Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Geosciences"
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Stratigraphy, Ore Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Gold-Bearing Quartz Veins at the Hog Mountain Tonalite, Southwestern Appalachians, USA
(2019-04-24)
Hog Mountain of the southern Appalachians is a gold deposit in the eastern Blue Ridge of Alabama. The mineralized quartz veins found there have an average Au grade of 0.14 oz/t (maximum: 2.4 oz/t Au) and occur within a ...
Surface Processes on Airless Planetary Bodies: Quantifying the Effects of Regolith Mixing on the Lunar South Pole and Ejecta Deposition on Ceres
(2024-04-22)
In airless planetary bodies, impact cratering is the dominant geologic processes that modifies and evolves their surface. Therefore, studying impact craters on airless planetary bodies contributes to a better understanding ...
Surficial Investigations of Hargraves Crater and Siloe Patera, Mars
(2019-07-15)
This study investigates Hargraves crater and Siloe Patera of Mars. Individual barchan and barchanoids dunes in Hargraves were almost accurately identified using a semi-automated object-based image analysis technique. The ...
Tectonic evolution of Paleozoic orogenic events
(2023-11-28)
The Paleozoic Era included multiple Wilson cycles between ca. 540 Ma and ca. 250 Ma. Today, the remnants of these cycles (as fragments ranging from rift basalts to calc-alkaline granitoids) are spread along continents as ...
Testing Erosion Potential of Heterogeneous Lithologies to Understand Atypical Valley Morphology in the Buffalo National River Watershed, Arkansas
(2019-04-17)
The effect of heterogeneous lithologies on valley morphology in tectonically stable landscapes is
an unresolved question in fluvial geomorphology. The upper reaches of the Buffalo National River
incise the Mississippian ...
Towards Urban Sustainability: A Framework for Understanding the Applicability of SDGs to small and medium size cites (SMSC)
(2023-04-26)
United Nations (UN) News states that understanding upcoming urbanization trends is crucial to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda consists of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that ...
Towards Urban Sustainability: Stormwater Management & Solar Power Potential of Auburn University Campus, AL.
(2020-04-16)
‘Sustainability’ is a big concern these days, since it seeks environmental protection, social development, and at the same time ensuring economic development. Now people are more aware of long-term viability of earth, their ...
Tropical Cyclone Risk and Social Vulnerability Amongst Small and Medium-Sized Cities Along the Gulf of Mexico in the United States
(2023-08-02)
As climate change continues to warm the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, tropical cyclone intensity in the region may increase which will threaten vulnerable communities. The goals of this project include ...
Tropical Cyclones (TCs) Risk Assessment in South Asia: Focusing on the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
(2023-05-02)
Tropical cyclones recurrently batter the coastal regions of Bangladesh. It causes a lot of damage in the less resilient regions, especially the cities. This study aims to pinpoint the areas that are both physically and ...
An unnamed valley in Memnonia Fossae region, Mars: Evidence for Hydrological Activities
(2024-06-14)
Understanding Martian valley networks is crucial for deciphering the planet's paleoclimate and exploring the possibility that past or present subsurface water reservoirs, could harbor microbial life. In this context, the ...
Usability, Undergraduates, Understanding: Enhancing Climate Resiliency and Climate Literacy through Co-Production
(2024-04-25)
The overarching goal of this dissertation research is to contribute to the body of literature on co-production while enhancing climate literacy and climate resiliency of various stakeholder groups. For each of the three ...
USING GROUND-BASED LIDAR TO ANALYZE FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS AS POSSIBLE CONTROLS ON THE VARIABILITY OF VALLEY MORPHOLOGY IN THE BUFFALO RIVER WATERSHED, ARKANSAS
(2021-07-19)
The Buffalo National River (BNR) is a bedrock river that incises a sequence of Ordovician and
Mississippian sedimentary rocks as it meanders west to east across the southern point of the
Ozark Dome. A previous study ...
Using Petrographic and Geochemical Analyses to Elucidate the Genesis of Au-Ag Epithermal Deposits on Florida Mountain, Silver City District, Idaho
(2021-04-22)
Florida Mountain (FM) is classified as a low-sulfidation epithermal deposit and has a rich history of Au-Ag economic mining. It is one of a trio of similar deposits in southwestern Idaho within the Northern Great Basin and ...
Volatile and Sr Isotope Analysis of Melt Inclusions from the Bandelier Tuff, Valles Caldera, New Mexico: Insights into Pre-Eruptive Magma Conditions
(2018-03-07)
The Valles Caldera, located in northwest New Mexico, is one of three caldera volcanoes in the United States that is still active today. Calderas have the largest, most cataclysmic eruptions that result in large bowl-shaped ...