Geology Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Distal Flow Deposits: Exploring Impact Related Surface Flow Morphologies Beyond the Layered Ejecta Blankets of Mars, James Burley
Triple oxygen isotopes of grass phytoliths as a proxy for relative humidity, Minger Guo
Controls on Plastic Debris Capture in Urban Stormwater Drains of London, Canada: A Study Within the Great Lakes Watershed, Nina Kozikowski
Allostratigraphy of the Cretaceous, Lower Colorado Group in SE Alberta: Tectonic and eustatic controls on depositional cyclicity, Afroza Parvin
Calibrating Oxygen-Isotope Values of Plant Char to Pyrolysis Temperatures, Kassandra Pineda
Preservation of Putative Biosignatures in Terrestrial Mars-relevant Hydrovolcanic Environments, Catheryn H. Ryan
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Thermal and Fluid Evolution of the Clearwater West Impact-Generated Hydrothermal System, Quebec, and Associated Astrobiological Implications, Daliah R. Bibas
Mineralogy, Petrology, and Shock History of Martian Regolith Breccia, Fengke Cao
Superheated melts in hypervelocity meteorite impact craters: Evidence from terrestrial craters, Neeraja Chinchalkar
Terrestrial Craters as Analogues for Degraded Craters on Titan, Taylor M. Duncan
Controls on organic matter preservation and distribution, Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Jessica Flynn
The Fate of Carbonate Rocks During Hypervelocity Impacts: Case Studies from Three Impact Structures on Earth, Nicolas D. Garroni
Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and the Effects of Resident Vegetation in Pelee Island Soils, Colton Geil
Investigation of the impact-generated hydrothermal system at the West Clearwater Lake impact structure, Quebec, Canada, Juan Pablo Jaimes Bermudez
Late Neoarchean to middle Paleoproterozoic geology of Devon and Ellesmere islands, Canadian Arctic, Joshua P. Laughton
Deformation and Evolution of Achondrite Parent Bodies, Yaozhu Li
Studies of Martian Active Processes using Remote Sensing, Vidhya Ganesh Rangarajan
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
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
Biogeochemical Prospecting for Gold using Robust Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Zohreh Ghorbani
Complex Unicellular Microfossils from the 1.9 Ga Gunflint Chert, Canada, Ana L. González Flores
Investigation of Sulphide-Poor Gold Mineralization at the Deep A Zone, Kiena Complex, Québec, Stephanie A. Kobylinski
Characterization of Some Natural Copper samples from the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior using Electron Microscopy and X-ray Tomography techniques, Emilie MK Landry
Modeling of fluid injection-related processes in hydrocarbon reservoirs in Alberta, Canada, Negar Nazari
Subsurface Correlation of Lower Silurian Medina Group, Southwestern Ontario, Rhys H. Paterson
Early Solar System chronology and isotopic linkage of non-carbonaceous chondrules, clasts and achondrites, Philip M. Reger
Effects of glutamine deamidation on the oxygen isotope compositions of bone collagen, Curtis W. Russell
Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes of Early Silurian Pentameride Brachiopods from Québec, Ontario, and Nunavut, and Paleoenvironmental Implications, Jordan N. Siewnarine
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
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
Reconstructing Impact and Fluid Histories on Earth and Mars by Nanoscale Measurements, Gabriel A. Arcuri
Plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes System, North America: Analysis of types, abundances, and sources, Ian A. Arturo
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
An Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Microplastics in Surface and Subsurface Sediment of Lake Huron, North America, Sara L. Belontz
An investigation on flow field partitioning related to the rheological heterogeneities and its application to geological examples, Ankit Bhandari
Allostratigraphy of the Lower Colorado Group (Cretaceous) in south-west Alberta, Slavena Galic
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
Surface Morphology and Subsurface Ice Content Relationships in Arcadia Planitia, Mars and the Canadian High Arctic, Shannon M. Hibbard
In Situ Study of Geological Fluid Inclusions Using 23Na Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Stephen Pilar
Investigation of Shocked Basalts from Vargeão Dome and Vista Alegre: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars, Nikol Posnov
Global Warming Effects on Mercury Cycling in Northern Peatlands, Ting Sun
The Physical Properties of Volcanic and Impact Melt, Gavin Douglas Tolometti
Lunar Regolith Simulant Behaviours Affected by Shock Metamorphism and Mineralogy, Xiao Chen Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Rare-metal Alkaline Granite from The Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah A. Aseri
Determining geological controls on nutrient availability at different depths in the soils of the Pelee Island Winery, Lindsay M. Blythe
Hydrothermal Alteration Footprint of the Monument Bay Project, Manitoba, Canada, Juliana Casali
Characterization of Impactite Clay Minerals with Implications for Mars Geologic Context and Mars Sample Return, Christy M. Caudill
An investigation of the adsorption mechanism of an aliphatic nitrile (TECFLOTE S11) on sulphide mineral surfaces., Trevor Holness
Early Meteoritic Records of Asteroidal Melt and Impact Environments, Brendt Hyde
Rheology of zircon: new insights into material properties through modeling and experimentation, Giancarlo A. Jones
Impact of interlayer cation composition and strongly bound water on smectite ẟ²H, as determined by a modified TCEA method, Nadine J. Kanik
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
Impact-Generated Dykes and Shocked Carbonates from the Tunnunik and Haughton Impact Structures, Canadian High Arctic, Jennifer D. Newman
Paleoproductivity of Late Holocene Lake Huron, Jamal Khaled Nigim
The relationship between visible gold and arsenopyrite at the Orenada Zone 4 deposit, Val d'Or, Quebec, Cassandra Powell
Hargraves Crater Ejecta and Implications for Impact Processes, Leah E. Sacks
Clay Mineral Characterization and Production in Impact Settings: A Case Study on the Chicxulub Impact Structure, Mexico, Sarah L. Simpson
Impact Melt-Bearing Deposits Around Martian Craters, William A. Yingling
Stratigraphic studies of Late Albian strata, north-eastern Alberta., Arwa Zourob
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thermal Performance and Sustainability of Borehole Heat Exchangers within Building Clusters, Ronan Drysdale
Calcium Isotopes in the Saint Agatha Kettle Lake Deposits of Southern Ontario, Emma-Dawn Ferguson
Sedimentology, Lithostratigraphy and Geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Gordon Lake Formation, Huronian Supergroup, Ontario, Canada, Carolyn M. Hill
Impact Cratering Processes on the Earth and Moon: Meteorites, Complex Craters, and the Origin of the Moon, Patrick Hill
Allostratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Muskiki and Marshybank members of the Wapiabi Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian) in Southwestern Alberta, Canada, Elizabeth Hooper
Creating Calibration Curves using In Situ X-ray Diffraction to Determine the Shock Pressure Experienced by Clinopyroxene, Laura Jenkins
The impact-generated hydrothermal system of the East Clearwater Lake impact structure, Quebec, Canada, Derek King
Using Stable Isotopes to Understand Survival versus Extinction of Late Pleistocene Muskoxen, Stephanie Mabee
Evaluating zircon strain chronometry of a Grenville Front deformation fabric through microstructural analysis and quartz piezometry, Kaitlyn Petkau
Quantification of Surface Roughness of Lava Flows on Mars, Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde
Characteristics of Impactites in the Central Uplift of the Mistastin Lake Impact Structure, Canada, Alaura Singleton
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Puskwaskau Formation in North-Central Alberta, Western Canada Foreland Basin, Omar Al-Mufti
Understanding New Trends on Gold Mineralization at the Yellowknife City Gold Project, Northwest Territories, using Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy, Ramjay Jude L. Botor
An Investigation of Hydrothermal Veins Along the Foy Offset Dyke, Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario, Sarah Ann CoDyre
Stable Carbon Isotope Variations of Organic Matter and n-Alkanes in the Plant-Bulk Soil-Clay Fraction Continuum, Alana Crump
Impact Melt Emplacement on Mercury, Jeffrey Daniels
A Targeted Investigation of the Upper Contact Unit of the Sudbury Igneous Complex in the North Range, Sudbury Impact Structure, Canada, Lindsay E. Debono
P-T-X Constraints on Ilmenite Unit Cell and Relationship to Kimberlitic and Non-Kimberlitic Sources, Mitchell R. Galarneau
Characterizing Ice-wedge Polygon Geomorphology in the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Jordan Hawkswell
Quantifying Temperatures in the Early Solar Nebula and on Parent Bodies Using Cation Ordering in Spinel from CAIs in Carbonaceous Chondrites, Victoria Houde
Near-Earth Asteroid Resources: Review and Analogue Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Main-Group Pallasites, Liam R. J. Innis
Modelling the thermal transport of a thawing permafrost plateau, Joelle E. Langford
Ureilite Meteorite Record of Shock Metamorphism and Parent Body Processes, Yaozhu Li
Calcium Isotopes in Natural and Experimental Carbonated Silicate Melts, Matthew Maloney
Characterization of Kelyphite Rims: Relevance to Diamond Exploration, Mallory N.G. Metcalf
High-resolution allostratigraphy and sedimentology of Santonian - early Campanian Wapiabi Formation in southern Alberta, Western Canada Foreland Basin, El Mahadia I. Mohammed
Morphologic Mapping of Lunar Impact Basins, Zachary R. Morse
Study on the surface features of Preg-Robbing carbonaceous matter during oxidation treatment, Mana Pourdasht