Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Uddin, Ashraf"

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Provenance of a boulder-bearing impact breccia from surface outcrops and a drill-core from the Wetumpka Impact Structure, Elmore County, Alabama

Chinchalkar, Neeraja (2019-07-15)

The Wetumpka crater is a shallow marine impact structure located in the Elmore County, Alabama. The impact event occurred at approximately 85 Ma, during Late Cretaceous. The target was a shallow marine environment with a ...

Provenance of Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation, Cahaba Basin, Alabama

Peavy, Tara (2008-12-15)

The Cahaba basin, also known as the Cahaba Synclinorium, of north-central Alabama contains a thick (>2.5 km) synorogenic clastic wedge belonging to the Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation. Sediment composition and ...

Saltwater Intrusion and Trace Element Contaminations at the Coastal Aquifers of the Ganges Delta

Ahmed, Nur (2016-12-19)

The coastal area of Bangladesh has a low topography lying at the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river systems in the Bengal Basin. The distribution of aquifer sediments in the subsurface is very complex where ...

Sedimentation and Tectonic Evolution of Cenozoic Sequences from Bengal and Assam Foreland Basins, Eastern Himalayas

Rahman, Mohammad (2008-08-15)

The Himalayan Mountains developed due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. There are two large foreland basins south of the eastern Himalayas: Assam Basin, located near the eastern syntaxis of the Himalayas, ...

Sedimentation and Tectonics of Lower Cenozoic Sequences from Southeast of Shillong Plateau, India: Provenance History of the Assam-Bengal System, Eastern Himalayas

Mandal, Subhadip (2009-08-12)

The present study area is located along the southeastern part of the Shillong Plateau in the eastern and southeastern part of the Meghalaya State and in the lower (southern) part of Assam State, northeast India. A continuous ...

A sequence stratigraphic synthesis of the Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation encountered in two drill cores in the Cahaba synclinorium, Alabama

Gomes, Sonnet (2012-11-12)

The Lower Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation is a classic clastic wedge of the Appalachian mountain system composed of interbedded sandstone, siltstone, claystone, shale, and coal beds with orthoquartzitic conglomerate at ...

Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Petrology of the Hillbank and Yalbac Formations, Corozal Basin, Belize

Gill, Karena (2017-04-30)

The informal Hillbank and Yalbac formations are predominantly carbonate units that are found only in the subsurface of the Corozal basin in northern Belize. The 75 to 700 m-thick Hillbank and the 200 to 3000 m-thick Yalbac ...

Tectonic evolution of a Caledonian-aged continental basement eclogite terrane in Liverpool Land, East Greenland

Buchanan, John (2008-05-15)

Liverpool Land is located in an interior position within the East Greenland Caledonides. Due to the remoteness of the field locality, very little work has been published on the rocks and structures of Liverpool Land. The ...

Tectonic evolution of Paleozoic orogenic events

Yasar, Ismail Dogancan (2023-11-28) ETD File Embargoed

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 ...

USING GROUND-BASED LIDAR TO ANALYZE FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS AS POSSIBLE CONTROLS ON THE VARIABILITY OF VALLEY MORPHOLOGY IN THE BUFFALO RIVER WATERSHED, ARKANSAS

Braun, Jamison (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 Microtremors to Assess Site Characteristics in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Hardesty, Kelli (2008-08-15)

Results are presented from a study in the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) utilizing the microtremor method. The study analyzes and interprets horizontal to vertical (H/V) spectral ratios to determine resonant periods, wave ...