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About the Collection
This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV Department of Geoscience. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Effects of Salt Diapirs on the Thermal Maturity of Surrounding Sediments in the Western Pyrenees, Spain, Nicholas Martin Downs
Determining the Motion and Location of the Frenchman Mountain Fault, Las Vegas, Nevada: A Paired Basin Analysis and Structural Analysis, Laura Margaret Eaton
Petrogenesis of the East Fork Member Rhyolites, Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA, Carla Eichler
Volcanic Evolution Of The Southern Quinn Canyon Range: Implications For Regional Correlation Of Volcanic Units, Christina Emery
Petrogenesis of the Linked River Mountains Volcanic Section and Wilson Ridge Pluton, Denise Kelly Honn
An Estimate of Groundwater Recharge in the Nabogo River Basin, Ghana Using Water Table Fluctuation Method and Chloride Mass Balance, Melanie Lynn Krautstrunk
Muddy Creek Formation: A Record of Late Neogene Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Nevada, Thomas William Muntean
The impact of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and biological soil crust on Ca distribution in arid soils of the Mojave Desert, Brittany Myers
2000 Year Moisture Source Record from a Central Nevada Speleothem, Paul Pribyl
The behavior of zircon during partial melting in anatectic migmatites: Insights to metamorphism, deformation and tectonism in the central Santa Fe Range, northern New Mexico, Michelle Renee Stropky
The Fluvial Muddy Creek Formation Near Overton, Nevada, Carl Taylor Swenberg
Evaluation of possible source rocks in northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for hydrocarbon exploration, Inessa Yurchenko
Theses/Dissertations from 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
Magma chamber processes at Mutnovsky Volcano, Russia, Kelly L. Robertson
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
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