Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Geology and Geography"
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An Examination of Metamorphic Uranium Occurrences in Coosa County, Alabama
(2010-07-06)
Coosa County, Alabama, is host to one or more presumably metamorphosed uranium occurrences of unknown size or grade. The exact location, size and mode of emplacement of each uranium occurrence is currently unknown. This ...
Exhumation History of Caledonian Eclogites in Liverpool Land, East Greenland, and Comparisons with Eclogites in Norway
(2008-05-15)
Lithologic information and 40Ar/39Ar cooling dates are reported from a recently discovered high-pressure (HP) Caledonian eclogite terrane in Liverpool Land, East Greenland, its overlying hanging wall block, and an extensional ...
Fate and Transformation of Oils and Trace Metals in Alabama and Louisiana Coastal Marsh Sediments Associated with the British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill
(2012-04-10)
The effects of the 2010 BP Macondo-1 well oil spill on the geochemistry of sediments and water columns at ten Gulf salt-marsh sites were investigated, months after the spill ceased. The ten sampling sites include four ...
Flood Risk Assessment for the Vulnerable Populations and Infrastructure: Village Creek, Birmingham, Alabama
(2017-05-15)
Urban flooding is a prominent natural hazard in Village Creek that is associated with the large expanse of impervious surfaces in the area, which enhance storm runoff and overwhelm the drainage capacity of the storm sewer ...
Genesis and Taphonomy of a Crinoid Lagerstatte in the Upper Pennsylvanian Barnsdall Formation of Northeastern Oklahoma
(2010-10-20)
A 50-cm mudstone interval within the Upper Pennsylvanian Barnsdall Formation, exposed near Copan, Washington County, northeastern Oklahoma, records prodeltaic distal shelf sedimentation in an oxygenated, low energy setting. ...
A Geochemical and Hydrological Assessment of Oil and Related Compounds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf Coastal Saltmarshes
(2013-08-02)
In April of 2010, the Macondo-1 wellhead ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil. Ten saltmarsh sites along the northern Gulf coast were investigated to determine the fate, ...
Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Eastern Ag-Rich Epithermal Veins in the Midas District, Nevada, USA
(2012-04-09)
Five Ag-rich epithermal veins were recently discovered in the eastern section of the Midas district in northern Nevada. Initial data collected indicated that these veins had a significantly higher quantity of silver relative ...
Geochronology and Geochemistry of Mid-Miocene Bonanza Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Ores of the Northern Great Basin, USA
(2008-05-15)
New high precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
conducted on previously undated deposits (or deposits with older, less precise K/Ar dates only), indicates that low-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag mineralization in the northern ...
Geochronology and structural geology of the Kjerringøy Peninsula, Nordland, Norway
(2014-10-30)
Field mapping, structural and petrographic analysis, ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and chemical dating of minerals were employed to decipher the geologic history of the Salten area of north-central ...
A Geographical Investigation of Football and its Fans at Auburn University
(2012-01-09)
In Auburn, AL, football, and especially college football, reigns supreme. Particularly, interest is placed on the Tigers, the team representing the local institution, Auburn University. This research paper investigates ...
Geology of the 1:24,000 Roanoke East Quadrangle and investigations of the Long Island Creek Gneiss within the southernmost Appalachians, Alabama and Georgia
(2017-07-22)
The geology of the 1:24,000 Roanoke East, Alabama, Quadrangle has been determined to be of high mapping priority by the State Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee due to the rapid development along the I-85 corridor west ...
Geology of the 1:24,000 Tallassee, Alabama, Quadrangle, and its Implications for Southern Appalachian Tectonics
(2008-05-15)
The 1:24,000 scale Tallassee, Alabama, Quadrangle, was mapped to characterize lithologies and structures in the southernmost exposures of the southern Appalachians. Four deformation events are recognized. D1 was associated ...
Geology of the Dadeville Quadrangle and the Tallassee Synform in Characterizing the Dog River Window
(2014-03-31)
Structural and lithologic observations are reported for southernmost Appalachian shear zones and Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont metamorphic rocks exposed on the Dadeville 7.5-minute quadrangle map. Brevard fault zone ...
Geology of the Farmville Metagranite and Associated Units as Exposed at the Notasulga Quarry, Notasulga, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
Predicting the locations and thicknesses of aggregate-affable lithologies (ore units), interburden (non-ore material between ore-units), and overburden (overlying soil/saprolite) on a local level is critical for developing ...
Geology of the Jacksons Gap, Alabama, 7.5-Minute Quadrangle: Implications for the Evolution of the Brevard Fault Zone
(2015-05-11)
The Brevard fault zone is a major Appalachian structure that marks the boundary between the eastern Blue Ridge (EBR) and the Dadeville Complex (DC) of the Inner Piedmont (IP) terrane in Alabama. Despite over a century of ...
Geology of the Southernmost Exposures of the Brevard Zone in the Red Hill Quadrangle, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
The southernmost exposures of the Brevard zone were mapped to characterize its lithologic makeup and structural character and to explore its significance to the tectonic evolution of the southernmost Appalachians. Two ...
Geology of the Wadley South Quadrangle and geochronology of the Dadeville Complex, southernmost Appalachians of east Alabama
(2016-08-01)
Geologic mapping results from rocks in the area of the Wadley South Quadrangle are reported to address basic research questions concerning the Paleozoic tectonometamorphic evolution of the southernmost Appalachians. Key ...
Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of the mid-Miocene, Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold-Silver Ores on War Eagle Mountain, Silver City District, Idaho
(2012-05-14)
Located in southwest Idaho’ s Silver City district, War Eagle Mountain’s epithermal Au-Ag veins are structurally controlled arrays that are hosted by a Cretaceous granitoid. Taking into consideration similar deposits at ...
Geology, Petrology, and Geochronology of Rocks in the Our Town, Alabama Quadrangle
(2013-11-06)
The area of the 1:24,000 Our Town Quadrangle of east central Alabama is underlain principally by generally undifferentiated metasedimentary units, the Emuckfaw and Wedowee Groups, which have been intruded by major southern ...
Geomorphic and Sedimentologic Analysis of Four Streams in Southeastern Alabama: Channel and Habitat Response to Changes in Land Use
(2016-12-09)
Streams of the Southeastern US have varying degrees of degradation due to the long history of agricultural land use, reflected in incising and eroding banks with aggradation of fine grained legacy sediment. These effects ...