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Ababneh, Linah. 2006. Analysis of Radial Growth Patterns of Strip-Bark and Whole-Bark Bristlecone Pine Trees in the White Mountains of California: Implications in Paleoclimatology and Archaeology of the Great Basin. Ph.D. dissertation. 147 p.
Anchukaitis, Kevin J. 2007. A Stable Isotope Approach to Neotropical Cloud Forest Palaeoclimatology. Ph.D. dissertation 165 p.
Ault, Toby. 2006. A New Synthesis of Coral Records to Evaluate Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Decadal Variability. M.S. thesis. 40 p.
Bigio, Erica. 2006. An integration of tree-ring and alluvial records of the fire history at the Missionary Ridge Fire, Durango, Colorado. Ph.D. dissertation. 44 p.
Brooks-English, Nathanael T. 2008. Stable Isotopes In The Spines of Columnar Cactus: A New Proxy For Climate and Ecophysiological Research. Ph.D. dissertation 213 p. PDF
Buenrostro, Carlos E. 2006. Bivalve Mollusk Paleoecology: Trophic and Environmental Reconstruction from the Stable Isotopes, Sclerochronology and Shell Damage. Ph.D. dissertation. 231 p.
Calkins, Joshua A. 2008. An Investigation of Lithospheric Structure and Evolution in Convergent Orogenic Systems Using Seismic Receiver Functions And Surface Wave Analysis. Ph.D. dissertation 144 p.
Cecil, M. Robinson. 2009. Development and Application Of Geochronometric Techniques To The Study of Sierra Nevada Uplift and The Dating of Authigenic Sediments. Ph.D. dissertation 176 p.
Cook, Joseph. 2006. Relief Threshold for Eolian Sand Transport on Alluvial Fans. M.S. thesis. 37 p.
Dietz, Robert D. 2008. Nitrogen isotopes in bivalve shells from the Colorado River estuary: Evaluating a potential proxy for changes in riverine nutrient delivery. M.S. Prepublication Manuscript 38 p. PDF
Dugan, Bailey. 2008. New Production Rate Estimates for In Situ Cosmogenic ¹⁴C from Lake Bonneville, Utah, and Northwestern Scotland. M.S. thesis 51 p.
Eichenlaub, Amy B. 2007. Exploration of Genetic Links Between Breccia Pipes And Porphyry Copper Deposits in a Laramide Hydrothermal System, Sombrero Butte, Pinal County, Arizona. M.S. thesis, Prepublication. 118 p.
Enders, Merritt Stephen. 2005. The Evolution Of Supergene Enrichment In The Morenci Porphyry Copper Deposit, Greenlee County, Arizona. Ph.D. dissertation. 252 p.
Felton, Anna. 2006. Paleolimnological evidence for the onset and termination of glacial aridity from lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa. M.S. theses. 45 p.
Girardi, James Daniel. 2008. Evolution of Magmas and Magma Sources to The Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, Canada, Refelcted by Elemental and Isotopic Geochemistry. M.S. Thesis 46 p.
Goldin, Tamara Joan. 2008. Atmospheric Interactions During Global Deposition of Chicxulub Impact Ejecta. Ph.D. dissertation 266 p.
Guynn, Jerome. 2006. Age and Tetonic Evolution of the Amdo Basement and Implications for Development of the Tibetan Plateau and Gondwana Paleogeography. Ph.D. dissertation. 324 p.
Harden, Tessa. 2007. A 12,000-Year Probability-Based Flood Record in the Southwestern United States. M.S. thesis. 34 p.
Jones, Kevin Bradley. 2009. Mollusk-Shell Radiocarbon As A Paleoupwelling Proxy In Peru. Ph.D. dissertation 182 p.
Kleinsasser, Lynnette. 2007. Geochronology Of The Adu-Asa Formation At Gona, Ethiopia. 62 p. [appendix]
Kowler, Andrew L. 2007. The Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Pedogenic Carbonate and its Relationship to Climate and Ecology in Southeastern Arizona. M.S. thesis, Prepublication. 57 p.
Li, Chao. 2008. Tectonic Setting of Mesozoic Magmatism and Related Mineralization In The Middle and Lower Yangtze River Valley, Eastern China. Ph.D. dissertation 112 p.
Maher, David J. 2008. Reconstruction Of Middle Tertiary Extension and Laramide Porphyry Copper Systems, East-Central Arizona. Ph.D. dissertation 328 p.
Manthei, Christian D. 2009. Isotopic and Geochemical Evidence For A Recent Transition In Mantle Chemistry Beneath The Western Canadian Cordillera. M.S. prepublication 67 p.
McBride, Scott. 2008. Sediment Provenance and Tectonic Significance of The Cretaceous Pirgua Subgroup, NW Argentina. M.S. prepublication 52 p.
McCarthy, Andrew Charles. 2007. Behavior Of Sodium Clinopyroxenes Under Compression. Ph.D. dissertation. 159 p.
Mayer, James H. 2009. Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Environmental Change, and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology In Middle Park, Colorado. Ph.D. dissertation 214 p.
Montague-Judd, Danielle Dawn. 1999. Paleo-upwelling and the distribution of Mesozoic marine reptiles Ph.D. dissertation 456p.
Novak, Rachael M. 2007. Climate Variability And Change In The Chuska Mountain Area: Impacts, Information, and The Intersection Of Western Science and Traditional Knowledge. M.S. thesis. 191 p.
Ojha, Tank Prasad. 2009. Magnetostratigraphy, Topography and Geology of The Nepal Himalaya: A GIS and Paleomagnetic Approach. Ph.D. dissertation 221 p. & jpg
Ozacar, Atilla Arda. 2007. Complex Rupture Processes of Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes and Receiver Function Analysis of Crust and Upper Mantle in Active Tectonic Settings. Ph.D. dissertation 160 p.
Pearson, David M. 2007. Thermobarometric constraints on the Late Cretaceous tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Coast Plutonic Complex, western British Columbia, Canada. M.S. thesis, Prepublication. (with Mihai N. Ducea, George E. Gehrels, Margaret E. Rusmore, and Glenn J. Woodsworth) 52 p.
Rohrmann, Alexander. 2009. Minimal Erosion In Central Tibet Since The Eocene and Implications For Plateau Development. M.S. thesis 56 p.
Roskowski, Jennifer A. 2007. A late Miocene-early Pliocene chain of lakes fed by the Colorado River: Evidence from Sr and Stable Isotopes of the Bouse Formation between Grand Canyon and the Gulf of California, M.S. thesis, Prepublication (with P. Jonathan Patchett, Jon E. Spencer, Philip A. Pearthree, David L. Dettman, James E. Faulds, Amanda C. Reynolds) 37 p. table figs
Rotberg, Gabriel L. 2008. New Geochemical and Geochronologic Data From The Northern Sierra Nevada, California: Constraints On The Preconditions For Lithospheric Foundering. M.S. prepublication 52 p.
Rowell, Kirsten. 2006. Isotopic Logs of the Sea of Cortez: Oxygen and Carbon Stable Isotopes in Otoliths of Marine Fish Record the impact of Diverting the Colorado River from the Sea. Ph.D. dissertation. 188 p.
Rowland, Jessica. 2006. Inter-and intra-tooth isotopic variation in mammalian tooth enamel from Western Israel: Implications for paleoenvironment and paleoclimate change over the past 350 kyr. Ph.D. dissertation. 83 p.
Ruiz, Francisco Javier Quintanar. 2008. La Herradura Ore Deposit: An Orogenic Gold Deposit in Northwestern Mexico. M.S. thesis 97 p.
Russin, Daniel. 2008. Hypogene Alteration and Mineralization In The Dos Pobres Porphyry Cu(-Au-Mo) Deposit, Safford District, Arizona: A Gold- and Magnetite-Rich Variant of Arizona Porphyry Copper Systems. M.S. thesis 121 p.
Sano, Jennifer L. 2007. Diffusion of Neodymium in Orthopyroxene: Experiment, Theory and Applications. M.S. thesis. 48 p.
Saylor, Joel Edward. 2008. The Late Miocene Through Modern Evolution of The Zhada Basin, South-Western Tibet. Ph.D. dissertation 306 p.
Shanahan, Timothy. 2006. West African Monsoon Variability from a High-Resolution Paleolimnological Record (Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana). Ph.D. dissertation. 385 p.
Spinler, Joshua C. 2008. Present-Day Loading Rate of Southern San Andreas and Eastern California Shear Zone Faults From GPS Geodesy. M.S. 53 p.
Stair, Kelley N. 2008. The Origin of Intermediate Composition Magmas: Insights From The Sierra De Valle Fertil: A Geochemical and Geochronologic Study Linking Mechanics of Continental Magmatic Arcs At Depth To The Surface. M.S. prepublication 53 p.
Stavast, William. 2006. Three-Dimensional Evolution of Magmatic Hydrothermal Systems, Schultze Granite and Ruby Star Granodiorite, Arizona. Ph.D. dissertation. 414 p.
Stein Jason A. 2008. Analysis Of Porosity Trends In The Kevin-Sunburst Dome Using 3D Seismic Reflection Data, Toole County, Montana. MS Thesis 45 p.
St. George, Robert Scott. 2007. Hydrological And Paleo-Drought Variability In The Winnipeg River Basin, Canada, And The Canadian Prairies. Ph.D. dissertation. 157 p.
Strugatskiy, Alex. 2008. Structural Reconstruction and Reinterpretation of The Area Near Happy Valley, Little Rincon Mountains, Southeastern Arizona. M.S. prepublication 59 p.
Tait, Kimberly. 2007. Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Neutron Diffraction Studies of Gas Hydrates. Ph.D. dissertation. 180 p.
Thompson, Sarah K. 2007. First results from a dense semi-continuous GPS deployment during the September 2005 northern Cascadia slow slip event. M.S. thesis, Prepublication (with Richard A. Bennett, Sigrún Hreinsdóttir, Daniel J. Johnson) Geophysical Research Letters.
Vargas, Christian Rios. 2008. The Geology Of Santa Ana, A Newly Discovered Epithermal Silver Deposit, Puno Province, Peru M.S. 95 p. (pdf availalbe 5/16/09)
Velasco, María Soledad. 2009. Eastern Basin And Range Crustal Extension: A View From Seismology and Geodesy. Ph.D. Dissertation 169 p.
Wagner, Jennifer D. M. 2006. Speleothem Record of Southern Arizona Paleoclimate, 54 - 3.5 Ka. Ph.D. dissertation. 129 p.
Waldrip, Ross. 2008. Late Cretaceous Thin-Skined shortening in Southern Arizona. M.S. thesis. 25 p. (pdf available 5/14/09)