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Geology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The oil and gas resources of Anderson County, Kansas
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The geology of Ness and Hodgeman Counties, Kansas
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A highly weathered drift in the Kansas River Valley between Manhattan and Kansas City, Kansas
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Relationships Between Foraminifera and Geomorphology: Holocene, Crooked-Acklins Platform, Southern Bahamas
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Although general ecologic controls on the occurrence, growth and shape of foraminifera are well understood, the spatial patterns of foraminiferal distribution across carbonate isolated platforms and their relationship to ... -
Development and Testing of an In-well Point Velocity Probe for Preliminary Site Characterization
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The in-well point velocity probe (IWPVP) is a novel device for the centimeter-scale measurement of groundwater velocity within the screened interval of a monitoring well. IWPVP measurements are based on the detection of a ... -
Stratigraphy of Johnson County, Kansas
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A study of the invertebrate fauna of the Colorado group
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A Chemostratigraphic and Detrital Zircon Geochronological Analysis of Upper Cretaceous Strata: Applications for Dating and Correlating Strata
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Rates of sedimentation, length of hiatus, temporal relationships and absolute age of strata are all difficult to determine in clastic non-marine and shallow marine environments due to their erosive and rapidly fluctuating ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Paleobiogeography, Deep-Diving Behavior, and Size Variation of the Parietal Eye in Mosasaurs
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The parietal eye (PE) in modern squamates (Reptilia) plays a major role in regulating body temperature, maintaining circadian rhythms, and orientation via the solar axis. This study is the first to determine the role, if ... -
Controls on Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Shoreface-Beach Ridge-Lagoon Systems on a Low-Energy Carbonate Ramp: Holocene, Northwestern Yucatan Shelf, Mexico
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Abstract Whereas Holocene carbonate accumulations of isolated platforms and rimmed shelves are well-understood, modern carbonate ramps have not been as extensively studied. Yet, many ancient successions consist of fine-grained ... -
Notes on the fauna of the Iola limestone
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Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Controls on Oligocene-Miocene Caribbean Carbonate-Dominated Systems, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The first part of this dissertation (Chapter 2) focuses on 87Sr/86Sr-derived mean ages for selected Oligocene-Miocene carbonate and siliciclastic units in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Results indicate ages of ... -
POROSITY EVOLUTION ASSOCIATED WITH CLOSELY-SPACED DISCONFORMITIES, MID-CRETACEOUS CARBONATE PLATFORM, MEXICO
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)El Abra Formation was cyclically deposited on an isolated, steep-sided, high-relief carbonate platform in the Tampico-Misantla basin during the mid-Cretaceous. Sea-level oscillations recorded by shallowing-upward cycles, ... -
Conodont (U-Th)/He thermochronology of the Mormon Mountains, Tule Spring Hills, and Beaver Dam Mountains, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)ABSTRACT Although (U-Th)/He thermochronology is a well-established dating technique used to understand the temperature-time histories of rocks, the method is restricted to rocks that contain specific accessory minerals ... -
Characterizing the potential for fault reactivation related to fluid injection through subsurface structural mapping and stress field analysis, Wellington Field, Sumner County, KS
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)South-central Kansas, although historically stable, has experienced an increase in seismic activity since 2013. The correlation with brine disposal operations has renewed interest in the role of fluids in fault reactivation, ... -
Stable isotope paleohydrology of pedogenic carbonates in the Wayan Formation (Albian) from the wedge-top depozone in the North American Cretaceous Western Interior Basin
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Determining the presence and effects of orogenic rain shadows on paleoclimate is challenging, but critical to understanding overall moisture and heat transport. This thesis presents new data and interpretation for the ... -
Revisiting Dolomitization in the Isla de Mona Isolated Carbonate Platform: Marine, Mixing, Reflux, or Biogenic?
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Predicting the origin of dolomite is critical to understanding porosity and permeability in conventional oil and gas reservoirs. Studies evaluating the mechanism for dolomitization can be applied to those reservoirs as ... -
Assessment of Aquifer Mixing and Salinity Intrusion in the North-Western Sahara Aquifer System: A Hydrogeochemical Analysis- Algeria, Tunisia
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The North-Western Sahara Aquifer System is a complex multilayer leaky aquifer system providing water to Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Changing the hydrologic equilibrium through pumping can cause previously isolated saline ... -
Carbon Storage in the Arbuckle Aquifer, Wellington Kansas: An experimental Investigation of the Geochemical and Microbiological Effects of Supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> Exposure and Implications for Seal Integrity, Reservoir Storage Capacity, and Injectivity
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Captured CO2 emissions can be injected and stored in geologic formations as a way to mitigate the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 levels on global climate. Mineral weathering reactions in the presence of CO2 can affect ... -
QUANTIFYING THE ROLES OF CHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL WEATHERING IN ACID-SULFATE HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Although the roles of microbial and chemical processes are relatively well-studied in neutral-chloride hydrothermal systems, very few studies have addressed these processes in acid-sulfate hydrothermal systems. This study ...