Browsing by Subject "XRF"
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(2020-01-08)This study investigates the relative influences of rock properties (porosity, clay content, grain density, and water saturation) on sediment dewatering in the interests of improving understanding of soaking enhanced oil ...
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Geoarchaeology, Paleoecology, and Holocene Subsistence Change on the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho (2016-11-04)This dissertation presents new data on geochronology, site formation processes, projectile-point typology, and lithic technological organization in the Intermountain West’s Snake River Plain and Bonneville Basin, relating ...
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(2018-03-30)Whole-rock elemental data is a useful tool for sub-dividing and characterizing mudrock variability across a shale basin. The chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups in the Brazos ...
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(2017-12-13)Interest in applications of x-ray fluorescence (XRF) is greatly increasing, but the diversity of applications of XRF data has yet to be fully exploited. This dissertation presents three projects showcasing different ...
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(2021-12-01)The Late Cretaceous Austin Group, across the outcrops and subsurface of Texas, are faced with numerous, often provincial, terminologies based on different lithologic, faunal, and petrophysical markers used to define internal ...
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(2018-07-17)Historic ceramics are some of the most important artifacts in archaeological studies because of their prevalence and the wealth of information they can provide about a site. However, identifying certain types of historic ...
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(2019-10-30)This thesis describes the research undertaken to determine the origins of bricks recovered during the underwater excavations of Port Royal, Jamaica, conducted from 1981-1990. To evaluate where these bricks were made, X-ray ...
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(2014-08-27)Carbonate precipitation can be either promoted or inhibited by microbial processes in different redox zones. It is therefore possible for basin redox evolution to indirectly control early carbonate diagenesis and modify ...
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(2015-10-12)In the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015, 33 paintings by the Texas painter Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) were analyzed using a portable X-ray fluorescence detector. The resulting spectral information revealed the elemental ...