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12. Distribution and abundance of benthic marine taxa in shelf margin depositional sequences: San Andres Formation (Guadalupian, Permian), Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

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Author:
Brown, Garett Mattingly
Title:
Distribution and abundance of benthic marine taxa in shelf margin depositional sequences: San Andres Formation (Guadalupian, Permian), Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
shellbeds
biofacies
stratigraphic archiecture
condensation
Permian
File:
Download Brown_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Mark E. Patzkowsky, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth A. Hajek, Committee Member
Michael A. Arthur, Committee Member

13. LITHOSPHERE TEARING AND THE FORMATION OF A NEW TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY

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Open Access
Author:
Neely, James Scott
Title:
LITHOSPHERE TEARING AND THE FORMATION OF A NEW TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Earthquake
Subduction Zone
Solomon Islands
Lithosphere Tearing
STEP Fault
Transform Boundary
Plate Boundary
File:
Download Neely_Upload_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member

14. Accounting for deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections is critical to understanding risk trade-offs

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Author:
Oddo, Perry Charles
Title:
Accounting for deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections is critical to understanding risk trade-offs
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
storm surge
flood adaptation
global sensitivity analysis
decision-making
deep uncertainty
File:
Download Oddo_MS-thesis_2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

15. Mineralogical and Geochemical Analyses of Synthetic and Natural Birnessites

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Author:
Ling, Florence T
Title:
Mineralogical and Geochemical Analyses of Synthetic and Natural Birnessites
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
birnessite
manganese oxide
FTIR
EXAFS
XRD
lead
File:
Download Ling_DissertationMnOxides_Draft5_Compiled.pdf
Committee Members:
Peter J. Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J. Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James D. Kubicki, Committee Member
Christopher H. House, Committee Member
William D. Burgos, Outside Member

16. CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RUNGWE VOLCANIC PROVINCE AND REGION SURROUNDING THE NORTHERN LAKE MALAWI RIFT BASIN

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Author:
Borrego, David James
Title:
CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE RUNGWE VOLCANIC PROVINCE AND REGION SURROUNDING THE NORTHERN LAKE MALAWI RIFT BASIN
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Africa
East African Rift System
Receiver Functions
Joint Inversion
Rungwe Volcanic Province
Magmatism
Crustal Structure
Malawi Rift
File:
Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Andy Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles J. Ammon, Committee Member
Christelle Wauthier, Committee Member

17. MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF MICROORGANISMS IN LOW-OXYGEN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

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Author:
Bird, Laurence Robert
Title:
MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES OF MICROORGANISMS IN LOW-OXYGEN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Methanotrophs
reverse methanogenesis
ANME
Coenzyme F430
carbon isotopes
Reverse methanogenesis
File:
Download LRB_Thesis_28NOV16.pdf
Committee Members:
Katherine H. Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine H. Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer L. Macalady, Committee Member
Christopher H. House, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member

18. Micro-Scale Sulfur and Carbon Isotope and Trace Metal Analysis of a Neoarchean Stromatolite: Evidence for a Redox Transition in Epeiric Platform Carbonates Prior to the Great Oxidation Event

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Author:
Ilhardt, Peter Donald
Title:
Micro-Scale Sulfur and Carbon Isotope and Trace Metal Analysis of a Neoarchean Stromatolite: Evidence for a Redox Transition in Epeiric Platform Carbonates Prior to the Great Oxidation Event
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Neoarchean
Stromatolite
Geochemistry
Sulfur Isotopes
Carbon Isotopes
Trace Metals
Great Oxidation Event
Pyrite
Microanalysis
Mass-Independent Fractionation
File:
Download Ilhardt_PSU_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Christopher Howard House, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member

19. Temporal evolution of magma sources and surface deformation at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala revealed by InSAR

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Author:
Wnuk, Kendall Coleman
Title:
Temporal evolution of magma sources and surface deformation at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala revealed by InSAR
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Volcanology
InSAR
Geodesy
Pacaya Volcano
Deformation
Magma
Modeling
Inversion
Basaltic
File:
Download Wnuk_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Christelle Wauthier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member