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Late paleocene-eocene syn-orogenic fluvial sedimentation and detrital fission track thermochronology of laramide syn-orogenic sediments, Denver Basin, CO (thesis)
(2010)
This study investigates the Laramide foreland syn-orogenic sediments preserved
in the Denver Basin, CO and interprets the Late Cretaceous-Eocene tectonic and climate
history of Central Colorado. This thesis is divided into ...
Influence of Late Jurassic Inversion Structures on Sedimentary Basin Uplift, Chukchi Shelf, Offshore Alaska (thesis)
(2015)
This thesis examines the existence of a reactivated fault interpreted to be an inversion structure associated with a Jurassic tectonic event in the Chukchi Shelf off the NW coast of Alaska. Brookian, Jurassic, Ellesmerian, ...
Kink-Band and velocity-boundary interference (thesis)
(2011)
The established techniques for constructing and restoring balanced cross sections using flexural slip work well for modeling simple faults and folds, but these methods show weaknesses when applied to more complicated ...
Geochemical Variability of Obsidian in Western New Mexico with Laboratory- Based pXRF (thesis)
(2014)
Mule Creek and Mt. Taylor, located in southwestern and western New Mexico respectively, are obsidian source regions for archaeological lithic artifacts. Trace element concentrations can be used to distinguish obsidian from ...
Chronological Persistence of Acropora cervicornis at Coral Gardens, Belize (thesis)
(2016)
Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) is an important framework-building scleractinian coral that dominated many Caribbean reefs throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene. Acropora spp. suffered collapse throughout the ...
New constraints on the timing, rate, and style of exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, Elko County, Nevada (thesis)
(2016)
In this study, zircon (U-Th)/He analysis is used to documents the timing, rate, and style of exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, which are part of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core ...
GeoEye-1 multispectral satellite imagery classification: An accurate method for identifying populations of Acropora spp. corals prior to a field study (thesis)
(2015)
In recent decades Caribbean coral reefs have experienced drastic decline in live coral cover. Some of the main framework-building coral species Acropora cervicornis, Acropora palmata, and the new hybrid species Acropora ...
Aptian/Albian sediment volume and accumulation rates, Alaska North Slope and Beaufort shelf, from sequence stratigraphic interpretation and modeling (thesis)
(2016)
We present a regional sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of the Torok-Nanushuk clinothem in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPRA), Alaskan state lands and Beaufort shelf using 2-D seismic reflection data, ...
The effect of Amazon and Orinoco rivers on the sea surface temperature and salinity cycles off Barbados : a record from Montastrea sp. and Siderastrea sp. corals (thesis)
(2010)
Four Mantastrea sp. coral cores and four Siderastrea sp. coral cores were collected from the west coast of Barbados in June-July 2009. Samples were cut [at] Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and x-rayed ...
Tectonic Evolution of the Chugach-Prince William Terrane: U/Pb Detrital Zircon Age and Provenance of Cover Strata to the Paleocene Resurrection Peninsula Ophiolite in Seward, Alaska (thesis)
(2013)
The southern margin of Alaska is defined by a late Mesozoic to Cenozoic accretionary complex that comprises the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Chugach-Prince William (CPW) terrane. The Contact Fault serves as the current ...