Browsing 2016 MU theses - Access restricted to UM by Thesis Department "Geological sciences (MU)"
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Assessment of environmental variables and anthropogenic impacts on shallow marine bivalves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Shallow marine bivalves are abundant, diverse, and typically resilient to many changes in their immediate environment. Many bivalves function by ... -
Constraining the timing of graben initiation in the central Afar using fluvial knickpoint erosion and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Afar region constitutes the diffuse ridge-ridge-ridge triple junction adjoining the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Main Ethiopian Rifts. Extension in ... -
Morphology, taphonomy, and paleoecology of terminal ediacaran vermiform fauna
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As signposted by the fossil record, the early Cambrian Period chronicles the appearance and evolutionary diversification of most animal phyla in a ... -
Uppermost mantle shear wave attenuation in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] We have used attenuation tomography of the regional seismic phase Sn to characterize the uppermost mantle shear wave Q (Qs) over a large part of China. ...