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Gis Modeling Of The Prominent Geohazards In Arkansas, Kyle Walker Rowden
Gis Modeling Of The Prominent Geohazards In Arkansas, Kyle Walker Rowden
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The State of Arkansas is prone to numerous geohazards. This thesis is a twofold study of prominent geohazards in Arkansas: the first fold includes a novel triggerless approach for mass wasting susceptibility modeling applied to the Boston Mountains in NW Arkansas, and the second fold is a GIS-based regression modeling of the extreme weather patterns at the state level. Each study fold is presented in this thesis as a separate chapter embracing a published peer-reviewed paper. In the first paper, I have used the analytical hierarchy process to assign preliminary statistical weights to the most cogent variables influencing mass wasting …
A Geomechanical Study Of The Mississippian Boone Formation, Karen Nicole Mason Buckland
A Geomechanical Study Of The Mississippian Boone Formation, Karen Nicole Mason Buckland
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Boone Formation in northwest Arkansas is a chert-limestone sequence analogous to the subsurface Mississippi Lime reservoir in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. It has low permeability and produces via horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The response to stimulation by fracturing is dependent on the quantity of chert in the area. Chert nodules and laterally extensive chert layers in the sequence are variable. Locally, cm- to dm-scale chert bedding is continuous and comprises up to 50% of the outcrop. Elsewhere, the chert is nodular and intermittent.
Samples collected from representative outcrops spanning the thickness and aerial extent of the formation …