Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Geology and Geography"
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Irrigation and Certificate of Use Compliance in the Wiregrass Region of Alabama
(2017-04-24)
Alabama passed the Water Resources Act of 1993 that included a Certificate of Use (CoU) program for users that have the capacity to withdraw 100,000 gallons per day or more. However, there is concern that some irrigation ...
Koreabama: Exploring the Recent Social and Landscape Impacts of South Korean Migration Trends and Patterns in the Rural South
(2014-04-25)
Korean immigration to the United States has been changing over the last few decades. Historically, Korean immigrants have been characterized by the stereotype of female Koreans seeking marriage to male American military ...
Land Use Land Cover Change Projection for use in Municipal Water Resource Planning in the Saugahatchee Watershed
(2012-01-09)
The present work analyzes land use land cover changes in the Saugahatchee watershed through the use of remotely sensed satellite imagery. Urban growth has effect on the land use pattern in the local as well as in the ...
The Late- to Post-Caledonian Extensional History of Northwest Hinnoy, North Norway
(2005-08-15)
This investigation focuses on the lithologies and late- to post-Caledonian, upper crustal structures exposed in westernmost Hinnoy, north Norway, and the information about the timing and kinematics of faults that they may ...
Limitations of the Microtremor Method: A Case Study in the Los Angeles Basin, California
(2010-08-02)
Microtremor data from 16 broadband seismic stations across the Los Angeles basin are used to explore limitations of Nakamura's (1989) method for estimating resonant frequencies, amplification, and ground vulnerability to ...
Lithofacies analysis of AU scientific drill cores 09-03 and 09-04, Wetumpka impact structure, Elmore County, Alabama
(2016-03-25)
The Wetumpka impact structure is an approximately 5 km diameter crater that resulted from a shallow marine cosmic impact in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during Late Cretaceous (latest Santonian to earliest Campanian). ...
Mineralogical and geochemical profiling of arsenic-contaminated alluvial aquifers in the Ganges-Brahmaputra floodplain Manikganj, Bangladesh
(2007-08-15)
The present study investigated three major components – groundwater, sediment and minerals of arsenic-affected Quaternary alluvial aquifers in Manikganj town, which is located in one of the As-hotspots in central Bangladesh. ...
Modeling the Effects of Projected Sea Level Rise on Water Quality in Coastal Bangladesh
(2015-05-04)
Climate models show that Bangladesh will experience high rates of change in temperature, precipitation, runoff, and local sea level rise rates by 2100. Sea level rise will result in the degradation of groundwater quality ...
Natural arsenic contamination in alluvial aquifers of Chianan Plain, Taiwan
(2013-06-18)
Geological and geochemical analyses were performed on groundwater and sediment samples collected from Budai and Yichu deep drilling sites in the Chianan Plain of Taiwan to examine the distribution and mobilization of arsenic ...
Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation and Pore-Pressure Changes Associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan
(2010-12-09)
A new 3D time-dependent pore-pressure diffusion model PFLOW is used to investigate the response of pore fluids to the crustal deformation generated by strong earthquakes in heterogeneous geologic media. Using a carefully ...
On Island Time: A place-based identity in Dauphin Island, Alabama
(2012-08-16)
Dauphin Island, Alabama is a small barrier island to the south of Mobile and Mobile Bay. All along the Gulf Coast are popular tourist attractions at places like Gulf Shores and New Orleans. My thesis research will look at ...
Ore Petrography, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Epithermal Silver-Gold Veins on Florida Mountain, Silver City District, Idaho
(2015-08-21)
Geochemical and petrographic studies were conducted on the Black Jack-Trade Dollar vein, a high-grade, low-sulfidation epithermal Ag-Au deposit hosted in mid-Miocene volcanic rocks of the Owyhee Mountains in southwestern ...
Overpressure in the Eastern Bengal Basin, Bangladesh, and Its Relation to Compressional Tectonics
(2009-08-11)
Proximity to the Indian craton, the Himalayas, and the Indo–Burman ranges and rapid orogenic sedimentation have resulted in the generation of overpressure in the Bengal basin. In eastern Bengal basin, overpressure zones ...
Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Part of Eastern Gondwanaland:Petrofacies and Detrital Geochronologic Study of Permo-Carboniferousgondwanan Sequences of India and Bangladesh
(2014-08-19)
This study has been carried out focusing on petrofacies and geochronology of Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan sequences of Barapukuria, Dighipara, and Khalaspir coal basins in the Bengal Basin and Jharia Basin in the Eastern ...
The Pennsylvanian Cladid Crinoid Erisocrinus: Ontogeny and Systematics
(2013-07-25)
Cladid crinoids have among the highest disarticulation rates of all Paleozoic crinoids, so the study of morphology and systematics has been hindered by a lack of available specimens. An unusually large collection of the ...
Permian to Cretaceous Evolution of the Piedmont Along the Alabama - Georgia Coastal Plain Unconformity
(2009-05-07)
The Piedmont of Alabama and Georgia contains the southernmost exposure of crystalline rocks related to the culmination of accreted terranes associated with the formation of the Appalachian Mountain system. This area is ...
Petrofacies and Detrital Geochronology of the Upper Pottsville Conglomerate Magnafacies, Cahaba Synclinorium, Southern Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt, Alabama
(2016-05-16)
Measures of abundance of extraformational conglomerates and clast composition, taken together, can be used to unravel the unroofing history of an orogenic belt. An attempt has been made in this study to develop a new ...
Petrofacies and Paleotectonic Evolution of Gondwanan and Post-Gondwanan Sequences of Nepal
(2009-08-14)
The Gondwanan sequences are widely distributed in several intracratonic basins of peninsular India and also as discontinuous patches along the Himalayan orogenic belt. The Tansen Group (2400 m) in western Nepal is thicker ...
Petrofacies and Paleotectonic Evolution of Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan Sequences of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2011-08-11)
The Indian subcontinent, along with Australia and Antarctica, constituted Eastern Gondwananland. Permo-Carboniferous Gondwanan sequences have been reported from several isolated basins of the Peninsular India. These ...
Petrofacies Evolution of Upper Siwalik-equivalent (?) Pliocene-Pleistocene Dupi Tila Formation, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
(2017-07-31)
Nearly 2.5-km-thick Pliocene-Pleistocene Dupi Tila Formation of the Bengal basin is composed of yellow, light brown, and pink, coarse- to very fine-grained, moderately to loosely indurated sandstone, siltstone, silty clay, ...