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Spring 2024

Brown, Drew

Neoichnological studies in carbonate-dominated tropical latitudes are sparse. Moreso, the coupling of diagenetic research utilizing ichnology has been largely limited to ancient successions. This thesis combines geochemical analyses with modern ichnological observations to better understand the...

Spring 2024

Canbulat, Sinan

At the Toodoggone District of northern British Columbia, the Ranch area and the Silver Pond zone within the Lawyers area represent two distinct high-sulfidation epithermal occurrences that show some broad similarities but many significant differences. Similarities include some overlaps in terms...

Spring 2024

Garcia Rodriguez, Guido

The organic-rich mudstones of the Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation constitute an unconventional reservoir in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, developed for over a decade using hydraulic fracturing technology. Integrating natural fracture characterization with lithofacies analysis,...

Spring 2024

Lei, Xinyu

This thesis is divided into three sections: Introduction, Chapter 2, and Conclusion. The Introduction provides the research background for the study. Tropical areas play an important role in the whole ecological environment, but their survival status is worrying. As an important part of it, the...

Spring 2024

Ali Naeimi Nezamabad

The global average surface air temperature experienced an increase of approximately 0.5°C over the course of the 20th century. Consequently, numerous glaciers worldwide have undergone a reduction in size, and this phenomenon is especially prominent among mountain glaciers, such as those found...

Spring 2024

Lightbown, Jillian N

Anthropogenic activities are forcing a shift in landscape types and climate regimes with concomitant effects on runoff draining into regional rivers and downstream water quality. Stream microbial communities at the base of aquatic food webs play an important role in overall ecosystem health, yet...

Fall 2024

Bates, Laura E

Adequate housing is critical for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of individuals and households, as well as for the equality and inclusiveness of society. The human right to adequate housing was first introduced to international law in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...

Fall 2024

Neil, Benjamin

The Rae craton is one of the largest Archean–Paleoproterozoic age terranes on Earth and preserves >1.6 billion years of the planet’s history. However, significant uncertainty remains regarding how and when the crust of this craton was created and reworked. This thesis investigates the nature and...

Fall 2024

Buryak, Serhiy D.

Developing precise analytical tools for dating young volcanic deposits (under 3 million years old) is essential for constructing Quaternary chronological frameworks. This dissertation presents an improved method for determining eruption ages of volcanic ash (tephra) deposits in the ice-age...

Fall 2024

Sangapala Arachchige Don, Pradeep Dissanayake

Postcolonial urban landscapes are not only shaped by colonialism but also by nationalism and people’s spatial practices. The scholarship on colonial urban development and postcolonial urbanism is well established and has exposed the contested nature of postcolonial spatial experience. However,...