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Spring 2021

Hamilton, Jarret

The ~143 martian meteorites serve as the only rock samples from Mars that are presently available for study in a laboratory setting. These predominantly igneous samples are sourced from the near-surface units adjacent to craters formed during random, hypervelocity impacts of asteroids on the...

Spring 2019

Wenbo Zhang

The westward growth of the North American Plate through amalgamation of the Cordillera terranes and North America Craton is a fundamental issue in tectonics. There is mounting evidence for Cretaceous westward subduction below the east side of the Cordillera, leading to terminal Cordillera-Craton...

Fall 2011

Hunt, Lucy

The Renard kimberlites (52°48’26N, 72°14’52W: Quebec, Canada) are typical for primary diamond deposits: being located within Archean basement (Superior craton). Pb-Pb isotope data of clinopyroxenes also suggests an Archean age (~2.7Ga) for the subcratonic lithospheric mantle (SCLM). The Carolina...

Spring 2021

Bolton, Matthew

This thesis presents two studies employing computational approaches to tephra source attribution and tephra volume estimation. Glass major oxide data was used to train 11 classification algorithms. Each classifier probabilistically attributed tephra chemistries to one of ten volcanic sources from...

2006

Bowes-Lyon, Léa-Marie

Spring 2016

Sutton, Lindsay R

Thunderstorms have the potential to produce severe weather and can result in significant financial and human losses. The province of Alberta is one of Canada’s most active thunderstorm regions, with the record for insured damage due to hail. Therefore, it is crucial that thunderstorm forecasts be...

1995

Lee, Dong-Chan.

Fall 2019

Enkhbayar, Chimedlkham

The worldwide demand for minerals and metals has increased since the last century, and is expected to increase along with the global population growth and increases in standards of living. Meeting this demand for mineral resources necessitates mining and extraction, which inevitably involves land...

1999

Taylor, Neil Michael

Spring 2023

Parida, Debadutta

This dissertation seeks to examine the evolving politics of planning and governance of climate risks in Bhubaneswar city in India, by analyzing how climate risk governance has evolved and its implications on future adaptation possibilities. Southern cities such as Bhubaneswar have been at the...