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Fall 2013
In the development of a numerical model for the water cycle on Mars, adsorption of water vapour in the Martian regolith acts as a significant sink and retards the transport of mass. Adsorption on Mars cannot be studied directly, so a numerical model was created, and a diffusion sorption...
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Applications of nonautonomous infinite-dimensional systems control theory for parabolic PDEs
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Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are used as models of transport-reaction phenomena in a variety of different industrial chemical and materials engineering processes, and can yield precise descriptions of process variables with complex temporal and spatially dependent system...
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Basalt Genesis Across the Solar System: Observational and Experimental Studies of Shergottite and Eucrite Meteorites
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This thesis consists of three projects based on exploring igneous processes on two parent bodies: the HED (howardite-eucrite-diogenite) parent body and Mars. The HED parent body is an asteroidal parent body (possibly Vesta) that differentiated rapidly in the early solar system; Mars is a planet...
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Fall 2012
To understand the water cycle on Mars, details of mass and energy transfer between the surface and the atmosphere are of importance. A complete model, involving transient variations of the water in gaseous and solid phases in the atmosphere and the regolith, is developed and solved numerically...
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Data for journal article Insights into the petrogenetic history of the Northwest Africa 7635 augite-rich shergottite
Data for journal article Insights into the petrogenetic history of the Northwest Africa 7635 augite-rich shergottite
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Raw data in Excel format from the Electron Microprobe Lab at the University of Alberta used in Herd (2023) Insights into the petrogenetic history of the Northwest Africa 7635 augite-rich shergottite, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol 58, Issue 1, p. 158-164.
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Dating Magmatism on Mars: Application of In-Situ and Microsampling Techniques for Shergottite Geochronology
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Establishing an absolute time scale of Mars is critical to understanding the planet’s geological evolution. Currently, martian meteorites are the only samples of the planet available for radiometric geochronology analysis in terrestrial laboratory settings. The record of known martian absolute...