The metronomic variations of the Earth-Moon system and of the Earth-Sun orbital patterns produce gravitational and temperature effects that alter the physical environment on the Earth's surface. These give an interpenetrating effect of forcing cycles ranging from twice-daily tid…
The metronomic variations of the Earth-Moon system and of the Earth-Sun orbital patterns produce gravitational and temperature effects that alter the physical environment on the Earth's surface. These give an interpenetrating effect of forcing cycles ranging from twice-daily tid…
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On decadal time-scales, most rivers remain relatively stable, changing through shifting bars and eroding cutbanks. On longer time-scales, rare but radical channel repositioning events are documented on rivers around the globe. This repositioning process, called avulsion, has cau…
I present the results from the first geological map of the Derain (H-10) quadrangle of Mercury and in-depth studies of features identified in the map.
Subduction zones host the world’s largest earthquakes, but seismic slip is only one style of deformation along the subduction interface. The deformation processes above and below the seismogenic zone are equally fundamental to understanding how relative motion is accommodated du…
The Giant Foresets Formation in the Taranaki Basin defines the present-day continental margin of the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Using regional 2D and 3D seismic datasets calibrated with exploration wells, this thesis presents a new highresolution seismic stratigra…
Red siliciclastics and evaporites of Permian Nippewalla Group in mid-continental US were deposited in western equatorial Pangea. Previous studies of these rocks record Permian air temperatures as high as 73 °C, saline lake waters with a pH as low as ~1, and sedimentology that sh…
This thesis investigates the use of growth stratigraphy in deepwater environments to determine fault kinematics and reservoir distribution in the Niger Delta and assess earthquake hazards associated with blind-thrust faults in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Chapter 1 ana…
At the highest level, this dissertation investigates marine systems from a geochemical and sedimentological perspective through the undertaking of six distinct and only somewhat tenuously interrelated contributions. Nonetheless, the work detailed herein might be thought of as fi…
This study provides insights into the age, extent, and depositional history of a 23 kilometer-long sequence of eolian sands that overlies a paleosol of previously undetermined age along the southwestern margin of the Delmarva Peninsula, VA. References in past literature and maps…
During the Early Cretaceous a regionally extensive cover of dominantly siliciclastic sediments was deposited across the North African continental margin. Historically, these siliciclastic sediments have been considered to be a relatively homogeneous lithofacies known as the ‘Nub…
Lake basins contain depositional systems whose stratigraphy and sedimentology are highly influenced by allogenic and authigenic processes. Identifying the relative roles of these controls is complicated in settings where both tectonic and climate influences control sediment inpu…
