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Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Magmatic volatiles at rifts and arcs: Sources and fractionation effects, Joost Maarten de Moor

REMOTELY MAPPING SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON ALLUVIAL FANS: AN APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES, Sarah Doyle

HOLOCENE FIRE-RELATED ALLUVIAL CHRONOLOGY AND GEOMORPHIC IMPLICATIONS IN THE JEMEZ MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, Erin Fitch

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIAL CYCLE-II AND TERMINATION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SPELEOTHEM ISOTOPE AND TRACE ELEMENTAL TIME-SERIES DATA, SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES, Zachary LaPointe

Uranium-series isotope constraints on magma generation and differentiation in the central Oregon Cascades, Euan Mitchell

Slope and bifurcation on braided distributive fluvial systems, Michelle Olson

The discovery of baddeleyite (ZrO2) and chrome spinel in the basal Rooiberg Group of the 2.057 Ga Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Implications for the impact and igneous scenarios for the petrogenesis of the Rooiberg Group., Eric Tegtmeier

Orbital-scale fluctuations in continental weathering flux and continental ice-volume during greenhouse and icehouse climate intervals : evidence from oxygen and neodymium isotopes, Bethany Theiling

Using oxygen and carbon stable isotopes, 53Mn-53Cr isotope systematics, and petrology to constrain the history of carbonates and water in the CR and CM chondrite parent bodies, Mark Tyra

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Geochemistry of cave pools in the Guadalupe Mountains, NM : implications for geomicrobiology, Kooser Ara

Effect of halite and calcite coatings on thermal infrared spectra wih implications for Mars exploration, Jeffrey A. Berger

A TEM study of crystalline silicates in the matrices of MET 00426 and QUE 99177 CR3.0 chondrites: Constraints on the formation mechanisms of dust in the solar nebula, Chelsea Brunner

Soil geomorphology of the eastern Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Site, Debra Bryan-Ricketts

Geochemical characteristics and microbial diversity of CO2-rich mound springs of the Tierra Amarilla anticline, New Mexico, Brandi Cron

Magnetic records from latest Triassic to earliest Jurassic red beds, Utah and Arizona, and from mid-Pleistocene lake beds, New Mexico, Linda Lee Donohoo Hurley

Studying signatures of water on Mars at two macro and micro scales : orbital analyses of hillslope geomorphology and ChemCam calibration for surficial rock chemistry, Nina Lanza

The chlorine isotope composition of chondrites : evidence for a single nebular reservoir and the effects of secondary processes on chondrite parent bodies, Jessica Mumphrey

Dynamic topography of the western Great Plains : geomorphic and 40Ar/39Ar evidence for mantle-driven uplift associated with the Jemez lineament, New Mexico and SE Colorado, Alexander Nereson

Fluvial processes, beaver activity, and climate in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and rock type control on hillslope morphology and soil development in the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, Lyman Persico

The geochemistry of water-filled sinkholes at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Roswell, NM : implications for hydrochemical evolution and trophic support, Elizabeth Premo

The effect of carbon dioxide on the density and compressibility of kimberlitic magma, Alison R. Santos

Nutrient dynamics in a headwater stream : use of continuous water quality sensors to examine seasonal, event, and diurnal processes in the East Fork Jemez River, NM, Lauren R. Sherson

Variations in the stable isotope compositions of water vapor and precipitation in New Mexico : links to synoptic-scale weather, Mel Strong

The impact of dams, droughts, and tributary drainages on channel form and process : Rio Grande and Rio Chama, NM, Benjamin Swanson

Uranium-series geochronology and stable isotope analysis of travertine from Soda Dam, New Mexico : a Quaternary record of episodic spring discharge and rivern incision in the Jemez Mountains hydrothermal system, April Jean Tafoya

Experimental investigation into lunar melt density and compressibility : the role of titanium, Kathleen Vander Kaaden

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

New incision rates on the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces : implications for a transient knickpoint at Lees Ferry and differential uplift of the Rocky Mountains, Andrew Darling

Oxygen isotopes in diatom silica : a new understanding of silica-water oxygen isotope fractionation in diatom frustules and an application of diatom d180 values as a record of paleohydrologic variability in a middle-Pleistocene lacrustine core from the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, Justin Dodd

Late Quaternary semiarid eolian system dynamics : distribution, timing, and soil geomorphic controls, Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona, USA, Amy Ellwein

Last-saturation applications to the humidity of the subtropical middle troposphere, John Hurley

Trends and interannual variability in snowpack and spring season hydroclimatology in the southwestern United States, Sarah J. Keller

Stream channel adjustments and persistence of change in response to beaver damming on a fluvial fan, Odell Creek, Montana, Rebekah Levine

Paleomagnetic and AMS results from Oligocene ash-flow tuffs of the eastern San Juan Mountains : implications for the evolution of the western margin of the San Luis Basin, northern Rio Grande Rift, Stephanie N. Mason

Microstructural, geochronologic and thermochronologic evidence for both Paleo- and Mesoproterozoic displacement across the Gneiss Canyon shear zone : lower Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Jacob McDermott

Investigating evidence of high frequency glacial eustacy in the Lower Mississippian (Tournasian) Lodgepole Formation of southwest Montana : insights from conodont oxygen isotopes, Zachary Wallace

Formation conditions of plagioclase-bearing type I chondrules in CO chondrites : a study of natural samples and experimental analogs, Molly Wick

Interpreting Early Triassic (Smithian) sea-level change and climate using sequence stratigraphy and oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite, Stephanie Yurchyk

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Mineralogy and bulk chemistry of chondrules and matrix in petrologic type 3 chondrites : implications for early solar system processes, Jana Berlin

Fluvial sedimentation in continental half-graben basins, Sean Connell

The partial molar volume of carbon dioxide in peridotite partial melt at high pressure, Megan Duncan

Characterization of a volcanically impacted, overfilled continental rift basin within the southeastern Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, Ashley Elizabeth Edelman

Experimental simulation of Lunar Magma Ocean crystallization : insights into mantle composition and the source regions of lunar basaltic magmatism, Stephen Matthew Elardo

Documenting multiple metasomatic events within the Finero phlogopite peridotite using chlorine isotopes, Ivrea zone, Italy, Melissa Halick

Travertine from Egypt's Western Desert: a terrestrial record of North African paleohydrology and paleoclimate during the late Pleistocene, Gloria Jimenez

Remote sensing assessment of rapidly changing lake areas in semi-arid closed basins : modern playa lake response to meteorological variability and implications for pluvial Lake Palomas Holocene highstands, Christine K. Laudadio

Syntectonic deposition and paleohydrology of the spring-fed Hualapai Limestone and implications for 5-6 MA integration of the Colorado River system through Grand Canyon : evidence from sedimentology, geochemistry and detrital zircon analysis, Jessica Lopez Pearce

Biogeomorphology and soil geomorphology of small semiarid basins, northeastern Arizona : influences of topoclimate and climate variations, Leah M. Roberts

New structural interpretation, microstructural analyses, and preliminary monazite geochronology of Proterozoic rocks in the central Manzano Mountains, New Mexico, Steve A. Rogers

Archean detrital zircons in the Proterozoic Vishnu Schist of the Grand Canyon, Arizona : implications for crustal architecture and Nuna reconstructions, Owen Philip Shufeldt

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

U-series dating, geochemistry, and geomorphic studies of travertines and springs of the Springerville area, east-central Arizona, and tectonic implications., Eileen Hardy Embid

Heterogeneity effects on flow and transport within a shallow fluvial aquifer, Nicholas Engdahl

Paleomagnetic data bearing on the evolution of the Walker Lane Belt transfer zone from mid-Miocene to present : an investigation of the inferred southern and eastern boundaries, Jack Grow

Timing and emplacement of the Philipsburg batholith, SW Montana, and a comparison of two magnetic fabric techniques, Travis James Naibert

Mesozoic tectonics of the Maria fold and thrust belt and McCoy basin : an examination of polyphase deformation and synorogenic response, Anthony C. Salem

An aqueous geochemical and hydrologic study of the springs and wells of the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge : evaluating hydrochemical pathways, Amy Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Refining models of crustal growth and evolution in southwestern Laurentia with paired U-Pb and Lu-Hf analyses of igneous and detrital zircon, Mark E. Holland

Volatile chemistry, and nitrogen sources and fluxes, in subduction zones : insights from the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc, Euan Mitchell

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Quaternary incision history of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado, M. Magdalena Sandoval

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

New stratigraphy, polyphase deformational history and basement-involved thrust belt model for the Proterozoic Uncompahgre Group and Vallecito Conglomerate, Needle Mountains, Colorado, Zinsser Austin

History and timing of polyphase Proterozoic deformation in the Manzano thrust belt, central New Mexico, Amy Luther

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Geologic and tectonic evolution of the Manzano Peak Quadrangle, central New Mexico, Shannon H. Baer

Mesoproterozoic tectonic evolution of southwestern North America : protracted intracratonic deformation, sedimentation, and differential exhumation in Grand Canyon and the Rocky Mountain Region, J. Michael Timmons

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

A Late Pleistocene and Holocene High-Resolution Glacial and Paleoclimate Record from the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Northern New Mexico, Jake Armour

Biogeochemistry Of The Middle Rio Grande Bosque: Links Among Surface Water, Groundwater, And Sediments, Susan E. Block

Banded metasiltstones in Trigo Canyon : the story they tell about the Proterozoic deformational history of the Manzano Mountains, Linda Doran

Tectonic development of Proterozoic structures and their influence on Laramide and Miocene deformation, north Virgin Moutains, SE Nevada and NW Arizona, Mark Cameron Quigley

Proterozoic Farwell Mountain-Lester Mountain suture zone, northern Colorado : subduction flip and progressive assembly of arcs, Amanda Tyson

Seasonal Biogeochemistry And Mineral Cycling Of The Middle Rio Grande Alluvial Aquifer, New Mexico, David Stewart Vinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

The Proterozoic ancestry of the Colorado Mineral Belt : ca. 1.4 Ga shear zone system in central Colorado, Annie Marie McCoy

Genesis and evolution of Proterozoic crustal boundaries in the southern Rocky Mountains., Colin Arthur Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Analysis of the Cabin Canyon shear zone in the Virgin Mountains : implications for an early accretionary province boundary and later transpressional zone., Jason Ray

Proterozoic evolution of the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico: Peridotites, granites, rhyolites, shear zones, and a reactivation history through the present, Diana Strickland

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Polyphase tectonics and metamorphism and their relation to movement on the Monte Largo shear zone in the Manzano Mountains, central New Mexico, Douglas A. Raszewski

Quartz-kyanite pods in Proterozoic rocks in northern New Mexico : shear zone formation along an older hydrothermal alteration horizon, M. C. Simmons

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

Relative Timing of Porphyroblast Growth and Peak Metamorphism in the Lower Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona., Jimmie Hutchison

Proterozoic thermal and deformational history and geochemical evolution of the 1.4 Ga Priest pluton and its aureole, Amy G. Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Polyphase Proterozoic tectonometamorphic history of the Taos Range, northern New Mexico, Jane Pedrick

Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

Geochemistry of Metal Segregation in Aubrites, and The Origin of Their Metallic Phases, Ignacio Casanova

The Magmatic History of an Aubrite Parent Asteroid: Evidence From Igneous Clasts and Trace Elements, Maya Monica Wheelock

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

Hillslope Processes on Late Quaternary Cinder Cones of the Cima Volcanic Field, Eastern Mojave Desert, California, Claire Estelle Renault

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

Quaternary Alluvial Sequence of the Upper Pecos River and a Tributary, Glorieta Creek, North-Central New Mexico, Paul Arthur Karas

Geology and Petrogenesis of Ash-Flow Tuffs and Rhyolitic Lavas Associated with the Gila Cliff Dwellings Basin-Bursum Calder Complex, Southwestern New Mexico, Sheila June Seaman

Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986

Long-Term Tributary Adjustments To Base-Level Lowering, Northern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Keith Irvin Kelson

Theses/Dissertations from 1985 1985

The Virginius Vein Ore Deposit, Northwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado: A Study of the Mineralogy, Structure, and Fluid Inclusions of an Epithermal Base-Metal and Silver Vein in a Volcanic Environment, Berton Woodward Coxe

Dynamics of Clastic Sedimentation and Watershed Evolution Within a Low-Relief Karst Drainage Basin, Mammoth Cave Region, Kentucky, John D. Pickle

Theses/Dissertations from 1983 1983

Geology and Petrochemistry of Ultramafic and Orbicular Rocks, Zuni Mountains, Cibola County, New Mexico, Ellen E. Lambert

Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981

Selected Shallow Electrical Resistivity Surveys At Volcano Cliffs, Bernalillo County, And Warm Springs, Sandoval County, New Mexico, Sidney S. Brandwein

Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980

Quaternary Geology of Chaco Canyon, Northwestern New Mexico, David Waxham Love

Geology Of The Eastern Part Of The Regina Quadrangle, Sandoval And Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico, Margaret Anne Merrick

Theses/Dissertations from 1979 1979

Petrogenesis of Orbicular Rock, Tijeras Canyon, Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, Kathleen Affholter

Provenance Study of the Westwater Canyon and Brushy Basin Members of the Morrison Formation Between Gallup and Laguna, New Mexico, Ruben Martinez

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

Geology of the Cerros Del Rio Volcanic Field, Santa Fe, Sandoval, and Los Alamos Counties, New Mexico, Jayne Christine Aubele

A Petrographic and Chemical Study of Axinite and Scapolite Occurrences in the White Oaks Mining District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, Karen Ricciardi

Precambrian Geology and Ore Deposits of the Pecos Mining District, San Miguel and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico, William Duncan Riesmeyer

Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977

Petrology And Geochemistry Of Shonkinite, Syenodiorite, And Nepheline Monzonite Of The Island Of Kauai, Hawaii, Henry Gassaway Brown IV

Alkali Basalt-Trachyte Suite And Volcanism, Northern Part Of The Mount Taylor Volcanic Field, New Mexico, L. S. Crumpler

Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry of Some Lavas from Kohala Volcano, Hawaii, Steven Sherman Sibray

Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry of Some Lavas from Kohala Volcano, Hawaii, Steven Sherman Sibray

Theses/Dissertations from 1976 1976

Geology of the Apache No. 2 Mining District Hidalgo County, New Mexico, Stephen L. Peterson

Theses/Dissertations from 1975 1975

Evaporite Deposits Of The Central Namib Desert, Namibiba, Fred R. Cagle Jr.

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