Geology Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Stratigraphy of the Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian, Southwestern Ontario, Shuo Sun
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Using Fluid-Mobile Elements to Decipher an Aqueous History Preserved in the Sedimentary Rocks of Gale Crater, Mars, Jeff A. Berger
Cu-Pd mineralization and exploration geochemistry of the Eastern Gabbro, Coldwell Alkaline Complex, ON, Canada, Yonghua Cao
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Application for Geological Mapping and Resource Exploration in the Canadian Arctic, Byung-Hun Choe
Stable Cu, Fe, and Ni Isotopic Systematics of the Sudbury Offset Dikes and Associated Rocks, Peter Christoffersen
Ordovician Continental Paleogeography and Paleoenvironment for the Michigan Basin from Paleomagnetic Analysis, Michelle MacRae
Geochemistry of the Dome Mine Ankerite Veins: Insights into the Multi-Stage Enrichment of a World-Class Orogenic Gold Deposit, Jessica M. Stromberg
Linking Mining Wastewater Discharge to Methylmercury Production in a Sub-Arctic Peatland, Lauren E. Twible
Enstatite achondrites as indicators of processes and environments in the early solar system, Diego David Uribe
Paleogeography of Early Paleozoic Laurentia and Meguma, Avalonia terranes via paleomagnetism and faunal review, Halima S. Warsame
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Gold Mineralisation at the FAT Deposit, Courageous Lake Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories, Canada, Marcus A. Adam
Sedimentology and geochemistry of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Espanola Formation, Paleoproterozoic Huronian Supergroup, Bruce Mines-Elliot Lake Area, Ontario, Canada, Mansour H. Al-Hashim
Anthropogenic particles in natural sediment sinks: Microplastics accumulation in tributary, beach and lake bottom sediments of Lake Ontario, North America, Anika M. Ballent
A Regional Chemical Characterization and Analysis of Groundwater in Eastern Ontario, Laura M. Colgrove
Evolution of Mafic Impact Melt Bodies at the Crater Floor Interfaces of the Vredefort and Sudbury Impact Structures, Carmela Lisa Cupelli
Microstructural Geochronology of Zircon Across the Central Uplift of the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa, Connor Lawrence Davis
Dissolved Organic Matter in Subarctic Streams and Rivers: Direct and Proxy Measures of Quantity, Quality, and Mercury, Tara M. Despault
An Evaluation of the Lithologies and Geochemistry of the Upper Beaver Deposit of the Kirkland Lake Area, Katherine E. Feick
First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian, Cale A.C. Gushulak
Utilization of Lidar Intensity Data and Passive Visible Imagery for Geological Mapping of Planetary Surfaces, Taylor M. Haid
Martian Gully Formation and Evolution: Studies From the Local to Global Scale, Tanya Nicole Harrison
Stable Isotope Paleolimnology of Barry Lake, Ontario, Canada Since AD - 1268, Zijun Liu
The Character and Distribution of Cu-PGE Mineralization at the Geordie Lake Deposit Within the Coldwell Complex, Ontario, Imran Meghji
Constraining the Formation and Alteration of Sudbury Breccia, Ontario, Canada: Implications for Footwall Cu-Ni-PGE Exploration, Jonathan W. O'Callaghan
Inter- and intra-annual C and N isotopic variability of C3 and C4 grasses in a temperate-humid dune environment, Roshni R. Patel
Emplacement of the Foy, Hess and Pele Offset Dykes at the Sudbury impact structure, Canada, Eric A. Pilles
Giant Beaver (Castoroides) Palaeoecology Inferred from Stable Isotopes, Tessa Plint
Reframing the Mammoth Steppe: Examining Mammoth Steppe Ecology Using Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Compositions of Megafauna Collagen, Rachel E. Schwartz-Narbonne
A Stable Isotope Investigation Of Pollen From Pinery Provincial Park, Southwestern Ontario, Canada, Deana M. Schwarz
Evolution, Paleoecology, and Paleobiogeography of the Late Ordovician Brachiopod Fauna of Laurentia, Colin D. Sproat
Geochemical Constraints of the Gold Mineralization Sources from the South Mine Complex and the Main/’04 Breaks, Macassa Mine, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Liana K.T. Stammers
Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleogeography of the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Peace River, Joli Fou and Pelican formations, northern Alberta, Canada, Kathleen Vannelli
Geochemical and Petrographic Study of Melt Veins at the West Clearwater Lake Impact Structure, Canada, Rebecca Wilks
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Factors Controlling the Composition and Lithofacies Characteristics of the Paleoproterozoic Bar River Formation, Huronian Supergroup, Rohan DJ Aranha
High resolution stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Devonian Kettle Point Formation, southwestern Ontario, Canada, Nikole E. Bingham-Koslowski
Recent Discoveries in the Ni-Cu-PGE bearing Trill and Parkin Offset dykes, Sudbury impact structure, Canada, Adam B. Coulter
Reflectance and Emission Spectroscopy: Curve Fitting Methods with Application to Impact Glasses and the Varying Grain Size of Planetary Analogue Minerals, Michael A. Craig
Morphological, Structural and Spectral Mapping of the Central Uplifts of the Alga and Verlaine Craters, Mars, Bianca D'Aoust
The Lithotectonic Setting and Paragenetic History of Deposit No.1, Mary River District, North Baffin Island, Sean A. Fulcher
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Upper Ordovician Rocky Shoreline: The Lindsay Formation of Heywood and Partridge Islands, Ontario, Hiba-tul Naseer Maheen
Nitrate Sources in the Old Ausable River Channel and Adjacent Aquifers in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario Canada, Samuel DJ Russell
Morphology and Morphometry of Double Layered Ejecta Craters on Mars, Ryan Schwegman
Chromite Crystal Structure and Chemistry applied as an Exploration Tool, Patrick H.M. Shepherd
Identification of Ancient Maya Agriculture in the Periphery of Motul de San José, Alexandra E. Smofsky
Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Investigations of the Late Pleistocene Paleoecology of Eastern Beringia, Yukon Territory, Using Soils, Plants and Rodent Bones, Farnoush Tahmasebi
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Latte Gold Zone, Kaminak's Coffee Gold Project, Yukon, Canada: Geology, Geochemistry, and Metallogeny, Eric Buitenhuis
Shear zone influence on the emplacement of a giant pegmatite: The Whabouchi Lithium Pegmatite, Quebec,Canada, Laurisha Bynoe
Controls on Syenite-Hosted Gold Mineralization in the Western Timmins Camp, Robert A. Campbell
The Development of L-tectonites in High-strain Zone Settings: A Multiscale Modeling Investigation, Weiyin Chen
Micro-Computed Tomography Semi-Empirical Beam Hardening Correction: Method And Application To Meteorites, David R. Edey
Runoff Generation In A Tropical Dry Forest Watershed: Processes, Patterns And Connectivity, Kegan K. Farrick
Peat as an Archive of Remote Mercury Deposition in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada, William James Goacher
The Late Quaternary Paleolimnology of Lake Ontario, Ryan Hladyniuk
Peatland-Stream Hydrological and Biogeochemical Connectivity in the James Bay Lowland, Ontario, Meghan Kline
A Detailed Metallogenic Study of the McFaulds Lake Chromite Deposits, Northern Ontario, Jordan E. Laarman
A Surface Chemistry Study of the Effects of Zinc Sulphate on Sphalerite During Flotation Separation at the Laronde Mine, Dennis M. Laliberty
Glacial Stratigraphy of the Ridge River Area, Northern Ontario: Refining Wisconsinan Glacial History and Evidence for Laurentide Ice Streaming, Maurice Nguyen
Shock Metamorphic Effects in Lunar and Terrestrial Plagioclase Feldspar Investigated by Optical Petrography and Micro-X-Ray Diffraction, Annemarie E. Pickersgill
The effects of dissolution on the silicon and oxygen isotope compositions of silica phytoliths, Andrea Prentice
The Aricheng Basement-Hosted Albitite-Type Uranium Deposit, Roraima Basin, Co-Operative Republic Of Guyana, South America., Jim A. Renaud
Isotopic Fingerprinting of Shallow and Deep Groundwaters in Southwestern Ontario and its Applications to Abandoned Well Remediation, Mitchell E. Skuce
Allostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Blue Mountain Formation, Southwestern Ontario, Canada, Sarah N. Sweeney
Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of a Bog-Fen-Tributary Complex in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada, Thomas A. Ulanowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Allostratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleogeography of the Cretaceous Upper Fort St. John Group (Upper Albian-Lower Cenomanian) in Northeastern British Columbia, Piotr Jan Angiel
Origins of stable isotopic variations in Late Pleistocene horse enamel and bone from Alberta, Nicolle S. Bellissimo
Study on the surface chemistry behavior of pyrochlore during froth flotation, Saeed Chehreh Chelgani
Hydrogeological and Thermal Sustainability of Geothermal Borehole Heat Exchangers, S. Emad Dehkordi
A Physical and Geochemical Characterization of Southwestern Ontario's Breathing Well Region, Candace N. Freckelton
Mapping and Zircon Geochronology of the Lyon Inlet Boundary Zone, Nunavut; a Crustal Scale Break in the Churchill Province, Nikolas B. Ganderton
Microbially induced magnesium carbonation reactions as a strategy for carbon sequestration in ultramafic mine tailings, Jenine McCutcheon
Mitigating permafrost degradation due to linear disturbances in sub-arctic peatlands, Aaron A. Mohammed
Impact Craters as Habitats for Life: Endolithic Colonization of Shocked Gneiss from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada, Alexandra Janine Pontefract
Potassium Metasomatism at the Polymetallic NICO Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada, Gregory B. Robinson
The biogeochemical cycling of gold under surface and near-surface environmental conditions, Jeremiah P. Shuster
The Trentonian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of Ontario: Evolution through a global warming event, Akbar Sohrabi Hashjin
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Architecture and stratigraphy of the Lower Silurian Guelph Formation, Lockport Group, southern Ontario and Michigan, Candace Brintnell
The Weathering of Platinum from Nuggets and Platinum Immobilisation by Cupriavidus metallidurans, Sean Gordon Campbell
Effects of Chemical and Mechanical Weathering Processes on the Degradation of Plastic Debris on Marine Beaches, David A. Cooper
A geobiological investigation of the Mazon Creek concretions of northeastern Illinois, mechanisms of formation and diagenesis, Andrea S. Fernandes
Reconstructing Fire Severity From the Oxygen-Isotope Compositions of Plant Char, Michael W. Hamilton
Crystal Structure and Al/Si Cation Ordering in "Fassaite": A Combined Single Crystal, 27Al and 29Si NMR Study, Monika M. Haring
Bacterial Communities and their Influence on the Formation and Development of Potholes in Sandstone Surfaces of the Semi-Arid Colorado Plateau, Kebbi A. Hughes
Evaluation of Jarosite as a Biosignature: A Comparison of Biogenic and Synthetic Jarosites, Liane Loiselle
Late Quaternary Histories of Lakes Huron and Michigan: A Stable Isotope Investigation of Sediment Cores and Modern Biogenic Carbonates, Rebecca A. Macdonald
Metallogenic Setting of High-Grade Iron Ores, Mary River District, North Baffin Island, Nunavut, Meghan E. MacLeod
Topographic Influences on Trends and Cycles in Nutrient Export from Forested Catchments on the Precambrian Shield, Samson G. Mengistu
Stable Isotopes and XRD Investigation of Gold Mineralization at the Syenite-Hosted Young-Davidson Deposit, Matachewan, Ontario, Niloufar Naderi