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Filtering by: Creator Nash, Caroline Advisor Grant, Gordon E. Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Construction, Degradation, and Restoration of Wet Meadow Ecosystems in Semi-arid Landscapes, Northern Great Basin, USA

Creator:

Nash, Caroline S.

Abstract:

Wet meadow ecosystems are a useful natural laboratory in which to explore feedbacks between biogenic and geologic controls on valley bottom landforms. Characterized by flat valley floors flanked by higher-gradient hillslopes, these meadows are singular both in that they represent depositional features in what is primarily an erosional environment, and...

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Dissertation

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DISSERTATION OF Caroline S. Nash for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Water Resources Engineering
A stratigraphic approach to characterize the deposition and storage of organic matter in reservoir sediments

Creator:

Stratton Garvin, Laurel E.

Abstract:

The relationship between carbon burial and sedimentation in reservoirs is unknown, exposing gaps in our fundamental understanding of the transport, processing, and deposition of sediment and organic matter in fluvial and lacustrine systems and contributing to uncertainty in our understanding of the net impact of dams to the global carbon...

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Dissertation