Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Geology"
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(2006-07-31)Department: GeologyNew whole-rock Pb isotopic data combined with existing Pb, Sm-Nd, and U/Pb zircon data from the Blue Ridge and the Mid-Continent Granite Rhyolite terrane support recent suggestions that the southern and central Appalachian ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: GeologyThe Spirit Mountain batholith (SMB) is a ~250 km2 composite silicic intrusion located within the Colorado River Extensional Corridor (CREC) in southernmost Nevada. Westward tilting of 40-50º has exposed a cross section ...
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(2006-08-03)Department: GeologySearchlight pluton, a steeply tilted, 10 km thick Miocene intrusion in southern Nevada, exposes a zone with abundant, 5-400 m long blocks of Proterozoic gneiss. Blocks are present within a pair of subparallel horizons ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: GeologyEARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAND USE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOSPHORUS LOADING IN AN IMPAIRED STREAM, MILL CREEK, TENNESSEE VENA JONES Thesis under the direction of Professor Kaye Sawyer Savage Located in Middle Tennessee’s ...
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(2009-07-29)Department: GeologyEARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES MID-MIOCENE RHYOLITE SEQUENCE, HIGHLAND RANGE, NV: RECORD OF MAGMA EVOLUTION AND ERUPTION FROM THE SEARCHLIGHT PLUTON MAGMA CHAMBER LINDY L. COLOMBINI Thesis under the direction of ...
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(2010-09-14)Department: GeologyThis study examines the effect that rainsplash-induced sediment mounds beneath desert shrubs have on sediment flux in semi-arid environments. Mounds form beneath shrubs by differential splash of particles beneath shrub ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: GeologyZirconium and Hf are nearly identical geochemically, and therefore most of the crust maintains near chondritic Zr/Hf ratios of ~35-40. By contrast, many high-silica rhyolites and granites have anomalously low Zr/Hf (15-30). ...