Ahrens, Thomas J.

Advisor — 33 thesises

• Ni, Sidao — 2D Modeling of Lower Mantle Structure with WKM Synthetics (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vidale, John Emilio — Application of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Wave Simulation to Earthquakes, Earth Structure, and Seismic Hazard (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Sarah Toby — Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gaffney, Edward Stowell — Crystal Field Effects in Mantle Minerals (1973, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Mark Alan — Dynamical Models for the Earth's Geoid (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duffy, Thomas Sheehan — Elastic Properties of Metals and Minerals under Shock Compression (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davies, Geoffrey Frederick — Elasticity of Solids at High Pressures and Temperatures: Theory, Measurement, and Geophysical Application (1973, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gibbons, Rex Vincent — Experimental Effects of High Shock Pressure on Materials of Geological and Geophysical Interest (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, William Wyatt — High Pressure States in Condensed Matter: I. High Pressure Behavior of the Iron-Sulfur System with Applications to the Earth's Core. II. Empirical Equation of State for Organic Compounds at High Pressures (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, George (Guangqing) — I. High pressure melting of [gamma]-iron and the thermal profile in the Earth's core. II. High pressure, high temperature equation of state of fayalite (Fe2SiO4) (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Polanskey, Carol Ann — I. Impact Spallation Experiments: Fracture Patterns and Spall Velocities. II. Craters in Carbonate Rocks: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Analysis of Shock Damage (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Raikes, Susan Ann — I. Regional Variations in Upper Mantle Compressional Velocities beneath Southern California. II. Post-Shock Temperatures: Their Experimental Determination, Calculation, and Implications (1978, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cangli — I. Rigid Body Penetration into Brittle Material. II. Phase Change Effect on Shock Wave Propagation (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melbourne, Timothy Ian — I. Rupture Properties of Large Subduction Earthquakes. II. Broadband Upper Mantle Structure of Western North America (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Winfree, Nancy A. — Impact-Induced Phase Transformations in Elastic Solids: A Continuum Study Including Numerical Simulations for GeO₂ (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, David Russell — Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Le Bras, Ronan — Methods of Multiparameter Inversion of Seismic Data Using the Acoustic and Elastic Born Approximations (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holland, Kathleen Gabrielle — Phase Changes and Transport Properties of Geophysical Materials Under Shock Loading (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jeanloz, Raymond — Physics of Mantle and Core Minerals (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gillespie, Alan Reed — Quaternary Glaciation and Tectonism in the Southeastern Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cipar, John Joseph — Seismic Source Processes and Tectonics: Observations of Four Intracontinental Earthquakes (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhao, Lian-She — Seismic waveform modeling of regional phases and wavefields from an off-center explosion (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyzenga, Gregory Allen — Shock Temperatures of Materials: Experiments and Applications to the High Pressure Equation of State (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ai, Huirong (Anita) — Shock-Induced Damage in Rocks: Application to Impact Cratering (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boslough, Mark Bruce — Shock-Wave Properties and High-Pressure Equations of State of Geophysically Important Materials (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smither, Catherine Louise — Stress-relief displacements induced by drilling and three-dimensional modeling of planetary impacts (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Humphreys, Eugene Drake — Studies of the Crust-Mantle System Beneath Southern California (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Gregory Hale — The Equation of State and Petrogenesis of Komatiite (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lagus, Peter Leonard — The Equations of State of Hydrogen and Argon: Applications to the Jovian Interior (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zajac, Blair J. — The State of Stress as Inferred from Deviated Boreholes: Constraints on the Tectonics of Offshore Central California and Cook Inlet, Alaska (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takata, Toshiko — Three-dimensional analysis of impact processes on planets (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))