Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Paleoecology of Columbian and Pygmy Mammoths in Southern Nevada and California: How Terminal Pleistocene Ecosystems Shaped Mammoths at the Individual, Population, and Community Level, Lauren Elizabeth Parry
Infiltration into Water-Repellent Sand: The Role of Sorptivity, Rose Marie Shillito
Microbe-Mineral Interactions During Exceptional Fossil Preservation, Stromatolite Formation, and Desert Varnish Growth, Michael Strange
Initial Measurements on the Effect of Stress on P- and S-wave Velocities in Olivine, Taryn Traylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Petrogenesis of Unusual Occurrence of Amphibole Asbestos in Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada, Tomoyo Austin
Early Contractional History of the Funeral Mountains and its Influence on the Formation of the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Taylor Douglas Craig
Petrogenesis of the El Rechuelos Rhyolite, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field, New Mexico, USA, Kelsy Jo Konkright
Moisture Dynamics of a Near-Surface Desert Soil, Yuan Luo
Utility of Bench Scale Sand Tank Experiments at Assessing Permeable Reactive Barrier Design, Brandon Meier
Examination of Maskelynite through Static Recompression and Dynamic Compression, Justin James Reppart
Assessing Simulated Transmissivity in Numerical Flow Models of Complex Hydrogeology, Afan Tarar
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Holocene Climate Evolution of Continental Western Eurasia Constrained By Stable-Isotope and Cation Geochemistry of U-Th-Dated Speleothems and Meteogenic Travertine, Jonathan Lloyd Baker
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Enriched Poikilitic Shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the Martian Interior, Logan Matthew Combs
Structural Evolution and Regional Implications of the Arrowhead Mine Fault within the Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, USA, Michael Dennis Evans
Miocene-Quaternary Deformation along the Central Maynard Lake Fault, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, Alexander Peck
Petrogenesis of Enriched and Intermediate Poikilitic Shergottites: From Magmatic Source to Emplacement, Rachel Rahib
A Novel Approach to Analyzing Strain Heterogeneity in Polycrystalline Quartz Specimens Deformed at High Pressure and Temperature, Nolan Ambrose Regis
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Phosphate Release: The Effect of Prebiotic Organic Compounds on Dissolution of Merrillite, Whitlockite, Chlorapatite, and Fluorapatite, Courtney Lea Bartlett
Behavioral Paleoecology of Lower Cambrian Deposit Foragers: Reinterpreting Looping and Meandering Traces using Optimal Foraging Theory and Quantitative Analysis, Zachary Andrew Jensen
Environmental Changes across the Early Mississippian Carbon Isotope Excursion, Dev Krishna Maharjan
Miocene-Pliocene(?) Folds, Normal Faults and the Left-Lateral Buckhorn Fault with Regional Implications, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, Thomas Godfrey Price