Browsing by Thesis Department "Environmental and Urban Geosciences (UMKC)"
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Mineral ecology and network analysis of chromium, platinum, gold and palladium
(2020)Data collected on the location of mineral species and related minerals from the field have many great uses from mineral exploration to mineral analysis. Such data is useful for further exploration and discovery of other ... -
Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
(2014-09-30)This study employed an integrated approach to investigate drivers and impacts of environmental change from the 1980s to 2012 using geospatial and statistical analyses of atmospheric, climate, land use land cover, and ... -
New applications of STEPL watershed modeling of CAFO feedlot runoff and implications of surface water impacts
(2015-07-27)Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) cattle feedlot runoff is hydrologically modeled using the Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutants Load (STEPL). STEPL estimates the annual nutrient load of nitrogen and ... -
Paleolimnological Analysis of Sediment Cores from Guana Island Pond, Guana Island, The British Virgin Islands
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Shallow sediment cores extracted from three locations in Guana Island Pond were analyzed using multiple paleolimnological techniques, including sediment description, grain size analyses, X-Ray Fluorescence, elemental ... -
Paleoliquefaction and possible surface deformation along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Yarbro, Arkansas
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)From interpretation of historical aerial photography and LiDAR imagery of northeast Arkansas, we identified a northeast-striking topographic lineament coincident with the trend of modern seismicity along the Axial Fault ... -
Quantitative Characterization of Billowed Structures Along the Margins of Basaltic Intrusions to Determine Process and Timing of Formation: Case Studies from Big Bend National Park, Texas and 71 Gulch, Idaho
(2021)By constraining the conditions in which billowed structures form, the conditions of explosive vs. non-explosive magma-water interaction can be further revealed, improving our understanding of how magma propagates and ... -
Ripening Kinetics of Iron Sulfides in the Presence/Absence of a Carbonyl Group
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)The ripening of mackinawite (Fe₁+ₓS) to pyrite (FeS₂) or greigite (Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ ₂S₄) was examined at temperatures between 23 and 90°C to better understand the kinetics of low temperature iron sulfide crystallization in the ... -
Scientific Evidence on the Environmental and Health Effects of Land Application of Biosolids
(2015-08-12)The study is an objective evaluation of the controversy on whether the practice of land application of biosolids for soil enrichment and restoration poses significant harm to the environment, human and animal health. ... -
The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(2021)When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections ... -
The record of magma storage conditions in mineral compositions below a glacial to ice-free Askja volcano, Iceland
(2020)Askja is a caldera volcano located in central Iceland that was glaciated approximately 70,000 to 10,500 years ago. Askja’s basaltic lavas have been classified into one preglacial, six glacial, one Early Holocene and thirteen ...