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About the Collection
This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV Department of Geoscience. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Glass shards at Pinnacle Point rock shelter 5-~6, South Africa: Are they from the last super-~eruption of Toba?, Amber Elizabeth Ciravolo
Trace Element Variations in a Stalagmite from Southwest Mexico: Implications for Paleoclimate, Chad Michael Crotty
An Investigation into Transitions in Clay Mineral Chemistry on Mars, Seth Gainey
Predictive Modeling of Terrestrial Radiation Exposure from Geologic Materials, Daniel A. Haber
Stable Isotope Analysis of Bison latifrons and Paleoecological Inferences, Fabian Ceron Hardy
Modeling Background Radiation using Geochemical Data, Kara Marsac
Characterization of Gold and Related Mineralization at the North Bullion Carlin System, Railroad Project, a Nevada Carlin-~type Gold Prospect, Melanie Nicole Newton
Ediacaran ocean redox evolution, Swapan Kumar Sahoo
Dissolution of Nontronite in Low Water Activity Brines and Implications for the Aqueous History of Mars, Michael Henry Steiner
Carbon Isotope Variations Associated with a Middle Ordovician Karstic Unconformity, Patricia Suzanne Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Mars-Relevant Phosphate Minerals and Implications for Martian Habitability, Christopher Adcock
The effect of single crystal elastic and plastic anisotropy on stress and strain heterogeneity: comparison of olivine to other common minerals, Christopher Joseph Cline Ii
Ore Classification and Breccia Formation in the 144 Zone Gold Deposit: A Chemical Replacement Model, Bare Mountain Range, Nevada, William Thomas Fischer
Ore Characterization of the Estelle Property in the South-~Central Alaska Range, Ember Flagg
Subalklaine Volcanism in the Eastern Basin and Range Province: Examples from the Miocene McCullough Range Volcanic Field and the Pliocene to Holocene Black Rock Desert Volcanic Field, Racheal Leighann Johnsen
Porphyry Copper Exploration of the Hualapai Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA: A Multi-faceted Approach, Patrick Kevin Meazell
Thermal Impacts of Salt on Sandstones and Mudstones in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, Brett Perry
New early Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Nakwai, northwest Kenya, Africa, and Paleontological analysis of Meroehyrax kyongoi dentition, Dawn Elena Reynoso
Kinematics and Timing of Superposed Deformation in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Katrina Marie Sauer
Modern to Late Pleistocene Stable Isotope Climatology of Alaska, Alison Sloat
Estimating Aquifer Characteristics and Identification of a Sub-Basin for Artificial Storage and Recovery, Northeastern Ivanpah Valley, Nevada, Nikolas James Taranik
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Paleoecology of Late Pleistocene megaherbivores: Stable isotope reconstruction of environment, climate, and response, Aubrey Mae Bonde
Cretaceous and Eocene U-Pb Zircon Migmatite Ages from the East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Nevada, Jordan Drew