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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Geoscience Theses & Dissertations

Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the Geoscience Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Detrital Carbonates in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: An example from the Furongian Slope Environment in the Hot Creek Range of Central Nevada, Leon Taufani

Evaluation of possible source rocks in northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for hydrocarbon exploration, Inessa Yurchenko

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Molecular organic geochemistry of the oil and source rocks in Railroad Valley, eastern Great Basin, Nevada, United States, LaOde Ahdyar

Mesozoic burial, Mesozoic and Cenozoic exhumation of the Funeral Mountains core complex, Death Valley, Southeastern California, Mengesha Assefa Beyene

Microstructural characterization of kinked germanate olivine grains, Alex Gregory Drue

Pleistocene climate in Alaska from stable isotopes in an ice wedge, Corinne Y. Griffing

Paired positive carbonate carbon isotope, organic carbon isotope, and oxygen isotope composition study across the Lower Mississippian positive carbon isotope excursion, southeastern Nevada, USA, Robert Alan Henry

Vertebrate taxonomic composition, species diversity, and paleoecology of two pliocene mid-latitude, inland-basin fossil assemblages: Panaca local fauna (Lincoln County, Nevada) and Hagerman local fauna (Twin Falls County, Idaho), Vicki Lynn Meyers

Magma chamber processes at Mutnovsky Volcano, Russia, Kelly L. Robertson

Lateral variability of facies and cycles in the Furongian (Late Cambrian) Carbonate Platform: An example from the Big Horse Member of the Orr Formation in western Utah, U.S.A., Ratna Widiarti

Co-development of biological soil crusts, soil-geomorphology, and landscape biogeochemistry in the Mojave Desert, Nevada, U.S.A. – Implications for ecological management, Amanda Jean Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Using fluid inclusions to trace formative fluid evolution at the Verde and Pancho porphyry Au deposits of the Refugio District, Chile, Brian Joshua Aillaud

Carbon isotopic fractionation across a late Cambrian carbonate platform: A regional response to the SPICE event as recorded in the Great Basin, Jonathan Lloyd Baker

An Experimental investigation of chemical mass transfer processes in crystallizing, hydrous silicate magmas: The genesis of ore deposits and metasomatic fluids, Aaron S. Bell

Identification of geochemical facies through major ion data and additional parameters from shallow groundwater utilizing a comparison of geomathematics and traditional methods in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Eric Dano

The Effects of contact metamorphism on the host rocks for Carlin-type mineralization at the Getchell Development, Nevada, USA, Nathan C. Eck

Sequence and Chemostratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Succession in Nevada and Utah, Robyn A. Howley

Characterization of unsaturated flow in dual-porosity granular media, Jeevan A. Jayakodilage

The Interaction of rock and water during shock decompression: A hybrid model for fluidized ejecta formation, Audrey Hughes Rager

Phyllosilicate mineralogy, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, and genesis of petrocalcic soils in the Southwest U.S.A., Colin R. Robins

Late Paleozoic deformation in the Osgood Mountains and Dry Hills, northern Nevada, Samuel A. Siebenaler

Petrogenesis of the Greenwater Range: Comparison to the Crater Flat volcanic field and implications for hazard assessment, Ashley Kaye Tibbetts

Age and petrogenesis of the Roaring Mountain rhyolites, Yellowstone Volcanic Field, Wyoming, Kathleen Marie Wooton

Rare earth element transport in the Yucca Mountain region, Liqiong Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

The Sheep Pass Formation, a record of late Cretaceous and paleogene extension within the Sevier hinterland, East-Central Nevada, Peter Alexander Druschke