Skip to main content

Theses and Dissertations

Theses from 2016 2016

Source Mechanism Analysis of Single-Well Microseismic Data Using Full-Wavefield Moment Tensor Inversion, Trudy Watkins

Archean Geodynamic Conditions Using P-T Constraints of the East Pilbara Craton TTGs, Andrew Kody Webb

Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Phosphate from Igneous Rock Weathering Profiles, Ziran Wei

Comparing the Geology of the Pilbara and Isua Archean Terranes: Viability of Vertical Tectonics in the Eoarchean, Jiawei Zuo

Theses from 2015 2015

Tracing Sediment in the Subsurface Using Beryllium-7: Green River Basin, KY, Caroline Adams Broderick

Chlorine Enrichment of Hydrous Minerals in Archean Granulite Facies Ironstone from the Beartooth Mountains, Montana, USA: Implications for High-Grade Metamorphic Fluids, Nicholas Michael Daigle

Developing Recognition Criteria for Current-Wave-Enhanced Sediment Gravity Flows, Kathryn Christine Denommee

Using Trace Fossils to Determine the Role of Oceanic Anoxic Event II on the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway Paleoenvironment, Jacob Frederick Grosskopf

Potential for Geothermal Energy in Northern Louisiana: Analysis of the Subsurface Environment in Union and Morehouse Parishes, Tessa Shizuko Hermes

Sub-Marine Sediment Instability near Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River: Evidence of Mass Movements from Raciochemistry and Other Proxies, Gregory Paul Keller

A Palynological Analysis of Seymour Island and King George Island off the Antarctic Peninsula: A Dating and Climatic Reconstruction, Caven Madison Kymes

The Stratal Architecture of the False River Point Bar (Lower Mississippi River, LA), Alexandra Lechnowskyj

Distribution of Uranium in a Black Shale across the Shelf of the Late Pennsylvanian Midcontinent Sea, Maxwell A. Lindaman

Interpretation of Geochemical Signatures from Modern Carbonate Springs to the Rock Record, Benjamin Maas

Augite in Komatiitic Basalts: A Study of the Mobility of Trace Elements During Rock Alteration, Alesha C. Morabito

The Influence of Marine Topography on the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Daniel Michael Mullally Jr

Using Fault Kinematics to Evaluate the Relationship Between Cenozoic Fault Activity, Sedimentation Rates and Salt Movement in the Gulf of Mexico - A Comparison Between Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Louisiana, Abah Philip Omale

Magnetic Susceptibility of North American Ordovician Epicontinental Seas: Spatial Variability and Sandbian-Katian Boundary Correlation, Thomas J. Schramm

Rare Earth Element Patterns in Conodont Apatite from the Upper Ordovician: Testing Enrichment Sources and Possible Oceanographic Changes, Cody Christian Schulte

Seismic Velocity Characteristics of Partially Saturated Unconsolidated Sediments, Jie Shen

Holocene Palynology of the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea: Using Modern Palynomorph Distribution to Better Constrain Paleoenvironmental Changes, Marie Louise Thomas

Neodymium Isotope Ratios and a Positive δ13C Excursion: Connecting Oceanographic and Climate Changes Near the M4-M5 Sequence Boundary of the Late Ordovician, Zachary Wright

Low Peak Metamorphic Temperatures Across the NW Indian Himalaya from the Indus Suture to the Range Front; Implications for Tectonic Models., Kexin Zhang

Theses from 2014 2014

Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron-Notom Sandstone, Utah, Isil Akyuz

Fault Kinematics Along the Coastal Plain of South Louisiana: Implications for Tectono-Climatic-Induced Deformation Along a Passive Continental Margin, Ali A. Al Dhamen

Channel-levee complexes and sediment flux of the upper Indus Fan, Taylor Landry Berlin

Preliminary Investigation of the Geometry and Kinematics of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture at the Basu Metamorphic Massif, SE Tibet, Chase Michael Billeaudeau

Oxygen Isotope Composition of Phosphate Along Vertical Weathering Profiles that Developed on Igneous Rocks: Testing Modern Analogues for Identifying Terrestrial Life in Ancient Paleosols, Dustin Warn Boyd

Changes in Climate and Moisture Availability in the Antarctic Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene: Evidence from Palynological and Stable Isotope Geochemical Analyses of the SHALDRIL and ANDRILL Cores, Kathryn Whitney Griener

Untangling Earth System Responses Recorded in Sulfate's Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopes at the Dawn of Multicellular Life and Today, Bryan Alan Killingsworth

Variations in Salinity and Temperature on the Flank of an Offshore Louisiana Salt Structure, Candice M. McCollum

Evaluation of Stromatolites from the 3.4 Ga Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Corey E. Shircliff

Paleoclimatology and Paleotempestology Study of Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize through Geochemical Proxies, Laura Carolyn Sorey

Modeling Near Surface, Gas-Induced Seafloor Deformation Using Thin Plate Mechanics in the Thunder Horse Oil Field, Gulf of Mexico and Ninilchik Field, Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, Michael I. Thoma

Contractional Tectonics: Investigations of Ongoing Construction of the Himalaya Fold-thrust Belt and the Trishear Model of Fault-propagation Folding, Hongjiao Yu

Theses from 2013 2013

Controls on the composition of saline formation waters from coastal and offshore Louisiana, Marielle Elaine Ausburn

Subsurface stratigraphic architecture of Pleistocene sediments in the greater New Orleans area, James Ayrer

Predicting Potential Unconventional Production in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Play Using Thermal Modeling and Log Overlay Analysis, Hunter Berch

On the long duration of Till sheet construction : a reassessment of how quaternary grounding line translations relate to near-surface seismic-stratigraphy of eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, Sydney Grace Bowles

Effects of stress and water saturation on seismic velocity and attenuation in near surface sediments, James Michael Crane

High Resolution Tephra and U/Pb Chronology of the 3.33 – 3.26 Ga Mendon Formation, Barberton, Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Nicholas Burns Decker

Analysis of the cyclostratigraphy at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in south-central Oklahoma, Ryan Michael Todd Ellis

Evaluation of thermal insulation by coal beds in the western Arkoma Basin, OK and implications for large scale geothermal resources, Matthew Freeman

Metamorphic and geochemical signatures of calc-silicate gneisses from the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Idaho, USA : implications for crustal evolution in western North America, Isis Fukai

The reduction and reoxidation of ceria : a natural abundance oxygen isotope approach, Justin Alan Hayles

Contractional tectonics : the Himalayan orogen and Perdido fold-thrust belt, Dian He

A clay mineral provenance study of the northern Pandora Trough continental margin, Gulf of Papua, Ashley Len Howell

Evaluating quaternary glacial till sheet volume and duration of grounding events using sediment flux calculations in the Eastern basin paleotroughs, Ross Sea, Anarctica, Logan Gregory Kirst

Natural Fracture Characterization in the Haynesville Shale, East Texas: A Core Study, Frank Leslie Morgan

Spatial variations in salinity and temperature around the Bay Marchand salt dome, offshore Louisiana, Laurie Richards

Temporal and spatial variations in the subsurface salinity of Lake Charles, Louisiana : an investigation of saline sources, Alexandria Suding

Temperature and pressure conditions of Archean amphibolite-granulite facies metamorphic xenoliths from the eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, USA, Celina N. Will

Theses from 2012 2012

Sources of salinization of the Baton Rouge aquifer system: southeastern Louisiana, Callie Elizabeth Anderson

U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircon in quartzites of the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Sawtooth Range, Idaho, USA, Philip Gerard Bergeron

Mapping of the oil window in the Eagle Ford shale play of southwest Texas using thermal modeling and log overlay analysis, Austin Pourciau Cardneaux

Depositional environments of Upper Meiocene through Pleistocene siliciclastic sediments, Baton Rouge aquifer system, southeastern Louisiana, Elizabeth Laurel Chamberlain

Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility correlations for the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary and the placement of the North American Ochoan Series: Texas (USA) and South China, Matthew Allan Clark

Spatial variation analysis of salinity to determine fluid flow pathways and reservoir compartmentalization in a deepwater Gulf of Mexico field, William Jacob Daugherty

Sediment flux & fate for a large-scale diversion: the 2011 Mississippi River Flood, the Bonnet Carré Spillway, and the implications for coastal restoration in south Louisiana, Jeffrey Bryant Fabre

Evaluation of Pleistocene to Holocene (MIS 5 to 1) climatic changes in southwestern Black Sea: a palynological study of DSDP Site 380, Shannon Ferguson

Longitudinal Assessment of Shifting Microbial Community Composition in Sandy Beaches Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Remediation Efforts, Axita Ajaykumar Gupta

Implications of geothermal history on microbial gas generation and coalbed methane production in the Ninilchik Field, Cook Inlet basin, Alaska, Eric M. Hart

Evaluation of the depositional environment of the Eagle Ford Formation using well log, seismic, and core data in the Hawkville Trough, LaSalle and McMullen counties, south Texas, Zachary Paul Hendershott

A high-resolution palynological analysis of the St. Stephens Quarry, Alabama: locating the Eocene-Oligocene boundary and characterizing the environmental changes across the margin, Kevin Jensen

Variations in pore water salinities above and below allochthonous salt sheets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: implications for mechanisms of solute transport, Miles Alexander McCammon

The Distribution and Diversity of Functional Gene Pathways Controlling Sulfur Speciation in Lower Kane Cave, Wyoming, Audrey Tarlton Paterson

A seismic attribute study to assess well productivity in the Ninilchik field, Cook Inlet basin, Alaska, Andrew Sampson

Palynostratigraphy of the Umir Formation, Middle Magdalena Valley Basin (MMVB) Colombia, Carlos Enrique Santos

A 2-D, variable-density numerical model of subsurface fluid flow through the Edwards Aquifer, New Braunfels, TX: mechanisms inhibiting flow across the freshwater/saline-water interface, Scott Ryan Tipple

Thermal and pore pressure history of the Haynesville Shale in north Louisiana: a numerical study of hydrocarbon generation, overpressure, and natural hydraulic fractures, William C. Torsch

Theses from 2011 2011

Provenance and origin of Holocene beach ridge and modern beach sands from the Costa de Nayarit, western Mexico, Ruben Abe Cisneros

West Antarctic ice sheet retreat chronology of two middle-shelf grounding-zone wedges in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Lenora Nicole Copeland

Geothermal and geopressure assessment with implications for carbon dioxide sequestration, a regional scale study, lower Tuscaloosa formation, Louisiana, Timmon Drumm

Soft sediment relay zones: a high resolution seismic survey Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Erin T. Elliott

Antarctic plant and phytoplankton response to the first phase of the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum at South McMurdo Sound, Lee Foersterling

A palynological and sequence stratigraphic study of Santonian - Maastrichtan strata from the Upper Magdalena basin, Sandra Garzon

Investigation into the cause of earthen embankment instability along the "V-line" artificial levee in Marrero, Louisiana, USA, Jason Hicks

Miscible column studies of unfractured and saturated cores of Topopah Spring Tuff from Yucca Mountain, Nevada using hydrophobic organic pollutants, Kody V. Kramer

Geomicrobiology of Louisiana Coastal Marshes before and after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Chang Liu

Evaluating the duration of post-LGM grounding events in the Glomar Challenger Basin paleotrough, Eastern Basin Antarctica, using sediment flux calculations, Boluwatife Owolana

Stories of the Proterozoic earth: Paleoproterozoic Chuanlinggou arcitarchs and Neoproterozoic ¹⁷O-depleted Barite, Yongbo Peng

Laboratory scale seismic analysis of a spatially variable hydrological surface in unconfined, unconsolidated sand, David E. Smolkin

Non-Mass Dependent Isotope Fractionation: An Application in the Hyperarid Environment and a Set of Experiments on Thermal Diffusion, Tao Sun

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Diatom stratigraphy defining ice sheet grounding chronology, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Juan Manuel Chow

New age control on a mid-shelf grounding event in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea, Amy Noelle Cone

Palynological analysis of Tiger and Trinity Shoals, Louisiana continental shelf, Russell Ryan Crouch

Geothermal energy potential of South Bossier Parish, Louisiana, John Adam D'Aquin

Salinity variation as an indicator of fluid flow in the Lower Ellesmerian Sequence, North Slope, Alaska, Jacob Scott DeHamer

The Influences of Microbial Diversity on Carbonate Geochemistry Across a Transition from Fresh to Saline Water in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, Cassie Jo Gray

Geothermal resource assessment of the Gueydan salt dome and the adjacent southeast Gueydan field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Taylor Austin Gray

Using inoceramid bivalve taphonomy as a paleoenvironmental indicator across the Cenomanian/Turonian horizon at the Pueblo, Colorado GSSP, Jacob Frederick Grosskopf

A functional and ontogenetic skull analysis of the extant rhinoceroses and Teleoceras major, an extinct Miocene North American rhinoceros, Mark Daniel Hagge

A Petrophysical Evaluation of Factors That Control Cap Rock Seal Quality, Andrew Tyler Harrison

Taphonomy and sedimentology of two Miocene vertebrate fossil sites on Fort Polk, Louisiana, Julie Lynn Hill

Volcanological and petrogenetic characteristics of komatiites of the 3.3 Ga Saw Mill Complex, Weltevreden Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Matthew Stephen Huber

Miocene fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the influence of meltwater on the Ross Sea Outer Continental Shelf: seismic-stratigraphic based interpretations, Sean Francis Kerrin

Oxidation of Reduced Sulfur Compounds: A Triple-oxygen-isotope Perspective, Issaku E. Kohl

Origin of Pyrite Nodules At the Top of the Nantuo Diamictites, Southern China, Changjie Liu

Evaluation of microfacies controls on hydrocarbon seal quality, Nchekwube Mbamalu

Metamorphic rocks in the Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho, USA: a window into the Precambrian basement of southwest Laurentia, Kyle Michael Metz