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2024

Csernica, Timothy Andrew (2024) Exploring Nature’s Fingerprints with Isotopic Distributions. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/zt08-jh39. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05312024-185929614

Dallas, Brooke Hillary (2024) Intermolecular and Intramolecular Stable Isotope Studies in Alanine. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/xqdx-pp86. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252024-201300283

Dong, Guannan (2024) Taking the Pulse of Life: Intramolecular and Clumped Isotopic Perspectives on the Origins and Evolution of Hydrocarbons in Geological and Prebiotic Systems. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/yw0g-s893. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06012024-213407041

Korol, Roman (2024) Development and Applications of Imaginary Time Path Integral Methods. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/jy10-rf87. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08212023-205141057

Li, Haoyu (2024) Revisiting U-Pb and ²⁶Al-²⁶Mg Systematics of Calcium Aluminum-Rich Inclusions: Applications on Early Solar System Chronology and Evolution History. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ahbv-8z61. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05202024-220724726

Marquez, Ren Thomas Caburnay (2024) Primitive Stellar Remnants and their Signatures as Probes to the Nascent Solar System. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ge1c-kj54. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042024-171635742

Mueller, Elliott Patrick (2024) Carbon Currencies: Isotopic Constraints on the Biogeochemistry of Organic Acids. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/qdbh-zr32. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05232024-200019160

Palfey, William Richard (2024) Hydrogen Incorporation in Rutile- and Perovskite-Structured Minerals and Their Analogues. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/nbyx-6446. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06032024-221310680

Sosa, Emma Sofia (2024) Composition, Structure, and Formation of the Lower Crust in Continental and Oceanic Arc Settings: Insights from the Xenolith Record. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/2arj-v665. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05242024-181307541

Swindle, Carl Raymond (2024) Fluid-Rock Interactions from the Lithosphere to Earth’s Surface. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/5mbh-jw64. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09282023-195100516

Wang, Renée Zurui (2024) From Photosynthesis to Detoxification: Microbial Metabolisms Shape Earth’s Surface Chemistry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/kf85-cq89. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10102023-024622119

Zeichner, Sarah Soojin (2024) Fates of Carbon. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/vy9f-k705. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01022024-183348243

2023

Sanders, Cecilia Brooke (2023) Geological and Geochemical Explorations of the Salitre Formation Phosphorite, Eastern Brazil. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/rd4m-7x08. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07202022-060317708

2022

Kemeny, Preston Cosslett (2022) A Fluvial Perspective on the Role of Sulfide Oxidation in the Global Carbon Cycle. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/59hb-zp37. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05272022-003433646

Saper, Lee Michael (2022) Experimental Studies on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Coexisting Olivine, Silicate Melt, and Vapor. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/f8qb-3g41. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08242021-041734202

Scheller, Eva Linghan (2022) A Multi-Disciplinary Approach: How Aqueous Minerals Hold the Key to Understanding the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/8rj3-6k52. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252022-013922276

2021

Chimiak, Laura Marie (2021) Prebiotic Fingerprints. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/0hvh-xz81. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01102021-045431757

Phillips, Alexandra Atlee (2021) Sulfur Cycling in the Water Columns of Lakes and Oceans. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/tmxk-7f90. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042021-142625243

Xie, Hao (2021) Road to Equilibrium: Stable Isotope Distribution in Gaseous Alkanes and Thermal History of Geological Hydrocarbons. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/neh6-6c82. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04012021-045507416

2020

Martin, Peter Eckels (2020) Detection and Analysis of Martian Low-Temperature Geochemistry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/EF7Y-D584. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12112019-142555725

2019

Chen, Sang (2019) Understanding Geochemical Tracers in Deep-Sea Corals from a Biomineralization Perspective. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/54TA-JK92. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06072019-145745731

Miller, Hayden Bryce Dutcher (2019) Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Studies of Iron-oxides as Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Archives. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/945X-R138. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11072018-165610818

2018

Hines, Sophia Katharine Vizza (2018) Glacial Ocean Dynamics: Insight from Deep-Sea Coral Reconstructions and A Time-Dependent Dynamical Box Model. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9RF5S72. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10242017-152242759

Lloyd, Max Kaufmann (2018) Clumped and Intramolecular Isotopic Perspectives on the Behavior of Organic and Inorganic Carbon in the Shallow Crust and Deep Biosphere. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z96T0JV5. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01312018-211454203

Quinn, Daven Patel (2018) Regional Structural Geology of Earth and Mars. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/9enj-wn23. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282018-115947263

Shen, Linhan (2018) Cavity Ring-Down and Multi-Pass Spectroscopies for Methane Source Attribution and Chemical Kinetics Studies. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/WE40-5W54. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04122018-141241438

2017

Cox, Stephen Ellis (2017) New Techniques for Noble Gas Geochronometry and Thermochronometry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9V69GKV. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12212016-095346656

Magyar, Paul Macdonald (2017) Insights into Pathways of Nitrous Oxide Generation from Novel Isotopologue Measurements. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z93776RJ. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262017-143517395

Price, Jason Brian (2017) I: Normal Faulting on the Austroalpine ‘Overthrust’ Constrained by Thermochronometry and Kinematic Analysis, Central Alps, Graubünden Region, Switzerland. II: Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Carbonate Phases Associated with the Copper Deposits of Kennecott, Alaska. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9JM27NJ. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05142017-011958758

Subhas, Adam Vinay (2017) Chemical Controls on the Dissolution Kinetics of Calcite in Seawater. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z93X84P3. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06092017-091849904

2016

Nakajima, Miki (2016) Origin of the Earth and Moon. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9D798C0. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05272016-122421111

Newcombe, Megan Eve (2016) Solubility and Diffusivity of Water in Lunar Basalt, and Chemical Zonation in Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9V985ZQ. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12212015-153532580

Webb, Michael Anthony (2016) Path-Integral and Coarse-Graining Strategies for Complex Molecular Phenomena. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z90Z7172. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252016-213050706

2015

Kopf, Sebastian Hermann (2015) From Lakes to Lungs: Assessing Microbial Activity in Diverse Environments. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9HQ3WV6. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08182014-160835979

Piasecki, Alison Martha (2015) Site-Specific Isotopes in Small Organic Molecules. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9833PZP. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05292015-100107828

Swanson, Erika McGoldrick (2015) Structural and Clumped-Isotope Constraints on the Mechanisms of Displacement Along Low-Angle Detachments. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z92F7KDC. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10242014-133410215

2014

Stolper, Daniel Aaron (2014) New Insights into the Formation and Modification of Carbonate-Bearing Minerals and Methane Gas in Geological Systems using Multiply Substituted Isotopologues. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9CF9N3Q. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05272014-225828922

2013

Bergmann, Kristin Diane (2013) Constraints on the Carbon Cycle and Climate During the Early Evolution of Animals. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/KFJX-7S28. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06102013-045943358

Channon, Melanie Beth (2013) Oxygen Isotopes and Volatiles in Martian Meteorite. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/HZ47-BJ39. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06032013-094453023

Chemtob, Steven Michael (2013) The Origin and Evolution of Amorphous Silica Coatings on Young Hawaiian Basalts. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/RGT1-NK93. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12192012-121428518

2012

Chapman, Alan Daniel (2012) Late Cretaceous Gravitational Collapse of the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith and Adjacent Areas Above Underplated Schists, Southern California. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/NAQX-Y886. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07212011-115223871

Kidder, Steven Brooks (2012) Microstructural, Metamorphic and Experimental Constraints on Differential Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/R9RS-1A13. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03052012-150035418

Matzen, Andrew Keith (2012) Fe-Mg and Ni Partitioning between Olivine and Silicate Melt. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/AB6Y-3374. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04232012-061531097

Thiagarajan, Nivedita (2012) Using Clumped Isotopes and Radiocarbon to Characterize Rapid Climate Change During the Last Glacial Cycle. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9CV4FR0. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05312012-104144486

2011

Harrison, Benjamin Kimball (2011) Microbial Colonization of Minerals in Marine Sediments – Method Development and Ecological Significance. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/3891-QQ56. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262011-085126961

2010

Pahlevan, Kaveh (2010) Chemical and Isotopic Consequences of Lunar Formation via Giant Impact. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/YPP1-AQ73. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06082010-072824369

Balta, Joseph Brian (2010) 1. Experimental Investigation of Hydrous Melting of the Earth’s Upper Mantle, and 2. Olivine Abundances and Compositions in Hawaiian Lavas. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/7NM9-AB40. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11062009-091851899

Gagnon, Alexander C. (2010) Geochemical Mechanisms of Biomineralization from Analysis of Deep-Sea and Laboratory Cultured Corals. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/N1MW-8Q84. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05102010-102555148

Hofmann, Amy Elizabeth (2010) Micron- to Sub-Micron-Scale Trace Element Zonations in Zircon and Olivine. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/24H9-0565. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05272010-121809591

Wang, Ying (2010) Equilibrium ²H/¹H Fractionations in Organic Molecules. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/4MPX-MF10. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10212009-213942982

Yeung, Laurence Yip-Lun (2010) Photochemical and Dynamics Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions of CO₂. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/TQKB-3T76. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12222009-120450275

2009

Guo, Weifu (2009) Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry: Applications to Carbonaceous Chondrites and Effects of Kinetic Isotope Fractionation. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/BWC2-RH54. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12182008-115035

Petterson, Ryan (2009) I. Glaciagenic and Related Strata of the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Panamint Range, Death Valley Region, California. II. The Basal Ediacaran Noonday Formation, Eastern California, and Implications for Laurentian Equivalents. III. Rifting of Southwest Laurentia During the Sturtian-Marinoan Interglacial: The Argenta Orogeny. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/C9GZ-WE07. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05042009-102142

Verdel, Charles Steven (2009) I. Cenozoic Geology of Iran: An Integrated Study of Extensional Tectonics and Related Vulcanism. II. Ediacaran Stratigraphy of the North American Cordillera: New Observations from Eastern California and Northern Utah. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/4KPY-X114. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-09182008-092505

2008

Hebert, Laura Baker (2008) (I) A Coupled Geochemical and Geodynamical Approach to Subduction Zone Modeling and (II) Development of Color in Greenish Quartz. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/71YF-WH65. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-02272008-172649

2007

Miller, Sarah Ann (2007) Alkaline Earth Element Partitioning in Simplified Magmatic Systems. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/90DK-3398. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05132007-103357

O'Leary, Julie Ann (2007) Hydrogen Isotope Geochemistry of the Mantle: Constraints from Back Arc Basin Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/6QQX-ED22. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12182006-072449

Smith Downey, Nicole V. (2007) Soil Uptake of Molecular Hydrogen and Remote Sensing of Soil Freeze and Thaw. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/BXV8-HH61. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-08182006-105638

2006

Eltgroth, Selene Farrell (2006) Unraveling Deep-Ocean Connections to Climate with Deep-Sea Coral Records of Radiocarbon and Cd/Ca. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ZXHZ-EH83. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05262006-110220

Welp, Lisa Renee (2006) Links Between Carbon and Water Cycles in Northern Ecosystems: Constraints from Stable Isotopes. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/KY54-DC47. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-06022006-105702

2005

Shuster, David Lawrence (2005) Application of Spallogenic Noble Gases Induced by Energetic Proton Irradiation to Problems in Geochemistry and Thermochronometry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/EXV3-GG18. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-06012005-135600

Wang, Zhengrong (2005) Oxygen Isotope Studies of the Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Lavas and a Theoretical Study on Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Multiply-Substituted Isotopologues. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/zrza-wc92. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05192005-000025

2004

Zeng, Lingsen (2004) Non-Modal Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Pendants in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Implications for the Deep Origin of Within-Pluton Isotopic Heterogeneity. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/5f6f-f677. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-10272003-131444

2003

Johnson, Elizabeth Ann (2003) Hydrogen in Nominally Anhydrous Crustal Minerals. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/EG6Q-8B56. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05272003-165802

Weiss, Benjamin Paul (2003) Martian Paleomagnetism with the SQUID Microscope. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/87T4-9E64. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-02032003-104251

2002

Billen, Magali Isabelle (2002) I. Seafloor Morphology of the Osbourn Trough and Kermadec Trench and II. Multiscale DynamiCS of Subduction Zones. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/W46E-ZY34. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11012001-142941

Kessel, Ronit (2002) The Activity of Chromite in Multicomponent Spinels: An Experimental Study with Implications for the Metamorphic History of Equilibrated Ordinary Chondrites. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/0774-JM48. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:02172012-143736224

Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy (2002) I. Extraterrestrial ³He in the Sedimentary Record. II. Geochemistry of Shield Stage Lavas from Kauai, Hawaii. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/XPM2-1Q79. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:02232012-115811346

Oskin, Michael Eugene (2002) Part I. Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico, Deduced from Conjugate Rifted Margins of the Upper Delfín Basin. Part II. Active Folding and Seismic Hazard in Central Los Angeles, California. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/4TQK-NH19. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11252001-103911

Schauble, Edwin Arthur (2002) I. Predicting Equilibrium Stable Isotope Fractionations of Iron, Chlorine, and Chromium. II. Oxygen-Isotope Investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Granitoids of the Northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/4sdq-m548. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04102012-131908152