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Assessing fracture networks and geochemistry of geothermal systems in magma-poor continental rifts: An example from the Malawi Rifted Zone
Davalos Elizondo, Estefanny (2022-05)This doctoral dissertation investigates structurally controlled geothermal systems of poor-magma continental rifts in the Western Branch, using as an example the Malawi Rifted Zone (MRZ). The MRZ is at the southern end of ... -
Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Upper Osagean (Lower Visean) Ozark Uplift, Southern Midcontinent U.S.A.
Miller, Jeffrey Daniel (2015-12-01)Oil and gas exploration in Mississippian strata of the southern Midcontinent has increased interest in the lateral and vertical trends of reservoir facies and generated a need for more refined facies models. This study ... -
Determination of Moho depth beneath the Okavango and Kafue rift using Spectral Analysis with Piecewise Regression (SAPR) of satellite gravity data
Mily, Farjana Monsur (2023-05)The research investigated the use of satellite gravity data to map the lithospheric structure under the Okavango Rift Zone (ORZ) in northwest Botswana and the Kafue Rift Zone (KRZ) in Zambia. The tectonic extent and ... -
Geologic Record of Paleostorms from Lake and Wetland Sediments of the Great Plains
Mccollum, Mark Samson (2015-05-01)The purpose of this study was to identify the geologic signature of paleostorm events within the mid-continent region. This research aimed to create a better understanding of the long-term geologic history of major storms ... -
High Resolution Geophysical Imaging Reveals Major Faults in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen: Implications for Mid-Continent Seismic Hazards
Chase, Brandon (2019-07)While intraplate seismicity can occur anywhere, events frequently localize along preexisting buried basement faults associated with ancient tectonic features and boundaries (ATFBs). Detailed structural study of these ... -
Influence of the Mugese Shear Zone Structures on Strain Accommodation in the Northern Malawi Rift
Dawson, Sam Michael (2016-12-01)The Livingstone border fault, with its 7 km of maximum displacement, accommodates most of the extension in the northern portion of the N-striking Malawi Rift (the southern segment of the Western Branch of the East African ... -
IntraCONtinental Sags (ICONS) formation, exhumation and landscape evolution: The Ethiopian testimony
Alemu, Tadesse B. (2019-07)The study of the Mekele Sedimentary Basin (MSB) in Ethiopia revealed geological and geophysical features that can be interpreted as resembling an ICONS (IntraCONtinental Sag). ICONS are groups of sedimentary basins that ... -
Morpho-tectonic analysis of the East African Rift System
Xue, Liang (2018-07)Tectonic uplift of mountain ranges and plateaus have a significant impact on the geological record by influencing drainage systems and sediment supply, and on climate and on biogeography. Recent geomorphological, ... -
On crustal and lithospheric structures of rift basins formed within the Turkana Depression in the east Africa and the Trans-Southern African Orogen in the southwest Africa
Emishaw, Luelseged M. (2020-12)This doctoral dissertation examines the crustal and lithospheric structures of rift basins formed within the Turkana Depression (TD) in east Africa and the Trans-Southern African Orogen (TSAO) in southwest Africa. Both ... -
Onset of the neogene-quaternary continental southern Malawi Rift and linkage to the Late Carboniferous-Early Jurassic Shire Rift
Ojo, Oyewande Olumide (2021-07)Previous thermal history models have supported Miocene aged rift initiation in northern Malawi Rift without the thermal history of southern Malawi Rift (which is believed to have initiated at a later time) and its interactions ... -
Origin and Characteristics of Devonian-mississippian Novaculitic Chert in Oklahoma
Cecil, Kyrsti (2016-07-01)Limited research has been performed since 1980 on the origin of novaculitic chert in the Arkansas Novaculite in the Ouachita Orogen of southeastern Oklahoma and in the Woodford Shale in the Oklahoma Shelf. Further research ... -
Re-evaluation of the SCO2 and SC seismic reflection datasets, eastern South Carolina: Implications for tectonic evolution and seismicity
Rohrer, Michael (2020-05)Identification and characterization of the Paleozoic Suwanee basin sedimentary sequence and the associated Pangea supercontinent transcurrent fault are critical in furthering our present understanding of tectonic history ... -
Remote Sensing Analysis and Implications for Groundwater Resources in the Kharga Basin, Egypt
Parks, Shawna Lee (2016-05-01)Identifying new groundwater resources in Africa is important because climate change may cause the Nile recharge to decrease by the end of the century, affecting water stability in the eleven countries that rely on this ... -
Seismic multiples attenuating using Radon Transform and principal components
Abbasi, Salman (2022-07)Seismic data is often contaminated with noise that must be attenuated before making reliable seismic interpretations. Seismic noise can be either random noise, which cannot be correlated between seismograms, or coherent ... -
Spectral Analysis of Petroleum Reservoir Rock Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
Chatterton, Logan (2015-07-01)Compositional analysis of reservoir rock is a vital aspect of oil exploration and production activities. In a broad sense, knowing the mineral composition of a reservoir can help with characterization and interpretation ... -
Structural framework analysis in the Mississippi Canyon protraction area, Central Gulf of Mexico: Implications for CO₂ sequestration
Sholanke, Seyi (2020-07)Geologic factors such as faults and salt tectonics have implications for the reliability of CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO₂-EOR) and CO₂ sequestration targets in deep water reservoirs of the Gulf of Mexico. Salt-tectonic ... -
Surface and crustal deformation mechanism of the Dobi graben and surrounding area in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia
Demissie, Zelalem Shiferaw (2018-12)Our Study used the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), C- Band (h = 5.6 cm) of the ENVISAT satellite ASAR data, Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI), and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation ...