Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of Geosciences by Title
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The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska
(Springer Nature, 2018-09-06)Glacial retreat in recent decades has exposed unstable slopes and allowed deep water to extend beneath some of those slopes. Slope failure at the terminus of Tyndall Glacier on 17 October 2015 sent 180 million tons of rock ... -
A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression
(Nature, 2014-12-17)Soft-tissue fossils capture exquisite biological detail and provide our clearest views onto the rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. The processes contributing to fossilization of soft tissues, however, ... -
A-site doping-induced renormalization of structural transformations in the PbSc0.5Nb0.5O3 relaxor ferroelectric under high pressure
(American Physical Society, 2010-05-01)The effect of A-site incorporated Ba2+ and Bi3+ on the pressure-driven structural transformations in Pb-based perovskite-type relaxor ferroelectrics has been studied with in situ x-ray diffraction and Raman scattering of ... -
Abundance and Speciation of Surface Oxygen on Nanosized Platinum Catalysts and Effect on Catalytic Activity
(2018-06-18)Oxygen at the surface of nanosized platinum has a direct effect on catalytic activity of oxidation−reduction chemical reactions. However, the abundance and speciation of oxygen remain uncertain for platinum with different ... -
Adsorption of Extracellular Polymeric Substances Derived from S. cerevisiae to Ceria Nanoparticles and the Effects on Their Colloidal Stability
(MDPI, 2017-07-11)In order to understand the adsorption preferences of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) components derived from fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae on sparingly soluble CeO2 nanoparticles (CeNPs), ... -
Advective Heat Transport and the Salt Chimney Effect: A Numerical Analysis
(Hindawi, 2018-07-09)We conducted numerical simulations of coupled fluid and heat transport in an offshore, buried salt diapir environment to determine the effects of advective heat transport and its relation to the so-called “salt chimney ... -
Along-fault migration of the Mount McKinley restraining bend of the Denali fault defined by late Quaternary fault patterns and seismicity, Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska
(Elsevier, 2016-12-14)The tallest mountain in North America, Denali (formerly Mount McKinley, 6,190 m), is situated inside an abrupt bend in the right-lateral strike-slip Denali fault. This anomalous topography is clearly associated with the ... -
Aluminum hydroxide coatings in limestone drains
(2019-04)This paper describes a mixed flow reactor experiment and associated data analysis scheme that are well suited for studying the chemical and physical processes that occur in limestone drains used to treat acid mine drainage ... -
Aluminum mobility in mildly acidic mine drainage: Interactions between hydrobasaluminite, silica and trace metals from the nano to the meso-scale
(2019-08-05)Aluminum precipitates control the hydrochemistry and mineralogy of a broad variety of environments on Earth (e.g., acid mine drainage, AMD, coastal wetlands, boreal and alpine streams, tropical acid sulfate soils, laterites ... -
Analysis of a conductive heat flow profile in the Ecuador Fracture Zone
(2017-06)We report 18 new conductive heat flow measurements collected from a sediment pond located in the inactive part of the Ecuador Fracture Zone in the Panama Basin. The data were collected along an east-west transect coincident ... -
Analyzing Low Frequency Seismic Events at Cerberus Fossae as Long Period Volcanic Quakes
(2021-04)The InSight Mission began acquiring the first seismic data on Mars in early 2019 and has detected hundreds of events. The largest events recorded to date originate at Cerberus Fossae, a young volcanic region characterized ... -
Application of the Linkam TS1400XY heating stage to melt inclusion studies
(De Gruyter, 2012-05-13)Melt inclusions (MI) trapped in igneous phenocrysts provide one of the best tools available for characterizing magmatic processes. Some MI experience post-entrapment modifications, including crystallization of material on ... -
Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian.
(2015-11-26)Morphology-based phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida) and Nematoida (Nematoda, Nematomorpha), together constituting the monophyletic Cycloneuralia that is ... -
Arsenic in Petroleum-Contaminated Groundwater near Bemidji, Minnesota Is Predicted to Persist for Centuries
(MDPI, 2021-05-26)We used a reactive transport model to investigate the cycling of geogenic arsenic (As) in a petroleum-contaminated aquifer. We simulated As mobilization and sequestration using surface complexation reactions with ... -
Arsenic release to the environment from hydrocarbon production, storage, transportation, use and waste management
(2021-06-05)Arsenic (As) is a toxic trace element with many sources, including hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, oil sands, and oil- and gas-bearing shales. Arsenic from these hydrocarbon sources can be released to the environment ... -
Assessment of Future Flood Hazards for Southeastern Texas: Synthesizing Subsidence, Sea-Level Rise, and Storm Surge Scenarios
(2021-04-28)Recent hurricanes highlight shortcomings of flood resilience plans in Texas that can worsen with climate change and rising seas. Combining vertical land motion (VLM) with sea-level rise (SLR) projections and storm surge ... -
Atmosphere-ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during the Cambrian explosion
(2019-08-21)Large, motile animals proliferated during the Cambrian explosion,540–515 million years ago,and this period has been associated with both rising and declining O2levels on Earth [1–3]. To explore this conundrum, we reconstructed ... -
Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-09-24)The proliferation of large, motile animals 540 to 520 Ma has been linked to both rising and declining O₂ levels on Earth. To explore this conundrum, we reconstruct the global extent of seafloor oxygenation at approximately ...
