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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Aubet, Natalie
- 1Balshaw, Kevin Ewart
- 1Campbell, Sean, G
- 1Davies, Lauren J
- 1Der, Alexandra Jacqueline
- 1Duvall, Michael
- 5Gingras, Murray (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 2Konhauser, Kurt (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 1Caplan, Mark Dr.
- 1Dr. George Pemberton (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 1Dr. Murray Gingras (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 1Froese, Duane (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
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Sedimentology, ichnology, and development of a sub-regional depositional and stratigraphic framework for the McMurray-Wabiskaw succession in the MacKay River Area, northeastern Alberta
DownloadFall 2011
The lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation is a prolific bitumen reservoir in the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit of northeastern Alberta. In the MacKay River area northwest of Fort McMurray, the depositional style, stratigraphy, and reservoir character differ from that of the traditional main valley...
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Spring 2021
The Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation is an important hydrocarbon source rock in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and has been a significant unconventional oil, gas liquids, and gas reservoir since 2011. Heterogeneity in this and other shale reservoirs is important in predicting rock...
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Stratigraphic and Structural Relationships in the Foreland Basin and Humber Arm Allochthon on Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland
DownloadFall 2017
Port au Port Peninsula, in western Newfoundland, sits at the western edge of the Appalachian orogen. Middle Ordovician foreland basin strata deposited on the Laurentian margin are primarily derived from, and overridden by, Cambrian to Ordovician deep-water rocks previously mapped as mélange and...
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Stratigraphy, petrography and geochemistry of the Bad Heart Formation, Northwestern Alberta
DownloadSpring 2011
Bad Heart Formation oolitic ironstone is the largest resources of iron in western Canada. During this study, 45 new sections from outcrop, trench and drill holes were mapped, and 325 samples were collected for petrographic and geochemical analysis. The objective of the first paper is to refine...
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Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Bird Fiord Formation, Canadian arctic archipelago
Download1985
Doctoral thesis. Supplies new information on the internal stratigraphy, sedimentology and dating of the Bird Fiord Formation on Ellesmere Island.
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Fall 2019
The Himalayan orogen is segmented along its strike at the scale of hundreds of kilometres. This segmentation is apparent from along-strike changes in earthquake rupture patterns, thickness changes, deformation styles, topographic gradients, thermal evolution, and faults at oblique angles to the...
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The depositional framework and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, northeastern British Columbia
DownloadFall 2022
The Lower Triassic Montney Formation contains some of the largest unconventional hydrocarbon plays in the world, and over the last decades has become critical to Canada’s main energy resources. These unconventional plays consist mainly of fine- to coarse-grained siltstone beds which are difficult...
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Spring 2018
This thesis contributes to the development of a cryptotephra framework in northwestern North America, providing the initial data for the construction of a regional cryptotephra framework where key cryptotephra layers (those which are widely distributed, easily correlated, and have well...
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THE SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LOWER CRETACEOUS CLEARWATER FORMATION AT MARTEN HILLS AND NIPISI, ALBERTA, CANADA
DownloadSpring 2021
The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Clearwater Formation at Marten Hills and Nipisi in north-central Alberta contain two members (Wabiskaw and the newly proposed Marten Hills Member), which sit disconformably above the sub-Cretaceous unconformity. Both the Marten Hills and Nipisi regions are currently...
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The Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characteristics of the Montney D1 and D2 Horizons, Greater Pouce Coupe Area, Alberta and British Columbia
DownloadFall 2016
The Middle Montney D1 and D2 Horizons in the Greater Pouce Coupe Area are important exploration targets. These moderate porosity and low permeability siltstone units have been referred to as distal shelf deposits in the past, based primarily on their restricted grain size. The D1 and D2 Horizons...