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Title: A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
Author: Berberich, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology
Description: Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...

Title: A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
Author: Zurawski, Lance
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
Description: A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...

Title: A PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF URBAN ABANDONMENT DURING EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
Author: Porson, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Archaeology, Paleoecology
Description: An archaeobotanical study of plant remains from the Near Eastern archaeological site of Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan ascertains a possible cause for the abandonment of towns during Early Bronze IV. This study assesses the hypothesis that the collapse...

Title: ACOUSTIC EMISSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF TWO NATURAL GRANITE BOULDERS: SEMI-ARID VS. TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT
Author: Ching, Suzanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geology
Description: The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influence of insolation on cracking – however, ongoing questions arise regarding the...

Title: ANATOMY OF SELECT FLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN THE MAUCH CHUNK GROUP, SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA, USA
Author: McCreary, Alan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental geology
Description: The Mauch Chunk Group has been interpreted as a product of multiple transgressions and regressions (Miller and Eriksson, 2000; Beuthin and Blake, 2004). An outcrop containing the upper Hinton Formation and Princeton Formation, the middle two forma...

Title: Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC
Author: Yankech, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sedimentology
Description: MATTHEW ROBERT YANKECH. Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DIEMER). Near Lilesville, North Carolina, on the western margin of the Fall Zone, there occur up...

Title: Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon along an Urbanization Gradient in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Kiker, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology
Description: Streams and rivers are an integral component of the freshwater carbon cycle as they provide the lateral transport of carbon from terrestrial environments to the ocean. Urbanization is one of the fastest growing land uses and it has major impacts o...

Title: Effects of the Urban Heat Island on Anurans in Remnant and Stormwater Control Ponds in the Charlotte Metropolitan Region
Author: Boucher, Adrienne
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) has been documented to increase urban air temperatures compared to rural areas, but little is known about the effects of UHI-induced meteorology on anuran breeding and diversity. My research objective is to understand h...

Title: Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Di Bari, Sofia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
Description: The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...

Title: Evaluating invertebrate community diversity using eDNA for biomonitoring in freshwater ecosystems.
Author: Rowe, Rachael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Aquatic sciences, Ecology, Environmental sciences
Description: Traditional invertebrate biomonitoring has low taxonomic resolution, low accuracy, and is plagued with human error and biases. Molecular monitoring, using environmental DNA (eDNA), is a practical alternative due to the high accuracy, lack of human...

Title: Evaluating the Role of Rain Garden Soils in Nutrient Processing of Stormwater Runoff in Charlotte, NC
Author: Starnes, Cody
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences
Description: As urbanization increases, Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used to reduce pollutants otherwise released to streams. Rain gardens are a type of BMPs that are vegetated depressions with highly permeable soil to treat urban runoff. These structu...

Title: Holocene Evolution of Low-Order Watershed Hillslopes and Soils in the SE Piedmont, NC USA
Author: Vaughan, Nora
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Soil science, Geology
Description: This study characterizes four toposequences in two first-order watersheds (4.5 and 6.2 ha) of the SE Piedmont where the entire Holocene source-to-sink system is presumably still intact. Despite a long history of soil and geomorphic research in the...

Title: Impervious Cover Thresholds of the North Carolina Piedmont Fish Assemblage
Author: Webster, Patrick
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Natural resources--Management
Description: Researchers have placed emphasis on quantifying and identifying ecological thresholds to study biological responses to urbanization. As watersheds become urbanized, they exhibit a systemic pattern of degradation that disrupts the natural biogeoche...

Title: Investigations of metabasites from the Ashe Metamorphic Suite, Eastern Blue Ridge Province, North Carolina. Are amphibolites near Boone retrogressed eclogites?
Author: Guilin, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geology, Petrology
Description: The Ashe Metamorphic Suite in western North Carolina hosts metabasites ranging in grade from eclogite to amphibolite. To the west of the Grandfather Mountain Window (GMW) near Bakersville, retrograded eclogites, displaying primary eclogite-facies ...

Title: Isotope hydrology and sustainability of High Plains groundwater in northeastern New Mexico
Author: Blumenberg, Victoria
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
Description: Observable increases in depth to water in wells throughout the High Plains Aquifer have led to growing concerns regarding the sustainability of groundwater in the High Plains region. Previous studies have pointed to overuse and the presence of pal...

Title: NATURALLY-OCCURRING CHROMIUM AND VANADIUM IN CHARLOTTE TERRANE ROCKS: A SOURCE OF TRACE ELEMENTS TO GROUNDWATER?
Author: Vail, Jacey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Geology, Geochemistry
Description: Vanadium (V) and chromium (Cr) contamination has become a rising concern in North Carolina due to a coal ash spill in February 2014. Coal ash is known to contain these trace elements, but V and Cr are also naturally occurring. Cr and V above healt...

Title: POST-LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER CONEJOS RIVER BASIN, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, CO, USA.
Author: Aldred, Jennifer
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Geology, Soil science
Description: Soil development combined with sediment storage and erosion in small, upland watersheds are key landscape processes for which assumptions are frequently made but rarely verified in landscape evolution studies. However, processes such as these, act...

Title: Petrography and Geochemistry of High-Silica East Pacific Rise Glasses: Implications for Melt Production and Transport from 8o37'N to 15o50'N
Author: Kotash, Alisa
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geology
Description: Highly evolved, silica-rich lavas have been recovered from several different locations along the global MOR system. Over the course of two decades, basalt (50-51 wt.% SiO2), basaltic andesite (52-55 wt.% SiO2), andesite (56-61 wt.% SiO2), and daci...

Title: Pre-restoration baseflow dissolved nutrient dynamics in an urban forested headwater system, Charlotte NC
Author: Wickliff, Ella
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Water resources development--Management, Hydrology
Description: Headwaters provide ecosystem services for humans such as clean water, recreational opportunities, nutrient removal, and biodiversity. Baseline stream nutrient and TSS concentrations and loadings are valuable water quality characteristics to quanti...

Title: Quantification of In-Stream and Riparian Denitrification Potential and Environmental Drivers of Denitrification Following Stream Restoration in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina
Author: Welsh, Molly
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Hydrology
Description: Agricultural streams are subject to considerable disturbance including channelization, erosion, and sedimentation. Fertilizer is often applied to agricultural fields in excess of crop demand, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) can be transported ...