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Author:

Hausrath, Elisabeth M.

Title:

Basalt weathering on Earth and on Mars

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

basalt
weathering
Mars
biosignature
Svalbard
astrobiology

File:

Download HausrathThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
David H Eggler, Committee Member
Peter J Heaney, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

Moore, Joel

Title:

Biogeochemistry of granitic weathering

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

granite
chronosequence
mineral
weathering
soil

File:

Download 7_moore_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member

Author:

Horodyskyj, Lev

Title:

Soil Formation and Terrestrial Biosignatures in the Middle Cambrian

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Middle Cambrian
paleosol
Midcontinent Rift System
early terrestrial ecosystem
apatite
weathering

File:

Download horodyskyj_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Stapler White, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Edward John Ciolkosz, Committee Member

Author:

Kolluru, Pavan Venkata Narayana

Title:

EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE HISTORY ON THE SURFACE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLOAT GLASS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Float glass
tin diffusion
aging
weathering
leaching
surface cleaning
pH
nanoindentation
reduced elastic modulus
hardness

File:

Download Thesis_-_Final__Macros_.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher L Muhlstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David John Green, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carlo G Pantano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wieczorek, Rebecca A.

Title:

Weathering responses to rapid climate change: analysis of a high resolution osmium isotope record at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

PETM
osmium
Spitsbergen
Arctic
weathering

File:

Download Thesis_final_draft6.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Scott Fantle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gu, Xin

Title:

CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURE AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF SHALE PORES BY NEUTRON SCATTERING

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

neutron scattering
shale
weathering
microfracture
porosity
Marcellus shale

File:

Download PS-Thesis-Xin_20171105.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan L. Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan L. Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J. Heaney, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Outside Member

Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taylor, Kaitlin

Title:

EARLY TRIASSIC WEATHERING INTENSITY AND CLIMATE RECOVERY AFTER THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

global warming
weathering
permian triassic extinction
lithium
isotopes
modeling
diagenesis
climate
climate stability

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Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member
Max Lloyd, Committee Member

Author:

Hodges, Caitlin Anne

Title:

Interactions between minerals, oxygen, and carbon dioxide in the critical zone

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

weathering
anaerobic respiration
carbon cycle
dissolved inorganic carbon
pedology
soil respiration
mineral redox

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Major Field Member
Jay Regan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Brantley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Program Head/Chair