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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

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

Author:

Vacco, David Alfred

Title:

Modeling glacier-rock-climate interactions: Moraine deposition, stagnation events, and supraglacial debris

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

glacier
glacial
moraines
modeling
supraglacial
subglacial
debris
dynamics

File:

Download Dvacco_Dissertation_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Hongliang Henry

Title:

SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR IN-SEAM SEISMIC BASED VOID DETECTION TECHNIQUE

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Signal Processing
In-Seam Seismic
Void Detection
Wavelet Transform

File:

Download HongliangWangFinalPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Maochen Ge, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret Hardy, Committee Member
Vladislav Kecojevic, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member

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

Author:

Miller, Victoria Louise

Title:

Crustal Response to Changes in the Magmatic System at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

locations
earthquake
volcano-tectonic
Montserrat
volcano
Soufrière Hills
focal mechanism
stress
VT-string

File:

Download VictoriaLMiller-PhD-Dissertation-2011.pdfDownload 9596-EarthquakeLocationsAnimation.movDownload 9596-EarthquakeLocationsTable.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Voight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Voight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Yongcheol

Title:

Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath the Kenya Rift and the Arabian Shield

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

surface wave
body wave
seismic tomography
plume

File:

Download YP_Thesis_final_high2.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Christianson, Knut Andrew

Title:

Geophysical Exploration of Glacier Basal Processes and Grounding Line Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

glaciers
ice sheets
geophysics
ice-penetrating radar
GPS

File:

Download christianson_knut_thesis_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Derrick J Lampkin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Zoet, Lucas Keith

Title:

A Study of Discrete Glacier Motion

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
glacial erosion
glacial sliding
unstable sliding
seismology

File:

Download lzoet-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Mulibo, Gabriel Daudi

Title:

Investigation of Mantle Structure beneath Eastern Africa: Implications for the Origin Of the Cenozoic tectonism and propagation of the Rift System

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Tomography
Receiver function
Superplume
East African Rift System
Cenozoic Tectonism

File:

Download Mulibo_Gabriel_Dissertation_Final.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, Special Member

Author:

Leeman, John Robert

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Fault Stability and Slow Earthquakes

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

slow slip
earthquake
fault mechanics
rock mechanics
fault stability
ice stream

File:

Download dissertation_leeman.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Richard Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Member

Author:

Chai, Chengping

Title:

Multi-Objective Geophysical Inversion for Earth Structure and Earthquake Parameters

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Geophysical Inversion
United States
Antarctica
Sumatra
Earth Structure
Earthquakes

File:

Download ChengpingChai-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles J. Ammon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles J. Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Andrew Nyblade, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Lei, Xiong

Title:

Characterization of Gas-Charged Porous Media from Joint Inversion of P/S- Wave Attenuation Based on OBS and/or Sonic Log Data

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Q estimation
Attenuation inversion
Quality factor
Bayesian inversion
Gas saturation
Porosity
Permeability
OBS
Sonic log

File:

Download Dissertation_XiongLei_revision_v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Madara, Benjamin James

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

permeability evolution
permeability
dynamic stressing
fracture
shear
permeability enhancement

File:

Download Dissertation_Madara.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Homman, Kyle A

Title:

Crustal Structure and Stress Regime of the Appalachian Basin and Surrounding Areas

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Crustal Structure
Receiver Functions
Seismology
Geophysics
Precambrian Structure
Appalachian Basin

File:

Download Homman_CrustalStructureAndStressRegimeAcrosstheAppBasinandSurroundingRegions_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nyblade, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair