Browsing by Author "David J. Furbish"
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Camp, Janey Vanessa Smith (2009-07-30)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis research involved the development of a new information system to improve inland waterway spill response. A review of current decision-support tools used to aid in spill response suggested that improvements were needed. ...
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Fathel, Siobhan L. (2016-11-11)Department: Environmental EngineeringBed load sediment particles move as complex motions over the surface of a stream bed, accelerating and decelerating in response to the near-bed turbulence and due to particle-bed interactions. Detailed measurements of ...
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Peters, Chelsea Nicole (2018-07-12)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis dissertation explores the freshwater resources in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Freshwater serves as a major link between Bangladesh's particularly complex and unstable coupled human and natural systems. The coastal ...
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Cohen, Leland John (2016-05-25)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesRiparian vegetation has been recognized as a controlling factor of stream channel morphology, but specific influences on bed topography and planform geometry are yet to be fully clarified. This project explores the influence ...
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Knepprath, Nichole Elizabeth (2006-06-29)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesIn situ fossil stumps of Glossopteris are preserved in their original growth position in fluvial deposits of the Upper Buckley Formation (Upper Permian) in the Beardmore Glacier, central Transanctarctic Mountains. Roots ...
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Pickering, Jennifer Lynne (2013-04-15)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe first interpretation of the stratigraphic record of Holocene river-channel switching between the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and Old Brahmaputra paleovalleys is presented here in the context of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) river ...
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Katsiaficas, Nathan James (2014-11-21)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe landscape of Middle Tennessee is characterized by relatively thick soils overlying Ordovician and Mississippian bedrock that is predominantly limestone with a high proportion of siliciclastic material—often >20%—that ...
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Mudd, Simon Marius (2006-04-06)Department: Environmental EngineeringHillslope soils cover a large proportion of Earth’s terrestrial landscapes. This dissertation is a theoretical exploration of how chemical and mechanical processes affect the formation and dynamics of both hillslope soils ...
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Duncan, Leslie Lyons (2017-04-14)Department: Environmental EngineeringThere is evidence that landslides occurred along the White Bluffs in south-central Washington State both within the last 11,000 years and the last several hundred years. Modern, active landslide activity along the bluffs ...
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Rogers, Kimberly Gay (2012-12-03)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe Ganges-Brahmaputra Rivers annually transport >700 x 106 tons of sediment to the world ocean. Sediment delivery to the coast has kept pace with sea level rise since the early Holocene, allowing subaerial and subaqueous ...
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Carley, Tamara Lou (2014-07-22)Department: Environmental EngineeringIceland’s great abundance of silicic rock (10-13% of subaerial exposures), coupled with the unusual thickness of the island’s crust, hints at continental nucleation and permanent crust construction in an oceanic environment. ...
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Claiborne, Lily Lowery (2011-04-06)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe processes by which magma is transported into, stored within, and expelled (erupted) from the upper crust are critical to understanding volcanism and crustal construction. Recent studies suggest that magmatic systems ...