This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:

Category print online
Dissertations 1953-2006 in MAIN

1950s-2012 in Special Collections
1989 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

1950s - present indexed in ProQuest
Master's theses 1910s-2006 in MAIN

1910s-2012 in Special Collections
2006 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

Theses were not systematically indexed in ProQuest prior to 2006.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Comparative Microbial Community Dynamics in a Karst Aquifer System and Proximal Surface Stream in Northwest Arkansas, Josue Rodriguez

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Decadal Land Surface Phenology and Water Quality in the Headwaters Illinois River Watershed, Justin Ray Rollans

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GIS Modeling of the Prominent Geohazards in Arkansas, Kyle Walker Rowden

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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest, Jake Bryan Rowlett

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Keeping Pace with Relative Sea Level Rise: Marsh Platform Monitoring Shows Minimal Sediment Deficit along the Louisiana Coast, Kelly Marie Sanks

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Interpretation and Fracture Characterization of Early-Cretaceous Buda Limestone Formation Using Post-Stack 3D Seismic Data in Zavala County, Texas, Andrey Smirnov

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The Effects of Crystal Bridges in Downtown Revitalization of Bentonville, Arkansas in The Last Decade, Korab Vranovci

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Changes to Subaqueous Delta Bathymetry Following a High River Flow Event, Wax Lake Delta, USA, Amanda Rose Whaling

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Quantifying Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Air and Water in Blowing Springs Cave, Arkansas, Holly Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Paleozoic Sandstones in the Tri-State Region, Southern Ozarks: Tectono-Stratigraphic Sequence Development and Compositional Evolution, the Source and Delivery Conundrum, and the Regional Tectonic History, Elvis Chekwube Bello

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A Geochemical Investigation and Comparison between Organic-rich Black Shales and Mississippi Valley-Type Pb-Zn Ores in the Southern Ozarks Region, Bryan Michael Bottoms

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Depositional Dynamics of the Upper Eagle Ford (Upper Cretaceous): Karnes and Gonzales Counties, South Texas, Josie Brunick

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Comparison of Flow Dynamics and Bifurcation Angles in Tributary and Distributary Channel Networks, Thomas Coffey

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Swedish Social Welfare and its Application to American Welfare Systems, Ben Wilson Galloway

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Modeling Ozark Caves with Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry: An Assessment of Stand-Alone Photogrammetry for 3-Dimensional Cave Survey, Joseph H. Jordan

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The Urban Morphology of Northwest Arkansas: A Geospatial Analysis, Jason McCollum

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Lost Names in the Paleozoic Lithostratigraphy of Arkansas, Noah Morris

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Using Cross-sets for Paleodischarge Estimation and Paleocurrent Vectors in the Parthenon Sandstone, Northwest Arkansas, Sean Robert Parry

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UAS as an Inventory Tool: A Photogrammetric Approach to Volume Estimation, Richard Kramer Rhodes

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Near Surface Geophysics for Lithostratigraphic Interpretation at Pedro, Benton County, Arkansas, Matthew David Ruggeri

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3D Seismic Interpretation of a Plio-Pleistocene Mass Transport Deposit in the Deepwater Taranaki Basin of New Zealand, Francisco Jose Rusconi

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Environmental and Climatic Constraints on Large-scale Camelina Production in Eastern Arkansas, Benjamin Robert Tracy

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The Bicycle, the Unsuitable Substitute:A Feasibility Study Based in Fayetteville, AR Using a Bicycle as a Year-Round Replacement for an Automobile, Jamey Voorhees

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Using Stable Isotope Geochemistry to Determine Changing Paleohydrology and Diagenetic Alteration in the Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, UT USA, Daigo Yamamura

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Initial Structural Subsidence as Reflected in Morrowan and Atokan (Pennsylvanian) Subsurface Stratigraphy, Northern Arkoma Basin, North-Central Arkansas, Fatimah Taher Nahi Al Asadi

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Early and Middle Atokan Lithostratigraphy and Reservoir Development, Northern Arkoma Basin, Northwestern Arkansas, Matthew Alan Blaylock

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Analysis of Ground Deformation within the Coso Geothermal Site, California, Erik Vaughn Brawner

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Stratigraphy and Structure of a South-Trending Structural High, Northern Arkoma Basin, Arkansas, Yirong Chen

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Shared Perspectives of Divided Space: Perceptions of the Urban Environment among Jerusalemites, Andie Duplantis

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Isotopic Identification of Multiple Contributors of Metal Ions in Mississippi Valley-Type Ore Deposits Along the Cincinnati Arch in South-Central Kentucky, William Travis Garmon

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Temporal CO2 Variations and the Influence of Bat Colonies in Speleogenesis: Continuous CO2 Monitoring in War Eagle Cavern, Arkansas, Ginny Sue Holcomb

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Implications for the North American Lower Crustal 7.xx km/s Layer from an Exhumed Crustal Root, Western Canadian Shield, Calvin Everette Johnson

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Stratigraphic Interpretation and Reservoir Implications of the Arbuckle Group (Cambrian-Ordovician) using 3D Seismic, Osage County, Oklahoma, Ryan Marc Keeling

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Linear Trend Analysis: Implications for a Structural Fracture System and Applications of Subsurface Fluid Migration, Northwest Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, Loren Labusch

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A GIS Approach to Modeling Groundwater Levels in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, Josef Orion Lilly

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Influences of Channel Dredging on Avulsion Potential at the Atchafalaya River, Gordon William McCain

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Baha’i Sacred Architecture and the Devolution of Astronomical Significance: Case Studies from Israel and the US, Michael Steven Meizler

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3D Seismic Interpretation of Paleokarst Sinkholes, Boone Limestone, Lower Mississippian: Subsurface Eastern Arkoma Basin, Conway County, Arkansas, Daniel James Moser

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LiDAR-Assisted Extraction of Old Growth Baldcypress Stands Along The Black River of North Carolina, Weston Pierce Murch

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A Geochemical Analysis of the Arkansas Novaculite and Comparison to the Siliceous Deposits of the Boone Formation, John Byron Scott Philbrick

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Resolving Paragneiss Provenance at Grollier Lake in the Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Western Canadian Shield, Dustin Ply

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Geospatial Analysis of Droughts, Rice and Wheat Production, and Agrarian Vulnerability: A District-Level Study of the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index in India, Aaron Michael Shew

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The Mass Flux of Non-renewable Energy for Humanity, Edwin Dale Solomon

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Statistical Analysis of Fluvial Channel Belts, Kyle Ryan Spencer

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Do Limestone Quarries Act as “Engineered Sinkholes”? Analysis of Exfiltration of Groundwater from Limestone Quarries in the Boone Formation, Ozark Physiographic Province, Arkansas, USA, Noel Turner

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Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the Middle Atoka Formation, Central Arkoma Basin, Western Arkansas, Yueyang Wang

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Fleeing to Fault Zones: Incorporating Syrian Refugees into Earthquake Risk Analysis along the East Anatolian and Dead Sea Rift Fault Zones, Bradley Wilson

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Sedimentary Petrology of the Hartshorne Formation, Southeastern Arkoma Basin, Arkansas, Ruizhe Yin

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Comparative Geomatic Analysis of Historic Development, Trends, and Functions of Green Space in Kuwait City From 1982-2014, Yousif Abdullah

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Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis of Middle Atoka Formation in Aetna Gas Field, Franklin, Johnson and Logan Counties, Arkansas, Ikramuddin Bahram

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Interpretation of Late Cretaceous Volcanic Mounds and Surrounding Gulfian Series Formations Using 3D Seismic Data in Zavala County, Texas, Laura Claire Bennett

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Subsurface Fluid Flow Through the Mississippian Section of North-Central Oklahoma, Carolyn Brown

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Mapping Ancient Baldcypress Forests for Conservation at Black River, North Carolina, Jordan Nichole Burns

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Stratigraphic Characterization and Depositional History of the Barnett Shale within the Fort Worth Basin in Denton County, Texas, Matthew Loren Cope

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Petrology and Weathering Environment of Sub-unconformity Limestone unit: The Kessler Limestone member of the Bloyd Formation, Morrowan (Pennsylvanian) Northwest Arkansas, Thomas Daniels Dolan

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A New HOPE? A Critical Assessment of Gentrification and HOPE in Memphis, Tennessee, Daniel Russell Gadeke

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Towards Systematic Selection of Terrain- and Ground Cover-Specific LiDAR Filtering Parameters, Vance Green

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Metal Mobilization in Groundwater, Bauxite, AR, Steven Alexander Hamlin

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Paleoclimate Implications from Stable Isotope Analysis of Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Vertebrate Fossils from the Cedar Mountain Formation, UT, U.S.A., Garrett Andrew Hatzell

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Terrestrial Impacts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province on western Pangea, Todd Kenneth Knobbe

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Analysis of Paleokarst Sinkholes in the Arkoma Basin using 3-D Seismic, Michael Kumbalek

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Stratigraphic Analysis with Respect to Aggregate Potential in the Duffield Quarry in Gum Log, Arkansas, Brock Evan Langford

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Geospatial Workflows and Trust: a Use Case for Provenance, Rachel Frances Linck

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An Investigation of 3D Seismic Deep Basement Events in Osage County, Oklahoma, Kevin Matthew Liner

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The Structural Analysis of Enola and Greenbrier, Arkansas Earthquake Swarms: Cause and Effect?, Minella Majenu

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Geologic Controls on Oil and Gas Accumulation and Production from Missourian Stage Granite Wash Reservoirs in the Western Anadarko Basin, Wheeler County, Texas, Derrell Mathis

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Source Constraints of Ore Metals in Mississippi Valley-type Deposits in Central and Eastern Tennessee using Pb Isotopes, Austin Moyers

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Lithologic Controls on Bedrock Channel Morphology in the Buffalo River Basin, Evan A. Thaler

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Controls on Dissolution Rate Variation at a Pair of Underflow-Overflow Springs at The Savoy Experimental Watershed, Kiefer Allen Vaughn

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Pennsylvanian Subsurface Sequence Stratigraphy Based on 3D Seismic and Wireline Data in Western Osage County, Oklahoma, Alexander West

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Reservoir Characterization and Depositional System of the Atokan Grant Sand, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Victoria Wood

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Lidar and Machine Learning Estimation of Hardwood Forest Biomass in Mountainous and Bottomland Environments, Bowei Xue

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Structure and Stratigraphy of a Complex Anticlinal Feature, Backbone Anticline, Arkoma Basin, Arkansas, Shailyn Marie Abbott

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Recreational Risk Assessment using Geospatial Analyses on Beaver Lake, Arkansas, Laura Ahrens

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Geographic Assessment of the Perception of Nature Reserves and National Parks in Kuwait, Meshari S. Alenezi

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Comparisons of Hydrogeologic Modeling Methods to Define Capture Zones for Public Water Supply Wells in Northern Arkansas, Paula Anderson

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3D Seismic Mapping of Probable Tripolitic Chert Bodies in Osage County, Oklahoma, Richard Craddock Benson

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Integrating Seismic Activity Into Land Use Management: A Case Study From Central Arkansas Using HAZUS Software Application, Robert Dean Breashears

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Application of Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Determine the Sedimentary Provenance of the Middle Bloyd Sandstone, Arkoma Shelf, Northern Arkansas, Greg Michael Buratowski

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Subsurface Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the Mississippian Limestone (Kinderhookian to Meramecian), South Central Kansas and North Central Oklahoma, Thomas Cahill

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Time-Space Analysis of Terrorist Planning Cycles, Michael Stephen Gerald Eastham

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Analysis of Environmental Influences on Dressed Stone Decay: a Case Study of Tafoni Development on a Hewn Djinn Block in Petra, Jordan, Kaelin M. Groom

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Mechanical Stratigraphy of the Mississippian in Osage County, Oklahoma, Caleb James Jennings

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A Hazard Assessment and Proposed Risk Index for Art, Architecture, Archive and Artifact Protection: Case Studies for Assorted International Museums, Clara Jeanene Kirk

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Porosity Development Within Lobes to Downslope Ramp Deposits on a Prograding Carbonate Shelf of the Kinderhookian to Osagean Series in Northwest Arkansas, Elizabeth Marchese

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Depositional History and Stratigraphic Framework of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Strata in the Minerva-Rockdale Oil Field of Milam County and Adjacent Counties, Texas., Adam Thomas Martin

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Structural and Stratigraphic Transition from the Arkoma Shelf into the Arkoma Basin during Basin Subsidence; Arkoma Basin, Northwest Arkansas, Elizabeth Whitney Studebaker

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The Significance of Dolomitized Hunton Strata in the Kinta and Bonanza Fields of the Arkoma Basin, Christopher William Trotter

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Assessment and Conceptualization of Groundwater Flow in the Edwards Aquifer Through the Knippa Gap in Uvalde County, Texas, Jennifer Raye Adkins

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Insights into the Timing, Origin, and Deformation of the Highland Mountains Gneiss Dome in Southwestern Montana, USA, Lane Markes Boyer

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A Geomechanical Study of the Mississippian Boone Formation, Karen Nicole Mason Buckland

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Classification of Satellite Time Series-derived Land Surface Phenology Focused on the Northern Fertile Crescent, Brian Embree Bunker

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Sedimentary Provenance of the Wedington Member, Fayetteville Shale, From Age Relations of Detrital Zircons, William Tyson Cains

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Local Food and Agriculture Awareness: The Literacy of Local Produce and Agriculture in Northwest Arkansas, Kyle Colton Flynn

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Bedrock Geological Map of the Rockhouse Quadrangle, Carroll and Madison Counties, Arkansas, Douglas Eben Jones

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Analysis of Tripolitic Chert in the Boone Formation (Lower Mississippian, Osagean), Northwest Arkansas and Southwestern Missouri, Paul Marchand Minor

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Perceptions of Equality and National Identity amongst Young British South Asian Muslims in Bradford, England, Simon J. Reid

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Hydrogeology and Chemical Characterization of Hydrocarbon in Domestic Water Wells, Rancho Villa Subdivision, Rogers, Arkansas, Janelle Renee Sherman

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A Conceptual Model of Exploration Wayfinding: An Integrated Theoretical Framework and Computational Methodology, Matthew Lee Tenney

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Subsurface Stratigraphy and Characterization of Mississippian (Osagean to Meramecian) Carbonate Reservoirs of the Northern Anadarko Shelf, North-Central Oklahoma, Brett Robert Wittman