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Environmental Magnetism Survey Of A Holocene Sedimentary Record From Barilari Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Carl Joseph Natter Jr.
Environmental Magnetism Survey Of A Holocene Sedimentary Record From Barilari Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Carl Joseph Natter Jr.
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Barilari Bay is located on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), opposite the former Larsen B Ice Shelf on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula. Barilari Bay was swath mapped during United States Antarctic Program cruise NBP10-01 as part of the Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctic (LARISSA) program. The bay consists of a series of five basins with water depths greater than 600 meters, from which a suite of kasten cores and jumbo piston cores was collected. Three cores, JPC-127, its trigger core TC- 127, and JKC 55 were collected from the outer portion of the Bay and recovered an …
Mapping The River Kilometers Of Potential Daylighting Projects In Northeast New Jersey, Omoniyi Ayodeji Asaolu
Mapping The River Kilometers Of Potential Daylighting Projects In Northeast New Jersey, Omoniyi Ayodeji Asaolu
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A river offers many benefits to people who live near it, including transportation, a source of food, waste disposal, and water resources for consumption. Because of these advantages many great cities were built around rivers impacting rivers in many ways. While the effects of urban development on water quality have long been studied, this study measures how development has caused streams to disappear from the landscape. It was observed that some streams were buried due to negative impacts of urbanization. Public safety and flood control were some of the reasons these streams were buried, but with the advent of green …
Geochemical Analysis Of Long Island Sound Sediments, Jaroslaw W. Slusarczyk
Geochemical Analysis Of Long Island Sound Sediments, Jaroslaw W. Slusarczyk
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As one of the largest estuarine systems in the northeastern United States, Long Island Sound (LIS) has been exposed to human activities for many centuries. Human settlement and population growth in the last 200 years has caused heavy pollution in LIS through inland and shore industrial and municipal releases. The geochemistry of one sediment core and numerous surface sediment samples were analyzed using environmental forensic techniques. This study employed use of pyrolysis gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) in conjunction with previously analyzed geochemical and radiometric data to study contamination sources and patterns though LIS. Geochemical analysis of samples was focused …
Determining Middle Miocene Through Pliocene Changes In Provenance And Basal Ice Conditions Through Sedimentological Analyses Of Subglacial Diamictites In And-2a, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Melissa Anne Hansen
Determining Middle Miocene Through Pliocene Changes In Provenance And Basal Ice Conditions Through Sedimentological Analyses Of Subglacial Diamictites In And-2a, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Melissa Anne Hansen
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Prior to the mid-Miocene the Antarctic ice sheet is believed to have been very dynamic with periods of expansion and contraction (Naish et ah, 2001). Previous studies have suggested that the ice sheet changed from a wet-based temperate ice-sheet to a drybased polar ice sheet at ca. 14 Ma (Lewis et al., 2007). Utilizing a sediment core obtained through the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) program, changes in the flow configurations and conditions in the basal ice were documented across the middle Miocene climate transition. Glaciers eroded bedrock from the Transantarctic Mountains and deposited sediments into the embayment mixing with materials …
Geochemical Analysis And Regional Correlations Bbetween Granitic Gneisses Of The Western Hudson Highlands, New York, Elyse Kirsten Peterson
Geochemical Analysis And Regional Correlations Bbetween Granitic Gneisses Of The Western Hudson Highlands, New York, Elyse Kirsten Peterson
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The Byram Intrusive Suite granite gneisses of the New Jersey Highlands are believed to be similar in chemical composition as well as age to the Storm King hornblende granite gneisses of the Hudson Highlands of New York (Drake et al., 1991, Ratcliffe and Aleinikoff, 2001; Volkert et ah, 2010). The goal of this project is to determine the geochemical continuity between the Byram Intrusive Suite of the NJ Highlands and the Storm King granite gniesses, located near Bear Mountain, NY. Thirtytwo samples of granitic gneisses with similar field relations and textures to the Byram and Storm King granite gneisses were …