Quantifying Subsurface Nitrate Transport and Remediation Using Gene Expression and Finite Element Models
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
florida keys
wastewater
denitrification
nirS
q-rt-pcr
tidal pumping
File:
Download Bachmann_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Regan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

93. LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE BENEATH EASTERN AFRICA FROM JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTIONS AND RAYLEIGH WAVE VELOCITIES

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Author:
Dugda, Mulugeta Tuji
Title:
LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE BENEATH EASTERN AFRICA FROM JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTIONS AND RAYLEIGH WAVE VELOCITIES
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE
EASTERN AFRICA
JOINT INVERSION OF RECEIVER FUNCTIONS AND RAYLEIGH
ETHIOPIAN LITHOSPHERE
File:
Download MTDugda_PhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

94. Neoproterozoic Sulfur Isotopes, Snowball Earth Events and the Evolution of Microbial Sulfur Species

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Author:
Hurtgen, Matthew T.
Title:
Neoproterozoic Sulfur Isotopes, Snowball Earth Events and the Evolution of Microbial Sulfur Species
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
sulfur isotopes
Neoproterozoic
snowball Earth
sulfate concentrations
Precambrian
Namibia
File:
Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Member
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Member

95. Revisiting the Hubbert-rubey Hypothesis for overthrust faulting: Inferences from progressive mineralization on bedding slip surfaces during flexural slip folding of Devonian Shale, the Appalachian Basin, Usa

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Author:
Aydin, Murat Gorkem
Title:
Revisiting the Hubbert-rubey Hypothesis for overthrust faulting: Inferences from progressive mineralization on bedding slip surfaces during flexural slip folding of Devonian Shale, the Appalachian Basin, Usa
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
flexural slip folding
slickensides
cleavage
mirror-like surfaces
File:
Download Murat_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Terry Engelder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

96. Lithospheric Structure of North Africa and Western Eurasia

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Author:
Kosarian, Minoo
Title:
Lithospheric Structure of North Africa and Western Eurasia
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Crustal thickness
Shear velocity structure
Surface wave dispersion
Receiver functions
Poisson`s ratio
File:
Download Minoo-Kosarian-Dissertation-2006.pdf
Committee Members:
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

97. CRUSTAL STRUCTURE ALONG THE TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAIN FRONT USING RECEIVER FUNCTIONS

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Author:
Finotello, Marco
Title:
CRUSTAL STRUCTURE ALONG THE TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAIN FRONT USING RECEIVER FUNCTIONS
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
TAMSEIS
Receiver Functions
Crustal Structure
Transantarctic Mountains
File:
Download FinalThesis_15_Complete.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jordi Julia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

98. SURFACE WAVES, EARTH STRUCTURE, AND SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION

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Author:
Maceira, Monica
Title:
SURFACE WAVES, EARTH STRUCTURE, AND SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Rayleigh waves
tomography
Earth structure
joint inversion
seismic discrimination
central Asia
File:
Download Monica-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member

99. MILLENNIAL SLIP-RATES ALONG THE EASTERN KUNLUN FAULT AND RAPID EVOLUTION OF CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY IN THE YELLOW RIVER HEADWATERS, NORTHEASTERN TIBET, CHINA

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Author:
Harkins, Nathan Ward
Title:
MILLENNIAL SLIP-RATES ALONG THE EASTERN KUNLUN FAULT AND RAPID EVOLUTION OF CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY IN THE YELLOW RIVER HEADWATERS, NORTHEASTERN TIBET, CHINA
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
fluvial geomorphology
strike-slip faulting
tibet
active tectonics
Geomorphology
Yellow River
File:
Download harkins_text809.pdf
Committee Members:
Eric Kirby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Kirby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member