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Author:: Reusch, Angela Marie
Title:: Using seismic data to interpret the mechanism for Cenozoic volcanism beneath Ross Island, Antarctica and the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Africa
tomography
body waves
plumes
hotspot
File:: Download Mouse-Dissertation-FINAL-small.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

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Author:: Adams, Aubreya Nicole
Title:: A SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE BENEATH THE ZAGROS MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN AND EAST AFRICAN PLATEAUS
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Zagros Mountains
tomography
surface waves
plume
African Superplume
Africa
seismology
southern Africa
East Africa
File:: Download aadams_dissertation_finalsmall.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Rathbun, Andrew Paul
Title:: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRICTIONAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SHEAR ZONES, WITH APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE FAULTS AND GLACIAL TILL
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Shear
Localization
Earthquakes
Friction
File:: Download ThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

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Author:: Ennyu, Atsuhito
Title:: MIDDLE MIOCENE CLIMATE EVOLUTION IN THE PACIFIC REALM
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: paleoceanography
paleoclimatology
middle Miocene
oxygen and carbon stable isotopes
foraminifera
Ocean Drilling Program
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

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Author:: Krug, Andrew Zachary
Title:: TAXIC AND PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION AND EARLY SILURIAN RECOVERY
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: recovery
mass extinction
Late Ordovician
diversity
File:: Download Andrew_Z._Krug_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

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Author:: Fambrough, Brooke Anderson
Title:: CONTROLS ON FLUVIAL LONGITUDINAL PROFILE AND SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTICS: PREDICTIONS FROM A MORPHODYNAMIC MODEL
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: comminution
subsidence
sediment transport
nonequilibrium transport
river
fluvial system
numerical model
variable discharge
File:: Download FambroughThesisFinal3.pdf
Committee Members:: Rudy L Slingerland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Kimball, Bryn Elizabeth
Title:: Biogeochemical Cycling of Copper in Acid Mine Drainage
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: microscopy
isotopes
iron-oxidizing microorganisms
acid mine drainage
copper
spectroscopy
File:: Download Kimball_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member

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Author:: LeVay, Brian James
Title:: Pre-anatectic and anatectic processes in an eclogite from the Erzgebirge, Southeastern Germany: Implications for arc magmatism
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: eclogite
anatexis
melting
migmatite
Erzgebirge
Saidenbach
adakite
File:: Download Thesis_BLeVay_714U.pdf
Committee Members:: Maureen Feineman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Feineman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Lamptey, Benjamin Lantei
Title:: The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: urbanization
global and regional climate modeling
climate change
vegetation
land-use/land-cover change
File:: Download Lamptey-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric James Barron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member

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Author:: Alexander, Brian W.
Title:: CONTROLS ON GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY IN THE CAPE COD AQUIFER, MASSACHUSETTS: THE IMPACT OF ACCESSORY MINERAL PHASES ON SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS, 87Sr/86Sr, AND RARE EARTH ELEMENT DISTRIBUTIONS
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: rare earth elements
groundwater
Cape Cod
strontium isotopes
File:: Download Alexander_MSc_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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