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Author:: Diefendorf, Aaron F.
Title:: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES IN TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC CARBON
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: lipids
biomarker
fractionation
Carbon isotope
n-alkanes
Bighorn Basin
organic geochemistry
File:: Download Diefendorf_Dissertation_11-11-2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, 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:: 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:: Kuntz, Brad W
Title:: Laboratory, Field, and Modeling Analysis of Solute Transport Behavior at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: tracer
porosity
permeability
shale
solute transport
Shale Hills
soil cores
soil weathering
anomalous tailing
mobile-immobile
continuous time random walk
MIM
CTRW
critical zone
bromide
File:: Download Kuntz_MSthesisFinal_corrected.pdf
Committee Members:: Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamini Singha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Endress, Chira Anneli
Title:: Geochemistry of 24 Ma basalts from northeast Egypt: Implications for widespread magmatism in northern Africa
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: basalt
volcanism
Africa
Egypt
isotope geochemistry
mantle plumes
File:: Download EndressThesis2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Tanya Furman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tanya Furman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Junium, Christopher Kendall
Title:: Nitrogen biogeochemistry and ancient oceanic anoxia
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: nitrogen cycle
nitrogen isotopes
black shale
porphyrins
File:: Download Junium_PhD_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Allan Arthur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member

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Author:: Hummer, Daniel Robert
Title:: Mechanisms of Aqueous Crystallization and Phase Transformation in Titanium Oxide Minerals
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: anatase
rutile
titanium oxide
titanium dioxide
crystallization
precipitation
time-resolved X-ray diffraction
time-resolved small angle X-ray scattering
nanoparticles
phase stability reversal
surface energy
nucleation
crystal growth
hydrolysis
global optimization
kinetic fitting
kinetic modeling
File:: Download Hummer_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Member

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Author:: Perez, Enrique
Title:: LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF PERMEABILITY REDUCTION IN NATURALLY OCCURING SHEAR BANDS FORMED IN UNLITHIFIED SANDS
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Cataclasis
Permeability
Shear bands
Deformation bands
File:: Download Perez_M.S._Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Samuelson, Jon Erik
Title:: LABORATORY MEASUREMENT OF SHEAR INDUCED FAULT ZONE DILATANCY, AND NUMERICAL ESTIMATION OF ITS INFLUENCE ON FRICTION CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS IN QUASI-UNDRAINED SCENARIOS
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: friction
earthquake
dilatancy
fault zone
pore fluid pressure
File:: Download Jon_Samuelson_PhD_Thesis_Combined_2.0.pdf
Committee Members:: Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

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