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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 MULTI-PHYSICS STUDY ON GAS DIFFUSION AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN CEMENT MATERIAL WITH CO2 SORPTION
- Author
- Wang, Peng
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
- Description
- Emission control and storage of carbon dioxide (CO¬2) from fossil fuel combustion is an emerging and frontier research area to counter likely global climate changes. Although the carbon dioxide separation techniques are quite mature, there is stil...
- 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
- 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
- Development of a Survival Based Framework for Bridge Deterioration Modeling with Large-scale Application to the North Carolina Bridge Management System
- Author
- Goyal, Raka
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- This dissertation presents the development and implementation of a comprehensive automated software framework for probabilistic bridge deterioration modeling that takes into account the time dependent nature of deterioration as well as the impact ...
- 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
- INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
- Author
- Matoo, Omera
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology, Ecology
- Description
- The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...
- Title
- Immunostimulatory Properties of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
- Author
- Halman, Justin
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience
- Description
- Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are ubiquitous biomolecules found throughout all living organisms. They can act as genetic information storage and messengers, enzymes, molecular switches, and much more. Although DNA is used almost exclusively for its ...
- 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
- 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
- STRATIGRAPHY AND SOILS OF FLUVIAL TERRACES ON THE CATAWBA RIVER, NC AND SC: LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US
- Author
- Arey, Jordan
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Geomorphology, Geology, Soil science
- Description
- Few studies provide data that can document the long-term landscape evolution of the Piedmont of the southeastern United States. Here we present the results of field mapping and a soil chronosequence for fluvial terraces along a ~46 km reach of the...
- Title
- STUDY OF CO2 INJECTION AT CITRONELLE OIL FIELD USING LUMPED MASS MODELING AND FIELD DATA VALIDATION
- Author
- Liu, Yangguang
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering, Geophysics
- Description
- Carbon sequestration in geological formation is an ongoing effort of the research community to address the issue of curbing excessive anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This dissertation focuses on the development of a theoretical framework in establish...
- Title
- Spatial and temporal variance in rock dome exfoliation and weathering near Twain Harte, California, USA
- Author
- Moser, Faye
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geomorphology, Geology
- Description
- Large-scale exfoliation cracks and associated domes can strongly influence regional landscape evolution, hydrology and hazards, but their formation mechanism(s) and long-term evolution are poorly understood. Beginning in August 2014, in Twain Hart...
- Title
- The Morphology and History of Exfoliation on Rock Domes in the Southeastern United States
- Author
- Weiserbs, Benjamin
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Geomorphology, Geology
- Description
- Rock domes and associated surface-parallel exfoliation joints are evident in all tectonic and climatic settings, including the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces of the southeastern United States. Although large-scale dome exfoliation is traditiona...
- Title
- WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS IN THE DEEP RIVER BASIN, NORTH CAROLINA: A CANDIDATE BASIN FOR SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT
- Author
- Stone, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Geology
- Description
- As a result of the rapid expansion of shale gas development in the United States, the public has become increasingly concerned about the proper management of hydraulic fracturing wastewater also referred to as produced water. Adverse environmental...