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Author:

Zerkle, Aubrey L.

Title:

Microbial Trace Metal Requirements: Limiting Nutrients and Potential Biosignatures

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

trace metals
biogeochemistry
nitrogen fixation
metal limitation
metallomics
biogeochemical cycling

File:

Download DISS_FINAL_ZERKLE.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Hunter J Carrick, Committee Member
Donald E Canfield, Committee Member

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

Author:

Buss, Heather L.

Title:

Biogeochemical Weathering of Iron-Silicate Minerals

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

spheroidal weathering
biotite
hornblende
iron cycling
siderophores
etch pits

File:

Download BussThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

Author:

Barton, Jonathan Shailer

Title:

Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Coarse Bedload in Mountain Streams

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Passive acoustics
bedload transport
sediment transport
bedload measurement techniques
Trinity River

File:

Download JSBarton_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

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

Author:

Miller, Scott Ruthardt

Title:

GEOMORPHOLOGY OF LATERALLY ADVECTED FAULT BLOCKS IN CONVERGENT OROGENS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

tectonic geomorphology
fault-bend fold
lateral advection
fluvial
hillslope
South Tibetan fault system
Main Frontal thrust
Siwalik Hills
landscape evolution model
asymmetry

File:

Download ThesisMaster_v5.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Mark N Gahegan, Committee Member

Author:

Rooney, Tyrone O.

Title:

CONTINENTAL RIFTING IN CENTRAL ETHIOPIA: GEOCHEMICAL AND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS FROM LAVAS AND XENOLITHS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Ethiopia
continental rift
Debre Zeyit
Butajira
Wonjii
geochemistry
fault belt
cinder cone
basalt
xenolith
crustal structure

File:

Download Rooney_dissertation_upload.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Rudolph Parizek, Committee Member
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
David H Eggler, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Barry B Hanan, Committee Member