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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Controls on Plastic Debris Capture in Urban Stormwater Drains of London, Canada: A Study Within the Great Lakes Watershed, Nina Kozikowski

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Allostratigraphy of the Cretaceous, Lower Colorado Group in SE Alberta: Tectonic and eustatic controls on depositional cyclicity, Afroza Parvin

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Thermal and Fluid Evolution of the Clearwater West Impact-Generated Hydrothermal System, Quebec, and Associated Astrobiological Implications, Daliah R. Bibas

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Mineralogy, Petrology, and Shock History of Martian Regolith Breccia, Fengke Cao

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Superheated melts in hypervelocity meteorite impact craters: Evidence from terrestrial craters, Neeraja Chinchalkar

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Terrestrial Craters as Analogues for Degraded Craters on Titan, Taylor M. Duncan

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Controls on organic matter preservation and distribution, Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Jessica Flynn

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The Fate of Carbonate Rocks During Hypervelocity Impacts: Case Studies from Three Impact Structures on Earth, Nicolas D. Garroni

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Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and the Effects of Resident Vegetation in Pelee Island Soils, Colton Geil

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Investigation of the impact-generated hydrothermal system at the West Clearwater Lake impact structure, Quebec, Canada, Juan Pablo Jaimes Bermudez

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Late Neoarchean to middle Paleoproterozoic geology of Devon and Ellesmere islands, Canadian Arctic, Joshua P. Laughton

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Deformation and Evolution of Achondrite Parent Bodies, Yaozhu Li

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Studies of Martian Active Processes using Remote Sensing, Vidhya Ganesh Rangarajan

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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White Micas as a tool for tracking pegmatite evolution and its use in Li exploration. A case study of Wekusko Lake, Manitoba, Canada., David N. Benn

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Deformation Conditions of Quartz-rich Mylonites of the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone and Application to the Crustal Strength, Xueke Chang

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Biogeochemical Prospecting for Gold using Robust Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Zohreh Ghorbani

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Complex Unicellular Microfossils from the 1.9 Ga Gunflint Chert, Canada, Ana L. González Flores

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Investigation of Sulphide-Poor Gold Mineralization at the Deep A Zone, Kiena Complex, Québec, Stephanie A. Kobylinski

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Characterization of Some Natural Copper samples from the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior using Electron Microscopy and X-ray Tomography techniques, Emilie MK Landry

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Modeling of fluid injection-related processes in hydrocarbon reservoirs in Alberta, Canada, Negar Nazari

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Subsurface Correlation of Lower Silurian Medina Group, Southwestern Ontario, Rhys H. Paterson

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Early Solar System chronology and isotopic linkage of non-carbonaceous chondrules, clasts and achondrites, Philip M. Reger

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Intra-population variation of hair and fingernail stable hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen isotopes in London, Ontario, Canada residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sawyer C E Rowe

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Effects of glutamine deamidation on the oxygen isotope compositions of bone collagen, Curtis W. Russell

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Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes of Early Silurian Pentameride Brachiopods from Québec, Ontario, and Nunavut, and Paleoenvironmental Implications, Jordan N. Siewnarine

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The Origin and Evolution of Impact Crater Lakes: A Case Study of the Ries Impact Structure, Germany, Matthew J. O. Svensson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Combined Geochemical, Mineralogical, and Structural Investigation of Auriferous Quartz Veins at the Vertigo Target, White Gold District, West-Central Yukon Territory, Canada, James C M Alexander

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Reconstructing Impact and Fluid Histories on Earth and Mars by Nanoscale Measurements, Gabriel A. Arcuri

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Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes System, North America: Analysis of types, abundances, and sources, Ian A. Arturo

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Organic geochemistry, organic petrography and basin modelling of the Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks and Upper Belle Fourche alloformations in the Western Canada Foreland Basin, Mailyng Angelica Aviles

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An Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Microplastics in Surface and Subsurface Sediment of Lake Huron, North America, Sara L. Belontz

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An investigation on flow field partitioning related to the rheological heterogeneities and its application to geological examples, Ankit Bhandari

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Allostratigraphy of the Lower Colorado Group (Cretaceous) in south-west Alberta, Slavena Galic

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Geological, mineralogical and geochemical process controls on Ni tenor variations in the metasedimentary-hosted Thompson 1D orebody at Vale’s Thompson mine (T3), Northern Manitoba, Canada, Povilas G. Grigutis

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Surface Morphology and Subsurface Ice Content Relationships in Arcadia Planitia, Mars and the Canadian High Arctic, Shannon M. Hibbard

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In Situ Study of Geological Fluid Inclusions Using 23Na Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Stephen Pilar

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Investigation of Shocked Basalts from Vargeão Dome and Vista Alegre: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars, Nikol Posnov

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Global Warming Effects on Mercury Cycling in Northern Peatlands, Ting Sun

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The Physical Properties of Volcanic and Impact Melt, Gavin Douglas Tolometti

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Lunar Regolith Simulant Behaviours Affected by Shock Metamorphism and Mineralogy, Xiao Chen Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Rare-metal Alkaline Granite from The Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah A. Aseri

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Determining geological controls on nutrient availability at different depths in the soils of the Pelee Island Winery, Lindsay M. Blythe

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Hydrothermal Alteration Footprint of the Monument Bay Project, Manitoba, Canada, Juliana Casali

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Characterization of Impactite Clay Minerals with Implications for Mars Geologic Context and Mars Sample Return, Christy M. Caudill

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Geometallurgy and Gold Mineralization of the Monument Bay Project, Stull Lake Greenstone Belt, Manitoba, Canada, Chunyi Hao

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An investigation of the adsorption mechanism of an aliphatic nitrile (TECFLOTE S11) on sulphide mineral surfaces., Trevor Holness

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Early Meteoritic Records of Asteroidal Melt and Impact Environments, Brendt Hyde

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Rheology of zircon: new insights into material properties through modeling and experimentation, Giancarlo A. Jones

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Impact of interlayer cation composition and strongly bound water on smectite ẟ²H, as determined by a modified TCEA method, Nadine J. Kanik

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Stable carbon and oxygen isotope investigation of Pleistocene growing-season paleoclimate using tree-ring cellulose from the Missinaibi Formation, Adam Creek, James Bay Lowland, Canada, Jumin Lee

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A Micromechanics-based Multiscale Approach toward Continental Deformation, with Application to Ductile High-Strain Zones and Quartz Flow Laws, Xi Lu

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Characterization of Impact Melt Rocks and Hydrothermal Mineralization at the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada: An Investigation of Impacts into Carbonate Targets, Cassandra L. Marion

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Impact-Generated Dykes and Shocked Carbonates from the Tunnunik and Haughton Impact Structures, Canadian High Arctic, Jennifer D. Newman

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Paleoproductivity of Late Holocene Lake Huron, Jamal Khaled Nigim

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The relationship between visible gold and arsenopyrite at the Orenada Zone 4 deposit, Val d'Or, Quebec, Cassandra Powell

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Hargraves Crater Ejecta and Implications for Impact Processes, Leah E. Sacks

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Clay Mineral Characterization and Production in Impact Settings: A Case Study on the Chicxulub Impact Structure, Mexico, Sarah L. Simpson

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Impact Melt-Bearing Deposits Around Martian Craters, William A. Yingling

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Stratigraphic studies of Late Albian strata, north-eastern Alberta., Arwa Zourob

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Thermal Performance and Sustainability of Borehole Heat Exchangers within Building Clusters, Ronan Drysdale

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Calcium Isotopes in the Saint Agatha Kettle Lake Deposits of Southern Ontario, Emma-Dawn Ferguson

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Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, and Mn-Cr isotope geochemistry of achondrite meteorites: implications for the formation reservoirs of differentiated planetesimals, Zhiguo Guo

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Sedimentology, Lithostratigraphy and Geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Gordon Lake Formation, Huronian Supergroup, Ontario, Canada, Carolyn M. Hill

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Impact Cratering Processes on the Earth and Moon: Meteorites, Complex Craters, and the Origin of the Moon, Patrick Hill

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Allostratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Muskiki and Marshybank members of the Wapiabi Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian) in Southwestern Alberta, Canada, Elizabeth Hooper

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Creating Calibration Curves using In Situ X-ray Diffraction to Determine the Shock Pressure Experienced by Clinopyroxene, Laura Jenkins

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The impact-generated hydrothermal system of the East Clearwater Lake impact structure, Quebec, Canada, Derek King

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Using Stable Isotopes to Understand Survival versus Extinction of Late Pleistocene Muskoxen, Stephanie Mabee

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Microfacies analysis of mudstone in a freshwater to marine transect: Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan and Kaskapau formations, Western Canada Foreland Basin, Katharin Pavan

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Evaluating zircon strain chronometry of a Grenville Front deformation fabric through microstructural analysis and quartz piezometry, Kaitlyn Petkau

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Quantification of Surface Roughness of Lava Flows on Mars, Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde

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Characteristics of Impactites in the Central Uplift of the Mistastin Lake Impact Structure, Canada, Alaura Singleton

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Shock Effects Recorded by the U-Pb Radiometric System in Zircons of Apollo 17 Impact Breccias and by Raman Spectroscopy in Enstatite Meteorites, Bidong Zhang

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Ni and Fe isotope fractionation during weathering and the formation of Ni laterite ore deposits in the Philippines, Congxi Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Puskwaskau Formation in North-Central Alberta, Western Canada Foreland Basin, Omar Al-Mufti

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The Periglacial Landscape of Mars: Insight into the 'Decameter-scale Rimmed Depressions' in Utopia Planitia, Arya Bina

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Understanding New Trends on Gold Mineralization at the Yellowknife City Gold Project, Northwest Territories, using Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy, Ramjay Jude L. Botor

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An Investigation of Hydrothermal Veins Along the Foy Offset Dyke, Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario, Sarah Ann CoDyre

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Stable Carbon Isotope Variations of Organic Matter and n-Alkanes in the Plant-Bulk Soil-Clay Fraction Continuum, Alana Crump

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Impact Melt Emplacement on Mercury, Jeffrey Daniels

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A Targeted Investigation of the Upper Contact Unit of the Sudbury Igneous Complex in the North Range, Sudbury Impact Structure, Canada, Lindsay E. Debono

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Allostratigraphy of the Viking and Joli Fou Formations, the Lower Colorado Group (Upper Albian), Central Alberta and Saskatchewan, Western Canada Foreland Basin, Matea Drljepan

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P-T-X Constraints on Ilmenite Unit Cell and Relationship to Kimberlitic and Non-Kimberlitic Sources, Mitchell R. Galarneau

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Characterizing Ice-wedge Polygon Geomorphology in the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Jordan Hawkswell

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Quantifying Temperatures in the Early Solar Nebula and on Parent Bodies Using Cation Ordering in Spinel from CAIs in Carbonaceous Chondrites, Victoria Houde

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Near-Earth Asteroid Resources: Review and Analogue Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Main-Group Pallasites, Liam R. J. Innis

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Modelling the thermal transport of a thawing permafrost plateau, Joelle E. Langford

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Ureilite Meteorite Record of Shock Metamorphism and Parent Body Processes, Yaozhu Li

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Calcium Isotopes in Natural and Experimental Carbonated Silicate Melts, Matthew Maloney

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Integrating Petrophysics and Allostratigraphy to Find Sweet Spots in the Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche and Second White Specks Alloformations, West-Central Alberta, Canada, Kienan P. Marion

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Crystallization processes and solubility of columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), microlite, pyrochlore, wodginite and titanowodginite in highly fluxed haplogranitic melts, Alysha G. McNeil

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Characterization of Kelyphite Rims: Relevance to Diamond Exploration, Mallory N.G. Metcalf

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High-resolution allostratigraphy and sedimentology of Santonian - early Campanian Wapiabi Formation in southern Alberta, Western Canada Foreland Basin, El Mahadia I. Mohammed

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Morphologic Mapping of Lunar Impact Basins, Zachary R. Morse

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Study on the surface features of Preg-Robbing carbonaceous matter during oxidation treatment, Mana Pourdasht

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Analysis and Tectonic Synthesis of the Multiscale Structures along the Shangdan Tectonic Zone in the Qinling Orogenic Belt, China, Mengmeng Qu

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Stratigraphy of the Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian, Southwestern Ontario, Shuo Sun

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Trace element geochemistry and Nd-Sr isotope systematics of Scheelite from the Thunder Creek and 144 Gap deposits, Timmins, Ontario: implications for timing and genesis of gold, Annika Van Kessel

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Metallogenic Setting of High-Grade Gold Mineralization in the Neoarchean Hearne Craton, Kivalliq Region, Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada, Mo Asmail

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Using Fluid-Mobile Elements to Decipher an Aqueous History Preserved in the Sedimentary Rocks of Gale Crater, Mars, Jeff A. Berger